This book is correct. Do not eat foods with flour, yeast, or preserves while you are recovering from heartburn. Rice gruel and Ginseng root broth helped most at the beginning, after a while I could eat normal food but I still followed this book's recommendation so I don't get sick again. For your information, rice is sticky rice for gruel (wash about 1/2 cup of rice, soak for least 30 min. to 1 hour first before boiling the rice) you can get dry ginseng root in Asian market(rinse 1 dry ginseng root, boil for 20 min with 3 cups of water in medium heat). One or two months later I felt much better. Acupuncture treatments also helped. When the doctor first told me that I had chronic heartburn I was in great pain. It felt like I had swallowed a golf ball. He instructed me to take prilosec everyday. It hurt really bad. I was told that I would have to take it for the rest of my life. Currently, I do not take prilosec and the burning stopped. I can eat a variety of foods, however I am still careful of what I eat (especially foods with preserves).
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