The Chemistry of Milk and Heartburn. First, we need to look at any path of action that milk may be able to use in order to reduce heartburn. The first step is to look at exactly what is in milk itself. Milk is actually a weak acid, with a standard pH of 6.7 (anything between 0-7 on the pH scale is considered an acid).
Chaparral, Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
chaparral - dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes. scrub, bush. botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; Pleistocene vegetation; the flora of southern California; the botany of China.