Cooked Foods and Parasites

After 3 weeks eating raw food I gave up, because I was just too cold. I later found out that it can take several months to adjust to eating just "cold" foods and my attempt in November, whilst surrounded by snow-topped mountains was not the ideal time!

Over the next few months, I decided that, if I couldn't eat raw, at least I could aim for less junk and more vegetables. So I lightened up my diet, tried to avoid chocolate (failing miserably at least 3 times a week!) and added some detoxifying herbs that tasted disgusting but really did make me feel better! The herbs were inspired after my youngest got worms at school (yuk!) and I really didn't want to give her the worm-killing pills. So we bought some children's worms herb pills that tasted sweet, lemony and a bit horrible at the same time, plus some wormwood, walnut and cloves (Hulda Clark's protocol).

Eventually after 3 months, the worms had gone, but it wasn't as easy as I'd thought, since worms are tenacious and do their best to stay hidden from the herbs. Just as we thought they'd gone, one girl would get a "tickly bottom"! Then another 2 months later and the worms were back - probably being re-infected from school, so back to the herb pills for the girls and herbal tinctures for me. What I did notice is that I was actually feeling very calm as a result of the herbs (or maybe less parasites!) and so continued to take them even after we were all clear.

As the summer months approached and the weather became kinder and warmer, I decided to give raw food eating another go. By now I'd been helping to sell Biscru for 8 months and had encountered lots of raw food selling websites and their lovely, inspiring owners. One such site is Raw Living, run by Chris Wood and Kate Magic, who buy raw food for themselves and also sell it to the public. As I discovered, because of this, the food they sell is wonderful and of an incredible quality. Chris started selling Biscru for me and I started asking him questions about raw food, which inspired me to join some raw food forums to see what other raw food eating people did!

This exposure and the additional knowledge I was learning gave me the confidence to try eating all raw food again - I realised that there were other foods I could include other than vegetables and fruits, that would help stave off the hunger! More about that in another post....

What I learned?

Pinworms and parasites are incredibly prevalent, and amazingly tenacious when you're trying to remove them. I eventually tried EFT to help support the herbs, with great effect

Walnut is a great blood sugar balancer, in addition to being an anti-parasite

I think that wormwood tastes disgusting but thankfully so do the parasites!

The raw food community is a very supportive one with some wonderful people who share a very gentle and loving approach to life.