This is how Dr. Marshall cleared up his self-induced gastritis. The Hoffman Ulcer Diet For years, ulcer patients had to survive on a bland diet of boiled fish, rice, milk, and cream. Now we know that while milk coats your stomach and may relieve your ulcer pain temporarily, it may retard your ulcer's healing. The calcium in milk can make you feel worse in the long run by stimulating the production of gastric acid. So can fried foods, citrus fruits, alcohol, caffeine in beverages or in chocolate, decaffeinated coffee, and smoking.
Tea seems to particularly stimulate production of gastric juice.
In case your ulcer is due to a food intolerance or allergy, try ferreting offenders out with an elimination diet, or ask a doctor who is knowledgeable about nutrition for the appropriate tests. And go through your medicine cabinet and throw out all aspirin and other nonsteroidal analgesics. If you eat fast, bolting down your meals on the run, you're probably tense and thus more prone to indigestion. One particular stress management technique, hypnotherapy, has helped 50 percent of patients' suffering from duodenal ulcers. The old bland regimen that ulcer patients had to follow precluded spices like chili pepper, black pepper, mustard, cloves, and paprika.