Hi Sol, sorry to hear this. It's a constant struggle battling candida I've been there, too and continue to do so at times. But one thing that might help a lot isLily of the desert Aloe Vera Gel. The reason is that aloe itself has healing properties for the tissues and is also cooling, but also the potassium sorbate that's used as a preservative is also itself effective against candida. The gel will stay with you longer than the juice and if you take about two Tbsp after each meal (you can take up to 1/2 cup) you may find it makes a big difference. My allergist at Stanford (many years ago) had me taking potassium sorbate straight. In those days, you could buy it in health food stores. People were taking it for candida. I think you may be happy with the aloe gel, though. Sally
sol <[email protected]> wrote: I believe I have Candida, have been trying to get rid of it for about as long as I have known about CS. Began serious use of CS for that purpose, among others. The whole complex of symptoms of long standing severe intestinal candida do fit me very well. I have not only the direct GI symptoms, but the poor resistance, the joint problems, arthritis, depression, lack of concentration, etc. All of these have improved, but none is "cured" by any stretch. Certainly the course of this cold shows me that 2 years plus of EIS (CS) use has not improved or strengthened my immune system whatsoever. For me EIS works by killing pathogens, and speeding wound healing, but that is it. No immune improvement. Once the darn bugs get in, they take time to eradicate. However, bacterial secondary infections are no longer a threat, thank god. Prior to EIS, those were the real danger and the things that made me very ill indeed for months on end of every year. Then I'd end up with conventional abx, followed by a series of yeast infections, further lessened resistance to the next cold or flu......it was a real vicioius circle. My experience in the past 2 years led me to believe and to say that I couldn't see CS(EIS) making candida worse, but it happened that during this cold when I was taking a quart or more per day, faithfully every day, a few days ago I began to have early symptoms of a typical female yeast infection. So as it also didn't seem to be doing anything for the cold (the EIS I was drinking, I mean) I cut back my daily intake of oral EIS. Since CS has been shown to kill candida very quickly in test tube tests, it is hard to know how this could happen. Speculation: perhaps it kills bacteria in the body faster than it kills yeasts and fungi in the body, thus actually removing a check on the candida. Also with real overgrowth intestinal candida, it is often said it becomes a very different organism than the normal intestinal inhabitant yeast cells. Maybe that form is much more difficult to kill than regular old candida yeast in a test tube. Certainly, I have made improvement over the last two years of EIS use, but am not free of intestinal symptoms yet. One reason probably because EIS is said not to get into the intestines in liquid form, so it can't do a very good job of killing candida there in any case. Perhaps also EIS in the blood just does not get at the places where candida hides in the intestinal wall well either, so---no good contact with the pathogen by any route. At the suggestion of someone on this list, (sorry I've forgotten who) I was going to try using a mix of EIS/DMSO over the abdomen, to see if that would get the EIS into the intestinal walls and tissues enough to help, but my sensitivity to DMSO is great--can't really tolerate more than a 20% solution. And I also found I get the characteristic DMSO body odor very badly even from that. I have now finally gotten some of the low odor DMSO from Jacob Labs, and was about to try it, when this cold interrupted everything. I thank everyone for their thoughts, suggestions, and contributions, as well as having patience in letting me work through this cold and what is going on by putting it all in emails here. It is really hard to remember all the details and explain them all in just one or two emails. BTW, Sally, the GSE seems to have knocked out the yeast infection symptoms already. (and I only took it orally :-) ). sol Sally Khanna wrote: > Sol, > > With your mushroom allergy, I'm wondering...could you have candida? > Sore throat coming and going, among other symptoms could mean candida. > > I had it and that's one of the reasons I can't seem to take CS > consistently. I seem to get candida symptoms from it. I know some > say it cures candida, but that hasn't been my experience. Maybe they > know something I don't. :o) > > Sally > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
