Last weekend I did a 3 day virgin coconut oil detox beginning Friday and ending Monday. I followed the recipe from the book Coconut Cures by Bruce Fife. Basically, I chose not to eat any food and just stick to 2 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil (VCO) every 2 hours beginning 8am until you consume up to 10 tablespoons in a day. I supplement this with fresh lemonade with sea salt, some coconut meat, and a lot of plain yoghurt. I tried mixing the VCO with the lemon juice, but I found that I preferred drinking the VCO straight from a spoon.
My objective. I recently diagnosed myself with jock itch. Since jock itch is yeast induced, I figured I needed to do a candida cleanse. Looking in the natural health websites showed that candida cures took several months to accomplish. I tried using garlic under the soles of my feet and that gave me relief for 1 day. But I read that a 3 to 7 day VCO detox can wipe out candida easily by starving it and killing it at the same time!
My results? The 1st day of my detox I found the urge to release my bowels at least 4 times that day. In my 2nd day, with food relatively empty, I unloaded what looked like jets of white “smokey” clouds. Were they the yeast I so wanted to get rid off? My 3rd day brought me hunger and some heart pain. I decided to continue taking my chlorella and spirulina supplements to give me some nutrition. But by the end of monday I felt uneasy about the heart pain I decided to eat a late dinner before going to bed. By wednesday, the heart pain was gone.
Did the VCO detox kill the yeast that caused the jock itch? During the 3 days I was on VCO detox there was no jock itch, no itch at all. By thursday I felt some itch. But the itch went away Friday and no itch today Saturday.
I will think about scheduling a 2nd VCO detox next week just to make sure the my yeast population is checked.
Do I think VCO detox is effective against candida? Absolutely. Try it.
1spacepixii on Aug 9, 2008 at 5:21 pm:
hey, i totally agree with you!! Coconut oil works!! i have been battling with severe eczema for over a year now. I did the full detox, bowel, liver everything…but i got to about my 10th liver flush and felt like i wasnt really getting any better…none the less i persisted as i know that symptoms sometimes get worse before they get better. However, it was taking soo long that i began to think that maybe there was somethin else i needed to do but i didnt know what. I got to 17 liver flushes and no stones and i knew definatley then that there was another piece to the puzzle that i must have been missing. i had also been having digestion problems for months and i thought that with all the cleansing that it would eventually fix itself, but it didnt…
then i read on curezone that a lady substituted coconut oil for olive oil while liver flushing and got out lots of candida. So i tried it and the result was amazing! that was last weekend. This weekend im doing a 3 day VCO detox..and my eczema is disappearing before my eyes!. I am soo happy that i have finally found the missing puzzle piece. I have tried sooo hard for soo long i can hardly believe that its finally over. goodbye to feeling and living like a sick person and hello to the freedom of good health that i knew once before!. Im so glad to have my life back! I’m soo grateful for people like you who have taken the time to post your experiences and knowledge. I dont know you, but i have read through your site many many times, and i couldnt have done it without you! thanks you from the bottom of my heart.
2eesc on Aug 9, 2008 at 8:37 pm:
Congratulations and thank you very much for your blog reply, comment, testimonial.
Letters like yours make this effort all worth it.
I have 2 more websites that discuss this directly: http://www.eczemacure.info and http://www.curemanual.com
To inspire other people to get well, you can email me before and after pictures and we can feature it in http://www.eczemacure.info
Edwin