May heal gastrointestinal ulcers.

The chemicals contained in licorice are thought to decrease swelling, thin mucus secretions, decrease cough, and increase the chemicals in our body that heal ulcers.

Users believe that a solution of sea cucumbers can heal cuts, skin eruptions, and ulcers, and claim that it has a beneficial effect on the immune system.

A new company has been formed to pursue a gene therapy that could form new blood vessels and heal ulcers in patients with blocked arteries.

Medications designed to protect the stomach from acid did heal ulcers, but they often recurred.

Human Genome Sciences has discovered a wound-healing factor, known as keratinocyte growth factor-2, which is in now in clinical trials for its ability to heal venous ulcers.

In the 1970s, he proposed the use of carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor acetazolamide to heal peptic ulcers.

Dentists sometimes use silver nitrate infused swabs to heal oral ulcers.

When the two began their research, doctors could heal ulcers with drugs that blocked the production of gastric acid, believing stomach acid caused ulcers.

But some peptic ulcers do not heal (intractable ulcers).