The following is the copy of an article written in Time magazine,  in 1949 no less!  (Yeah, well just cause its an old article does not make it any less viable!)

A sure cure for ulcers has not been found, but doctors are still looking. In the past 50 years, doctors have recommended at least 46 different kinds of diet, and 108 different drugs, vitamins, sex hormones, etc. The newest suggestion, made last week: cabbage juice.

For the past ten years, Dr. Garnett Cheney of Stanford University’s School of Medicine has been studying an anti-ulcer factor he tentatively calls vitamin U (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). Tests on patients have been encouraging; their ulcers got better when Dr. Cheney fed them on foods containing vitamin U, but he could not prove that U did the trick.

Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured cabbage juice, served a glass at a time, five times a day. Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven in the duodenum, one in both the stomach and the jejunum (part of the small intestine just below the duodenum). They all got better quickly, according to X-ray evidence. Average healing time was 10.4 days for the duodenal ulcers (compared with 37 days for a control group treated by milk, alkalis and the conventional bland diet), 7.3 days for the six stomach ulcers (compared with 42 days).

Vitamin U is also found in celery, unpasteurized milk, fresh greens, raw egg yolks, cereal grasses, certain animal and vegetable fats. Dr. Cheney says cautiously that his experiment is not final proof that vitamin U heals ulcers, but “indicates it may be the case.” ~ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,799694,00.html#ixzz1CBES66kj

Now, since the article WAS an older one, I did look up in PubMed and there are a good number of studies there on cabbage and ulcers or cabbage and Vitamin “U”.

I would encourage readers to do some investigative reading on their own.

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