Daikon Radish

DAY EIGHT..............
I have started putting daikon radish in my juice. This is very brave of me as I don't really like the taste of radish, but I know that other creatures, those hiding inside of you nasty beasty creatures, ie parasites, really don't like it either. I will tell you a story. A true story of what happened a couple of years ago after I got my juicer and started making juice with daikon in it. Daikon radishes are kind of cool, they look like giant carrots that have been attacked by Bunnicula...all the color drained as they are white. I had been on Dr. Natura's colon cleanse which is not a fasting cleanse but an eat well, take the daily fiber along with anti-parasite capsules and senna tea, everyday for 2-3 months or more. I was nearing the end of my second month of this, and while the colon cleansing results were just great, I hadn't seen anything remotely like a parasite (and on the website people report seeing them in the first month). So, I was thinking, either I don't have any or they are too small to see. But near the end of my second month of this, I got a new juicer, my Greenstar 1000 (which I love) so was juicing everyday, and was doing daikon in my juice everyday. After about 5 days or so of this, I felt a wierd faloomp in my stomach...not painful but it felt like something in there had turned a big somersault. OK....there was nothing much after that, but two days later...omg.
There it was...the beastie itself, the one that had caused that wierd sensation, it was 15-18 inches long, half inch wide, flat, whitish, dead. A tapeworm. Ai yi yi! Whoever would have thought. So, wow. And I am just your average eats well, have eaten well for all my life (save a love for sweets) person. So it is true. We all have parasites. Everyone. It is just a fact of life. Your cat has them your dog, your horse....all living creatures have them. So taking anti-beastie herbs etcetera is definitely a good thing to do occasionally. I am gearing up to do an all out attack on them, as I am sure there are more of those beasties in me. What will I use? I have some great antiparasite capsules from Mt. Capra....Caprasite...I will take those as directed and have the daikon in my juice as that was the thing that finally drove that big beastie over the edge....that wierd feeling was it's death throe...interesting. So...I will keep you posted (whether you like or not) as to when I start this all out assault (maybe I have already started it) and what the results are. I have a whole large bag of daikon root which I need to use up...and the Caprasite...so what better time...and trust me....I am just as reluctant about this whole affair as you are....but it must be done.
I am looking good, though still having minor kidney issues so going to take the Primal Defense regularly for a while, as I wake up still a bit tired and with some circles under my eyes, but not too bad..I was just in the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror...expected to look tired or something as I had been sitting at my desk for a good half hour ignoring a desperate need to pee....which is a stressor and was feeling it a bit...but it's not reflected in my face. My face is looking clear, bright, good. On my good days when nothing is stressing me, I dare say I look younger again....I generally do, but last year was a tough year for that. Lots of physical and emotional stress which happily are things of the past. So, no longer making 'treat' juices, though last night I made a smoothie of frozen raspberries, fresh banana and oranges with a bit of canned pineapple to balance the tartness of the oranges and raspberries, and water , so and had a bit. I did strain it first...and it was yum. Then I went back to my regular juice....a balance of greens and fruit. Dinner for the family was a repeat of last nights, the raw hummus etc. only with a fresh guacamole instead of the carrot soup. It was a yummy guacamole with lots of chopped cilantro in it, some finely chopped red onion, fresh tomato, lemon juice and a bit of Pace Mild Chunky Salsa to give it that something extra. It was very very good....would love to have done more than licked it off of my fingers. I am so happy that the kids really like the raw hummus. Even snuck some sunflower sprouts into their pitas. I used the hummus and rice and some avo and cucumber to make a nori roll of sorts for my husband. It was okay if a bit soft, and I haven't figured out how to get the nori not to be all rubbery. I have untoasted nori sheets, so toasted one on the stove to see if that would help. I think I am just getting them too wet. I did spread the hummus on first instead of the rice. Will experiment with these. Also need to get a bamboo rolling mat so they come out better. Renee Loux Underkoffler, (now just Renee Loux) has some great recipes for these and other yummy raw foods in her Living Cuisine cookbook. I have a nice assortment of raw cook books, Rawsome by Brigitte Mars, Real World, Real Food by Sarma Melengilis and Matthew Kenny, Living Cuisine by Renee, and possibly another not sure..also collecting whatever good looking recipes I find online. I love making these raw things for my family and can't wait til I am eating again so I can enjoy them for myself.
Enjoy the day!
ciao bellas
Alessandra