Id say your diet is more then likely the problem then the UT ! If the food you eat has little nutritional value you will stay malnourished, if your food is malnourished your urine will be deficient in essential elements also! If your food is grown in mineral deficient soil your food will be mineral deficient also!

Well , I just had to comment here. Vegetables are the most alkaline food there is. It is not acidic. You will find alot of info on this on the internet. What is acid and what is not.
It could however be that you
have an immunological response ( intolerance ) to foods or chemicals. I just took the Alcat test , ( google it) , and it sais I should not have apples ( among other things) I have Arthritis too , and was even on a juice fast ( with apples) soo.
Dont give up:-))

Hilde

Hi silk 2
All your symptoms are those of an acidic body including the lymphatic sytem!
You need to do some research on alkaline/acid pH balancing!
I would start here at this link and look into mineral baths also! You are in need of alkaline minerals which your are not getting in your foods!


//www.curezone.org/forums/f.asp?f=740

Hi,
I suggest adding Sea Salt to your diet.
Incorporate the Water Cure , found at:
http://www.watercure2.com

You take your body weight, divide it in half, and drink that number in ounces of water a day. So if you weigh 200 lbs, you drink 100 ounces of water a day. Add a 1/4 teaspoon of Sea Salt to a glass (do this to several glasses a day), stir, and drink. It sounds like you're missing minerals (about 80) found in Sea Salt .
Also, add some tumeric, curry, cinnamon, cayenne spice to your diet as well.

best,
Kris Kemp

I think your diet is good and so is your dedication to healing your body. It's not your fault. There might be a malfunction that recycling your own urine cannot fix.

If you haven't seen improvements in 6 months on UT, it is probably time to look for answers someplace else. However, take the last posters advice and start taking Sea Salt because it is natural and comes from the sea. table salt is iodized salt. It is processed and is bad for your health. The sea has the same plasmic variables as human blood and the salt is taken from the sea. If what you are missing is one particular mineral, Sea Salt will help. The best Sea Salt is not white in color. It's darker and some grains are darker than other grains. I use a brand called Real Salt, but any brand that is not white in color is good. The bottle I buy is like $2.50 at my health food store, so it can be a very worth while investment.

Your swelling feet(Edema) can be a symptom of insufficient dietary protein, lymphatic obstruction, kidney disturbances, electrolyte imbalances and unknown food sensitivities . You may be eating only veggies and nuts, but you can develop sensitivities to these foods too. I would know that first hand because that happened to me.

Your best bet is to do research. Think of every symptom you have and put it into the search engine along with the word, "symptoms" and check every single possibility. Have you been tested for Cystic Fibrosis, Carcinoid Tumors and Lupus? I don't have a lot of faith in the medical profession after the experiences I've had, but sometimes it is necessary to use them. Don't go into the doctor and ask them what is wrong. Being passive makes them passive. Walk in there with your list of possible diseases while thinking how fed up you are with your symptoms.

Cystic Fibrosis was an interesting one because it is congenital(you have it from birth), but many people don't show symptoms until adolescence. I don't know if it'll help, but take a look at the link if you're interested:


http://www.pulmonologychannel.com/cf/symptoms.shtml



Lovey

Hi!

I normally never write anything on forums, I was just looking for something, but after I saw your message, I just had to register to be able to reply...

The reason why I was so taken aback is that I think that your diet is not doing you any good AT ALL! Not just that, I think it makes you feel the way you described. I don't know about drinking urine, I don't have experience with that, just going to try. But I don't think that that is doing any harm to you.

But I'm sure about one thing. I'm a Chinese Medicine student, I don't treat people yet, but have done lot of observations of treatments. I definitely know that people eating too much raw food for longer period of time are slowly destroying all the organs belonging to digestive system - including stomach, pancreas and spleen - and this is what you are trying to heal! Before I had chance to observe this I thought that raw food is the best what I could eat too! But now I'm really sure is not. maybe for 1-2 weeks of detox (but only if your digestive system is HEALTHY) it's fine. But not long-term, and for sure not for people who try to make their digestion better! Too much raw food (and also fried food and diary, esp. cheese) can cause bloating, loss of apetite, tiredness, depressions, abdominal pain, diarhoea,bleeding oedemas, ...and lot of other things when combined with other imbalances of the person. I have seen a lot of patients like that, they got better after they changed their diet.

I'm really surprised that with Crohn you are able to eat raw food at all, its not easy to digest at all, people with Crohn I had seen - they just couldn't eat raw food, brown rice, wheat at all - anything what is just a bit more difficult to digest.

