Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Dear Stephen,
I have two ill friends who wish to take more herbs but they suffer from horrible GERD and have not found anything useful. Both of them have lost substantial amounts of weight from not being able to eat. What would you recommend for GERD?
I have two ill friends who wish to take more herbs but they suffer from horrible GERD and have not found anything useful. Both of them have lost substantial amounts of weight from not being able to eat. What would you recommend for GERD?
Stephen’s response:
I would recommend that they begin using fresh juice each morning: cabbage is the most important as it contains specific anti-inflammatory and mucosal healing compounds. Cabbage, beet root, celery, carrot. Then only oatmeal for the first solid meal. I usually do the juice for breakfast, the oatmeal for an early lunch and miso soup for dinner. It is a diet reduction but it will normally relieve those symptoms within a week or two, permanently if the diet is closely watched and adjusted. I have used cow parsnip seed (heracleum) for hiatus hernia with good success; they might try that.
I would recommend that they begin using fresh juice each morning: cabbage is the most important as it contains specific anti-inflammatory and mucosal healing compounds. Cabbage, beet root, celery, carrot. Then only oatmeal for the first solid meal. I usually do the juice for breakfast, the oatmeal for an early lunch and miso soup for dinner. It is a diet reduction but it will normally relieve those symptoms within a week or two, permanently if the diet is closely watched and adjusted. I have used cow parsnip seed (heracleum) for hiatus hernia with good success; they might try that.
Stephen
posted on September 22, 2008 in digestive system, Symptoms
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