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Aerophagia is a medical term used to describe the patient's excessive ingestion of air. Generally, this habit is associated with gastrointestinal disorders, such as belching, painful abdominal tension, borborygmas and increased flatulence.
The possible causes of aerophagia are various and numerous: excessive salivary secretion, typical of anxious subjects, smoking habit, excessive consumption of fizzy drinks, use of some antacids and bicarbonates, tendency to eat hastily with open mouth or to talk a lot during meals , use of inadequate dentures or other dental problems.
In the presence of disorders attributable to aerophagia, the common rules of good food hygiene must first be adopted: avoid too large mouthfuls, 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 problem of aerophagia. On the one hand there are vegetable carbon (with adsorbent properties) and all those drugs (called carminative) that favor the expulsion of gases from the gastrointestinal tract, on the other, medicinal herbs with spasmolytic action can be useful to reduce the sense of abdominal tension. .
Medicinal plants and supplements useful against Aerophagia
Carminative plants useful in the presence of aerophagia: Anise, Fennel, cumin, vegetable and animal charcoal, assa fetida, clove oil, coriander, angelica, Lemon balm, 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.
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