For anyone who knows me, knows I'm obsessed with holistic ways of healing. The only Doctor I visit is my Osteopath, Dr. Miller, who never prescribes drugs. He works out of Boston=and BIG shocker= health insurance company's do not cover his visits. Well of course not, because insurance companies don't actually want you to be healed!!!! So unfortunately I only get to see him once in a awhile.
About five years ago I developed acid reflux disease, it was painful, embarrassing, and annoying!! At a loss for what to do, and unable to fly home to see my Dr. Miller, I spent my hard earned money to visit a regular Doctor. Upon my visit he did not even examine my body, and prescribed me with the Purple pill. Which I know only mask's the problem, but does not heal it. I walked out of that room furious, a couple hundred dollars poorer, with no solution.
So I started doing research, and began a slow, patient process of healing myself-drug free.
I talked to Dr. Miller, and a few other holistic healers, and learned that acid reflux disease is when your stomach moves up into your ribs. So you literally have to push your stomach down and retrain it to stay there. This is how you can do that-which I started calling "treatments".
I would lye on the floor with my knee's up, taking three deep breathes into my stomach, on the fourth breath (holding it) I would place my thumb in between my ribs and push my stomach down as I exhaled. I could feel and hear my stomach releasing back to where it belonged. Repeating this procedure a few more time's until I felt complete relief. I started frequently giving myself these "treatments" whenever I had an attack of the burbs or heart burn. In addition to "treatments" I became very aware of what I was eating, to figure out what was causing the problem. I had to change my diet, and weed out the things that gave me attacks. I stopped drinking coffee, alcohol, and eating fried food, temporarily, until my body was healed, and able to handle them again. Overtime I began to have less and less acid reflux attacks, and eventually I had none. :)
Of course this took time, it didn't happen overnight, but it was worth it. Drugs are just a quick fix, that can have serious long term negative affects on your body. It is very unsettling to me, how much medicine is being shoveled down people's throats. There is an alternative way to healing, if were willing to take the time and be patient to do it. I know so many people are struggling with acid reflux, and if there is anyone out there who wants to discuss this further, please leave a comment, I would love to help in anyway. (The "treatments are hard to explain through words, but I can go into greater detail) And if anyone is using Nexium, or the purple pill, I strongly encourage you to STOP. It will never cure you, only continue to mask the symptoms.
Our bodies are so precious, and we only get one, and it needs to last a long time, so please be kind to it.
Alexandra :)
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