Stomach and Duodenal Ulcers

The information in this page about ulcers, natural medicine, treatment and cure is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best medicine

Ulcers are legions of the GI tract resulting from extreme acidity caused by either a bacterial infection or some yet unknown factors. Ulcers are often associated with psychological disturbances, such as irritability and sleeplessness. These psychological symptoms are sometimes mistaken by some doctors as causing ulcers. Ulcers cause irritability and not irritability causes ulcers.

In recent years it was discovered that a stomach bacteria causes ulcers. Sometimes ulcers are treated with antibiotics with success. Sometimes they are not. They are often treated with antidepressants and sedatives with no tangible results.

Ulcers is an extremely YIN illness. Ulcers are accumulations and concentration of acid in the vulnerable areas of the GI tract. The source of this acid varies. Most often it is caused by a bacterial infection and toxic build up in these areas. All infections including ulcers are yin illnesses because they tend to spread. Ulcers are aggravated by extreme YIN foods such as sugar, chocolate and even fruit.

Food is best medicine especially for GI tract illnesses such as ulcers. It is important to cleanse the GI tract of any infections and restore it to its normal function and balance. Ulcer patients must be given YIN foods to discharge accumulated acidity causing ulcers, in addition to yang foods to eliminate any infection. Given the proper yang foods, bleeding wounds in the stomach and duodenum would close in just a few days.

In the page natural antibiotics you will find a comparison between chemical and natural antibiotics regarding effectiveness(bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungus, etc.), cost, availability and side effects.

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure Ulcers you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and other habits have led you to develop Ulcers. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat in order to cure ulcers.

Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

It is true that food is best medicine for ulcers. But some foods cure ulcers and some make the condition worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment and cure of ulcers.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for ulcers there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have severe adverse side effects on an ulcers patient especially vitamin C and iron supplements. We strongly recommend against taking any supplements until the ulcers patient is completely cured. However, if supplements are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

Are you skeptical of this treatment and cure for Ulcers? This is natural, but please read: back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement

Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. From the Chinese book of internal medicine Nei Ching: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food is your best medicine if the illness is ulcers or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat ulcers with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing an appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics.

You can find more answers and more about ulcers and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have long discovered about this wondrous world around us.

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