Treat Stomach Ulcer with Sweet Potato

Stomach ulcers generally known as peptic ulcers cause pain in the midsection area between the navel and the chest bones.Sweet potato is not just simply a tasty and yummy food, but also is very nutritional food that can treat many health conditions.Sweet potato is very soothing on the stomach lining. In fact, it creates a protective layer on the lining of intestine.

You can eat sweet potatoes in many different ways including adding them to other vegetables for cooking, boiling and eating, baking and eating or making a soup to consume.

Method 1 - Boiling

Boiling the sweet potato and eating it is one of the best ways to eat sweet potato for healing ulcer.

• Take a small size sweet potato of approximately 100 gram weight in a heating pot.
• Add sufficient water in the pot to cover it
• Boil until the sweet potato becomes soft.
• Do not over boil it
• Remove it from water and let it cool to palatable temperatures.
• Eat it.

*You can add olive oil if you want.

*Eat this boiled potato twice daily for two weeks to heal your stomach ulcer.

Method 2 - Dry It to Make Powder

You can make dry powder from sweet potato to consume daily 3 times for 2 weeks. This is more convenient way of consuming sweet potato for the specific purpose of healing the ulcers. You may miss the enjoyment of eating sweet potato, but this method is equally powerful to heal your ulcer.

• Boil half kg sweet potatoes in water until they are completely soften and broken into pieces
• Let it cool down a bit
• Pour the mix of soft and sweet potato and water into a Blender and blend well
• Strain the blended sweet potato with a cloth in a tray.
• Let the sweet potatoes​ settle at the bottom of the tray. It might take a couple of hours.
• Remove the water from the top
• Dry the remains in the tray in sunlight.
• Make a powder of the dried sweet potatoes and store it in a sealed jar.
• Consume 1 tablespoon of the powder by mixing in a cup of water and drink it 3 times a day.

Method 3- Bake Sweet Potatoes

Bake  100 gram sweet potato and eat it twice daily. You can add olive oil before eating. Do not grease it with olive oil before baking. You don't want to oxidize olive oil during baking process.

*Do not eat street food as there is a possibility of contamination and you may add more acid to your body. Avoid all kinds of spicy and fatty foods. Take sufficient rest and drink lots of water. Avoid citrus fruits.