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Ayurvedic Parasitic Protocols

In India, where parasites are endemic, it is believed that people with weaker digestions are more prone to parasitic infections. Parasites thrive on undigested food. Eventually, the host suffers from tissue weakness and degeneration. Not surprisingly, Ayurveda uses hot spices both to stimulate digestion and destroy parasites. Contrary to Hulda Clark, Ayurveda rigorously opposes the use of dairy products when trying to rid the body of parasites.

In India, doctors prescribe hot spices to eliminate parasites. It goes without saying that such spices will also stimulate peristalsis and perhaps aggravate the tendency towards diarrhea, but diarrhea is the body's natural way of ridding itself of parasites. Black pepper and asafoetida (a disgusting smelling spice that somewhat resembles garlic though it comes from resin rather than a bulb) are normally used to increase what Ayurveda terms "digestive fire." Cayenne, though not native to India, is also used. Then, as with the Chinese, Ayurveda employs bitter herbs, but not so much to stimulate the flow of bile as to detoxify the body of poisons. Parasites dump ammonia gas into the body. This disturbs many physiological processes as well as pH.

Good Ayurvedic preparations address several issues simultaneously: the need to destroy the parasites, intestinal peristalsis and flora, and blood and liver detoxification. The cornerstone of all treatments is vidanga, Embelia ribes, considered especially effective against tape worms. Vidanga, being pungent, raises pitta, or fire. As is understood by those conversant with energetic medicine, an herb that raises fire will be decongesting, so vidanga reduces kapha. Because it is also carminative, it also reduces vata. It is usually combined with ginger and applied to the skin for treatment of ring worm and taken internally for other kinds of parasitic infections. Most consider that it is safe to use for at least three months, but anything that raises fire will eventually reduce fertility so when no longer needed, this herb should be discontinued. Some sources indicate that vidanga is also effective with pinworms and round worms.

Banyan Botanicals makes a formula based on vidanga that contains the highly bitter neem leaf, the stinky asafoetida, hot black pepper and pippali, carminative ginger and ajwan, and the three fruits found in the famous triphala formula that is used to rejuvenate the colon. It also contains kutaja bark, Ayurveda's chief anti-dysentery herb that is also used to detoxify the gastrointestinal tract.

Copyright by Ingrid Naiman 2002

 

 

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