Re: AZ Healer - Pau d'Arco

 I never said candida was in my blood - if it were, I would be in ICU, with all the other cancer and AIDS patients.

I never said that you did say this. I was trying to make a point. I was trying to get across the fact that all areas of the body where Candida NORMALLY resides are naturally acidic to control the Candida. This does not include the blood since Candida rarely gets in to the blood. I mentioned that because this is a common misconception I hear people claiming that they have Candida in their blood, and you are not the only person reading this.

Toxins do leak out, maybe spores even, who knows. All I know, is am severely allergic to candida (and the holistic doctor who told me this is actually an allergist by training).

So you have an allergic reaction 24/7? According to what you just said this should be the case as Candida is a normal part of everyone's body.

So I become allergic to all moulds, yeast, whatever. Grains, nuts, tea leaves even all have moulds on it, and therefore, I get allergic to all these.

Allergies stem from adrenal dysfunction. To get rid of allergies the adrenals must be built up so they can produce sufficient levels of antihistamine and antileukotriene epinephrine and immune modulating and anti-inflammatory corticosteroids. Eliminating allergens alone is only a band-aid and does not address the underlying condition.

Actually last time quercetin had helped a lot.

There are several possibilities here. It could be due to the anti-inflammatory effects, or due to its cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterase inhibitor (cAMPPDEI) properties, which blocks cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) breakdown. I mentioned epinephrine above, which works by increasing cAMP.

As long as candida is in overgrowth and the gut wall is damaged and leaky, I am allergic.

Leaky gut has been linked to a lack of intestinal flora. This leads to a reduction of Candida inhibiting acids causing the Candida to not only overgrow, but to overgrow in its fungal form, which has hyphae that cause the tissue damage. Candida does not cause this damage in its yeast form, since the yeast form does not have hyphae. Candida is kept in its yeast form by the acids generated by Lactobacillus bacteria in the intestines.

When the overgrowth is brought down, and other issues also resolved, then am not allergic anymore.

I really think you are confusing sensitivities with true allergies.

Candida feeding on dead yeast sounds like mythology to me. Candida grows on glucose; yeast is composed of glucose molecules.

If you are referring to the walls, yes the walls are composed of mannans, glucans, chitin and proteins. But you are overlooking a few key points. First of all there is more to Candida than a cell wall. Try researching the glucose content of Candida. Secondly the glucans in the cell wall can be broken down by the flora in to glucose units that can feed the Candida.

In any case, I can't care less about acidic/alkaline; and all form of elaborate scientific or pseudo scientific discussions. This is giving me a headache. All I want, is to get out of this bloody nightmare. And fast before it completely destroys my life.

Now I found Pau d'Arco; great. If one needs to rotate, then I need other options.

And you will keep rotating until you finally realize that you cannot kill off the Candida. The ONLY way you are going to get it back under control is to change the environment it is in so that the terrain is inhospitable to its growth. And again the research and even common sense shows us that this requires an acidic environment in the areas where Candida normally resides to keep the Candida growth suppressed and to keep the Candida in a relatively harmless yeast form.

You said you have had Candida for 15 years. Have you considered that if you have not conquered the problem in 15 years that maybe you are going about it the wrong way? I have presented plenty of evidence to you, I recommend that you actually try reading it.