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Eat apple puree, rice, pureed vegetables, and all easily digestible foods
see chapter 4) while the healing process is taking place.
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Eat pineapples and papayas for extra digestive help; include aloe vera
juice as a drink to prevent any harm to the stomach walls.
Take one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar daily in half a cup of apple
juice.
Food intake should be slow, unhurried, and calm. Chewing should be
thorough and slow. Eating without talking can be helpful initially.
f If a major cause of the ulcer is stress and worry, take chamomile
f ower tea to feed and calm the nervous system. Valerian root will be
invaluable in the short term.
f Daily meadowsweet leaf and gentian root will help to soothe and bal-
ance stomach acids and general digestive enzymes.
f Besides bacterial infection, the cause of gastric ulcers can be nerve-
related, so nerve soothers and feeders will be useful.Try equal amounts
of chamomile f ower, wood betony leaf, skullcap leaf, and wild lettuce
leaves. On a short-term basis, take valerian root.
f To heal the ulcer, use powders of slippery elm inner bark, marshmal-
low root, licorice root, and chamomile f ower. These powders can be
mixed with aloe vera gel and eaten as a mush sweetened with honey
several times a day. These herbs will coat, heal, allow tissue regrowth,
and sustain a lubricated seal between incoming food, stomach acids,
and the painful ulcer.
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Liver and bowel cleanses will be vital (see chapter 6).
Exercise, sing, dance, and meditate to relieve any stress.
gastritis
Gastritis literally means “inf ammation of the stomach.” It may have a
number of causes. Very often it is not so much an infection as a condition
brought about by the f erce acidity of the digestive juices (which is usually
enough to kill most bacteria). Often, poisons have been
swallowed— sometimes in the form of bacteria on food or from
improperly prepared or preserved foods. Alcohol, aspirin, and even tar
from cigarettes are other causes of gastric inf ammation.
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Fasting is recommended in this situation to give the stomach as little
to work on—or to revolt against—as possible. It is best to drink water
at room temperature (that is, neither hot nor cold).
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The f rst foods should be onion and garlic soup, alternated with slip-
pery elm inner bark powder stirred into water or a ripe banana. (Or
try the herbal formula of powdered slippery elm inner bark, marsh-
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