News Archive - 24th of August 2011

The Interests of Sweet Cures

The interests of Sweet Cures have gradually evolved during our eight year history. At first we were totally focused on one thing: the Waterfall D-Mannose for bladder health and for the first few years that’s all we did. But as we learned more and more about cystitis and the importance of healthy mucous linings, and we learned of the confusion surrounding the causes and treatment of interstitial cystitis, we gradually began to realise just how much bladder health and total body health are related; so we began to introduce other products that designed to be complementary to each other, and complementary in ways that contribute to whole body health with each product bringing additional benefits when used with the Waterfall D-Mannose, or their own separate benefits when used separately.

We have come to believe, like naturopaths, that good health is a natural thing that everyone should enjoy, and that by helping the body to get back to a state of natural health, all health problems disappear.

So how does that state of natural health come about? Well, most of us are born with natural health, but we live in unnatural environments, and eat unnatural foods that are sometimes contaminated with superbugs. We eat toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and irradiated and/or genetically modified ingredients along with our food and drink. We sometimes expose ourselves to pharmaceutical drugs with artificially created chemical molecules that can have severe and damaging long-term effects. We breathe contaminated air and drink contaminated and often recycled chlorinated and sometimes fluorinated water. In addition to all that we have to combat the natural pathogens and parasites that have evolved alongside us over the last few million years of our genetic history.

Sounds like it would be impossible to overcome all these negative factors, doesn’t it? Basically, that’s why not many people understand how to regain natural health. As far as researchers are concerned, there are just too many variables in the equation, including inherited factors and unknown environmental influences to ever understand it. Our own approach is much simpler: you can find out what is needed for a particular health problem by, for the most part, common sense.

1. Health begins with a healthy gut. Toxins, medicines, and antibiotics kill off normal gut flora and can allow pathogens to take over. Nature doctors have known for ever that one of the best ways to fight bugs is with other bugs. By totally out-competing the pathogens with multiple billions of tough friendly bacteria we can repopulate the gut with troops that will fight parasites, fungi, and pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and thus help restore a normal immune system. With the immune system working as it should, we become less prone to all kinds of infections and health problems. The bonus is that in return for giving them food and lodgings, friendly bacteria manufacture the enzymes we need to digest food properly and extract micronutrients, essential minerals and vitamins, for natural health. Thus we have very good reasons for believing that Anna & John’s Special Probiotic Blend is an essential aid to good long-term health.
   
   
2. Most people realise the importance of getting a good balance of vitamins and minerals in their diet, but we at Sweet Cures realised some years ago that the modern diet misses some essential sugars that are needed for proper functioning. Whilst the common sugars like fructose, sucrose and glucose are ‘empty’ calories that contribute to obesity and diabetes, Sweet Cures range of healthy sugars are all important foods for the great apes and human hunter-gatherer groups that still live nomadic lifestyles in the wild. These groups never get the modern diseases we are prone to with our modern lifestyles. They’ve never had antibiotics and they naturally consume a certain amount of earth with their food, so they have healthy guts. They eat a huge variety of fruits, roots, leaves and other vegetable matter, so they get plenty of natural xylose and xylitol (like our Xylotene) so they don’t get bad teeth or mouth ulcers, and have bones that are much denser and tougher than those of us leading ‘civilised’ lives. They also get plenty of d-ribose (like our HEDR), l-arabinose (like our Diabetrose) and healthy fats  in their diet from seeds, nuts, and wild grasses, so  diseases like ME, CFS, and long-term muscle fatigue are almost unknown amongst them, as is diabetes. The wild mushrooms, other fungi, fruits and leaves they eat also provide plenty of natural dmannose, meaning that cystitis is almost unknown.
   
   
3. Occasionally though, no matter how healthy our lifestyle is, some pathogen or parasite manages to get through our natural defences. The approach that has developed over the last 75 years or so is to give antibiotics but the fatal flaw in this approach is that the bacteria may rapidly develop resistance to antibiotics, and proliferate in more dangerous forms, and viruses and fungal infections like Candida Albicans, together with hook-worm and other parasites, are not in the least affected by them. In fact, giving antibiotics for a non-bacterial infection is totally counter-productive because the friendly bacteria in the gut are killed off, so are unable to manufacture natural beta-interferon, our most powerful natural defence against all pathogens.

