Health is wealth and wealth is wealth. it is the most priceless gift any one can get in life. If I am not healthy, I don’t think I would be here on Hubpages today writing the things that makes me happy, even though I don’t earn from it, yet I would love to make a living through my writings; dual nature that we humans seem to possess, making us seem comparable to waves.
   Many of us have not come to appreciate this precious gift that God Almighty has given us today, to be alive and not just being alive, but to be healthy without much health complications though many believe only in science.
    I remember when I was 15 or so, I was struck by a very deadly sickness that almost took my precious life away from me.   But I asked God for just one thing, that thing was a chance to live healthy again, and this we (I and God) sealed as a deal (so funny I know, how man can make a deal with God).
   What was our deal, you may ask, that I would sing for him in the church choir, as one of choristers in church, if he gives me this opportunity to live a full life again, so desperate I was, I agreed, deal sealed. A good Christian may call this a covenant either, and a psychologist may call it a sub-conscious reasoning but I prefer to call it a deal. This proved one significant thing to me, God truly exists, please don’t doubt it, believe it today.
   So surprisen to all, including my loving mom, I started recovering without further medications, as usual, when all hope was lost, funeral arrangements waiting to be made, but in a very sad manner, what an untimely death if it happened, many thought in their inner minds. But only me knew the secret that I was going to be all right.
   Before a week time, I recovered from the sick bed, and became healthy again. Glory be to God! But too bad of me, I never joined the choir as promised, and whenever I think of this, fear overcomes my joy, but God is so merciful, especially to poor sinners like me, he still continued to guide me all through to date.
    Let us put aside the long story and face our topic, what was it again…oh to cure stomach ulcer yourself, without visiting any doctor. Yes it is real. Remember, natural herbs and leaves were what our forefathers used in treating themselves of all illnesses, and guess what? Most of them lived up to the age of 130 years healthy life, unlike us now. My paternal grandfather died at the ripe age of 119 while his wife died at 118, this was in 1984 and 1991 respectively. And my maternal granny is still alive, and my mother said she is 120 this year, and she is still healthy. Because I visited her in her little home, last Sunday the 22nd of march, being mothering Sunday worldwide, for Anglicans, she was sounding so lively, as she asked me several questions about school, and some old folks that died since the time, I can not tell.
    The most funny of it all, she asked me to dash her some money, I wondered what she needed this money for, but finally, I did, at least to make her happy, even though I knew she won’t use it for anything, imprisoning a fruitful note. But she still feels like earning some money herself, haha…
     Now before I start my little lecture on how to cure a stomach ulcer yourself, what is stomach ulcer? Please I would love to make a point here, mind you, I am not a medical doctor, neither am I a health expert, but all I know is that I have got a reliable, tested way of curing a stomach ulcer without modern drugs. And I have used this method to cure myself and so many other people here in my small country.
    Stomach ulcer is a wound or sore on the intestine, which is normally caused by excessive gastric acid content in the stomach (or more well, intestine), causing a serious pain in the patients’ stomach. The pains grew more severe when the patient go empty stomach for a long time, may be 5 hours, 6 hours or so.
  It is a very painful condition, which I cannot just explain in detail here, but the patients alone knows how painful an ulcer could be. It could make you want to take your own life, but please, don’t let that come into your head, I have brought a reliable solution for you, so cry no more.
   It was my maternal grandma, who gave my mom this wonder-cure, when I developed this illness in 2003, when I just got admission to study mechanical engineering at the university. I caused this illness for myself, but I am not regretting it happened to me, for at least, I learned how to cure it now.
   When I got this admission, I was too conscious of making a first class, so I red and red all night, burning every midnight candle, starving myself of food all day.  And whenever mom calls to know how I was faring, I told her, no problem at all, juts pray for me to make a first class mom. That was my usual statement.
  Gradually, I developed ulcer, and it almost destroyed my life and academic career, truly, God wants me to live for a good purpose, I know. So I had my first crisis, and my parents were contacted to come and take me home for proper care, so they rushed down without any delay.
  I was rushed to our family doctor, he gave all his prescription, according to his own knowledge and wisdom anyway, but the ulcer would only stop for a while and reoccurred again, and each time, very serious and hurtful.
  Mom went to see her mother on a regular visit, and granny asked of me, because she normally did, I happened to be the last child of my parents, so she was so fond of me. Mom told her I was down, and was admitted at the hospital, she screamed and cried out, and as I learnt, she wanted to come over to the hospital to see me, but she couldn’t, because of her age.
  She then inquired of the cause of my illness, mom told her ulcer, she almost fell from her usual relaxation bench, but mom caught her hand (all these, I was told by mom). At this time, granny had to tell my mom what to do as soon as she got home, and she strongly insisted that mom took me out of the hospital, very difficult task for mom, since dad believed more on the modern drugs. But then, I was dying inside me, as I ate through a straw.
  The doctor became tired after prescribing all sorts of ulcer drugs he knew, but to no avail. So he advised my parents to take me home, that I would recover gradually, a deceitful consolation indeed. They had no option, they agreed and took me home.
   So mom had to try granny’s wonder-cure using only some couple of unripe plantain and water. What did I just say now? I was cured of my stomach ulcer using only unripe plantain and water. Nothing else was added or removed.
How does it work?
    Unripe plantain has a sticky gum, which is some how hard to remove if it gums on your hand, so our forefathers, recognized this gum content of an unripe plantain as having the power to cover up those wound or sore in your intestine, thereby silencing them forever. I did this further research, after my recovery.
How to prepare the medicine.
. Get two or three fruits of an unripe plantain, peel out the bark and wash if you desire to do that.
Cut them in smaller pieces, may be 5 mm or so, just cut them in smaller portions, so as to aid its fermentation.
Now, get a 4 or 5-liter plastic container, with cover, and then wash it thoroughly and allow it to dry.
Fill the container with the already pieced unripe plantain.
Now fill the container with clean water, to at least it’s half or more, but don’t fill to the brim.
Cover the container tightly and Shake it together with its contents, and then store in a good place for fermentation to take place within two or three days.
          After a period of two to three days, check your concussion, it is now ready for use. Don’t be afraid to take it or give it to someone you know, as none of the contents is poisonous as you can see for yourself.
How to take it.
Before meals, take a glass (standard tumbler, around 30ml), twice or trice a day, depending on the urgency for cure. Take this for at least two or three weeks, and then go for a medical check up, or observe the effect in your body yourself. You will observe that your stomach ulcer has been cure completely, and never to come back as when cured using a modern medication.
Disclaimer:
This is not in any way intended to condemn modern science and its medical treatments, it is a way of improving self-therapy and the use of alternative medicines to cure people, especially, using natural herbs and roots. Thank you.

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