The Fastest Way to Rid Of Heartburn, GERD, and Acid Reflux

this is the fastest way to get rid of heartburn gird and acid reflux you know when I lived in China I was once at a business dinner with businessmen who were pushing me way too hard to drink way more alcohol than I wanted to drink and after that I had severe indigestion and for some days after that my stomach was quite irritated but that night these particular businessmen pulled out a little packet of some traditional Chinese patent medicine that they gave me that made an immediate difference in the first 5 or 10 minutes after now that famous formula we'll talk about it's from Hong Kong Southern China and we'll talk about other formulas and lifestyle practices you can do if you suffer from a lot of upper GI issues here hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master of the day so let's jump in all right so I was at a business dinner here now culturally one thing I've noticed is that there is a culture in business in many parts of Asia that encourages heavy drinking because it's not believed that you can trust a business comrade unless you've seen them obliterate ated drunk so the truth serum has gotten a chance to work so there's inherent sort of distrust in the culture that it's believed that you need to get very drunk so that you can see people's true colors and then you can trust them that kind of thing just interesting cultural artifact there now in this particular case they were pushing me to drink more than I wanted to drink and I was getting a lot of indigestion and acid reflux and heartburn and I said oh you know I can't I can't do anymore my stomach is killing me I'm getting this indigestion and one of the businessmen pulled out a little patent formula you know something you could just get at the pharmacy and this over-the-counter formula was something called King onean and it's used basically for functional dis pepian indigestion he gave me a couple of these they were tea pills they're like little rolled up pills I think I took nine of them swalled them with hot water and 15 minutes later my stomach was feeling great and I was like that was way more effective than Tums and I just thought this is so interesting this culture also has pharmaceutical companies also has medicines that work also has them in a pharmacy as if you were just going into C s or Walgreens but it's just not Tums it's just owned by different companies and it worked amazingly well that was one of my first experiences using traditional Chinese medicine for acid reflux or for indigestion I mean this is one of the most common conditions that I see overall so how do we actually approach this what causes it and what medicines can you utilize to treat it so let's do a 30 second rown of what you know acid reflux gird and indigestion actually are what's actually functionally happening to the stomach in gird or acid reflux if you go to a typical physician they will tell you it is the dysfunction and the failure to close of something called the lower esophageal sphincter your body has these little valves in it in the digestive system that open and close depending on where you are basically in the phase of digestion your doctor May tell you this is a structural problem because the physical valve is malfunctioning this is only 50% true because it is a functional sphincter that functions based on what you put in the stomach so if you have a regular meal the lower esophagal sphincter will function just fine if it is heavy greasy fried food over and over and over again and you're constantly overeating you will have chronic issues with that sphincter opening and closing you go to your doctor they're going to make you to believe that there's a structural issue it is not a structural issue it is a functional issue do not believe that for one second because the only thing they've got to give you is various classes of medications you'll take the day you die but due to various factors low or high stomach acid low enzyme production in the pancreas issues with your gallbladder and bile flow all of these can come into play that can cause issues with refluxing of stomach contents right so it's coming up out of the stomach into the esophagus which is where you're feeling that sensation that's uncomfortable or the burning in the chest itself valve should be closed food and liquid are coming up through it 30 second rundown it's important to really know where your acid reflux or indigestion is coming from because for example if you have low stomach acid supplementing with HCL hydrochloric acid May improve the symptoms but some people have high stomach acid for eating a poor diet you could think of it as it's trying to ramp up the furnace to digest this big piece of meat this big fried meal this heavy meal you've put in it if that person you put in hydrochloric acid they're going to get a huge wave of burning so that's why I've taken the time to put together this free root cause quiz it's the first link below the video here also you can go to Dr alex.com quiz we go into extensively the top 100 symptoms or so where they're coming from what organ system they relate to and what is the root cause so take that quiz because it'll show you exactly which symptom to pay attention to what organ it relates to and then we hyperlink to dozens of other videos that I've shot on specific conditions and more importantly how to treat them with traditional Chinese medicine so check it out first link below this video and let's jump into what we can actually do about it now because traditional medicine conventional medicine doesn't really have a way it actually fixes acid reflux I'm not even going to waste any time on that let's talk about how we actually treat it and I will say it is extremely effectively treatable with just diet and lifestyle or if it's really severe with the formulas that we use in traditional Chinese medicine we break it down into what we call excess and deficiency acid reflux excess acid reflux is more of the traditional like standard American diet imagine like a fat overweight American dude with a sweaty red face pimples a lot of redness a lot of color in the face from the neck up high blood pressure high cholesterol High lipids overall this kind of person is what we call excess excess means there's more manifestations of heat now when there's more manifestations of heat and inflammation you almost always never just see acid reflex unless it's just beginning you'll always see typically sinus issues sinus headaches frontal blood pressure high cholesterol High lipids that kind of thing in addition to it we call spleen sheet deficiency with liver and gallbladder stagnation what that means is spleen sheet deficiency usually is either decreased stomach acid or altered stomach acid with decreased pancreatic enzyme production and then there's almost always these people always have gallbladder issues right if they don't now they will so there's always an issue with bile flow they have gallbladder sludge or they're having gallbladder stones and attacks now for this type they manifest with more constipation typically that's the excess version you know we look at everything functionally so we're looking at it what other body systems are impaired now what we call deficiency acid reflux is what we typically call spleen Chi deficiency this is a really bad translation of a Chinese term it mostly involves low stomach acid low pancreatic enzyme production now for this kind of person they usually are more pale face like me usually are lower appetite usually can even eat healthier diets but for some people on both sides stress can be a big factor that plays a role these people for example they can have acid reflux but eat a healthy diet for some of them it's more of a deficiency of organ functioning there's often more of a genetic root here there's more of like a constitutional tendency towards weak digestion different from the excess type this type benefits from hydrochloric acid and enzymes that are supplemented now finally let's give you two really effective formulas that are treating excess acid reflux and deficiency now you could actually take that formula conning onean that is something used for food stagnation but these two formulas in my experience are more effective for more of the deficiency type there's a formula called Lian regulate the middle pill this formula comprised of four effective herbs ginsing an herb called the traal loes an herb called ganjang dried Ginger and high dose and dral honey fried licorice root those four fix this better than anything I've ever seen on the excess side with this more heat there can be more heat symptoms more constipation more headaches more high blood pressure high lipids high blood sugar this formula that I've seen work the best is called bansa Shong bansa Purge the heart decoction this formula has some of the same herbs it has the ginsing it has the dried Ginger it has the honey fried licorice but it has some other herbs as well that are typically very very high in berberine it also has an herb called bansa pelia which is very effective for this kind of warm damp mucus and Flem you get in the chest from reflux and there's also two very very bitter anti-inflammatory herbs Hangin scoia skullcap and Copus which is Copus Roma herb called hangan in Chinese these two very very bitter herbs are amazing for digestive system for inflammation blood sugar and a lot more so those are really my two go-to formulas I'll give it to you free I wouldn't recommend buying them online I know you probably we still will to try them but those are some that have made a really big difference for the treatment of acid reflux and are very effective to get people off medications for those as well even if it's been serious and for years so that's what I've got for you here today guys a little mini master class in dealing with oper gii issues from a traditional Chinese medicine point of view I also have another related video on treating GI issues with traditional Chinese medicine right up here