no i am not on a mission.... just trying to find out more infos....i find it hard to believe though.... but i am also going to try it out, my doc told me i should use grapefruitseeds extrakt, but he didn't tell me anything on wallnut tinctures and i don't know what else is good against ascarits?! so i am pretty new to this stuff....and i appreciate help and advise about this issue..... my doc is a funny character and i am not too satiesfied with his explanations.....he doesn't talk much :(

"Most people DO have some type of parasite."

I'm not sure where these "facts" come from, unless it's from Chinese fortune cookies. Gut feelings (excuse the pun) on how many folks have parasites don't count for much, but medical statistics do, so I briefly looked into same. I found a comment in the link below, written in 1993 by Jane Brody, a Science writer for the New York Times: "Worms may be unthinkable in this cleanliness-obsessed society, yet an estimated 25 million Americans, many of them young children and many from middle class and of fluent families are often unknowing hosts to tiny intestinal worms."

Another website pegged the U.S. population in 1993 at 254,521,000. If Brody's estimate is roughly accurate, this would mean that about 10% of U.S. citizens have helminths (worms), "many of them young children," per Brody. I'm guessing that other industrialized nations might be in the same rough ballpark, not an unreasonable assumption. There are bacterial, protozoal, and yeast parasites out there as well, but many of these appear to be self-limiting, as are the large majority of foodborne bacterial episodes. (You eat, get sick for a few days, then the bugs are killed off by your immune system.) From everything I've read in medical guides, it's the minority of bugs which are able to withstand the bodily immune system for long periods, and even then, symptoms will often show up, prodding the person to receive medical treatment such as Antibiotics .

Taking an annual (or other frequency) anti- parasite treatment, such as oral pills or powders, is fine so long as the ingredients are truly safe. Some, such as Goldenseal, are not safe when consumed in large quantities are for longer periods. And a few, such as Wormwood , have been banned outright in some countries. Other treatments such as garlic and cloves, appear perfectly safe. For those who say, "I like to take garlic and cloves each year as a regular anti- parasite treatment," I'd respond "Sure, why not? Go for it." But for those who say, "I take Wormwood , Goldenseal, and Black-Walnut as a regular preventive treatment, AND SO SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE," I say the obvious: WRONG! Symptoms and clinical diagnoses do count for something, as do statistics such as a lowly 10%.

http://www.theprover.com/article.php4?id=26

"...lab tests are unreliable."

If stool samples are taken over more than one day and then sent to one of the more reliable labs (Great Plains and Doctor's Data are two), reasonably accurate results can be expected. But yes, it's not uncommon for bugs to be missed in visual lab tests, especially if some random local lab is used.

However, blood serum antibody tests are available for most of the more common pathogens, including for worms, protozoa, bacteria, and yeasts. Stool sample analysis has its shortcomings, but the antibody tests are quite accurate.

http://www.immuno-sci-lab.com/table_135_2003.htm
http://www.immuno-sci-lab.com/table_72_2003.htm