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Crohn's Disease

Crohn's disease is an auto-immune disorder and therefore the treatment protocol outline in the article Factors Involved In Auto-Immune Disorders And Effective, Natural Treatment Protocols.should be followed as you feel is appropriate for your individual needs. When this information is combined with the article on treating Chron’s disease, you may decide to integrate Plant Sterols and Sterolins as an anti-dote to inflammation and correcting the immune system at some point in your regime.

   

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease, which can affect the whole of the alimentary tract from the mouth to anus. The inflammation extends through all layers of the gut wall in patches between normal tissue. Complications outside of the intestine can occur.

There are periods of remission, when patients are symptom-free, and relapses, when symptoms flare up. The cause of Crohn’s Disease is still unknown, but there is a hereditary tendency.  Some cases are triggered by gastroenteritis and stress can cause flare ups.

It is believed that an immune reaction to bacteria in the bowel is an important factor in Crohn’s disease.   Diet is a critical factor and dietary treatment often enables  patients to heal their body naturally without the distressing side effects of prescription drugs.   Many find relief when avoiding wheat, yeast and milk.  (More on diet below)

Symptoms

• Diarrhoea - sometimes with blood
• Abdominal pain and tenderness
• Weight loss
• Fever
• Tiredness
• Sores and abscesses around the anus, which have a discharge.
• Other possible symptoms (not involving the intestine) - ulcers on the tongue or inside the cheek, painful, inflamed eyes, painful, stiff or swollen joints, sore, red lumps on the skin 

The Most Effective Natural Supplements for Crohn's Disease

Aslan and Triadafilopoulos (1992) looked at fish oil supplementation in active ulcerative colitis, (it is likely that Crohn’s will repond in a similar way).  Compared with the placebo therapy (olive oil), fish oil resulted in clinical improvement of mild to moderate ulcerative colitis. Among the studied patients, 72 per cent of patients reduced or eliminated their need for anti-inflammatory medications. There have been a number of clinical trials assessing the benefits of dietary supplementation with fish oils in other types of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases in humans.

We therefore recommend cod liver oil at one dessertspoon daily, this also provides vitamin D essential for calcium integration (Boron also needed for this).  Once the calcium status of the body is improved the immune system will tend to  be better regulated.

Hemp oil is the most balanced oil in terms of omega 3,6, and 9 balance and has anti-inflammatory properties. We therefore recommend the use of it at one dessert spoon daily (start at one teaspoon daily and gradually increase).

Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease

These terrible gut disorders can be treated with our Digestive Disorders Tincture, and in the words of the herbalist who developed this formula, the tincture ‘can annihilate the terrible symptoms of these awful diseases to 100% relief remission for life’.

However he makes the proviso that candida overgrowth that is very common with these conditions, and to a lesser extent food intolerances, must also be eliminated for the herbal formula to do its work. Candida fungal stage overgrowth is often caused by killing the good bacteria in the bowel with anti-biotics and steroids.

The advice given above under the heading of irritable bowel syndrome is generally useful over the long term for bowel health in cases of Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.

• Ultra Fine Green Clayhelps to normalise the bowel, and reduce diarrhoea.
• Primebiotic can be introduced once the symptoms have started to improve (also helps to keep candida at bay)
• Barley Grass Juice powder can be experimented with after a month or two.  This is for deeper bowel restoration and to supply valuable nutrients overall that are in such short supply for the sufferer of Crohn’s Disease especially, but for the population in general due to depleted minerals in soil and lack of a perfect diet.   

Chlorella, although generally a bowel tonic, should be taken with caution by those with a history of IBD, since it may stimulate the immune system.

(NaturalNews) Some of the most miserable and painful chronic diseases known to humankind involve inflammation in the bowel. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are two of these relapsing conditions. They affect more than a million people in the United States and cause weight loss, diarrhea, sometimes excruciating abdominal pain and cramping and gastrointestinal bleeding.


Mainstream medicine treats these ills, which involve ongoing tissue inflammation that alters the functioning of the intestine, with a host of immune suppressive drugs including steroids. Unfortunately, these Big Pharma side-effect laden solutions are not totally effective and patients relapse.


But now there's new hope on the horizon for a drug-free, totally safe treatment could even turn out to be a cure: a probiotic.


Probiotics are live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are much like the beneficial microorganisms found in the healthy human gut. Also known as "friendly bacteria" or "good bacteria", foods like yogurt and kefir contain probiotics. They can be taken as supplements, too.


Northwestern Medicine researchers have genetically tweaked a version of a common probiotic found in yogurt and cheese and a new animal study shows it is an effective treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's and ulcerative colitis. What's more, the scientists think the probiotic may be useful in treating colon cancer, another disease triggered by inflammation, as well.


The Northwestern team deleted a gene in the probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus and fed this version of the probiotic to mice with two different models of colitis. After about 2 weeks of treatment, the new probiotic strain had virtually eliminated colon inflammation in the animals. Moreover, it halted progression of the disease by 95 percent. The results of the study were just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


"This opens brand new avenues to treat various autoimmune diseases of the gut, including inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer, all which can be triggered by imbalanced inflammatory immune responses," said Mansour Mohamadzadeh, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and lead investigator of the study, in a statement to the media. He also is a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.


In the study, the modified Lactobacillus acidophilus was found to calm over stimulated immune cells in the gut by mobilizing messenger immune cells, called dendritic cells. These dendritic cells then enhanced the production of other functional immune cells, known as regulatory T-cells. The result? A healthy new balance was achieved in the intestine and systemic inflammation was soothed away.


"They essentially calm everything down and restore it to normal," Dr. Mohamadzadeh explained. The next step will be a trial testing the new form of Lactobacillus acidophilus in humans. Dr. Mohamadzadeh and his colleagues at the Lurie Cancer Center are also researching the new Lactobacillus acidophilus as a possible treatment for colon cancer.


Editor's note: NaturalNews is opposed to the use of animals in medical experiments that expose them to harm. We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.


) Probiotics
Preliminary research suggests that treatment with the probiotic Faecalibacterium prausnitzii may help lessen inflammation associated with Crohn's disease. Available in supplement form, probiotics are bacteria that may strengthen the protective barrier of the digestive tract.

PROBIOTIC SEEM TO BE THE COMMON THREAD..
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