Primary Health Care

What is acidity?
The stomach normally secretes acid that is essential in the digestive process. This acid helps break down food during digestion. When there is excess production of acid by the gastric glands in the stomach, resulting in a condition known as acidity. Dyspepsia, heartburn and ulcer formation are some of the symptoms. It is more common in patients with highly emotional and nervous.

Natural treatment of acid
Apple cider vinegar. Do not you feel it would work, but it works better than anything else. Acid in many acidic substances outside the body actually becomes alkaline when ingested. It balances the acid in the stomach so that you do not have to produce too much stomach acid to digest food.

Make a fine powder of ginger powder, black pepper, dried mint leaves, asafetida (hing), anise seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel and common salt taken equally. Take a teaspoon of this powder with water, twice daily after meals.

Include green vegetables and sprouts in your diet. They contain vitamins B and E which aid digestion and also facilitate the removal of acids from the body. Raita prepared with cucumber and salads are a proven and reliable support digestive system.
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Apart from the obvious fact that modern medicine has degenerated into an industry that sells medical products, “consumer”, there are a number of more fundamental problems to be addressed if the system still needs to be healed. Since these medical products in more than disease tend to create health, it is almost a guarantee for a revolving door of endless consumer patients need more care. This significant change will come finally to the medical needs of a public that increasingly aware has dysfunctional nature of health care. The medical system itself can not be expected to initiate such changes without any external pressure from the consumers themselves.

Even if we could reduce the profit motive in medicine, it remains a series of false assumptions about health and healing that change if it will ever overcome its limited world view is limited. But effective change will not be possible if we first identify some of the gaps that hinder Western medicine in a truly global perspective. The following broad categories built some of the biggest gaps in describing the philosophy of Western medicine, which in turn lead to inappropriate strategies and often dangerous practice of medicine.
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According to the World Health Organization is the United States ranked 37th in the nation healthier world. How can this be good for the nation that leads the world in true science and technology? The answer is simple: our poor diet and lack of exercise. We are the most important aspects of personal hygiene (and lives) to “hold” for personal profit, financial, social and ego-related. We head over and back, because without good health and fitness, nothing else really matters, right?

Due to the rising cost of health care and a declining economy, it now seems a revival of the “recent health reform law reform.” Meanwhile, there are many commercials on television and other media pushing a drug after another, each claiming to relieve the “symptoms” of disease appears. Most of these chemical mixtures have serious side effects that lead the gamut from headaches to death. In many cases they can even fight them additional drug side effects disadvantages of precedents, which results in a spiral of increasingly treating chemicals. What happened to Nancy Reagan statement on saying “only, no to drugs? Times have changed over the years.
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