Burping has long enjoyed something of a bad reputation. But, in fact, it fulfils an important biological function, allowing the body to expel a build-up of trapped gases in the upper part of the digestive tract.
Being unable to burp can cause enormous pain and distress and the problem is so misunderstood that it was identified as a medical condition only two years ago.
Given the name retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, or abelchia, the inability to burp occurs when the cricopharyngeus muscle, which sits at the top of the gullet, cannot relax to release the trapped air.
Normally, the muscle serves as a valve; it relaxes for a second when we swallow, but otherwise remains closed. It also relaxes briefly when we burp.
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Published on: 03-04-2021
The Adventism reached the country of Georgia in the late 1800s through Russian immigrants in the United States, who sent letters and tracts about Adventism to their relatives. Vagram Pampaian, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary in Georgia, was an American medical doctor with an Armenian background. He arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, with his wife and brother in 1904.
1 Being fluent in Armenian and Turkish, he spent about two years in Tbilisi giving out pamphlets and working with the people who spoke these languages. They attempted to study the local language, Georgian. Five people accepted the Adventist message, but because of persecution from the clerical authorities, only one person was baptized. In 1906, the Pampaians moved to Armenia, and then to Turkey, to continue the work among the Armenians there.