#2 Alternate treatment for Crohns disease?

[Guest guest]

I just did some reading not too

long ago

trying to find information for a friend of mine in relation to Crohn’s

Disease. Here is what I learned in that.

While one can recommend a raw

food diet,

and it would be good for you, it will not be the solution all by

itself. Probably.

If one has Crohn’s Disease, one also has the inability of one’s

intestines to absorb the nutrients from one’s foods. So, to avoid the

complications, supplement.

One of the supplements you

will want to

use is the group of your pancreatic enzymes. Usually, right off of the

shelf,

you can get a combination of Protease (protein digestion), lipase (fat

digestion), and amylase (carbohydrate digestion). You should probably

also

get a product that adds hydrochloric acid to the supplement. Another

part of

the group is cellulase which digests soluble fiber. Cellulase has

another use

as well, but more on that below.

This supplement (the

pancreatic enzymes)

will help you to digest your foods. It will help with the first step

as food

goes into your stomach. A part of that digestion process is

accomplished by

eating the right foods. Read that as non-processed foods. Foods with

their enzyme

structure intact. All the various natural foods that one eats actually

have a

major part of your digestive process present in the actual

food---enzymes. Enzymes

are present before you cook them. After you cook them, much of them

will have

been destroyed. So you will want to eat as much of your food raw as

you can.

Or you can juice your food. But again, remembering that heat destroys

the

enzymes. If you juice you will want to buy a low rpm machine that

doesn’t

heat up the food as it is juicing it. That way you get all the enzymes.

That gets us digesting our

food and the

food enters the intestines with the proper ph balance to be absorbed by

intestinal lining, if it were healthy. How does one heal the

intestinal lining

so as to absorb the nutrients that it is supposed to absorb.

Raw cabbage juice is good for

the lining

of the intestine. So, add cabbage to your morning juice. An herb that

is very

good for the intestines, as well as for a number of other things like

the

immune system, and inflammatory conditions, is cat’s claw (Una de

Gato).

Research has shown that it heals the lining of the stomach. It also

helps with

the inflammatory conditions that go along with Crohn’s because it acts

upon the immune system in such a way that the inflammation is process

is sort

of detoured, cut short. Cat’s claw is an adaptogenic herb, much like

Ginseng, or Astragalus would be. Steep the cat’s claw as a tea.

Don’t’

buy it in a capsule. There are inactive chemicals in it that are

activated by

the heat. This is how it has been used by natives in Peru for centuries. Don’t keep

it over the heat, just

pour some hot to boiling water over it in a cup or tea pot. You can

use some

of the herbal sweetener called Stevia to sweeten it with. Stevia

actually is

healthy, nutritional, for your pancreas.

Other herbs to

take would

include slippery elm, licorice root, and marshmallow root, are all

demulcents,

which are basically herbs that help to heal mucoid types of tissue.

Licorice root, has as its most active ingredient, a chemical that

actually has

been shown to heal ulcers. They all help in the digestive environment.

Another

recommended supplement is vitamin c (ester c) with the bioflavonoid

quercitin.

Quercitin is concentrated into lung tissue and the wall of the large

intestine. It has much to do with inflammatory processes. One of

the things it does is interfere, moderate, the processes that start

with the

immune system in the development of an inflammatory process. These

include

histamine release. But many of the same processes that involve

allergic

reactions that are present in inflammatory processes are also

accomplished

through various of our body’s enzymatic processes. Quercitin can

moderate many of these.

 

Another

supplement that is absolutely necessary for the cellular regeneration

that goes

on in the intestinal walls is vitamin A. But, supplementation of this

can

be lessened if one truly is eating a diet rich in the vegetables. The

carotenes will supply what your body needs, if the enzymes to digest

the fats

are there. And you did mention using fish oil, but, if your pancreas is

not

producing the right amount of lipase, then you might not have been able

to

avail yourself of its nutritional value.

 

If I remember right, the lining

of your

intestines produces a new cellular structure every 5 days. If your

intestines

don’t do that it is because you are probably not maintaining a good

environment for it to happen. That happens through bad diet, and,

actually, the

good doctor’s medicines which usually downright destroy your gut

environment..

So in order to create optimum

conditions

for healing, and then for maintenance you will want to always eat a

large

amount of raw foods, or at least not sooo cooked. Stay away from

chemicals. There

is especially one that I’m thinking of that is a stabilizer in many

processed foods, including some “health” foods. Carageenan. It is

found in all sorts of dairy products. It stabilizes protein. There’s

one for you. It probably does that in your stomach as well. One of

the things

that probably keeps protein from digesting (destabilizing) and thus

even if

your pancrease is putting out the normal levels of protease, it is not

enough

because of preservatives and stabilizers like carageenan.

But more importantly, the

carageenan

feeds a bacteria in your intestines that makes it grow out of control.

And

then it starts to damage the lining of your intestines. This is one of

the

causes of the bloody stool, the lesions or ulcers, loss of weight,

etc. So,

get a handle on it and stay away from the stuff.

Along with staying away from

carageenan,

and the other chemicals that are preservatives, stabilizers, etc., is

to

supplement with acidophilus, and the other bacteria cultures that are

healthy

for us. Can’t think of but just the one at the moment. The

acidophilus

keeps many of the other bacteria and funguses in their proper ratio.

There are

some bacteria cultures that you buy that also contain another necessity

that is

destroyed by modern farming methods---homeostatic soil organisms. They

maintain the proper ph balance within the intestines.

And I mentioned the cellulase

above as

one of the pancreatic enzymes. Cellulase, along with digesting water

soluble

fiber, also “eats up” candida. It can help you to restore the

proper balance between the various bacteria cultures, fungus cultures

that are

all a part of nurturing the proper “gut” environment.

Most important things:

!. Diet

2. Pancreatic Enzymes

3. In restoring health- cat’s

claw; quercitin;

vitamin a; bacteria cultures to reseed your gut and intestines.

 

Ed

 

-----Original

Message-----

haroldzylber

[harold_z]

To:

 

Subject:

Is

anyone using alternate treatment for Crohns disease?

 

Hi,

 

Please let me know if you are using any

natural

product (e.g. aloe

vera, fish oil etc) that you found

successful in

helping you to

manage Crohn's disease. The medications

tried

todate have failed.

 

Thanks.