Stephen’s response:
I would recommend that they begin using fresh juice each morning: cabbage is the most important as it contains specific anti-inflammatory and mucosal healing compounds. Cabbage, beet root, celery, carrot. Then only oatmeal for the first solid meal. I usually do the juice for breakfast, the oatmeal for an early lunch and miso soup for dinner. It is a diet reduction but it will normally relieve those symptoms within a week or two, permanently if the diet is closely watched and adjusted. I have used cow parsnip seed (heracleum) for hiatus hernia with good success; they might try that.