Stomach ulcer is a chronic pathology and requires long-term treatment. After trying a bunch of different pills and not being convinced of their effectiveness, patients resort to folk methods that are not always justified. For example, alcohol tinctures with an ulcer are categorically contraindicated, but in the network you can find many similar, harmful to the mucous, recipes. But honey with a stomach ulcer is an excellent, useful and safe means.
The purpose of this article is to help patients understand how to use honey for medicinal purposes and not to harm themselves. Please note that the lack of qualified medical assistance is dangerous serious complications, so consult with your doctor about using such popular recipes.
Useful properties for digestion
All bee products are extremely useful for the body, but how is honey able to cope with an ulcer? The fact is that it lowers the acidity of gastric juice and destroys pathogenic bacteria. Sour contents of the stomach irritates the mucous and ulcerative defect, interfering with healing. Using recipes from honey, you can effectively normalize the acidity, which will accelerate healing.
Interesting: Honey dissolved in warm water increases gastric secretion, and in cold it lowers. Therefore, the latter option is suitable for patients with reduced acidity of gastric juice.
Everyone knows that Helicobacter bacteria play a role in the development of peptic ulcer. Antibacterial activity of honey components helps to suppress it, improving the effectiveness of antibiotics prescribed by a doctor. So honey acts on two major points, provoking the development of peptic ulcer.
What effects are observed when treating gastric ulcers with honey:
- Reducing stomach pain;
- Elimination of heartburn and eructation;
- Decreased nausea;
- Improve digestion due to stimulation of motility.
When and how to use?
With increased secretory activity of the stomach should dissolve 1-2 teaspoons of honey in a glass of warm water for a half to two hours before meals and at night 3 hours after dinner. With reduced secretory activity of the stomach 1-2 teaspoons of honey dissolve in a glass of cool boiled water and drink directly before eating( for 5-15 minutes).In day use 100-150 g of honey. Duration of treatment is one and a half to two months.
How to understand what secretion? This is determined by the characteristic symptoms, as well as during the diagnosis of peptic ulcer by fibrogastroduodenoscopy.
Folk recipes
- Herbal tea. It is recommended to add a few teaspoons of honey in pharmacy herbal collections, depending on the need. For the treatment of digestive pathologies usually use monastery collection.
- Marshmallow root and honey. Crush the root of the althea, take 2 tablespoons, pour half a liter of boiling water and cook for 15 minutes. Allow the medium to cool, and then strain the resulting broth. Add honey to taste. Drink the drug should be half a glass three times a day.
- Honey and dog rose. Prepare the broth of dogrose: crush a few berries, pour into a thermos and pour boiling water at the rate of 1 tablespoon of dogrose to a glass of boiling water. Insist 3-5 hours. Drink half a glass three times a day, adding a teaspoon of honey.
- Decoction based on herbs. Prepare a herbal decoction using mint, licorice root, flax seeds and linden flowers. Add honey to taste and drink half a glass 3 times a day for 1.5-2 months.
- Mixture from an ulcer. Take a glass of beet juice, honey and sugar, add half a glass of vodka and boil for 20 minutes. Refrigerate and add half a glass of aloe juice. Take a tablespoon three times a day for 20 minutes before eating.
- Honey with wine. This interesting tool is useful to use in autumn-spring to prevent seasonal exacerbation of peptic ulcer. A glass of liquid( for example, May) honey mixed with two glasses of crushed aloe leaves and put in a dark place for two days infused. Then add the wine in the proportion of 1: 1 to the mixture. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for two months.
- Honey with potato juice. For a glass of potato juice, take 1 tablespoon of honey, stir. Drink a remedy for half a glass in the morning and at lunch for an hour and a half before meals. This recipe is suitable only for high acidity.
Tip: If you do not have time to prepare any funds from honey, a simple solution will come to the rescue: add it to warm tea every morning. The effectiveness of such treatment will be lower, but such treatment will yield its results.
Cautions
Honey is a highly allergenic product. Given the high prevalence of polynomials, and in all grades of honey there is plant pollen, patients suffering from intolerance to any herbs should be cautious. Even if you used to eat honey, there is no guarantee that today or in 2 months you will not have an allergy.
What are the signs of an allergy to honey?
- Itching in the mouth, sore throat immediately after eating honey;
- Disturbance of digestion, namely loosening of the stool;
- The appearance of urticaria: itchy, red rashes that rise above the surface of the skin, appearing for a period of 2 hours to a day.
Tip: The least allergenic is May honey. Try to use it in folk recipes, if you note the intolerance of other varieties.
It is forbidden to use folk recipes based on honey to patients with diabetes mellitus, atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma on the background of allergies.
How to improve the effectiveness of treatment?
In order to achieve maximum efficiency, folk methods should be combined with traditional treatment and mandatory consultations with a specialist. However, there is a point that becomes more important than any tablets and infusions - a diet. Dietary food contributes to the fact that the gastric mucosa is not exposed to the corrosive effects of certain products, and the ulcer is quietly tightened.
Drug treatment helps to cope with the acute phase of the disease, but you can not always drink tablets. Therefore, develop a therapy plan for yourself and discuss it with your doctor. Ideally, after the diagnosis is made, immediately get on a special diet and get prescribed medication. At the end of the main course of therapy, the diet should continue, and the result can be supported by folk methods, namely recipes from honey.
And the main thing in the therapy of peptic ulcer is the timely diagnosis. Pain in the abdomen does not mean that you have gastritis or an ulcer. If you have unpleasant symptoms, take a check-up and consult a doctor. Then you will be able to cope with this chronic disease.