FOR ACID STOMACHS USE MAGNESIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 10

FOR ACID STOMACHS USE MAGNESIA.

The almost universal use of magnesia by physicians and specialists in the treatment of stomach troubles is due to the fact that it stops food fermentation and neutralises the acid—the direct cause of nearly ail stomach troubles. Of the many forms of magnesia, such as oxides, carbonates, sulphates, etc., the most suitable and ■ efficient,' and the one prescribe! by leading specialists iB bisurated magnesia, half-a-teaspoonful of which in a little warm water immediately-after eating will instantly neutralise the acid, stop the fermentation, and thus ensure painless, normal digestion. Care should bo taken to get bisurated magnesia, as its action is infinitely more effective. It is also, by the way,, usually stocked by chemists in convenient compressed tablets, as well as in the ordinary powder form. Stomach sufferers and dyspeptics who follow this plan and avoid the use of pepsin, charcoal, drugs, and medicines, are invariably astonished to find that the stomach, relieved of the irritating acid and gas, soon regains its normal tons, and can do its work alone, without the doubtful aid ofi artificial digestants.—() •% " i