This time-honored remedy for ulcers is an ingredient in more than half of Chinese medicine's herbal formulas. Comfrey tea used to be a traditional remedy for ulcers. But because it can become toxic, you should drink it for only a limited period of time. One alternative is slippery elm, a mucilaginous herb that can provide a soothing coating for your stomach lining. Aloe vera is also very healing.
Many good cooks keep an aloe vera plant on their kitchen window sill to treat minor burns.
When you break off part of a leaf, soothing aloe vera gel oozes out. The young woman with a duodenal ulcer whom I mentioned earlier was given Tagamet and told that her ulcer would heal in three months. Dr. Hoffman's website contains useful health information. Inc. Built on a Macintosh with Frontier . Report site problems to Ross Thompson .