Treatment for Candida
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.
Altrnatively, garlic oil capsules or kyolic (pickled garlic) capsules might also be helpful
Natural cures for candida: 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.
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.
