It is my understanding that some parasite eggs and cysts can live indefinitely outside the body. They can be found floating in air and water. They also lay pockets of eggs in your body, that can hatch out after you've done a cleanse. It's very important to cleanse regularly, just like we deworm our pets and livestock. It's also important to strengthen the immune systems. Otherwise parasites will come back and make you sick again. They will come back, regardless. But if your immune system is strong and you are deworming regularly, you won't get nearly as sick as you will if you do nothing to protect yourself.

As for me, I'm a lot more worried about incurring brain and kidney damage from parasitical infection than from the herbs I take to combat them. I have been cleansing my body for four years. I take periodic breaks, but if I stop cleansing for more than thirty days, the disease comes back. It hits me hard and fast. It quickly became apparent to me early on that I had to stay on top of things, and keep my body pure if I wanted to stay alive and feel good. I go for a very deep cleanse to keep my parasite load minimal, and have very few compared to most of the people I know, who won't even want to acknowledge they have them.

Of course, if you try to talk about deworming to people who are in denial, they either think you are crazy, or become afraid they are going to catch them from you. It's ironic. The reason I am compelled to tell people about parasite cleansing is because they are obviously infected, and I don't want to catch anything from them.

In order to reach the parasites hiding in the deepest tissues and recesses of my body, I do not hesitate to take a whole lot more than the recommended dose of most products (except bloodroot). I always start with a low dose, smaller than recommended, and increase until I feel/get results. Results means die-off and elimination.

I am convinced that it is our bodies that are toxic, not herbs. If the body is clean and pure, it utilizes anti-parastical herbs like super potent nutritional supplements designed by nature to support and enhance the immune system. It feels to me like the herbs I take are fine tuning my body's defenses. If a person is extremely toxic (has a large parasite load), taking anti-parasitical herbs will cause major die off symptoms. A large amount of ammonia and other poisons are released into the system. If you kill too many of them off too quickly, you can damage yourself. It is important to start with a very small dose and slowly build up.

It is also important to eliminate them if you get constipated when you take the anti-parasitical herbs. Constipation keeps the eggs inside the host, until they have time to hatch out, so they can continue colonizing. Bowel, kidney, gall bladder, liver and blood cleansing protocols are an essential part of the process, too. You have to eliminate the dead parasites, the poison their rotting carcasses emit, and the eggs they've laid.

I believe it is a two weeks up to 20 days without human contact. If you dont want to wash or sterilize the items...I was told to put my clothes, pillows, toys or whatever in a black garbage bag, seal it tight with tape and let them sit for 2 weeks untouched and that would kill off any eggs. Im not sure if this goes for all parasites but it worked for pinworms. Also, try wearing a mask when changing the sheets and mop and vaccum often. I also wash underpants seperately and add boiling pot of water to the washer in addition to the hot cycle on the machine, bleach when possible.

One man's cure is another's poison so take my advice with a grain of salt peter, but I've taken a gob of green Black-Walnut hull, Wormwood and cloves and I have Hep C which damages the liver. But I've never had any problems with liver, kidney or brain damage from taking any herbs.

Personally I think it's a myth and Nature knows what she is doing. You are much safer using herbal remedies than prescription drugs, which undoubtedly cause organ damage, or they wouldn't include a list of contra-indications as long as your arm with the package insert.

I've been deworming regularly around the full moon for years and I sometimes go for a really deep cleanse, which means I take a lot higher dose than is recommended on the bottle. The last time I checked, which was recently, the doctors said my kidneys were really strong.

What makes you think herbs cause this damage you are worried about? Such fear may be overly cautious. Or is there unnecessary paranoia spreading around for some reason? Maybe somebody else knows something I don't.

But organ damage is not something I would worry about at all and blame any of the herbs that are used for cleansing parasites. If anything the opposite is true and they protect your body and prevent what you are worried about, especially if used early enough. On the other hand...

They may stimulate cleansing of parasites out of the organs, which, if left in place, would continue to do some damage. And, if you have a lot of parasites in your brain and they are so big that a dose of Wormwood doesn't' kill them, but they wake up and get restless and start moving around trying to find another place to nest in an effort to get away from the poison, you might feel them scrambling around inside of you.

When that happens, it is pretty darn creepy. That is why a lot of people would rather just leave them alone, remain in denial, take pain killers and die. But to me it is even creepier knowing they are in there breeding and laying eggs and all. Other people are very good at denial. They would rather say that it's the Wormwood making them hallucinate and it might cause brain damage to continue, than face the fact that they have a worm in their head moving around.

To each his/her own. I'm not going to blame it on the herb while a worm does brain damage to me. It is pretty clear what kind of damage will be done if you leave them in place. They are eating you alive. That is why you feel so terrible. But if you stir them up so much it starts scrambling around, I guess it could scramble your brains. But lets not blame it on the herb that could have prevented all this.

We deworm our cats. We deworm our dogs. We deworm the life stock. We should be deworming ourselves and our children too. And that would prevent this discussion. And I am sure you can get anti-psychotic drugs for thinking so, much easier than you can get enough albendazole to kill a nest of worm and all the hatchlings that will emerge if the mothers die off.