Hello Azi,
Ordinarily I would advise against using the tea and Chinese herbs,however,since you are getting a positive result you can listen to the colon.You should see the positive results continue to a CURE as long as you follow the same procedure.Continue the enema at the 10 capsule level of 400 I.U.each or 4 capsule level if you are using the 1000 I.U.each capsule once a day.Thank you for the posting.sheldon
thanks for the response...
well since the chinese tea is helping for now we are afraid of just cutting it off. So for now we will use it. He is doing much better yet bleeding has not completely stopped (much reduced though), stool is semi formed.
tonight is the first of 10 capsules (400 IU) each, we will keep u posted, and will continue this dose until fully cured i guess.
Please give me an approximate time (in days) for staying on the same dose.
Hello Azi,
One thing I learned an irritated colon(UC) will not heal completely if the procedure is not followed to the CURE (complete healing).People get a good result thinking they are CURED,however,after time passes they
encounter a colon irritating occurrence that will effect the colon such as an illness,allergy,emotional occurrence.This will open the smallest colon sore that was not healed by the procedure but went unnoticed because it didn't give any problems.This IS the reason UC is considered uncurable.I have had a bad case of flu,at 3 different times had guns pointed at me and some very angry feelings.No colitis problems. After your colon IS comletely healed,bad problems will not cause a flare.Any wrong food or liquid will delay healing.The herbs and tea might delay healing.They have not previouly been proven.The choice is yours.The time to heal the colon would be variable depending on the original colon condition,how well you do the procedure and giving the time necessary to CURE.In the meantime,you will be off medication and leading a normal life and eating a healthy diet.At best 3 months,but it is variable.Thank you again for the up date.sheldon
Well the herbal tea will be finishing by the end of this week (sunday), and he is still doing good, we continue the diet and enemas at 10 capsules/day.
I will let you know if after sunday he will be on any herbal teas etc. yet we will try our best to be off of every other therapy rather than the vit. E enemas.
I read the great news about Amanda's son and that he is cured! Apparantly he is allergic to wheat.. just wondering if you find wheat bad too?! Is it ok to have bread, or any wheat products or should we just wait until after the 3moths period to introduce wheat to his diet?
Also,
do we continue the same dose for th next 3 months even with no blood in stool? Do we decide he is cured by no blood in the stool test and is that when we stop taking the enemas?
Hello Azi,
Stay with the procedure diet and enema until the occult fecal blood test shows no blood.The 3 month time was just an estimate.It's too early now but in a month or two you can try the occult fecal blood test.Yes,food allergies,emotional distress,fungal and bacterial infection can cause colon wall irritation and delay or stop the healing.Also a low vitamin/mineral blood level.This is the reason you should stay with the procedure diet.Why risk a positive healing result just to try a new food.Plenty of time to do that after the CURE.Thank you for the posting.sheldon
A team of Japanese scientists has found that germinating brown rice by soaking it for several hours before it is cooked - enhances its already high nutritional value.
Do vitamin E and selenium have beneficial effects on trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid-induced experimental colitis.
Ademoglu E, Erbil Y, Tam B, Barbaros U, Ilhan E, Olgac V, Mutlu-Turkoglu U.
Department of Biochemistry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. evin@istanbul.edu.tr
The balance between oxidant and antioxidant systems may be important in the pathogenesis and/or maintenance of tissue injury in ulcerative colitis. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of vitamin E and selenium supplementations on tissue injury and oxidative stress in trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid-induced ulcerative colitis in rats. Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid administration severely changed the normal architecture of the colon and significantly increased the levels of malondialdehyde, protein carbonyl, and xantine oxidase (P < 0.001) in the colon homogenates of these rats. Supplementation of selenium to the trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid-treated rats neither improved the histopathological findings nor decreased the levels of malondialdehyde and protein carbonyl. Vitamin E supplementation reduced the levels of malondialdehyde and protein carbonyl but did not improve the colonic lesions. Supplementation of vitamin E + selenium significantly reduced both the severity of colonic lesions and the levels of malondialdehyde and protein carbonyl. In conclusion, we suggest that antioxidants and specific micronutrients may have beneficial effects in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
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Hi just want to share some experience.
