Parasite Cleansing

Conscious eating and regular cleansing may return your health and vibrancy to a level that puts the joy back into your life.

While we often read about the benefits of an inner cleanse, the underlying comment is usually on how important a parasite cleanse is. Everyone thinks it doesn’t apply to them, but a growing number of alternative health care practitioners believe that parasite infections are the cause of more health problems than you would believe. Why do they think this? Because of the contrast of improved health after a cleanse, always a longer process the first time.

Skin is one of the first indications of health, but common conditions of chronic gas, abdominal bloating, constipation or diarrhea, insomnia, unusual fatigue, strong sweets cravings, chronic candidaisis, impaired memory or concentration, and allergies or growing sensitivities are all common symptoms of an overloaded system from accumulated wastes. Even muscular aches, fibromyalgia or arthritis, and fertility levels will often improve or clear after focused parasite cleansing. A buildup of wastes over decades can eventually show up as anxiety, depression or irritability as the resulting chemical imbalance and physical strain irritates our nervous system. Large or microscopic, parasites eventually infest weaker body areas to result in a wide variety of conditions.

Having a parasite infection too often means your healthy metabolism gradually changes from the increasing wastes released into your system. While some parasites make you violently ill and require immediate medical help, many can inhabit the body without causing sudden, severe symptoms and some present no symptoms at all. Some parasites can be seen quite easily, but many are microscopic in size. Infestation is often gradual and long-term with vague symptoms until your metabolism is disturbed or the infestation grows to be severe. By then, some may have moved from the digestive system to other tissues and the gradual dysfunction of your body is assigned a different label of dysfunction and a drug.  An infestation enlarges from cravings for sugar, carbohydrates and dairy products that accompany and feed parasite infections. The difficult part is believing you may have this happening when you are without symptoms, until parasites overpopulate to make you ill or the internal environment is disturbed enough to result in a manifestation you can see.

Having a stool sample tested is a long way from being sure you don’t have any parasites! Whether or not you show a positive or negative result depends on where the parasites are in their monthly reproductive cycle, and where they are located in your system – are they still in your lower colon where they can possibly be detected in fecal analysis or are they long-standing enough to have migrated to other body tissues? Are they large enough to see or microscopic enough to be denied by conventional medical means for the limited tests performed?

Let’s consider how easy it is to have a parasite infestation. While you may be very clean and wash your hands every time after using the washroom, the problem is how many people do not have good hygiene practices. Microscopic eggs or larvae can attach to your hands from opening a door, picking up a salt shaker when out, holding onto a subway pole or not washing your lettuce. Being a vegetarian or without pets does not indicate you are safe from parasites. Pinworms are the largest infestation in Canada, but, can only survive in a human host; so we cannot blame our pets for that one.

If you love eating out, you are dependent upon both the washing methods and level of personal hygiene of food handlers. Media messages currently do little to encourage hygiene versus beauty. Many television cooking shows, have a chef with long fingernails and free-flowing hair preparing a meal without use of gloves or hair clips.  Consider your own food preparation habits – do you wash with a fingernail brush before handling foods? Fingernails (underneath) are the biggest germ carrier of our entire body. Do you wash all vegetable and fruit you take home? And there’s the obvious of eating under-cooked or raw fish and meats. Many do not realize that when you eat sushi, for example, the ginger slices and wasabi are anti-parasitic foods that should be eaten liberally to dissolve any worm stages in raw fish. These few examples show that we really cannot miss having parasites cross our path if we want to enjoy life as we should. Neither should you be misled by those who say your stomach acid takes care of any pathogens.  The amount of indigestion and digestive system difficulties people are addressing today, provides evidence that all is not in balance as designed, due to our eating habits and the food supply we have relied on for the last two decades.

Other than living in a bubble, the only way to be sure you avoid inner parasites is to eat consciously with ‘parasite cleanse’ in mind throughout each year.  At least twice a year, if not quarterly, when you are not eating an anti-parasitic food on a daily basis, is the safest option.  My preference, as you can guess, is daily intake of a quality aloe vera gel with its antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral qualities acting as a broad, natural anti-parasitic. Rather than OTC drug options if you do not take aloe vera, there are herbal and packaged anti-parasite options available that may be a more gentle remedy than over-the-counter drugs. Regardless of the method, whenever you start having extra cravings for sugary products or unusual adverse symptoms appearing, it’s a good hint for conscious eating.

Other natural ways for good health include juicing raw vegetables for a month every morning or evening.  This is an excellent way to enhance your nutrient uptake because it by-passes the intestines for processing and is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. Many vegetables are anti-parasitic, such as raw carrots, green cabbage, ginger root, beets and bitter melon, to name a few. If you are diabetic, you should check with your doctor before juicing carrots due to their high sugar content. The unknown element today with most food is their level of potency versus impact from early picking before ripe, long distance transportation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides used, the dangers of genetically modified plant genes, the waxing of some vegetables and effects of irradiation, apparently a growing practice on imported foods and said to effect the enzyme content. Organic is always the safest choice.

Vegetable juicing alone may result in your internal environment changing enough that you pass a parasite. This is a sign to begin a more focused and guided cleanse. There is never just one parasite, that you can be sure of, because of the large number produced each monthly reproductive cycle. While ingesting pumpkin seeds, fennel seeds, garlic, onions and ground cloves may help in expelling parasites, the first cleanse can result in a variety being disturbed. For your first major cleanse, it is more effective and faster to have the guidance of a health practitioner experienced in various herbal supplements and specific foods that can target elimination of different parasite species. They will also advise on how to feel less adverse effects from temporary ‘die-off symptoms’ of increased waste being released once you start treatment.

Some parasites are harder than others to remove. Dr. Hulda Clark explained that in killing the adult form of some parasites, eggs are release from the adult and the eggs are protected by an outer membrane that most anti-parasitic supplements and tinctures cannot penetrate. The order of what to do prior to using a zapper, for instance, is said to be very important. A parasite zapper may kill an adult tapeworm but the rice-like segments it is broken into can then travel to other body areas. Each segment is said to contain thousands of eggs. For those who think our digestive juices protect us from everything, a tapeworm’s body is said to produce chemicals which protect it from the digestive juices of its host. It is also important to remember that our digestive system’s strength is dependent upon our immune level, the alkaline-acid balance we maintain and is greatly impacted by our eating and sleep habits.

We have the good fortune in North American to live with the luxury of ample water and soap, and a daily shower with its illusion of cleanliness. We focus on our exterior but have forgotten that ‘the body is the temple of our Spirit’ … as Edgar Cayce said many years ago.  Today, this realization is more than ever being acknowledged as we increasingly are forced to honour within … our inner metabolism, our core beliefs and our Spirit.  And that which we deny will continue to knock until we hear it, unfortunately.