I drew up two diagrams last night to help people more easily understand why candida can be such a difficult disease to cure and also to illustrate why serious systemic candida issues will rarely, if ever, be cured by using just a simplistic anti-fungal/antibiotic regimen.
Hi PMds2....I take the essential pine oil of Scots Pine(Pinus Sylvestris). This pine oil is made from pine needle sap which is triple distilled and quite strong. I took a teaspoon of pine oil with a teaspoon of molasses(you can use sugar or raw honey instead) yesterday for maintenance(once or twice a week). It's all I can get here in the Philippines. I've been supplementing pine oil for the last 7 months, road-testing it. I've found that it has wonderful cleansing effects on the intestines and also acts to purify the blood. Turpentine also removes biofilms in the body very fast because it has solvent action -- for the same reasons that turpentine or kerosene easily strips paint. Turpentne also kills candida rapidly -- so initially, if you have candida then you will almost certainly get a Herx reaction from using turpentine. If you initially take too much turpentine, then you might also get laxative effects.
When you buy the turpentine or kerosene, make sure that the temperature range used for the distillate is between 150 °C -- 200 °C and if you can, try and get the Low Odour form. Start at about 8 drops and work your way up slowly, over a week or more, to a full teaspoon. If you are taking turpentine for a particular problem, then take one teaspoon of turpentine everyday(consecutively) for no more than 10 days, then take ten days off to give your liver and kidneys a rest.
But, although I do my best, most people on this website seem to be incredibly scared of supplementing turpentine or pine oil.
No that's not what I've been really saying. Because I'm on a candida forum, and to avoid great confusion, I just advise turpentine for candida. But if you look into all the research and testimonials on the web -- turpentine and kerosene have been used to successfully cure other diseases like various cancers, tuberculosis, polio, sepsis(gangrene) etc. Turpentine/Kerosene has alot of internal uses.
I'm also a believer in continual preventative maintenance for my own body. Many people just don't bother. I don't always take turpentine and usually I take it to occasionally cleanse my bowel and purify the blood because its so difficult to avoid eating chemically processed food now. I take turpentine for similar reasons that I am always detoxing -- processed food with toxins, heavy metals etc is everywhere now.
Furthermore I am indeed cured of all my past candida problems. I simply think that reactive medicine - taking medicine only when you are ill -- is not a clever way to go. I'm 63 and very healthy now. But it wasn't always like that, especially when I had systemic candida. These days, people look after their shiny cars, gadgets and pets better than they look after their own health. Their own choice. But it strikes me that If you haven't got your own good health and your quality of life is thoroughly wrecked because of candida problems then you will have very little reason to be happy.