candida constipation step #1 ?

[jules]

2 questions buried in here:

QUESTION 1: i need to make myself go to the bathroom this morning, whats the safest way? go buy a Triphala (or what?) or do a salt water flush (already have the unrefined sea salt!) ?

long story short: i've got candida, i may have had it lightly for a long time (weakness, brain fog, smell sensitivity, anal itch) now that i understand the symptoms, but i think it really took over only a week ago due to 1) taking antibiotics 10 years ago, 2) being on a raw vegan diet with tons of fruit, 3) unknowingly taking a B12 supplement where the B12 came from yeast. i am already doing the candida diet of only raw eggs, vegetables, nuts, olive/coconut oil. beginning to make my own raw goat milk yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut as we speak. trying to drink alot of water. havn't purchased ANY products yet except iFlora 15-strain refrigerated probiotic.

now, since ive begun this candida diet ive barely had two BM in the past week and they have been almost nothing and i have eaten ALOT of greens (steamed and raw) that dont seem to be going anywhere. i wake up every single morning and have an INTENSE head rush where i lose my vision, and also every morning i feel so weak i can barely make it to the bathroom to urinate. usually i feel a bit better by the time i goto bed after getting a days worth good nutrition. i am in my 20s, tall, and very thin by nature, but i am losing even more weight from 120+, now going below 115 so i am worried to fast right now, as i am also always hungry! the first steps of your cleansing say to eat nothing but marinated ginger, but also mention meals. the schedule doesnt say anything about eating meals. QUESTION 2: kind of confused, should the first few days include only ginger fasting or regular food too?

i've read everything on the site, and find it excellent, and far more easy to follow than anything on curezone. very well organized and well put. i just need to know what this very first step should be because i'm very worried that i'm toxifying myself every hour that passes that i don't have this BM that's been building up for almost a week now!

[shelley]

OH dear me. Okay, for acute cases like these, here are your options. Know that this is for cases of emergency, and not the usual methods.

1. A cup of very strong, black, hot coffee on an empty stomach is excellent for inducing a BM. It will mess you up in other ways temporarily, but not having a BM for more than 3 days makes the scales tip in the direction of who cares? You gotta go!

2. The salt water flush may not be appropriate at this time. While it is a good way to flush the body, when there's an impaction, it's the exact wrong thing to do because it will strain the intestines to no good effect. The SWF is best done while fasting or on low-fiber diets.

3. If the feces are stuck in the colon/rectal area, the best thing is an enema. Get two Fleet enemas and a box of glycerin tab suppositories. Use both enemas and then a suppository. If you have your own enema bag or bucket setup, use that, but since you've had this problem for ahwile I assume you do not. It is essential that you do eventually get a bag or bucket to cure candida. I got my latest bucket from www.healthandyoga.com, the cheapest one I've found so far. Combining option #1 with this option will certainly clean you out pronto.

4. Drink a tea like Eater's Tea or Digest-Aid that has Fennel or rhubarb or both in it. Avoid senna, it often just causes cramping without inducing a BM. Also take Sonne's Intestinal Cleanser, the Perfect 7 one that has cascara sagrada combined with psyllium. Use these two over the next 3-4 (or longer) days to keep things coming out of you after the first BM. This option is best applied after doing 1 and 3.

5. Get Triphala and take 2 pills 3x a day for a year to cure candida. It is not strong enough to really cure constipation, but it will tonify the intestines and be a huge help overall. It will not take care of the immediate problem but will ensure that this does not happen again.

6. Adjust your diet. You can eat cooked eggs, for instance, they don't have to be raw, altho there are advantages to raw eggs - see my Kefir protein shake recipes in the FAQ. Be sure to study my candida diet which is described in a sticky post in the Candida forum, most candida diets are stupid or outright insane. The main thing wtih candida is the power of digestion and preparing foods with pungent spices. Be sure to read about that in the FAQ under Vital Health Management.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes!

[jules]

thank you so much for the excellent reply! my shopping list is in progress (luckily i have a great health/supplement store down the street)...and ive studied your candida diet well, it makes by far the most sense (still afraid of any safe grains and sprouted legumes or safe fruits at all though, they seem like compromises, and im pretty willful and dont need anything that will slow down the candida wash)

i was really hoping you wouldnt say coffee because i dont drink it, dont have any, dont have a way to make it, would want to only find organic stuff if i did.

also, ive already ordered the healthandyoga enema kit! but thatll take a week to get here

ps. currently only having the raw egg yolks based on what ive read at http://www.mercola.com/2005/feb/9/raw_eggs.htm , i generally dont like to cook anything besides easy steaming anyways so the egg white seems to be mostly out of the question to me, too messy, dont like frying pans!

[shelley]

LOL! well I was afraid you were going to say that!

Maybe you can visit a Diedrich's or Starbucks? After all, it's an emergency!

I know what you mean by compromises. It really does speed things along if you don't compromise for at least 3 months, but after that certain foods in small amounts really help the body with nutrients. I started feeling much much better after I started adding in Kichadi and sweet potatoes.

Mercola has 3 articles on eggs. In one of them, the latest, he recants and says to use the whole raw egg because the biotin-blocker in the white is more than compensated by the large amounts of biotin in the yolk, and the only way to get all the essential aminos is to have both the yolk and the white. What I sometimes do with my protein shakes is use one whole egg and then only add extra yolks. But now that I'm using nutritional yeast flakes I don't worry about it at all, because it adds tons of biotin. I adore my protein shakes because that gets me out of cooking at least one meal.

Congrats on your purchase!

[jules]

FYI: this is the newest mercola egg article update: February 2005
http://www.mercola.com/2005/feb/9/raw_eggs.htm

maybe ill just eat the one egg white raw, with three extra egg yolks, a couple times a week to be safe. then just have my four egg yolks the rest of the days. the only thing is, i just saw today for the first time that he says somewhere not to have eggs everyday because it's easy to develop an allergy! i had planned on having them everyday.

still no BM! i may go get coffee tonight. i tried having ground flax seed in water, and water with a little salt (not quite the salt flush) but still nothing

i just decided to eat: 3 egg yolks raw, a big plate of steamed kale/collard with olive oil + sauerkraut

you're awesome shelley, thank you so much!

[shelley]

Yes, it's important to cycle your foods and have a variety. Just about anything can become an allergan if you rely on it too heavily, which is why candida people are advised to avoid chicken, corn and white potatoes, all very much staples of the standard diets. I avoided them for a month or two just to be safe but had no problems adding them back into my diet.

I tend to have one or two eggless days a week at most. I really rely heavily on them! On my eggless days I go for turkey, seafood, beef, liver, pate, or just stick to vegetarian/pasta.