Hi Dorothy,
Thank you! Please continue and discuss what you have in mind. I read every word you typed. Thank you for taking the time!
I wholeheartedly agree with the gist of what you are saying. I myself had to go through my own transformation stages to get to where I am right now. I just did not get to my personal health best today by switching overnight. I couldn't digest fats or anything this well until later.
Which medical diagnostics do you suggest?
I read the colonoscopies can be injurious. The dye can kill your kidneys et al. How to make it safer?
What fiber in which form do you suggest?
Your list of favorite herbs?
Yes go on. Loving and appreciating it all.
Oh good - I'm glad if I can be even a little bit of assistance. There were a couple of things that came to my mind later that I thought might possibly help during this period of extreme skin difficulty in his detoxifying. I was wondering if clay/mud might help to pull out the toxins from his skin. I don't know much about this and it seems that Cherimoya is more familiar with clays and it might be worth researching. Clay baths are "supposed to" pull toxins from the skin and be very gentle but with open wounds I have no idea if they would be safe or effective - but thought I throw out the idea for you perhaps to research if it sounds right to you. You could do a warm bath with some clay in it or here in the states there are places you can go to have clay smeared all over you and even be submerged into an entire bath of mud.
The next thing that I thought of was aloe vera. It has incredible healing properties for the skin. It can help pull out toxins, dissolve old and damaged skin and sooth and protect new skin. Fresh aloe plants seem like something that might grow where you are? Just scrape out the middle and paste it on the skin. Aloe is also supposed to be extraordinarily healing to the digestive system if taken internally - and extremely nutritional too... but there is nothing else as healing to the skin as fresh aloe.
With anything like these things I would of course first try a small area to see how he reacts.
There are other soothing herbs that can be used as poultices, but the above two ideas were the first that came to mind.
When it comes to cleansing the bile there is nothing better in my experience than peppermint. It dissolves bile sludge and stones and cholesterol that gets built up in the bile. For the liver nothing is quite as good as milk thistle for support and beet/carrot juice for cleansing... but you have to be extremely careful how much you make the boy cleanse right now - he can't even keep up as it is - so it's best in my opinion to build rather than to make the body release more so I would be careful not to do too much beet or carrot if any. After he is built up more you can cleanse with juices and even burdock but not now. Those kinds of things I would think might just make thinks worse right now. Milk thistle is an herb that makes the liver strong without pushing detox - it builds the liver function and is extremely gentle. It's a phenomenal herb.
For the intestines I again would go gentle with a nutritive herb like slippery elm. People that are so sick that they can eat nothing else can usually keep this demulcent herb down. It's coating and soothing to the intestines and provides "slippery" fiber. Again - it is building. What Zi is saying about seeds is quite true if he has diverticulitis because pieces of undigested seeds can get stuck in the pockets but as yet you do not really know if he has diverticulitis or not...... Either way, seeds are difficult to digest and right now he doesn't need that added stress on his system even if seeds can offer certain nutrients and can be worth the body effort in a healthy person. For someone with compromised digestion seeds general can be problematic. For me personally, I would not do a colonoscopy because for me, it would not change the treatment if he does have it and every procedure is adding a risk. I just wouldn't assume that this is the core of his problem. I would just do what I could to help his digestion, add good fibers in fruits and herbs to exercise his colon which he needs anyway whether he has pockets or not - since he is so constipated. Without knowing what the real cause is or not I would do a general empowering, building and gentle detoxification program of the entire system and not focus in on that one possibility of a "cause". The body is a whole system.
I would really suggest things to help him digest in supplemental form at the beginning stages including enzymes - especially for the fats. He needs the fats but I doubt he is digesting them well otherwise his liver would be handling the toxins more than his skin, so I would definitely add lecithin to his diet when he has fat and lipase enzymes. I think that might be really pivotal because the liver is usually the go-to organ for detox. He needs the fats so, besides giving him sulfured dairy to make the fats by-pass the liver, the best one can do is support the liver with milk thistle, lecithin which helps to break down fats and enzymes that the pancreas is probably having trouble producing at this point. I'm repeating a bit here because I think it might be the crux of the matter. Needs fats, can't digest fats. Needs enzymes, likely not producing enough enzymes.
In terms of kidney support dandelion greens are a great supportive, nutritive herb food. With his digestive problems tea or juiced greens would be the forms he could absorb. Dandelion also is a gentle cleanse and a definite support for the liver as well, and can help with blood cleansing.
As far as blood cleansing red clover is the gem there. It's the little wild clovers that grow in most places and people do eat. It can be bad if you eat too many because oxalic acid, but if in a tea form when needed it can really help gently cleanse the blood of circulating toxins.
Most of the things I'm mentioning are foods on purpose. When you can eat something every day you are approaching disease not in the medical model or even the "detox" model - but the strengthening, building, nutritive model - which is the safest and often in the long-term, the wisest - especially when making very general suggestions for someone in such a general way without knowing them or even the details of history, symptoms, diet etc.
I won't even mention anything for the lungs now because that would have to come later. You can't do more than one new thing at a time to make sure that he does not have a bad reaction and all these other things at this stage of crisis are more important and direct.
If you have someone to do muscle testing of course that's best, or even if you can do that, to see if particular herbs are right for your son as an individual at this time.
Well, that's enough for this bout. Before I go on, let's see if any of these things seem like they make sense and can help.
The sleeping is GREAT btw. When we sleep is the only time that the immune system gets access to protein and other nutrients and can really work. During the day other system take precedent. The more he can sleep the faster he will likely heal and rebuild.
I hope some of these ideas are useful to you and your family. I'll make sure to keep checking in here in case anything I wrote wasn't clear or any questions come up or if other ideas are needed.
