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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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The effect of vegetable oils on stomach ulcers has been known for a long time, they are effectively used in folk and official medicine. But in the daily menu of every family, animal fats, especially butter, occupy an honorable place. Few people can imagine breakfast without a bun with butter. Is butter used for stomach ulcers, and in what form?
- It turns out that oil is used, for example, in a mixture with propolis. Each ingredient performs its own functions. Oil envelops the mucous membrane and reduces irritation, propolis acts as an antiseptic and cell restorer.
Recipe for the remedy: heat 200 g of fresh oil, add 50 g of propolis, crushed into small pieces. Dissolve until smooth. Take the medicine 1 teaspoon an hour before meals, daily for a month. In some recipes, the proportions of oil:propolis are 10:1. Keep the prepared mixture in the cold, and heat and filter before use. The medicine is not recommended for patients with liver disease.
Butter is also useful in its natural form. It is important that it is fresh and low in fat. It is eaten in the morning, 1 teaspoon, possibly with toast.
Bread and butter for stomach ulcers
Bread is called daily bread for a reason: it is a product of everyday demand, very tasty and varied, containing many useful components: vegetable protein, essential amino acids, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins and minerals, glutamic acid. It goes well with most dishes, and is present in the diet of healthy people every day. But is this nutritious and high-calorie product always useful for everyone?
For example, can ulcer patients eat bread, and what kind? And bread with butter for stomach ulcers - is it beneficial or harmful? And what is the function of butter for stomach ulcers?
Experts recommend eating bread:
- only premium white;
- yesterday's baked goods;
- without pastry components;
- up to 300 g per day.
Fresh bread causes increased fermentation in the stomach, and black bread stimulates gastric secretion. The diet completely excludes pastries and puff pastry.
Sweet products allowed include well-baked unleavened buns and pies, dry biscuits and sponge cakes. Fillings: apples, rice, meat.
Sandwiches with butter are usually eaten for breakfast, slices without butter - at every meal.
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