Re: Holy Basil: Any Experience with this positive or negative?

Hello, After two years following a bereavement, (my mother), and dealing with the will and relatives, followed by a flu from hell last year, I decided that as my mother died with a Priest present and after receiving Holy Communion and the sacrements for the dying, that her death was so ultra peaceful, I felt that she was now peaceful and extremely happy living in paradise and that I WOULD see her again one day. Because of this, I never faced head on, the realities of bereavement. I didn't realise the effects of the 'Journey of bereavement' would have on my body. The memories were particularly bad to cope with, but I kept putting them aside and getting on with anything else that came along, so long as I didn't have to deal with memories. This 'boost of energy' which I now know to be adrenaline, went on for a year followed by a virus at the beginning of winter and then a bad flu, followed by a very bad Rheumatoid Flare up. This was the straw that broke the camels back. My nerves were shot. I take 1 tablet of GR Lanes 'Quiet Life' which are excellent, 125 mg of GABA which takes away all those racing thoughts and choline with inositol. read about Tulsi tea and took it in capsule form. It gave me a wonderful feeling of centred calm and I was happy. Then, a few days later, I started the awful detox symptoms. My tongue is always coated, so I suspect I have candida. Oregano oil and Olive leaf kills of candida, but the detoxon't use magnesiu symptoms of candida die off are awful, including a rapid heartbeat. I looked up Tulsi to see what it contains and it is anti viral anti bacterial anti fungal amongst other things and it contains the same substances as are in Olive leaf and Oregano oil. So die off it was. I stopped taking it and in a few days the symptoms subsided. So, I started taking it again while waiting for my chelated magnesium to arrive, EXCELLENT FOR RESTORING THE BODY SUFFERING FROM ADRENAL FATIGUE) Look it up . Stress depletes the body of magnesium. And if the adrenals haven't got enough magnesium, it produces cortisol instead and so the vicious circle goes on. Anyway, once again peace descended on my body, but now, again a few days later, the detox has started again and I feel stressed again. I asked a natural practioner about it and he said that as tulsi is an adaptogen, it restores the function of the body to normal, including the adrenals, but when it starts restoring the adrenals, signals are sent to detox all those toxins and things that are in the body which the body is mot able to remove because of poor adrenal function. Look it up. I stopped taking tulsi for now. My magnesium chelate has arrived and I have taken two yesterday and one this morning. It makes you calm/drowsy after two hours and then goes away. I takes about a week to start to kick in but 1 – 2 months to really work with stress. I have bought some Epsom Salts which is magnesium sulphate and I am going to use ¼ cup of Epsom Salts to 1 cup of water to make magnesium oil. This is absorbed into theskin much easier and quicker that taking magnesium orally. Don't use magnesium hydroxide which is what makes the magnesium oil that you can buy online, as it stings and can make you itch. God bless you and bring you peace. Tweet