This article aims to help the reader in the rapid identification of natural remedies useful in the treatment of various symptoms, disorders and pathologies. For some of the listed remedies, this utility may not have been confirmed by sufficient experimental tests conducted with a scientific method. Furthermore, any natural remedy presents potential risks and contraindications.
If available, we therefore recommend that you click on the link corresponding to the individual remedy to learn more about the topic. In any case, we remind you of the importance of avoiding self-treatment and to consult your doctor beforehand to ascertain the absence of contraindications and drug interactions.
Aerophagy is a medical term used to describe the excessive intake of air by the patient. Generally, this habit is associated with gastro-intestinal disorders, such as eructations, painful abdominal tension, borborigmas and increased flatulence.
The possible causes of aerophagia are varied and numerous: excessive salivary secretion, typical of anxious subjects, smoking habits, excessive consumption of carbonated soft drinks, use of some antacids and bicarbonates, tendency to eat hastily with an open mouth or to talk a lot during meals, use of inadequate dental prostheses or other dental problems.
In the presence of disorders due to aerofagia, the common rules of good food hygiene must first be adopted: avoid large bites, chew for a long time before swallowing, do not talk during meals, reduce the consumption of carbonated drinks, and avoid large meals of difficult digestion.
Herbal medicine can offer numerous solutions to the aerofagia problem. On the one hand there is vegetable charcoal (with adsorbent properties) and all those drugs (called carminative) that favor the expulsion of gases from the gastrointestinal tract, on the other hand medicinal herbs with spasmolytic action can be useful to decrease the sense of abdominal tension .
Medicinal plants and supplements useful against Aerophagy
Carminative plants useful in the presence of aerophagia: Anise, Fennel, cumin, animal and vegetable charcoal, fetid assault, clove oil, coriander, angelica, Melissa, Chamomile, Mint, Cinnamon.
Spasmolytic plants useful in the presence of aerophagia: yarrow, green anise, bitter orange, basil, belladonna, chamomile, lemon verbena, coriander, ivy, butterbur, lettuce, lavender, peppermint, poppy, passionflower, serenella, valerian, menton, hops, carnation, sweet clover, lemon balm, elderberry.
