As a Chinese medicine, it is especially useful in treating skin tumors and ulcers.
It is also used to treat ulcers associated with Behçet disease.
Martagon is sometimes applied directly to the skin to treat ulcers.
They are also indicated for use with an antibiotic to treat gastric ulcers.
But it turned out that doctors failed to change the way they treated ulcers.
For example, doctors no longer advise stress reduction to treat ulcers.
"But it is still too early to say that this is the best approach to treating ulcers."
This was done with the hope that it would treat or prevent peptic ulcers.
This research led to the development of drugs to treat ulcers.
The company had created and marketed the drug to treat gastric ulcers.