It’s good to know that many home remedies for heartburn are often based around foods that are readily available in many kitchens. However, understanding just what is going on when heartburn hits will often help to minimize and cure heartburn in itself.
Heartburn happens when the strong acid in the stomach, that is used to digest and break down the foods we eat, finds its way up the oesophagus (food tube). It is this acid that burns the lining of the oesophagus, causing the familiar and unpleasant sensation of burning. There is a muscle that is suppose to keep the acid in the stomach where it belongs, but if for whatever reason this muscle malfunctions, then it leaves the way open for the acid to escape into the oesophagus.
One of the most common home remedies for heartburn has to be the eating of soda crackers. The soda cracker remedy has been handed down through the generations for one reason, it works! As long as the crackers are salt free, since salt increases the sodium in the body, which further influences the amount of acidity in your stomach, soda crackers are a convenient and useful snack that aids digestion. The crackers contain bio-carbonate soda...