Candida Protocol
Yeast and Candida problems:

Physical care:

Hormonal changes can affect the pH of the body. A vitex berry tincture is helpful to restore hormonal balance. Dandelion root can help the liver funciton properly. I combine these in a formula called vitex plus or vitex is available on its own.

A basic candida diet restricts carbohydrates, fruit, sugar, alcohol, cheese, peanut butter, and vinegar. Fish, vegetables and whole grains can be eaten. Probotic supplements to restore natural intestinal flora are part of the protocal along with digestive enzymes to help break down nutrients. Helpful Herbal teas and tinctures include fennel seeds, garlic, and pau d'arco. Fennel seeds exhibits both anti-yeast and anti-inflammatory activity. Garlic is high in sulphur which kills yeast. Pau d'arco bark has anti-fungal properties as tea or tincture. Adding fresh nasturtium flowers and leaves to a salad can inhibit excess yeast growth due to natural sulfur compounds. Check out my Detox tea blend.

Irritation from a vaginal yeast infection can often disappear in a couple of nights with suppositories of a garlic clove or tea tree essential oil. A garlic suppository is made by peeling a glove of garlic and tying a piece of dental floss around it. To treat the yeast, it is inserted vaginally before bed for two nights. The high sulfur content kills the yeast overnight. For a tea tree oil suppository 3 drops of tea tree oil is added to two teaspoons of water. A tampon is soaked in the tea tree oil mixture to absorb the healing water, squeeze out most of the water, then insert vaginally overnight. Tea tree oil has cooling action with antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. A douche with yarrow tea has also been reported to be effective to ease yeast infection symptoms.  A tea is made by steeping one teaspoon of flowers in boiling water for fifteen minutes. The tea is cooled by diluting with equal parts of filtered water before douching.

Partner Care:

It is also possible to clear up candida and yeast yourself but have your sexual partner still carrying yeast and infecting you when you engage in oral sex or intercourse. If so the partner should take:

1)something to kill the yeast like echinachea tea or tincture for a week followed by Probiotic 8 or similar acidopholus product on a regular basis especially if they drink beer, eat sugary and white flower products or take antibiotics