Acidity

Acid in the stomach is normal — it is what digests food. The trouble starts when acid keeps being produced and food does not arrive on time, or arrives in a quantity the system cannot handle.

Long empty stretches followed by one heavy meal, too much tea and coffee, late dinners, and stress — these five causes come up most often at the camp.

Acid-suppressing medicines stop the burning, but they do not remove the cause that set the cycle going.

First, timing. Food arrives on a fixed clock at the camp, and within a few days the body settles into that rhythm. For many people that alone shows a difference.

Second, the nature of the food — fried, heavily spiced and sour items come out; light, lightly spiced sattvic food replaces them.

Third, when dinner happens. A light meal near sunset has time to digest before you lie down — the most direct answer there is to burning at night.