At Sweet Cures, we realised that another approach was needed, so we looked at what people did before antibiotics became available, because we are all survivors of aeons of evolution, when our ancestors managed to at least live long enough to reproduce (or we wouldn’t be here) utilising natural remedies for the things that went wrong with them. The one thing that came up time and time again was the antimicrobial and antipathogenic qualities of oregano. The history of the use of oregano goes back until it gets lost in prehistory. It is mentioned by Hippocrates, and there are references to oregano tea and possibly oil recorded on the ancient pyramids in Egypt.

Anyone can make oregano tea by infusing the fresh or dried leaves, and its healing properties are so astounding that it was considered a magic herb. After drinking the tea, if infused at a high strength, worms and other parasites would be ejected via the normal exit routes and the remaining tea leaves could be used as a poultice for skin conditions or to help heal wounds and infections. Those who knew about the use of oregano could successfully treat wounds that would kill most others.

Later, when distillation techniques came into use, the concentrated oil of oregano proved even more effective than the infused liquid, and so began the modern history of Wild Oregano Oil over the last two and a half thousand years.

At Sweet Cures, we sourced our Wild Oregano Oil C80 through a contact who lives in the mountains off the coast of the Mediterranean, where the powerful medicinal herb has been hand-picked for as long as people can remember, and they still use the distillation techniques passed down through generations that produce the strongest fully organic oregano oil available in the world. This is mixed with just enough organic extra virgin olive oil to make it safe to handle and suitable for oral use, when taken with milk or soya. Traditionally, for internal infections or parasites, a few drops are taken three or four times a day with coconut milk, which also has some anti-fungal properties. For skin conditions it should be diluted using a teaspoonful of wild oregano oil to half a cup of coconut oil or olive oil. Don’t get it in the eyes or allow it to come into contact with sensitive tissues! Wash hands thoroughly after use.

The following customer feedback hints at its many uses:

“Just thought I'd update you.  I mixed some oregano oil with my son's regular emollient and spread it over his molluscum spots.  He did say it was burning a bit but it wasn't too uncomfortable.  The next day the molluscum spots had gone very red and had nearly black coloured scabs over them.  The spots were mostly on his left arm and his waist on the
left.  Alarmingly the next day he also had a painful lymph node in the axilla on that side.  However, we could see by the end of that day that it looked as if the contents of the spots (to put it nicely) had been sort of burnt out and they resembled healing chicken pox.  The morning
after this they looked a lot less red and the gland had gone down. Neither the gland nor the spots bothered him after that.  Since then one new spot appeared but it was on his scrotum.  After watching it turn yellow,  he agreed to have the oregano on it - it was extra diluted this
time, just one drop in a thimbleful of cream and it didn't burn (phew!). This spot has now gone down and the others continue to heal (beyond the scab phase now, just pink marks).  It's the first time for a long time that he has had no "live" spots but obviously we don't know whether he will carry on making new ones.  He should at some point win over the virus, but that can take at least 18 months.  I'm hoping without any spots to scratch (and thus spread the virus to other broken skin), that it'll at least contain it.  I'm also hoping that the strong reaction when we blasted the spots with oregano fired up his immune system enough to put a stop to it altogether.  Well, we'll wait and see.  At least now we have something that knocks it on the head - too early to say it's a complete cure, but I wanted to report back whilst I could remember the details.

I've also been taking the oregano for my bladder and I think it's helped a lot with the pain.  Either that or it spontaneously cleared up at the same time.  Hmmm.  I think not.  Again, bit soon to say but bladder behaving normally for now.  I'm having 2 drops twice a day.  Tried it in
goat's milk - bleah. Tried it in water - heartburn.  Tried it with honey - sticks to your mouth and burns.  Tried it in soya milk - went down ok!! It's sometimes OK with water so long as it's with a meal and I drink a lot of water.  The biggest thing I noticed was that my wee was very different - really is like "passing water".  Hadn't realised I had a little bit of stinging or even just a feeling of 'heat' when I went, until I started the oregano and had no sensation of anything except the flow! And that's the case even if there's very little in my bladder (before bed or going out wees!!).  Oh - I suppose somehow neutralising the wee is probably what's stopped the bladder pain?!”

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