I tried this procedure 10 months ago. It didn't help that much, and the obvious symptom is dramatic loss of weight and feeling a bit more sleepy during daytime.
Then I went through a couple of flare-ups, and end up taking pred for half a year. My reaction to pred is not that terrible. But at a point that I decided to pick up the enema procedure again 4 weeks ago. I've been clear of any medicine and eat as much as vegatible as possible, and use vitamin E enema every night.
I am feeling that it's under control, but I still have to wait for longer to really tell for sure. The things that I didn't follow Sheldon's rules : I work out and playing sports a lot. I don't eat steamed vegitables, but I stir-fry them most of the time, I do pay attention to make them soft. An important discovery to my own case is that I found chinese wood ear helps to ease the condition very much. There are a variety of wood ears, you have to pick the one that really softens when merged with water for an hour. And you have to fried it to the point that you can hear the cracks and when you chew on them, they are kind of gluey, not crisp.
I don't eat pork, tried beef twice. No ingredients in the cooking except olive oil and Sea Salt . I eat fresh vegatables, fish plus brown rice and barley mostly.
Not sure if this is helpful. I would prefer to Sheldon's recipe if I could. But I live alone and works long hours. So, the steaming recipe would be very hard for me.
I will post back on a weekly basis.
*** 2 important things I want to make clear ***
1. Now the control I feel is better than I was taking pred and colozal. The only difference it more attention on the diet and Ve Enema.
2. Pred used to be the only med that bring it to a relapse stage. So, take pred to bring it to relapse, then try this might be a good route, think it worked for me.
3. My goal is to keep it under control for 3 months.
I currently have 1 firm BM and no visible blood at all. Slight urgency, but can hold much easier than before.
I was reading your stories and I am reacting to your last one where it seem to have worked.
Please stay as long as possible on the diet for a long term remission.
A couple of years ago I tried the procedure as well, I got in complete remission for say 4 months but it came back strong. Now I think it had to do with the fact that after
1,5 month I more or less returned to a "normal" diet as I felt all was OK. I was so happy and I did not bother any longer but than, 4 months later, the symptoms returned. Now I am trying the procedure again, I see improvement BUT somehow it is jumpy while I am on a stable diet.
But like you I am also having a working life which is hard to maintain the diet but health is so much more important that I am thinking to take a long vacation and completly focus untill it is in remission again.
The chinese wood ear sounds interesting to try out.
But again keep the diet as long untill you feel completly normal and all the symptoms are gone otherwise all was for nothing in the end it was a waste of effort and time.
Thanks for the reply. I was never in a remission for that long before, even under the pred. What you mentioned is very important to me. I will definitely be more careful with the diet. Could you also share what did you eat after 1.5 month? And what's the warning symptoms you feel before it came back?
Thanks.
As stated in the procedure instructions,you continue the procedure until you are CURED.Buy a fecal occult blood test at the drugstore for $10.00.When the test shows no blood in the stool,you are CURED.There will not be any future flares.Flares are caused by incomplete healing(small open colon sores).After you are CURED, you can try one new food at a time.
Hi Sheldon, thanks, I will try that. But based on my own experience and reality, I really can't be 100% compliant to the diet. I will keep the procedure longer than 3 months if it takes and watching closely with my own reaction.
Hi Momfer, during your 4 month remission,
1) how long have you been sticking to the diet, then start to eat something else?
2) What's majorly in your change diet?
3) How long have you been using the Ve enema every night?
4) Have you noticed anything before the flare?
Thanks.
I was away a couple of days so could not respond earlier.
>>during your 4 month remission,
>>1) how long have you been sticking to the diet, then start to eat something else?
Actually not that long if I remember well, say 3 or 4 weeks but I also tried 2 times
before with little success, probably due to many factors, like wrong diet, not taking enough time etc etc.
The third time I dedicated 4 weeks of vacation to the procedure but started first with a strict diet, taking out foods untill stool form became less liquid but not really solid only after I saw a difference I started the Vitamin E procedure and than really suddenly after a week or so I had rock solid stool and did feel like the time I was a teenager. Did not feel any gas, pain nothing.
I continued for 2 more weeks with the enema's as I had to go for a long travel.
In the 4 months after the Procedure I did not notice any thing and I was eating everything I liked, no problem at all.
