Abdullah M Nasrat, Salwa AM Nasrat, Randa M Nasrat, Mohammad M Nasrat
The study aimed at comparison of the efficacy of natural remedies versus the conventional antibiotic therapy in eradication of the symptoms and existence of Helicobacter pylori. The latest reports in literature demonstrate a definite flare up of many medical challenges related to H. pylori through immune or different unknown reasons. H. pylori can migrate to the colon; it will continue producing ammonia, unopposed or buffered by any acidity, which could lead to accumulation of profuse toxic amounts of ammonia; this could definitely predispose to different adverse toxic effects to the body especially to those disadvantaged predisposed population. The literature confirms that recurrence of H. pylori is hardly avoidable; whether it is gastric recurrence from colonization of the bacterium in dental plaques or fecal-oral recurrence from the colon. The study included three groups of patients suffering from dyspepsia associated with H. pylori; each group size was 100 patients. The patients were randomly included in the study without any selection during the period between October 2010 and May 2014. The first group was treated with vinegar therapy alone for one week to 10 days. The second group was treated with the senna purge alone once or twice. The third group was treated with both the senna purge once followed by vinegar therapy for one week. Specific tests; urea breath test and H. pylori fecal antigen, were used for inclusion of patients in the study and for confirmation of H. pylori eradication after end of treatment. The success rate of treatment in the first group was 91%, it was 95% in the second group and 97% in the third group; while the best success rate of the current antibiotic H. pylori eradication therapies as demonstrated in literature was maximally 83%. Natural measures of H. pylori eradication employing the senna purge and vinegar are superior in efficacy to the current antibiotic strategies. Eradication of abnormal H. pylori strains using natural measures is simple, safe, costless, effective and decisive; it is worthy to change attitude of medicine in dealing with the challenge known as H. pylori.