What your digestive system needs is some substantial, nourishing and WARM food! Really important that you have minimum of 1 WARM food a day. Just give it a try, you can eat healthy food and NOURISH yourself at the same time. Just to give you an idea of what the digestive system of most of people loves (from what I've seen) - breakfast - something like oats porridge (but not with milk - that's another killer of digestion) I cook them in water and add a some raisins or dried fruit, on the top cinamon. Cinamon is great - warming and soothing for your digestion. Lunch - something warm and COOKED, you can add SOME fresh veggies, but base have to be something cooked - rice, cooked vegies, fish, a little piece of organic meat is sometimes nice as well, soups are great - esp. miso, whatever nice and nourishing you can think of. Dinner - in ideal case cooked and substantial again.

Just give it a try for 1-2 weeks and see how you feel. You have nothing to loose if you feel so bad now, some nice cooked and nourishing food is not going to make you worse for sure. I know, you don't feel like eating much now, and gosh, I'm not surprised at all, after all this raw food your digestion must be in state of hybernation. But try it gradually, and I'm sure you will feel positive changes. And your apetite will come back as well.

I just found one link with info about nourishing spleen - in chinese medicine spleen represent the whole digestive system. From what you wrote it seems that this is your week point, on the link there are some really nice ways of nourishing your spleen.


http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:kPixQ-0CDPoJ:www.meridianpress.net/spleen.html+tcm+spleen+nourishing+food&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk&client=firefox-a


I really hope you will feel better soon.

Lenka

I'm a great believer in Reflexology. Go to the libruary I get a couple of books by different authors... Mildred Carter I find good. She writes with her daughter Tammy Weber. You need more than one to help you realise that everyone sees things a bit differently, & all are someones opinions & experiences.

I find the medical authors can sound pompus & their way is the only way.

I use anything that is appropriate to massage area's. (Smooth round Bic pens to roll along the side of my feet and between & up the toes.
I have used marbles, cut those wooden back massagers (wooden balls with 3 or 4 dowling legs & these have small balls on the end)
I cut the dowling about 1' & one smaller, then I sandpaper the cut end so its smooth & rounded.
If I couldnt reach my feet I would get a long piece of dowling & insert it into the large ball. Be inventive.
I have managed to twist some of the legs out of their hole which would make it easier to glue in your long length of dowling.

Instead of worrying about your health Say "THIS TOO WILL PASS" & I DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE PERFECT TIME.
When you inject fear or worry into anything this adds up to the fact that YOU DONT HAVE FAITH in your bodies ability to heal itself so you continue to undermine your health.
I'm well into my 60s & still sit for hours (at my computer) sitting on my legs & they say thats naughty...if we believe all we are told we wouldnt get far.
Learn to hear your INNER INTUITION.
All the best
Judy

hmm a vegan diet has helped Dr Christopher and others with arthritis.
go check out his website herballegacy.com and type in your disorders. He trained dr Richard Schulze and originated the incurables program which schulze intensified

I suggest adding organic herb tinctures helpful to the illnesses you have.

see Dr Richard Schulze 's manual and save your life videos on how he fixed people with lifelong crohn.s (do not use the intestinal cleanse number one if you have chrohn's but go right to the intestinal cleanse number 2.

I believe if memory serves me right, he said on his video he inverted the woman and used an enema/implant of extra virgin olive oil and I believe aloe and it put out the fire.

For th pancreas, you might consider raw pancreas glandular.

but definitely opt for his incurables program (google the words patient handbook Schulze and it is first link and see incurables program info. His products are available at herbdoc.com (or there are some of here selling similar, comparable products or you can make your own using organic bulk cut and shifted herbs. If you get the manual, it has all the formulas and also tells you in the video how to make tinctures)..you can email me for more on this if you like

The save your life videos are often for sale on ebay or amazon as they are out of print now. Often the manual is not included (700 page or so) so read the seller info carefully..you can still make do with the videos only or even get the book there are no incurable diseases if you have no money at his website for about $10 or even the patient handbook gives enough info..the videos, though, are motivational and very excellent. Well worth the money and the incurable program is good for all disease so I think this is your best bet and also add things specific to your illnesses like butcher's broom, yucca, apple cider vinegar (raw)(see dc jarvis book on Arthritis get it at ebay/amazon..it has helped Arthritis by causing the calcium held in the joints and blood to go into the bones but if you quit the vinegar the pain comes back or through interlibrary loan)etc for arthritis/cinnamon, gtf chromium, bitter melon and so forth for the pancreas, and I am not certain which herbs are for crohn's off the top of my head but it should not be hard to find out..if very ill start with a 30 day juice fast as he says to do the whole incurables program with it..leave nothing out. Once you get better go vegan..
you could consider adding raw nuts and seeds and sprouted grains and legumes to your raw diet or adding a few healthy cooked things.