Have you ever heard of a side effect coming up to 40 years or later? That is basically what is happening when someone gets Shingles. This is a side effect, or actually a reoccurrence of the chicken pox. This time instead of just being itchy, it’s painful, extremely painful. The virus that causes chicken pox is called the varicella-zoster virus. It is a type of herpes. Like other herpes viruses it never really goes away. If you have had chicken pox you will carry the virus the rest of your life. Most of the time we never even know we have it. But sometimes, in some people, it reawakens. When it does it causes pain, tingling, lesions or small blisters that center around a nerve ending. The blisters take about ten days to heal, but the pain can last from two to four weeks, or can progress to postherpetic neuralgia, which can last for months.
The key to whether you will get an outbreak is linked very closely to how strong your immune system is. If you have conditions that compromise your immune system you may be setting yourself up for an outbreak of shingles. This is where we have weapons the book authors know nothing about. Enriching Gifts Sterol-Max puts your immune system into high gear. It helps your body to create more immune cells. Taking six capsules first thing in the morning on an empty stomach is a sure fire way to boost your immune system and allow it to do its job of keeping this virus dormant. If you add Enriching Gifts Metabolic Complete you are giving your immune system the ammunition it needs to fight this virus. This could prevent an outbreak, or shorten one that has occurred. Another weapon we have in our arsenal is Enriching Gifts Lightning Colloidal Silver. Dabbed on the outbreak it can help prevent infection. Taken internally it can help fight the virus itself.
To relieve pain and promote healing we have two products. Enriching Gifts Aloe Ace-Max is the better known of the two. The books recommend dabbing the lesions with aloe jell to reduce the inflammation and promote healing. Just imagine how much faster those lesions could heal if you were ‘dabbing’ them from the inside as well! That is what Enriching Gifts Aloe Ace-Max allows you to do. Taking two capsules of Enriching Gifts Aloe Ace-Max gives you the same amount of active ingredients as drinking a gallon of a high quality aloe juice. Another product we have is our Essential Source B12 Strips. Dr. Anne McClenon, N.D., a naturopathic doctor at the Compass Family Health Center in Plymouth, Massachusetts says that B12 seems to maintain the fatty membranes that sheathe and insulate the nerves. There is also evidence that it can reduce inflammation of the nerves. The problem most people have is that taking B12 in pills or capsules doesn’t seem to work, not enough of it is absorbed by the body. That leaves injections or sublingual absorption. Injections are painful, awkward, and you need a prescription. I had to take them for a different issue a few years back. Essential Source B12 Strips are a minty flavored strip that dissolves in your mouth, allowing the vitamin B12 to be absorbed by the mucous membranes in the mouth. Other than injections this is the most efficient way to get your vitamin B12.
Other things you can do once you have an outbreak are to avoid foods that contain arginine such as chocolate, legumes, and nuts. Instead you want to increase your intake of foods that contain lysine. These include fish, tofu, eggs, lean beef and lean pork. Some people even take lysine supplements of around 2000 milligrams per day. Another over the counter supplement you can try is Vitamin C. This is one everyone thinks of when you think of anti-oxidants. If you want to try this try to get as much as 10,000 milligrams a day in divided dosage. Most people can’t handle this much. They end up with stomach upset and diarrhea. That is why I preferred the more balanced anti-oxidants in Enriching Gifts Metabolic Complete. It doesn’t seem to cause the upset large doses of Vitamin C does.
The books do not recommend soothing gels and creams until after the lesions have scabbed over and the scabs have dried on their own. Interrupting this cycle of scabbing and drying seems to lengthen the process. Save your soothing creams, or capsaicin containing creams until after the scabs have dried. Until then use Enriching Gifts Lightning Colloidal Silver or an aloe juice to sooth your skin.
This is another one of those conditions that preventing is a lot easier, and less painful, than dealing with an outbreak. To prevent shingles you need to keep your immune system strong. To do that you will want to eat right, drink plenty of good clean water, get enough sleep, get enough exercise, avoid stress, and take your Enriching Gifts Plant Enzymes with every meal. This will give your immune system a chance to protect your body instead of acting as a secondary digestion system. Enriching Gifts Complete Vitamins Plus will help ensure you get the vitamins and minerals that are lacking in today’s food sources. Together these will keep your immune system strong and help protect you from a shingles.
Sources:
Nature’s Medicines by Gale Maleskey and the Editors of Prevention Health Books, copyright 1999 by Rodale Inc.
The Herbal Drugstore by Linda B. White MD and Steven Foster, copyright 2000 by Rodale Press
