giardia and/or other parasites

[macroPsychotic]

Ever since I became intestinally very ill a year ago hiking for a long time in the wilderness, my digestion has been weakened without periodic mild diarrhea.
Any macrobiotic suggestions for possible giardia/parasites or just strengthening digestion/intestines in general?

Thanks

[janeyric]

Hello macroPsychotic

I got Giardia last week, after travelling and eating less harmoniously than usual. Funny that it turns up here too!

Im no expert on how anyone else has dealt with it, but im learning lots from my experience of it!!! I hope this helps:

What I did was eat nothing for a while, then have some miso soup with carrots and onions and sea veggie salad in it. Nothing else. The miso stimulates the little villie (or however its spelt) in your intestines to grow back after the parasite ate them! Likewise for the seaweed, with added vital nutrients. And the carrot and onion, have nice downward energy to stimulate that kinda area.

The next day i had that and a little bit of grain, but im not sure this did much good as such...

Then in 2 days i also had a small amount of raw grated things, chewed very very well, and saurkraut- easy to digest.

Apparently the worst thing you can do is eat loads, normally again, after you feel better in a few days, because then it comes back even worse. I plan to just do just miso soup and rice for at least 10 days, and then go wider gradually.

Oh, and how could i forget, ume-sho-kuzu is also wonderful remedy- its on one of the other message things if you havent got the recipe.

Best one of all though, is intuition. I hope this info may help you hear yours!

Best wishes in getting well again,
*j*

[macroPsychotic]

Thanks for the advice. 'Eating less harmoniously' definitely aggravates my symptoms too. I think the acidic condition allows any little nasty buggers to thrive in the intestines. FYI, I remember now in George Oshawa's little black book something about eating raw brown rice every morning to get rid of parasites. I haven't tried it yet, but if I can find the literature I will give it a shot and let you know.

I'd really like to know the Macrobiotic theory behind the Raw Rice Morning regime. First I thought the idea might be to irritate the tissues so that they purge everything. Then I thought that it might be to introduce benificial life forms from the raw rice. But then I read a variation where you roast raw brown rice, azuki, and sesame--so any life forms would be cooked at that point.

But also you are supposed to follow the crunching of the raw grains with a cup of mugwort tea. Mugwort is apparently some sort of mild pesticide.

Any info on the intended theory so I can decide if it works on any of the parasites on today's list?