Ulcers, wherever they are in your body, can be a serious disease and must be treated immediately. If you think you have an ulcer in your stomach, mouth, or anywhere else in your body, you should consult your doctor immediately. You can also proceed to the Step 1 section below to learn how to treat ulcers naturally.
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Method 1 of 3: Eating Foods That Will Help You Heal
Step 1. Switch from butter to oil
One of the first steps you need to take is to change the way you cook food. While you normally use half a spoonful of butter in your frying pan to cook eggs or vegetables, use olive oil instead. These oils contain healthy fats that are easier to digest than the more saturated fats found in animal products, such as butter.
You can also try cooking with coconut oil, rice bran oil, sesame oil, or safflower oil
Step 2. Eat foods rich in antioxidants
Free radicals in your stomach can damage the lining of your stomach, causing your ulcer to get worse. Antioxidants are known as free radical scavengers - they destroy free radicals that can harm you. Therefore, you should eat foods that contain antioxidants. These include:
Blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, pinto beans, artichokes, plums, pecans, and some apples, including Gala and Granny Smith apples
Step 3. Look for foods that are high in flavonoids
Flavonoids are found in many plants and are classified as organic biological pigment compounds. Flavonoids also fight free radicals, meaning they protect the lining of your stomach, just like antioxidants. Foods that contain flavonoids include:
Apples, onions, garlic, green tea, red wine, and soybeans
Step 4. Increase your intake of foods rich in B vitamins
B vitamins are especially effective in curing mouth ulcers. Folic acid (which is Vitamin B9) and thiamine (B1), both are known to treat mouth ulcers. Foods that contain these vitamins include:
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Vitamin B9: pinto beans, lentils, spinach, asparagus, avocado, broccoli, mango, orange, and whole grain bread.
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Vitamin B1: sunflower seeds, black soybeans, barley, peas, oats, and lima beans.
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Step 5. Increase the amount of sweet potatoes and zucchini you eat
While this may seem like a random combination, sweet potatoes and zucchini both contain large amounts of starch. When you boil and eat these two foods, they act as natural pain relievers against the burning sensation in your stomach caused by ulcers. Their high starch content basically makes them both natural antacids.
Step 6. Eat more bananas
Bananas are a wonderful fruit for two reasons; Bananas are high in fiber and encourage the formation of mucosa in the stomach. Its high fiber content is a good thing because it is easy to digest. While the mucosa is good, because it forms a protective layer over the stomach lining, thus making ulcers that have already formed heal, and preventing ulcers that may appear in the future.
Step 7. Use honey in food recipes as often as possible
Honey is one of those amazing foods that has been known to have amazing medical powers. Honey is especially good for treating ulcers, because honey contains an enzyme called glucose oxidase, which kills the bacterium Helicobacter Pylori. You should take at least two tablespoons of honey every day-once in the morning and again at night.
Step 8. Drink cabbage juice
While this may sound like the last thing you'll want to do, cabbage juice is actually known to be very effective in curing peptic ulcers - cabbage juice actually has a high healing rate of 92% effective against ulcers. Cabbage is naturally rich in bacteria that produce lactic acid, which are bacteria that are important in fighting and destroying the bacteria that cause ulcers.
You should drink 50 ml of cabbage juice twice a day, on an empty stomach
Step 9. Chew the garlic
Unless you're a vampire, you probably eat onions twice a day, if not every day. After all, garlic is one of the most commonly used spices. Whether you eat a lot of garlic or not, you should start using more of it. Garlic produces antimicrobial activity in the stomach that fights the bacteria that causes ulcers, and those that make ulcers worse, namely the H. Pylori bacteria.
Step 10. Increase the amount of water you drink each day
Putting lots of water in your body will cool and heal your stomach. Consuming water also reduces the chance of ulcers reappearing in your stomach. Try drinking 8 to 10 glasses, or three to four liters of water a day.
Method 2 of 3: Avoiding Foods That Irritate Your Stomach
Step 1. Eliminate alcohol from your diet
While alcoholic beverages such as wine have several health benefits, most alcoholic beverages cause damage to the lining of your digestive tract. When you have an ulcer caused by H. Pylori bacteria, a bad bacteria found in your stomach, alcohol will only make things worse. Alcohol irritates the lining of an already sore stomach, causing the ulcer to widen instead of shrinking it.
