Understand the two types of acid reflux and how to treat them with herbs.

how to overcome acid reflux with herbal formulas in general in traditional Chinese medicine there are two kinds of acid reflux or indigestion that you see the most often there's what we call deficiency cold or cold stomach they used to say in the old days or what we call excess heat or hot stomach now deficiency cold type is basically the person who often gets indigested food sits on their stomach like a rock so sometimes these people will benefit from HCL supplementation or digestive enzymes now on the other side this kind of acid reflux is typically more of the damage from just eating a bad diet that's very heavy now this kind is what we call cold spleen hot stomach these people may also have changes in stomach acid changes in decreased pancreatic enzymes but often the second group will typically have issues with their gallbladder as well or may even have gallbladder attacks so what do we do about each of these two kinds the first what we call the cold stomach is sort of like a weakened digestive system and there's a great formula called leol