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Posted by Kathy Boss (Member # 3062) on :

Hi all,
This is a whole leaf olive tea with stems and leaves. I took out the stems and simmered the leaves. I was shocked to see this white residue all over the top of the water. Is this normal?

I am using it for Candida which is flaring up again on me horribly and don't know what else to do.

I have been researching Candida everywhere and it's to the point it doesn't matter what I eat these bumps of mine raise up again and turn red.

I'm trying to do liquid today and see how they react and introduce food slowly, one food at a time to see where the problem is coming from.

I'm very tired, I have to lay down. I'll be back to see if anyone can help.

Thanks for your help! [group hug]

Posted by robi (Member # 5547) on :

Hi There,

Sorry I don't have an answer to your question. I know your an old timer and have helped many and I did not want your post to go unaswered. So, I have some ideas.

Call an acupunturist that is an hebalist. They would know what is normal for teas.

I am sorry your yeast is acting up. Since you have been gone a new probiotic has come out. It is called Theralac. Works very well. Not saying it will rid you of yeast, but it does a heck of a job
in replacing good bacteria. Many LLMD's are suggesting this brand for their patients.
www.theralac.com

Also, Super Oregano oil from North American Herb helps a lot.You can get this at http://www.vitaglo.com/oreganol.html

I am not affiliated with either company just things that have helped me.

Hope some of this helps,
robi

Posted by 777 (Member # 8925) on :

Hi Kathy Boss,

I can't give you the required answer also, even though I have been working at a small olive farm for a while. But it was all about keeping the trees healthy and getting good olives. I didn't know about the possibility to get a medical tea or extract out of the leaves at that time.

But from my experience I know that all parts of the plant contain much oily substances. That's why even half dried leaves and branches burn like hell when being put into a fire.

I can imagine that when preparing an infusion or decoction these oily substances could be partly extracted drifting to the surface level of the liquid.

But I remember also, that - though we did biological farming at our place - all the neighbours (for getting maximum yield) used heavy poisons to prevent a widespread flylike parasite from putting eggs (which would become eating and sh*tting worms after) into the olive fruits.
I don't know whether effects of those stories are visible in an infusion at all, actually I would doubt it.

So it seems to depent on how much you can trust the source from where you get the leaves.

Otherwise - like robi said - the advice of a herbal expert how a good tea should look like is needed.

Any real expert here on the board?

Posted by gael1111 (Member # 8816) on :

Hi Kathy,

Along with herbs or any other antifungal, start drinking at least a quart of plain kefir a day, along with other probiotics.

Also colonics and enemas with probiotics at home. I found this regime to really help get rid of candida, and keep the lyme and co-infections bacteria down, but you have to be diligent.

Are you sure nothing else has flared up?

Hope this helps,

Gael

Posted by 777 (Member # 8925) on :

Hi again,

Kathy, please apologize for using your thread for a related question:

Does anybody know, whether the olive leaves for a medical infusion should be taken preferably from the wild olive or a cultivated form?

Wild olive trees are smaller, more bush-like, have smaller and much more bitter fruits and also the leaves are smaller (I guess less than 1 inch long), compared to the leaves of the cultivated form (about 2 inches).

Posted by daystar1952 (Member # 3255) on :

Hi Kathy.....I had a bunch of dried olive leaves. They were supposed to be pesticide free but I also got the white residue that floated to the top of the water...so that turned me off . Of course I wondered what it was too.

Margie

Posted by Kathy Boss (Member # 3062) on :

Thanks all!

Well, I strained it and drank it. I don't know if it had anything to do with my swelling but.....

My feet & ankles got probably the biggest I have ever seen them that night.

Holy cow, and they are still swollen today/night. Not as bad but still there.

This Candida thing is as hard to mess with as the Lyme.

It's like starting over.

The leaves are very skinny and about 2 inchs long or longer.

I have read so many Candida web-sites and searched so many products I am getting so confused.

I know UVBI with hydrogen peroxide works and I know hyperbaric oxygen works. Finding those two in my area has not been fruitful.

I'm checking in Mexico now. Hyperbaric in San Diego is $500 an hour [shake]

The two times I had this under control I went right back to eating what I wanted and didn't follow up with any probiotics.

Shame on me! I should have known better [cussing]

Posted by ArtistDi (Member # 2297) on :

Kathy,

It is interesting as I was just talking with a
friend of mine about Olive Leaf. She was telling
me that a new product came out and her llmd who
has had his lyme in check for a while, actually
herxed on it. She also tried the new product
and herxed. I remember when I first became ill
that olive leaf was given to me (before I knew
I had lyme) and I could tolerate it. I believe
it also has anti-viral properties.

Go slow with it.

Posted by bpeck (Member # 3235) on :

Hi Kathy:
Sorry to hear your having trouble with Candida.

Do you know it's Candida for sure and not something else?

PM me please- I may have someone you can email for some ideas.

Barb