Posted: 2009-05-28 13:33
There are over 1,000 species of parasites that can live in the human body. Modern medicine has tests for about 45 of these. Therefore, tests are available for only about 5% of parasites. The accuracy rate of these tests are 20%. After the math, we come up with a 1% accuracy rate.
It is estimated that 90% of North-Americans are infested with parasites. Many of us have been infested our entire life, beginning from when we were children. You may have never actually seen the worm. But if you eat the eggs, which are very tiny, they will grow inside of you. The eggs can be found everywhere, from the soil to the playground, to the daycare center to the restaurant, at your job, in other peoples homes, from the dog who rubbed his butt on your carpet, and that cat. The tiny eggs and parasites lie quietly, waiting to be picked up by a host and once they are swallowed, the parasites keep on growing. They thrive on sugar, dairy, carbohydrates, chemicals and are fascinated with meat.
Many people don't feel sick from the worms in them and they tend to just live with them, while others have "mild symptoms". Still, in others, they have so many worms in them that the worms and other parasites are in fact, the problem. Many of the same problems that worms create for dogs, also create for humans, especially when it comes to the intestines, lungs, and heart. Worms can migrate to the lungs of both dogs and humans as well as the joints. Parasites love the liver and intestines, and is usually the number one organ where the majority may be found. However, they can live quite comfortably anywhere in the body, including the brain and eyes, causing great distress to the host.
Killing and expelling are two different things. If you use an herb or regime that expels but doesn't kill, you run the risk of it crawling back up into the intestine. If you kill but don't expel, you run the risk of the eggs left behind hatching or serving as food for those left behind. A regime that only expels will do nothing to kill worms and eggs that have relocated to organs higher up in the torso and head.
Herbs used to treat worms are black walnut, wormwood (the prima donna of worm killers), garlic, sage, ginger, castor oil, Pau D' Arco, thyme, bitter lemon (actually, this is a vegetable found in indian markets that looks like an ugly cucumber), milk thistle herb to support the liver (but doesn't kill anything but can protect the liver during a killoff), ginger, and peppermint.
Some dewormers, like castor oil, will only expel them. Others, like blackwalnut, and Pau d' Arco will kill them outright. Worms like Ascaris, flatworms, and pinworms are commonly found in humans. If wanting to kill worms within the body, it is better to have an understanding of the proper ways to do it if wanting to kill them outright. Some people simply take a tablespoon of castor oil each month and don't bother to go beyond. Still others will really get into it and will take an herb until they see the worms evacuating, sometimes up to a fool long. What may work for one person may not work for another. There is no harm to including some herbs in one's daily regime, such as thyme, garlic, ginger, peppermint, or pau d' arco (steeped into a tea to ingest); or taking a tablespoon of castor oil on a weekly or monthly basis.
