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Gastritis is best described as a symptom of abnormal digestion that is characterized by inflammation or irritation of the lining of the stomach. It is not a disease in its own right and can brought about by a number of different factors including alcohol abuse, prolonged use of aspirin or ibuprofen, bacterial infection and has been known to develop after a major surgery, burns or traumatic injury. Gastritis affects millions of people in the world.

3 Categories of Gastritis

1. Erosive and hemorrhagic gastritis
2. Non-erosive and nonspecific gastritis
3. Specific gastritis which indicates a disorder

Some of the symptoms of gastritis:

• Burning pain in the abdomen, similar to indigestion which may or may not get better after eating.
• Nausea which may be accompanied by vomiting.
• Loss of appetite even when not nauseated,
• Chronic belching or bloating
• A particularly full abdomen after eating
• Weight loss due to lack of appetite and nausea

While all of these symptoms may point to gastritis, they might also indicate another type of ailment such as heartburn, stomach flu or stomach ulcers,.  It is important to pay a visit to your doctor to make sure that is gastritis and not something else.

Gastritis may also on occasion cause stomach bleeding if the lining of the stomach is penetrated. Vomiting blood, black and tarry stools are symptom of a bleeding stomach. If this happens, go to your doctor immediately. 

Steps you can take to overcome gastritis:

• Limit, and if at all possible, eliminate your intake of simple sugars, flour, caffeine, alcohol, fatty foods, spicy foods, and tomato products. These types of foods have the tendency to irritate the lining of the stomach and increase stomach acid production. They can also end up weakening the sphincter that serves as a gateway between the esophagus and stomach allowing stomach acid to leak out and creep up the esophagus.

• Drinking coconut water is a good way to help with the symptoms of gastritis. It helps your stomach rest while providing the necessary vitamins and minerals.

• Eat a diet that is light to help your stomach recover

• Quit smoking

• Relaxation therapy has also proven to be helpful.

• Eat a diet that is laden with protective sources of fiber. This could help cut the risk of developing gastritis and ulcers in half. Vegetables are particularly good source of this fiber and can help reduce inflammation of the stomach lining.

• Take 1000 mg of Omega 3 Fish Oil every day to help reduce, even eliminate inflammation.

• Taking multi-vitamins and mineral tablets on a daily basis can also help aid in healthy digestion. 

Consuming processed foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, has unfortunately become the ritual for many Americans over the past couple of decades. While getting a hassle free meal without even having to leave your house or car in a manner of minutes seems to signify the height of modern culture, it is this mindset that is slowly destroying us.  Regular consumption of prepackaged and overly processed foods has lead to nation faced with a plethora of different digestive problems including GERD, acid reflux, constipation, gastritis just to name a few.  We have gotten away from the basics of healthy eating and it is starting to show in our gurgling waistlines.

3 reasons to stay away from processed foods:

1. Processed foods contain no nutrients.—You can eat and eat and eat these foods and still wind up being undernourished since these foods have nothing that your body needs and you just end up  wasting a ton of energy digesting stuff which just ends up going in one way and coming out the other.
2. Processed foods do not contain water.—Your  body needs the water that is contained in fresh fruits and vegetables to help carry nutrients to all parts of your body and to cleanse your system of toxins. Water is generally not a popular additive to most processed foods  resulting in the stuff being heaped onto the pile of waste and leaving you feeling more toxic than ever.
3. Processed food leave you feeling hungry.—As said in the first point, processed foods really have nothing your body needs. So after you eat them, your body will continue to tell you that you are hungry since you really obtained nothing of value from the food you stuffed yourself with.  Processed food just becomes filler with no real value to you.

Keep up with the habit of getting your meals fast and hassle free and a vicious cycle of malnutrition will develop. You will feel hungry and eat, but then still feel hungry so you will eat more and so on. Do not be surprised if you already have a digestive disorder of some type already creeping up on you. If you  are looking ofr a good way to cure your GERD, acid reflux, and other stomach problems, do not go get some pills, instead go to the grocery store and pick yourself up some real fresh foods.

L  • Lavender
     • Licorice Root

     • Lobelia
     • Lovage
M  • Madder
     • Magnolia
     • Maral Root
     • Marsh Cudweed
     • Marshmallow
     • Meadowsweet
     • Melissa (Lemon Balm)
     • Milk Thistle
     • Mugwort
N  • Nettle (Stinging)
O  • Olive Leaf
     • Orthilia Secunda
P  • Peony Root
     • Plantain
     • Purple Marshlock
R  • Red Clover
     • Rhodiola Rosea
     • Rhodiola Quadrifida   
S  • Sage
     • Saw Palmetto
     • Spirulina
     • St. John's Wort
U  • Uva Ursi (Bearberry)
V  • Valerian Root
W • Wild Yam
     • Wormwood
Y  • Yarrow