Gastric juice, which consists of hydrochloric acid and an enzyme, pepsin, which breaks down protein, can digest any living tissue, including your stomach and duodenum. Normally, both your stomach and duodenum are bathed constantly in gastric acid. But protective mechanisms, including the work of prostaglandins, which govern secretion of mucus from your stomach lining, and your food and saliva's ability to dilute acid, prevent your stomach from digesting itself. The pH of the human stomach is about 1.8. The pH of fresh milk is between 6.5 and 6.75. After drinking a glass of milk, the stomach's acidity changes. A powerful acid environment is buffered up to a 6.0, so that everything ferments and putrefies for the next four hours. Initially, milk does dilute stomach acid -- but then, acting on the rebound, it prompts the production of even more.

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 the ulcer pain temporarily, it may retard the 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.

What do you have to loose by eating paw paw, pips, skin and all.  I have not had any problems with ulcers for the last 14 years. Only ate paw paws a few times. Today I can even eat the hottest curries with no ill effects.

Regards

Lynne

What do you have to loose by eating paw paw, pips, skin and all.  I have not had any problems with ulcers for the last 14 years. Only ate paw paws a few times. Today I can even eat the hottest curries with no ill effects.

Regards

Lynne

just drink YAKULT everyday and ur ulcer pays off :P