Today I experimented with raw oysters. I bought 2 kilos of large oysters at the Marikina market. I had 1 kilo for lunch and 1 kilo for dinner. Of course when you open them up, they are just half a bowl full each time. Pretty cheap, 40 pesos per kilo. The market man said they never run out of oysters as they came from their own farm in Cavite. Buy local. That’s the way to go.
My cook just poured hot water on the oysters, opened them up, dipped them in organic coconut vinegar to hopefully clean them.
Around 9pm I knew I was in trouble. I felt tell tale signs of poisoning. I knew I had to poop. Early in the evening I took 6 capsules of Barefoot Herbalist MH’s Lower Bowel Balance capsules to assure me of a poop. The pain in my intestines came around 10:30 pm. Finally after some solid poops, the loose bowel movement came… and came… and came… until I felt it useless to keep putting on my boxer shorts, I just kept it off.
I was thinking of the bacteria I had read about that naturally lived within the oysters. So I took 1 full dropper of Barefoot Herbalist MH’s experimental tree iodine. Taking that made me feel better. And a few minutes later, what I was waiting for was the stomach reflex to pump out any toxins left in my stomach. I puked really strong until my abdominal muscles hurt. Not much puke though. But enough for the pukey feelings to subside.
I was weak, but very much lucid. I woke up my wife and requested her to ask the maids to open a coconut for me. If I weren’t so weak and dehydrated I would have opened the coconut myself. Ah, the coconut hydrated and refreshed me, diluted the toxins, whatever they were.
Cavite farmed oysters were bad today, it is April. Was this what they call Red Tide? Or was this just about polluted waters?
What I do know for sure is my foolish confidence in my new raw paleolithic body and health knowledge. I’m experimenting trying to expand my menu. Oysters, as are green mussels, are definitely off my shopping list.
It is 12:20 am as I write this. My puke was just around 12am. Fast recovery huh?