Here’s a simple treatment for arthritis that one of my natural healing mentors gave me the other day that I had not been aware of – Diatomaceous Earth, commonly called D.E. I am told that Diatomaceous Earth is also excellent for arthritis that is caused by an immune system response.
DE is a soft sedimentary rock ground up into a very fine powder. It’s made up of the fossilized remains of a hard shelled algae and is very high in the mineral silica. You can read more about it on the link below where I give you a reputable source for it.
Over Easter I had a house full of family and friends for meals every day, with many bringing lovely, tempting sugary contributions to the meals – very far from my usual healthy eating and sugar is one of my very inflammatory foods.
I had started taking DE as a detox about a week before Easter (more about detoxing coming soon) and I had no inflammation flare ups even though I ate more sugar than I had done in a long time. Hmmm excellent! 🙂
So DE – Diatomaceous Earth.
You must only eat the fine food grade DE. There is at least one rogue seller of swimming pool DE (the coarse granular variety) out on ebay who will tell you that his product is for treatment of animals and eating as well. He should be locked up for such a dangerous fraud.
Here is a link to a source of organic, fine food grade DE from northern Australia.
Dosages
I took 1 teaspoon twice daily for 5 days and then upped the dosage to 1 tablespoon twice daily, which I will keep an eye on by testing it from time to time. In the next session I’ll give you the means to test yourself with a pendulum. Chill out, there’s nothing airy fairy about pendulum work done properly and I’ll teach you how to do it properly! 🙂
DE is also excellent for cleaning out the colon which means that you’ll digest your food better – specially if you’ve had a crappy diet way back in the old days like I did. Good digestion means that you extract more of the benefits from your food.
As you detox
Any detoxification program has the potential to make you feel a bit crappy while you are getting rid of the toxins. This is commonly called a healing crisis. If your detoxing / healing happens faster than you are comfortable with (that’s what a healing crisis is), just reduce the amount of DE that you are taking, drink plenty of good clean water, smile and think “better out than in”.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any worries or concerns and of course, if you have any concerns that your particular digestive system can handle DE, then take the information about DE to your doctor and check with them.