roundworms-Roman Balances

September 1, 2002

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Roman

herbal remedies

Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:59 AM

Re: [herbal remedies] roundworms

Janet wrote:> No one can be completely and full-time free of all parasites. But unless they are> symbiotic like some intestinal flora, they can and do contribute to toxins in the > body.> True parasites live off their hosts, they do not by nature allow the host to live > off of> them. It is the constant struggle of keeping the whole body in balance that is the > key to> health. I guess it depends on your definition of "too clean". Mine is if your health >is poor, cleansing and rebalancing are in order.I don't think there are "true" and untrue parasites. The definition of aparasite is a creature that lives in or on another and from which itobtains nourishment. What you refer to as symbiotic intestinal flora arealso parasites because they obtain nourishment from us.I certainly agree about a need for balance. However, what method you useto achieve balance affects how long you keep balance. For example, usingantiparasitic herbs, drugs, etc. only without changing what has led toimbalance will not create a long term balance. Use of antibiotics forany and all infections does the same thing -- creates no balance.However, just changing what one eats can be enough to achieve balance.For example, T. L. Cleave, in his book The Saccharine Disease, says thateating refined carbohydrates allows overgrowth of some microbes that arenot thought to be particularly beneficial to us, e.g. E. Coli. In hispractice, he had his patients only change what they ate to whole,unconcentrated foods, and infections went away, without any use ofantibiotics (I don't think they even existed then). You can download afree copy of the book athttp://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0203cat/0203longevitylibcat.htmlRoman

WOW never seen so many balances in one paragraph LOL. Almost as good as the raw egg yolks thanks :-)

Janet