HERBAL DEFENSE AGAINST OPPORTUNISTIC DISEASE

Many things in today’s world serve to depress immunity and make the body vulnerable to disease. We call a virus or bacteria “opportunistic” when it becomes virulent and overwhelms a depressed immune system. Most of these infections are devastating and difficult to overcome. The harmful organisms must be neutralized, while the nourishing and vigorous rebuilding of a weakened defense system is developed against continuation and recurrence.

Common cause that lower immune defenses to a drastic level include:

• Heavy use of anti-biotics, prescription or pleasure drugs, infected needles, cortico-steroids, birth control pills, unnecessary childhood vaccinations or travel immunizations. (These often seem to alter thymus gland activity, and it immune-controlling ability.)
• Sexual contact with infected and contagious persons who pass an opportunistic organism.
• Highly stressed lifestyles, demanding too much physical and mental energy, and depleting basic body reserves.
• Poor diet of refined and non-food foods, causing poor cell health and nutritional deficiencies on a wide scale; too many chemicals in and on foods that the body cannot use for fuel or replenishment, and that interfere with normal body chemistry.
• An imbalanced over-acid system that allows disease elements to exist and grow.
• Auto-toxemia through poor waste elimination and constipation.
• Exhausted liver and adrenal glands; general gland and hormone depletion and imbalance.

A high resistance, immune-building nutritional program is necessary for success over opportunistic diseases. They are major illnesses, and must be approached with vigorous energy, commitment and treatment. The intestinal environment must be changed to create a hostile climate for the pathogenic bacteria. The herbal formulas in this section are for the ill person who needs drastic measures – concentrated defense strength in a short time. These combinations represent the first emergency intensive stages of a program to reverse body deterioration. Vigorous treatment is recommended on all fronts.

Combinations in this section for defense against opportunistic disease are effective in the following circumstances and conditions:

AIDS & ARC ~ LUPUS ~ M.S. ~ MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ~ HERPES ~ RHEUMATIC FEVER ~ MONONUCLEOSIS ~ CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME ~ HPV – ECZEMA & PSORIASIS ~ CANDIDA ALBICANS ~ NEUROLOGICAL LYME DISEASE ~ HEPATITIS ~ PARASITIC INFECTIONS ~ TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME

Areas for formulation should include:
1) Purifying herbs to detoxify and alkalize the bloodstream.
2) Liver, organ and enzyme stimulating herbs to stabilize blood composition and deter cell deterioration.
3) Herbs to help rebuild healthy new blood and immune defenses.

courtesy of How To Be Your Own Herbal Pharmacist by Linda Rector-Page, N.D., Ph.D.

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