Natural cures for candida

This is one of several articles on natural cures for candida.

If you suffer from candida or yeast infection and would like a natural approach, you are recommended to also read the following related articles on this website:

Probiotics against candida infection
Caprylic acid against candida
An anti-candida diet.

And, of course, you are recommended to consult a qualified and competent health professional. 

This website merely gives you general information and points you in certain directions. It is always best to seek professional guidance from a healthcare professional who is well-familiar with the ailment that you are suffering from. 

This article deals with various other natural cures for candida that were not previously discussed. These "other" cures are not necessarily less important or less effective. 

Mainly, it is because I don't have a lot to write about each of these right now. So for the time being, I have chosen to lump them together in one article on natural cures for candida.

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Garlic

Garlic is one food that has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties and some scientific studies have found it to be at least as effective as the popular anti-fungal drug, Nystatin, in destroying candida albicans.

One important difference between taking drugs such as antibiotics and anti-fungals, and taking garlic, is that bacteria and fungi are not likely to develop a resistance to garlic. This is because garlic contains many different substances with anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties, including allicin, alliin, alliinase and S-allylcysteine.

To get the most of garlic's ability to destroy bacteria and fungi like the candida yeast, it is best to take garlic raw.

But raw garlic is extremely pungent. So you might want to chop it up finely and eat with your food, or swallow it with water.

Some Chinese restaurants serve chopped raw garlic to be mixed with soy sauce as a dipping sauce. A Chinese noodle dish called lor mee – a traditional food of the Fujian, Pu Tien, Hing Hwa and other dialect groups – is also typically served with a dollop of minced, raw garlic. 

Another way to eat raw garlic is to eat them pickled. Just soak peeled garlic cloves in a good, natural soy sauce such as organic quality shoyu or tamari. Leave them soaked for a few weeks to a few months, they won't spoil. While pickles are generally discouraged in an anti-candida diet, good quality pickles made with soy sauce are okay. 

Alternatively, garlic oil capsules or kyolic (pickled garlic) capsules might also be helpful.

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Natural cures for candida #2: Oregano oil

The oil of Oregano Vulgare, a species of the oregano herb that is commonly used in Italian and Greek cooking, is also known to have powerful anti-fungal properties. 

Interestingly, Oregano is used in the Philippines primarily as a herbal medicine – for various common illnesses like coughs and the flu – rather than a herb for cooking. 

Oregano oil is normally sold as a pure oil. It is very potent. So all you need is a few drops mixed into a glass of water. Taking too much of oregano oil might cause irritation to the mucous membranes.

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Natural cures for candida #3: Super green foods

Green algae such as chlorella and spirulina – sometimes called 'Super Green foods' – are very rich in nutrition and have strong detoxification capabilities. And detoxifying the colon is an important step in the fight against candida infection because the candida yeast thrives in a toxic environment. 

These green foods also have a very strong alkalinizing effect on the body, which is also crucial because candida albicans thrive in an acidic environment. 

Vegetables as well as foods rich in minerals – like seaweeds and salt pickled foods – all have strong alkalinizing effects. Of these, chlorella and spirulina are among the most alkalinizing. 
 

Be careful, though, to buy only the best quality green algae, as some tend to be moldy.

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Natural cures for candida #4: Edible clay

The idea of eating ash or clay might seem strange to many people, but this has actually been a traditional practice of many primitive societies. 

Dr Weston Price, who studied the diets and health of many primitive societies during the early 20th century, found that many primitive people would eat food that has been dipped in water dissolved with clay – in order to prevent upset stomachs from food poisoning. 

Two types of clay are today commonly sold for consumption as health supplements – bentonite and montmorillonite. These have been variously called "living clay", "healing clay" or just "edible clay".

Clay is highly absorptive. It readily absorbs toxins, heavy metals, bacteria, virus and fungi. But because clay itself is not absorbed by the body, whatever it absorbs is passed out in the stools.

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Natural cures for candida #5: Psyllium husk

Similar in effect to clay is psyllium husk, which was discussed briefly in the article about caprylic acid as one of the natural cures for candida.

Psyllium is a seed grown commercially in India, where it is also called isabgol. The husk is very high in fibre and widely used as a bulk forming laxative. When psyllium absorbs water, it expands greatly and forms a gel. People who take psyllium often report passing out very large, well-formed stools. 

Psyllium or isabgol is thus very effective as a colon cleanser. And cleaning the colon is one of the most effective ways to fight candida infection. Like clay, psyllium husk or isabgol absorbs toxins, bacteria, fungi and other harmful substances – and passes them out through the stools.

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Natural cures for candida #6: Colloidal Silver

Colloidal silver is silver particles suspended (not sissolved) in water. Before the development of antibiotic drugs, colloidal silver was widely used to treat infections, as colloidal silver is said to be effective against up to 650 types of bacteria and other harmful micro-organisms – including candida albicans.

Silver is said to work by denaturing the enzyme involved with supplying oxygen to these micro-organisms. And colloidal silver is gaining popularity as an alternative to antibiotics, partly because many organisms are nowadays resistant to even powerful antibiotics, whereas there is little chance of them developing resistance to silver. 

Silver is used in Indian cuisine, where various candies and sweets are often coated with a thin layer of silver foil. So eating - or drinking - silver is again not as strange as it might seem to some people.

There are, of course, many other natural cures for candida. But the various articles on this website give you a good sampling of the wide range of natural alternatives available. 

As mentioned before, no single cure will work for all people all the time. But if you adopt a multi-pronged approached, changing your diet as well as taking a few of the many natural cures for candida, you have good chances of fighting candida infection successfully.