How and who should pray for the healing of the stomach: gastritis, ulcers and other diseases, including cancer? How and how appropriate is it to ask the saints for healing? How is it possible to find the desired recovery?
From the diseases cited in the announcement in the Church, it is customary to pray to the saints: the Healer of ailments - the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary, the apostles (to everyone, to any of them or whose name you bear) and the saints: the great martyr Artemy of Antioch (Comm. 2 November) and the Rev. Theodore Studit (commemorated on November 24).
It is easy to get rid of the problem with faith and tears, by attaching to the relics and miraculous icons. The church established the reading of prayers, akathists and canons for forty days, although the trouble disappears much earlier.
It is better to ask fervently, diligently and briefly: "Lord, with the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, glorious apostles and saints Artemy and Theodore have mercy on me a sinner." And also: "Blessed Virgin Mary! Holy glorious apostles, saints: Artemy and Theodore! Heal me a sinner (s), pray God for me."
Effectively give a good feasible vow to the Lord, the Mother of God or the saint (saints) for a speedy recovery, and if a severe lesion of the stomach. The main thing is not to deceive and fulfill the promise for healing.
In Orthodoxy, it is customary to thank for the recovery: read prayers of thanks or akathists or the prayer of the righteous John of Kronstadt.
