dead parasites (Newport ? bromelain?) Liver processes
3 ultra sounds and a cat scan when my liver was hurting the worst--never showed anything either. The day after starting the herbal dewormers, and seeing parasites every day in the toilet for weeks on end- told the story--plus the dead parasites and large stones that came out of my liver with liver flushes, from the bile ducts being plugged up (no gallbladder)I do believe parasites are one of the main causes of liver congestion...but no medical tests showed how badly I had them plugging up my liver.
I've also felt the ascaris in the bile ducts- woke me up in the middle of the night from a sound sleep one night--I had a bottle of castor oil by the bed for castor oil packs, and took a swig of it--and I got ascaris in the toilet a day or two after that.
Especially after watching the ascaris videos where they pull them out in an endoscopy, or seeing the ones where they pull out worm after worm, it does make you wonder what would be found if a surgery was done.
If Newport reads this, he can say if I'm on track or not, but I'm thinking bromelain would get dead worms- even calcified (?)
Several people that have done rounds of the Zymex 2 from Standard Process (which is supposed to be for tapeworm, but you wouldn't read about that on the bottle or online) have killed both tapeworms and ascaris...and if you look up Zymex 2--it is Bromelain/papain/ficin (fig enzyme)
Monique, I've only recently been researching the liver detox pathways, and I've read some posts where you've mentioned them. Liver flushing has helped me clear out alot of blocked up "stuff", but it now makes sense to me that if the liver detox pathways are not working as they should, the liver would continue to back up what it detoxes. I've found alot of interesting information by searching "glutathione" and what is needed for the production of it- and also "methylation".
I don't especially want to be flushing my liver for years, and doing hundreds of liver flushes like I know some people on CZ have done...I think there's alot more to it- and these same people are, or have killed parasites- and still have to do countless liver flushing (?) From the information I've been reading, specific amino acids/vitamins/minerals being deficient will hamper the detox pathways so the liver isn't functioning like it should in detoxing. Liver flushing has been a help to me, and coffee enemas. They both have definetly cleaned out dead parasites I've killed-- but yet, it's kind of a sad thing though that I'm seeing people that are thinking if they just keep doing them, and do enough of them- that they eventually are a "cure all", and just doing enough liver flushes will get everything else (like the thyroid, and other glands) working properly..and make all allergies go away, and solve about any other ailment you can name- diabetes, etc.