Well, I suppose it's time to reveal the details of my experiment as I would like to end it. Well, first of all, it was not really an experiment but something forced on me:-
It all started at the end of July just as I was about to go back to the UK from Italy. I had developed a severe, regular pain in what seemed to be below my stomach. An acquaintance thought it was due to the excessive amounts of watermelon I'd been eating and I didn't think that was possible. Anyway, as soon as I arrived in the UK, I realised the pain originated in the bladder area as I felt like I was pissing glass. I also had a crap and some stringy thing came out the back end. At first, I was deluded and thought it might have been due to some undigested suet or something. I very quickly came to realise that this was a tapeworm.
Anyway, the sharp pain in my bladder and painful urination soon disappeared completely within 2 more days, but the tapeworms came on with a vengeance, I hasten to add that they did not affect me in any way after that short-term pain episode. I did not feel less healthy or anything.
Anyway, as time went on, the tapeworm segments came out in huge clumps at times when I deposited stools. At other times, I would get an unpleasant effect whereby somehow the tapeworm deposited tiny half-an-inch segments in my underwear. Initially, I had thought that wouldn't be an issue unless I farted a lot so I cut down heavily on raw fruits which are the only things in my diet other than raw veg which make me fart a little(cooked foods make me fart a lot, even cooked meats, but naturally I avoid those as much as I can). However, the tapeworms seemed to deposit those segments even when I wasn't farting at all during the day, at random intervals. Those segments naturally did not smell terribly nice and I am not terribly happy with the result. If the segments came out solely during farting or visits to the bathroom/toilet I wouldn't have minded, but this sort of thing is terribly unaesthetic.
I am pretty certain that some of my raw horsemeat in Italy was responsible as that was most of what I ate there as regards raw animal foods.
At any rate, this is the first time this has happened to me in almost a decade of RVAF diets, so, clearly, this is a very rare phenomenon. Other than that temporary painful episode, I haven't had a health issue with the parasites, as such(maybe the tapeworms somehow got temporarily "hooked" onto the bladder by mistake? I have no idea re the cause).
Because of that issue re segment-deposits, I chose to go in for wormwood tinctures as an anti-parasite remedy but it hasn't worked at all. I think a combination of 3 herbs is needed(cloves, wormwood and black walnut), but only wormwood is easily available, and the 3 in combination are hideously expensive online. I have already asked someone else to send me a prescription against tapeworms - it is pharmaceutical but I'm not bothered since the herbal approach doesn't seem to have worked.