Try eliminating alcohol completely from your diet. While a glass of champagne at your daughter's wedding is fine, make sure you don't go on with a second or third glass
Step 2. Avoid spicy food
Spicy food is great, but spicy foods - especially foods made with hot spices and chili peppers - can irritate the lining of your stomach. When you have an ulcer, the lining of your stomach is already very irritated, so trying to heal your stomach and not make it more uncomfortable is very good.
Step 3. Stay away from foods that contain a lot of fat
Foods that are fried in a lot of oil and fast food should be on the no-go list. These foods are very high in oil content, and have very little or no fiber content, and have very little health benefits, due to the chemicals used to make them. For these reasons, it is best to stay away from fast food and foods that are fried in a lot of oil. Examples of these foods are:
- Deep fried foods, such as French fries or french fries.
- Hamburgers and other foods found in fast food restaurants.
Step 4. Cut down on foods that are high in animal protein
The higher the animal protein content in your diet, the slower your stomach will digest it. When digestion in your stomach becomes sluggish, the healing process will be slower. Reduce the amount of red meat you eat. Red meat is rich and very high in protein, which is more difficult to digest in the stomach. Instead, eat low-fat protein that your stomach can digest easily.
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Proteins to avoid: Beef, pork, processed meats such as hamburgers and sausages.
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Proteins to eat: Fish, skinless chicken, soy products, tofu.
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Step 5. Be wary of products that contain refined flour, refined sugar, and trans fats
Most store-bought processed foods, such as bread, biscuits, and pasta, contain these three ingredients. While these three ingredients aren't necessarily bad for your health, they can actually slow down your stomach's healing process, as these ingredients are harder to break down than other foods.
Step 6. Stop drinking coffee
Unfortunately, this includes both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. Many studies have shown that coffee is harsh on your stomach and very irritating to its lining. Although a healthy stomach may not be a problem if you drink coffee once a day, your stomach with ulcers will experience irritation and pain if you drink coffee.
Method 3 of 3: Taking Herbal, Mineral and Vitamin Supplements
Step 1. Drink cranberry juice or take a cranberry herbal supplement
Cranberries (or to medical people known as Vaccinium macrocarpon), are known to fight H. Pylori bacteria when you take them as much as 400 milligrams, twice a day. Studies have shown that cranberry juice is effective at preventing bacteria from adhering to the lining of your stomach.
Step 2. Take a licorice (licorice) supplement to treat your ulcer
Take liquorice 250 milligrams to 500 milligrams before meals to help prevent ulcers and treat existing ulcers. Licorice (deglycyrrhizinated licorice) tablets that you can chew are great too (though for people who don't like the taste of licorice, you might prefer licorice in pill form that you can take right away).
Step 3. Try taking an oregano supplement
Oregano is considered one of the natural protectors against ulcers, as it prevents and slows down the way the H. Pylori bacteria produce chemicals, meaning that it acts as a natural antibiotic to fight the bacteria that cause ulcers.
Step 4. Increase your intake of probiotics if you feel you are starting to run out of good bacteria
Probiotics, especially Lactobacillus acidophilus, can help balance your digestive system. These bacteria are “good” or “important” bacteria to fight off bad bacteria that cause infection or ulcers. These good bacteria can also slow down the damage done by the H. Pylori bacteria.
Probiotics can also boost the effectiveness of medical medications that your doctor prescribes when you have an ulcer
Step 5. Increase your vitamin intake
Vitamins A, C, and E have shown several roles in fighting ulcer formation. If you are deficient in vitamins, consider taking a multivitamin supplement. Or take individual supplements.
- Vitamin A helps the epithelial cells in the digestive lining of your stomach become strong and fight the formation of peptic ulcers.
- Vitamin C has been linked to healing ulcer bleeding caused by excessive aspirin consumption.
- Vitamin E increases the amount of protein found in the lining of your small intestine. This protein speeds up healing time, when you already have an ulcer.
Tips
- Talk to your doctor before you actually change your diet.
- Use the gel for mouth ulcers.
