Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Hello all! Does anyone have any experience in treating people with Candida related problems, using herbs? In that case I would be most interested in hearing what you did and learned from it! BR Carl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hi, this is one of my areas of expertise. You have to treat the candida not the symptoms - correct diet plus anti-fungals (oregano oil/capryllic acid/goldenseal/coptis/black walnut/oregon grape/garlic/etc.) and good(!!!) probiotics and no pharmaceuticals. stephen Quoting Carl Henryk Wallmark <carlhenryk.wallmark: > Hello all! > > Does anyone have any experience in treating people with Candida related > problems, using herbs? In that case I would be most interested in > hearing what you did and learned from it! > > BR > Carl Subscribe to the new FREE online journal for TCM at Times > http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com > > Download the all new TCM Forum Toolbar, click, > http://toolbar.thebizplace.com/LandingPage.aspx/CT145145 > > > and adjust > accordingly. > > Messages are the property of the author. Any duplication outside the group > requires prior permission from the author. > > Please consider the environment and only print this message if absolutely > necessary. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Try Golden Flower herbs ,they make a formula to kill the candida and one to repair any leaky gut that might have occured.Then you could always come back with some spleen qi formulas.Keep in mind it is often a long treatment that will take months.You are probably wasting your time if the patient refuses to make dietary changes.Cullen Senko,LAc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Hi there, this is also one of my areas of expertise. A tincture formula that I have found very successfull is golden seal, st marys thistle, dandelion, pau d'arco and echinacea. (I can give you ratios and strengths if you wish.) It seems to work better than CM as an internal medicine to specifically treat the candida, and helps ameliorate the effects of die off. You can also have them take a CM formula at the same time to treat any underlying syndromes, externally, CM sitz baths are great too. (Ku shen, huang bai, huang lian etc) one of the best sitz baths is hot water, white vinegar and a couple of drops of tea tree oil, then when they get out put some probiotics into the vagina. (yoghurt or better to put some good probiotic powder in a little water), and they can do that many times a day if it is a bad vaginal case with lots of itching and burning, this helps with symptoms. Then diet is important too, if they cant do a candida diet (and lets face it, how many people can do it), then at least cut out sugar and yeast products. Garlic supplements at night and probiotics in the morning are good too. Also everyone seems to overlook partner to partner transmission, if they have a budding strain they may be being reinfected by a sexual partner who remains untreated. As far as babys with oral thrush go, sometimes the easiest and most effective treatment is to just use the western medicine, antifungal oral gels. In my experience anyway. Hope this helps, I can further explain and qualify any thing Ive said above, too, if you want. Regards, Lea Starck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Here is herbalist Susun Weed's take on Candida: From Q & A with Susun Weed regarding " candida " : ============================================= susunweed diagnosis candida - need help! http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/Weed_letter_Mar-02.htm#q2 Candida overgrowth results from lack of gut flora (killed by antibiotics in your case, but also killed by chlorine in the water, preservatives in food, and essential oils in your environment). Candida is a helper. It is keeping you healthy! You need it. But not so much of it. What would convince it to ease off? More gut flora! You need to eat lots of moldy, yeasty, bacteria rich foods like yogurt and sour dough bread and homemade wines and unwashed fruit (for the molds on the skins) and miso and sauerkraut. I know. I know. This doctor told you to avoid all those foods. I can only tell you that I have helped people who have had candida for over a decade, people who have taken all the (expensive) pills, people who have eaten strict diets, people who have done everything they though was right but still weren't healthy and still had symptoms. After 7-10 days on the fermented, moldy, yeasty, bacteria rich diet they are smiling and feeling great!! My friend Ryan Drum has also treated hundreds of candida cleanse failures. His remedy is the same, only more simple. He has you stir a big spoonful of organic garden soil into a glass of water and drink it daily for a month. Gets those molds, yeasts, bacteria, and fungi back in the gut where they belong. I also see that the stores are selling pills of soil micro organism, so if you are really into pills, you could choose that option.But it is ever so much more fum (and less expensive) to just eat blue cheese, etc. .... ============================================= susunweed Thursday, November 1, 2001 Bladder infection, or Interstitial cystitis BUT not " candida " http://www.susunweed.com/Weed_letter_Dec-01.htm#q1 Every healthy human has candida in their gut. It is one of the most important organisms of the 400 molds, yeasts, bacteria, and fungi that colonize our intestines. Without these microbial helpers we would be unable to digest Any food at all. The problem is not having candida, But not having the other helpers, thus causing the candida to grow. Your diet needs to include high concentrations of fermented foods -- yogurt, miso, sourdough bread, home brewed wine and beer, sauerkraut, and cheeses like camembert and brie -- not to be devoid of them. ============================================= http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/August04/healingwise.htm Vinegar and Candida Some people worry that eating vinegar will upset the balance of gut flora and contribute to an overgrowth of candida yeast in the intestines. Some people have been told to avoid vinegar altogether. My experience has led me to believe that herbal vinegars help health those with candida overgrowth, perhaps because they're so mineral rich. I've worked with women who have suffered for years and kept to a strict " anti-candida " diet with little improvement and seen them get better fast when they add nourishing herbal vinegars (and fermented foods such as sauerkraut, miso, and yogurt) to their diets. Cory Trusty http://chinesetherapeutics.org/catalog/index.php Vendors wanted for March Health & Wellness Faire Tuesday March 28 1-9pm Eastern. Crafters also wanted for Arts & Crafts Faire http://www.chinesetherapeutics.org/marchfaire.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Susan Weed;s info was very interesting. I hadnt heard that take on Candidiasis before, but it makes a certain amount of sense, as I have often wondered why mouldy foods were off the list in terms of a candida diet. I dont care what anyone says, though, refined sugar has to go if the patient has candida. I have believed for some time though that fruit sugars are not so bad, and I dont think that people need to cut out all fruit. The reason why I can see why mouldy foods may be OK is that with candida, its not the candida per se, but often the strain of candida that the patient has. If they have an overgrowth of a hyphenating, budding strain, then they will tend to chronic candidiasis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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