Peptic ulcer disease (encompassing gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer) disease affects a large portion of the world population. This occurs due to an imbalance between offensive and defensive factors. Helicobacter pylori infection is recognized as the leading cause of ulcer in the world, particularly in non developed countries, it comes under offensive factors and other agents such as alcohol and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs gain importance in developed countries comes under defensive factors. Nowadays the main line of approach in the treatment of peptic ulceration is the eradication...