Candida

To combat candida & the accompanying nausea, I'm starting a candida diet.

Are there any herbs that help in any way? Inside or outside.

Thanks. Grateful for your books during menopause. A friend & I grew herbs, made tinctures, salves, &_food. Easy passage.

Thank you for any help.
Donna

 

Hi Donna,

Susun has addressed candida before, so I can give you a number of resources of hers that you can go over it. The typical candida diet isn’t something that Susun has found to be helpful, so you will probably find the information below to perhaps be opposite of your diet – although I am not sure exactly what you are following…   http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/Weed_letter_Mar-02.htm#q2

 

Susun's Response:

“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.”

 

Susun has also talked about candida during her health hotline blogtalk radio show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed/2013/08/06/ask-herbal-health-expert-susun-weed-and-psychic-elizabeth-joyce-wise-woman

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed/2013/09/24/ask-herbal-expert-susun-weed-and-natural-alignment-with-kathleen-porter

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed/2014/11/19/ask-herbal-health-expert-susun-weed-terra-gifts-steve-shaft

 

One of Susun’s articles more indepth:  http://www.naturalbloom.com/articles/herbal-medicine-290/

 

Susun also discusses vaginal yeast a lot in her book, Down There, Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way – some of the suggestions she discusses there:

 

“Maitake are mushrooms that specifically inhibit and destroy candida.

Women with chronic infections benefit the most. A dose is ½ gram daily for a month, increasing by ½ gram a month to a maximum of 3 grams daily. A cup of fennel seed or ginger root tea will relieve the severe gas pains that will result from use of maitake.” Pg. 147

 

“The Journal of Reproductive Medicine reports that boric acid cured 98 percent of women with chronic, drug-resistant yeast infections. To use: Fill 00 gelatin caps (sold at health food stores) with boric acid USP (sold at drugstores). Insert one in the vagina nightly before bed for two weeks.” Pg. 149

 

Also a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trd4lZiBn-8

 

You are also welcome to call into the health hotline and discuss it further with Susun directly. She holds the hotline each Tuesday from 7:30pm-9pm Eastern, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed, (646) 929-2463

blessings,
Kim
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