it is non sugar very sweet natural herb.
i bought 100 packs of it back amny months ago
i think i have used maybe 20 tops (each is a tsp size)
it is so very sweet/ just the tiniest bit satisfies any fast
need i have for a sweet taste on a bitter fruit..

i don't add sugar to anything except the tea my daughter insists
she wants sugar in/ and i rarely touch that/ it is her choice.
tho she does not drink much of it herself

might try a dash of lemon and a pinch of stevia to water and see it that satisfies?
cinnamin and nutmeg too often takes away my desire for a sweet taste.

also a sweet potato or oatmeal with cinnamin /nutmegg
might satisfy you when cravign wheat and sweet?

we make sweet potatoe and use coconut oil with cinnamin nutmeg
and it is really good.
cinnamin and sweet potatoes are both antiparasitic too i believe.

those are just stuff i do since i don't eat as much bread as my kids/ we all eat alot of basamati rice
Ami Joi Benton

Dear Ali,

The swelling, puffyness and heaviness in the mornings result from major lymph congestion. Since the metabolic waste and dead cells and other toxins from the undigested foods that you call "bad" foods, need to be neutralized, the body surrounds them with water. This leads to weight gain.

While being congested, the body craves exactly those foods that congest it. Its instincts are subdued. The cells cry out for food, but the congested condition doesn't allow them to receive it. When pure, the body wants all those foods that nourish it and keep it clean, according to the principle "like attracts like." Then there is the emotional aspect to eating behind the dietary issue. Emotional eating usually revolves around foods that are of little or no nutritional value. Being atracted to these reflects emotions that also contain no "nutritional" value, such as guilt, shame, feeling empty inside, inadequate, etc. If you like to, we could try Sacred Santemony (see my website) and see if we could shift something there.

It is not good to cleanse when sick because during an acute illenss the body focuses on healing, during which time bile secretions and digestive functions are subdued. You may feel even more sick and not get out enough stones.

Andreas

just so you know..
I knew Andreas woudl answer yoru medical needs question

i was jstu sayign some suggestions for eveyr day when feel
want a sweet taste *) while detoxing to get at the root
problem or to maintain later

8)smile but you know that already i think

just some alternative foods ideas/
i still have to come up with a good bean recipe for some
adzuki beans i got

Dear Ali,

I'm distressed to learn that you're
hurting. I'm new to CureZone, so I
didn't know about your mono or
the mysterious morning swelling.

Have you tried a juice fast, Ali,
alternating fresh fruit and veggie
juices? Keep some apples or bananas
on hand if the food-cravings get
too strong. If you can get through
the first 48 hours, the juice fast
becomes a whole lot easier. Or you
could try just eating living food
for one week. That would be easier
than the fast. I'd also drink a lot
of pure water. Turn your insides
into an inland sea.

I'm a BIG believer in the power of
vitamin C as a healer. How much
vitamin C do you take each day, Ali?
I've been taking mega-doses for 28 years, and my health (knock on
wood) has been perfect. I now take
about 14,000 mg every day. Sounds
like your immune system needs a
big boost. I'd suggest lots of
vitamin C and lots of raw garlic.
If there's a rogue virus loose in
your body, those two will help
kill it.

You're in my prayers, Princess. I
send you healing energy through
the ether. Stay upbeat! You WILL
get over these conditions, and
become healthy again.

Blessings,

Owen

Ami you are a sweetheart! The stevia is a really good suggestion. I love love love your energy as always. And Owen, you are a doll too and so sincere and poetic!

Believe me, a juice fast was the first thing I thought of (oh and I even had a bag of stevia that I took out and stared at for several days before my dog tried to eat it). In fact, before I knew that I was sick with mono a co-worker approached me and asked me to do a 5 day juice fast with her. She caved after half a day, but I did all 5 days and I felt great! The day after though is when I swelled up like a balloon as I went back to my regular diet and continued feeling really awful with the mono.

You would think, wouldn't you, that I would go back to juice fasting. Yep, that would be the advice I would give myself. Heck, if someone posted about my symptoms that's what I would tell them in a heartbeat! Juicing, vitamin C, raw garlic, the water cure. All the stuff I have learned about and practiced in the past.

But the problem arose, when no matter what I tried, it just wasn't working, or I couldn't sustain a fast. I was getting all these signals from my body and through muscle testing and through contacting my guides - none of that was the way to go in this case.

See, part of me wanted to just "knuckle down" and force myself to fast, even though my body and spirit was incredibly resistant to it. This made me very confused. I mean, I knew what to do, how come I couldn't DO it? I've been on this site for over a year, I mean DUH! Very frustrating to know what I supposedly "should" be doing and not being able to do it.

So I've had many days of banging my head into the metaphorical wall.

Well, I think Andreas hit the nail on the head when he talked about underlying emotional issues. I went back and re-read what he wrote about how like attracts like (unhealthy emotions crave unhealthy food) and I realized that, while I had managed to heal myself of other things through cleansing (constipation, depression, anxiety attacks to name a few), this time I had to heal....spiritually and emotionally first. Not through herbs and cleansing.

In fact, my body was giving me signals to do just that. It was saying, "Hi there, Ali, I am letting you know that now would be a good time to heal some old wounds and complete some old karmic patterns. I want to make sure I've got your attention so I am going to swell up like the Goodyear blimp and I'm going to reject your normal healing modalities". Something like that.

As luck (ok maybe more than luck since nothing happens by accident) would have it, I was able to have a Sacred Santemony session with Andreas today. Holey moley.

It would take me several pages to recount that session but I will try to summarize and just say that he was able to indicate through revealing my past karmic realtionships the patterns that layer this issue with me with craving unhealthy and non-life sustaining foods.

It was an amazing session and words sort of fail me now to describe all that I learned. Let me just add that I was able to also better understand after this session the nature of some of my gifts that I bring to the world.

So I just wanted to say thank you. This has been quite a journey as I have been sick for a few months now. Hopefully this will help me heal. And maybe this will help someone else down the road who hits that brick wall when herbs and cleansing just don't seem to be working. I'll keep you posted!

Blessings,

Ali