Posted 12/10/2012 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
Dear Fellow Crohn's Sufferer,
I have had your illness for 30 years. For the last 8-9 years, I have had positive experience using Wormwood tea to end Crohn's flares and get me off prednisone. When I get a flare, I go on a vanilla ice cream fast. An important part of that is to make 3 seperate concoctions. First - juice a fresh green cabbage, filter, add an equal part water, drink 4-6 ounces, and refrigerate. (Supply should last 5-10 days.
Next is the Wormwood tea. 12 ounces boiling water poured onto 1 teaspoon of dried wormwood herb. Let it steep for 20 minutes, then add ice cubes, and drink half of the herbal liquor. Cap, and save the rest for late in the afternoon. As the Wormwood tea steeps, make Red clover tea. Take 24 ounces water and bring to a simmer. (Don't boil) As it warms add several teaspoons honey and 3/4 cup dried Red Clover tops. Stir thoroughly. As heat rises of the clover liquor, turn off heat,cover, and steep 1-2 hours. Then filter, drink 4-6 ounces, and refrigerate.
While it doesn't matter what sequence in which you make these concoction, I have experimented with the ingestion sequences, and the most effective is cabbage juice, wormwood, and then clover tea. Wait at least 15 minutes between steps. I cannot stress enough, how important NOT EATING is in destroying a Crohn's flare. If you can't tolerate icve cream, then simply sip on your clover tea all day to keep your blood sugar up, and keep hydrated.
The ice cream is also helpful, for it allows you to take your prednisone safely. Using this combined arms force, you will either, significanlty reduce your steroid usage, or taper off them entirely with 1 week or a month. Part of that depends on how debilitated you have become.
Another helpful step in a bad flare is to take 4 Pentasa capsules at noon.
My last note to you, is to not be extreme and do more than I recommmend. None of these elements in and of themselves can stop a Crohn's flare, but as a combined arms team together, they can club into submission any flare. In the meantime, you can do things to help, such as reducing the wrong stresses, for you, exercising daily, getting plenty of sleep. not smoking anything, not eating when necessary. Remember : the gastron-enterologists can only perform procedures or put you on endless therapies of you 'immune-system modulating drugs' such as Remicade, Humira, Enbral, and Methotrexate, that destroy you body in the longterm. Prednisone is best, because it can act quickly, be tapered quickly, and you only need a prescitpion to do this at home. There are many other things involved with managing Crohn's, but this formula is hell to a flare.
After your flare is gone, you can make flares less common by drinking cabbage and clover tea daily, but the Wormwood tea only 2-3 days a week.
Uising this approach, I have kept myself active, enjoying life, and un-vivisected,
without suffering anynegative side-effects that Wormwood is rumoured to cause.
Please be realistic : these things can improve your life significantly, but nobody has a cure for the disease that King Alfred the Great was suffering in the last decades of the 9th century. With perseverance, you'll learn how to fight your illness without relying on long period of those terrifyingly/magical modern pharmaceutical drugs.
Never take vitamin C,D,or A when suffering a flare, as while it may seem good to do so for your bones, it will only help your rampaging immune system rampage more. Use vitamins and minerals between flares.