I don't know. I know they will stay put if you feed them sweet stuff. You might look up White Tiger's old posts, there was a theory that you could lure them out by sitting in Sugar water or milk.

I haven't tried that one.

Julie

When you say "parasites" you probably mean roundworms, Tapeworms and similar big, ugly things. However, most of parasites that people have problems with are invisible and microscopic in size. While those do feed on things that we eat, that is often not their primary food. Some feed on our own cells, some on other bacteria, some on glucose or lactose... but will eat our red blood cells maybe if there's nothing else...

So starving I would say is probably a bad idea. The anecdote with a worm coming out of a nose may be a made up story for all we know... or unimportant.

Better to keep the buggers happy and then hit them with something, then send them on search for foor if you know what I mean. Keep in mind that your immune system is fighting an incredible battle and without food your immunity will collapse fast.

The best thing one can do while fighting parasites is to not eat starches, sugars, milk, whipped cream, cakes, ice cream, frozen yogurt, pudding, snacks, bread and so on, and instead to base your diet on salads and light meat mostly (fish, chicken, turkey). That will feed you well enough, but will slow down those parasites. Of course, that type of diet is no cure, only preparation for taking the cure and I'd stick with it for a few weeks if not months after treatment.

Use the parasites indulgence in food to keep them in one place, the gut. Without a food source, they start to go everywhere and this makes it hard to beat them.

How they come out probably depends on what kind of parasite she had...

But yeah, the general theory on here has always been that parasites die without food and by fasting you are starving them. Fasting/Juices doesn't require digesting, you absorb all the nutrients instantly..leaving nothing for the parasites to feed on.

I actually had a Science teacher in Jr High talk about humans getting "tape worms" and how in the old days they would put Sugar on the end of the person's tongue and the huge worms would crawl up to get the sugar.

I just talked to my dad and told him that I was doing a parasite cleanse, and asked him what they used to take to get rid of their worms. While my mom's family used "cherry bark tea," my dad's family used CALOMEL.

He said that once a year, the whole family would take a calomel tablet, he says "available at any pharmacy" however I wonder if they are still available!

He said that he saw a worm crawl out of his sister's nose (my aunt), and out of his brother's "butt." He said that he used to see kids at school with worms crawling out of their noses too periodically. He said they were always seeing these worms wriggling aroung in their stool. He said it was not a big deal - just part of life.

He said that these were trichina worms, from the pork they ate, and that it was a normal, everyday thing for the people in his community to have worms, take calomel, and pass them out the nose or bottom. Dad says calomel is both a laxative and a parasite medicine. Apparently it doesn't kill them, but, as he said, "they can't stand it, and they leave."

Apparently, parasite cleanses weren't "odd" or exceptional then - normal Family M.D.'s were the ones who recommended these calomel tablets. It wasn't something you debated - everyone had worms, and everyone took calomel, and they all passed these worms, which my dad said could get several inches long.

So, calomel works, that's for sure; however it may just work on Trichina worms. Also, do I really want to see a LIVE worm coming out of my bottom, or possibly even my nose? That is the real question.

Anyone have any experience with taking the calomel? I'm sure the older folks on here will have stories, especially if they were poor in the 1930's, and I'd be interested to hear if anyone has tried calomel in recent years, or whether it is not used anymore (though it should be - it works!).