Than at a certain moment I felt the famous rumble and gas coming back a little, I did not take action at that time but I guess within a week I was back in my same old disease.
I struggled thru a year with some diet, so I managed it a bit.
Then I did the HPI procedure, maybe you have heard about it, that went OK and I had another 1,5 very good year while eating almost anything I liked but still being careful about it.
Situation got worse after that but never as ever before with lots of blood etc etc.
I dont use any medicines no more, that worsen the condition.
Remember in 1995 I had a severe UC condition with 25 runs to the toilet.
And now I am trying again the Vitamin E procedure again but it is still jumpy ;-(
>>2) What's majorly in your change diet?
I changed everything, I follow it very strict now and I can not eat everything that Sheldon decribed, so mainly I eat 1 potato, brown rice, bit of coliflower, bit of broccoli, carrots and fresh salmon slowly cooked in Olive oil and I use coconutmilk with water to boil it. That is about it untill I reach a rock solid formed stool, if not I take away more untill it happens I hope.
I used this diet before when I had succes the third time.
I take enema's before I sleep.
>>3) How long have you been using the Ve enema every night?
If you mean these days yes every night and before also every night. But I started it just 2 days ago.
>>4) Have you noticed anything before the flare?
Yes, read at number 1 so there is a signal and I should have reacted to it but the weird thing was that I felt it changing but my stool was still formed for a long time after the symptoms started.
If you want to know more, feel free to ask ;-)
How are you doing these days?
Maybe, if you have time, describe a bit what you did to reach to where you are right now?
Hi, it's been the week 6 for me now. I am still doing the procedure. I went out on a vacation and eat "forbidden food", icecream and barbeque ribs. Other than that, I ate boiled lobster, asian cuisine, veg+shrimp. I also started to eat high-fiber bread in the morning. I felt immediate gas and discomfort aftter I ate icecream. But it went away after that night. Other than last weekend, I still keep eating vegetables and wood ear, I fried them. My stool is still firm and with no visible blood. I ate steak a couple of times, since I felt that I need some protein. I like tofu, but had bad experience with tofu and soymilk. So, I avoid them. I am still not taking any med and seems holding ok. I am hoping to keep the same diet and practice till november.
I do felt a bit constibation these couple of days. But hopefully, it will go away after my diet gets more principled.
Hello arronzh.I am glad that you are able to live a normal life,however,unless your colon is healedCURED)you can easily get a flare from very small open colon sores.You should keep to the procedure until you pass the occult blood test.
Just my routine check back on my week#7, everything seems good with no med. I am still avoiding dairy and all spices. no garlic, no vinegar. Vegi twice each day. I am still using Ve enema though. I've been under stress lately and sleep less than 7 hours. Although this was a big factor for me in the past, now it seems that I am holding up ok. I mentally adjust myself to relax.
Sheldon, for whatever reason, I believe that this time it's working for me. I will stick to the diet and procedure, more strictly if possible for another 5-10 months. I will also keep reporting back here. I also do think that the wood ear helped me. BTW, I also drink pure barley in the morning and coconut milk in the evening.
I am planning to add selenium and vc at night from today on.
So, good luck to us all !
It's been over a month since last time I wrote here. I am feeling ok the whole period with no medication. I am eating almost normal. I still eat brown rice and more veggies than normal people. I eat wood ears once a week. I eat out in restaurants since I am coming back more to the social events. I went out hiking or rafting almost every week. I ate some spicy food a couple of times. Got nervous and did felt discomfort, but don't see much worsening and my stool is ok. I am much better than I was diagnosed. And without medication, I am feeling better than I had heavy medication before. I am still not sure whether the Wood Ear did some magic this time, sicne last time when I try VE enama, even with more restricted diet I wasn't able to control it for so long. But I believe the Ve Enama definitely helped. BTW, I stopped Enama for a month. I will go to doctor this week. And will use it more if there is any findings.
And I will be more cautious about my eating. I need that.
Thank you for sharing your experience.Stay on the enemas and the diet until you get a positive fecal occult blood test.A positive result means no future flares a (CURE).Any unhealed small colon sore will show no visible blood but can cause a future flare when the colon is irritated.
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