What Foods Can Help Ease Heartburn?
If you're looking for an all-natural relief for heartburn, tablets that contain papain--an ingredient found in the fruit papaya--may help. Joe and Teresa Graedon from The People's Pharmacy say that there is evidence from as early as 1886 suggesting that papain can help ease indigestion.
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