Bothered by heartburn? Feel an acid reflux? Suffer from nausea or other stomach problems?

Why fight a losing battle with heartburn using the usual pills and liquids when you can do the job with a natural product from the health food store?

Apple Cider Vinegar!

Most available heartburn medications are antacids, which do exactly what their name says -- neutralize and reduce the acid in your stomach. But you may be surprised to learn that doing so isn't really the best idea!

Why? Because your stomach uses this acid for proper digestion. In reality, getting heartburn or an acid reflux means a lack of acid is the culprit.  

Antacids, in whatever form,  might seem like they're helping, but ultimately are treating the symptoms and not the causes of heartburn.

With Apple Cider Vinegar, on the other hand, you can match your stomach acid's PH level, helping digestion and not simply suppressing the acid that causes the heartburn for a short time.

These common but unpleasant ailments: heartburn, nausea, and acid reflux, are stopped in their tracks with a good swig of Apple Cider Vinegar, or ACV for short. In fact, it can even stave off a future case of food poisoning. People who drank ACV before a meal had no problems, while the others who didn't became quite sick.

The important thing to remember about ACV is to get the right kind. Forget grabbing one off a grocery store shelf, because then you'll be getting treated and pasteurized ACV that's missing its strongest part.

The one to look for is the natural vinegar found in the health food stores, which still has the "mother". You can use the “mother” to make more vinegar out of the apple cider, but it also possesses the best healing properties of the whole mixture.

Hold a bottle against the light, and the mother almost reminds you of dirt or some sort of fungus floating around--which it is, in a way--but it's far from harmful. |It's the exact opposite, in fact.

Make sure to shake it well so as to disperse the mother through and through, then take some vinegar with or without honey—-whatever you prefer.

Many people find that natural honey does more than just improve the taste; it also turns up the power of the ACV a notch. And it's quite powerful by itself, remember.

A good way to get heartburn relief from ACV is to splash a teaspoon or two in a glass filled with water and simply sip it. Another is to pour a 1/4 ounce into a shot glass, fill the rest up with water, and gulp it down all at once. Honey can be used with either method if you like. Or for something different, mix a teaspoon or so of ACV and some honey into hot water, and drink it like you would tea or cider. This kind of hot drink will help the honey blend in even better.

The best idea would be to take ACV, however you like it, before meals to help digestion and head off heartburn before it begins. But take it anytime--whenever your stomach isn't at its best--and it should get back to normal in no time.

ACV every day should be keeping the doctor away. At least from any more heartburn problems.