Parasites - worms or fluke - that are common in South East Asia, China, India and which live and rapidly breed in the bile ducts are an important factor in the increasing levels of Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct cancer), liver cancer and gallbladder disease; unfortunately, the parasite is becoming resistant to drugs.
Worms and parasites
Have you ever been to South East Asia on Holiday? Or India? Or China?
Maybe not so far afield. How about Germany or Italy?
Eating undercooked fish, prawns, crayfish and crab can give you one of two types of liver fluke - Clonorchis or Opisthorchis. The former is found from India to China, and the latter is more centred on SEA and Germany, Italy, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
These are parasites. They infect humans, particularly the liver, bile duct and gallbladder.
And here’s the big problem - you probably don’t know you have been infected! There was no fever, no diarrhoea, no food-poisoning sickness.
Untreated, the infection may last for 25-30 years, the lifetime of the parasite, according to America’s CDC (1).
Then there’s a third type of liver fluke, the common liver fluke or Fasciola hepatica, which tends to inhabit sheep, cattle and there are even eggs in canals, rivers, lakes and watercress beds! Fasciola Gigantica is known to inhabit humans.
Flukes are flatworms or ‘Helminths’ and Fasciola is found in more than 70 countries, including the Western world countries.
The young worms move through the blood system to the liver and then to the bile ducts where they reach adulthood and produce eggs. There may be no symptoms at all. Sometimes you may be constipated, other times you may have diarrhoea. It is possible you might get some pain, but that is rare.
The Helminths of pork
A problem, which is estimated to infect 10% of the global population and growing, is the rise of meat-borne parasites and specifically those in pigs (2).
The major meat-borne parasites include
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Sarcocystis
- Trichinella
- Taenia
Although only the last two are worms, all four infect humans and pork production is predicted to rise by 18.5 per cent over the next 10 years. We have already reviewed the research linking Toxoplasma gondii to heightened brain cancer and breast cancer risk.
Liver flukes - the silent killers
Liver flukes are linked to a greater fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver (liver rot disease) and to a heightened risk of bile duct cancer (3), not just liver cancer. Because a fluke grows and lays eggs in the biliary ducts, it creates a far higher increased risk of Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). A single worm can lay 500 eggs a day in its bile duct habitat.
To put this in context, a Bangkok Post article (4) on Liver Fluke states that 6 million people are infected per year in Thailand, and 14,000 people die from this ‘Silent Killer’ - an infection leading to cancer of the bile duct. It may take 20 years or more until the problem becomes evident.
The North Eastern region of Thailand, which abuts Cambodia and Laos, has the highest rates of Bile Duct cancer in the world! Eating raw fish and prawns is not just an issue for adults; their cats and dogs do it too. The city of Khon Kaen in Isaan has one of the leading Hospitals in the World.
Khon Kaen University has been raising money to bring about a solution. But this focuses on restricting the larvae and eggs of the worms and teaching doctors more about good surgery. It’s as if, once in the body, nothing can be done.
So how might you kill off worms and flukes in your body
Yes, there are drugs - flukicides like Triclabendazole (5). Albendazole seems a likely alternative with research to support it; Praziquantel is another, but these depend on the type of liver fluke. And there is concern that the flukes are becoming resistant to the drugs (6). You may also kill the worms, but not the eggs, so you may need to repeat the treatment. Mebendazole and Fenbendazole are other general de-wormers.
Natural compounds for worms, fluke and parasites
There are natural compounds that may be of benefit; for example, Black Cumin Seed (Nigella sativa) and Turmeric (Curcuma longa). The former contains the active ingredient Thymoquinone, the latter Curcumin. In one study (7) adult flukes exposed to each in vitro lost the ability to produce eggs and make Cathepsin L, an enzyme that helps the fluke migrate and feed.
A 2015 in vivo study (8) by members of Queen’s University in Belfast, and using rats, showed that two derivatives of artemisinin (sweet wormwood) could disrupt the fertility of female Fasciola hepatica liver fluke progressively over 72 hours, effectively stopping egg production.
The same team two years later reported that in a similar in vivo study, the same treatment stopped the males from making sperm. In both studies the rats were Triclabendazole-resistant.
Herbalists suggest that Wormwood contains the worm killer Thujone and was used by Egyptians to deal with such parasites, while Black Walnut husk contains the Naphthoquinone, Juglone, which is also known to kill and expel nematode worms from the body. Indeed, a thorough review (10) of the benefits of both Green and Black Walnut husks suggests they contain a huge variety of powerful bioactive compounds, and concentrates have been shown effective against many pathogens, from E. coli, to S. aureus, C. albicans, B. cereus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Cloves contain a powerful oil, eugenol, which also kills pathogens and it kill eggs left by worms, including fluke eggs. It is almost the only compound known to do this. Another is raw carrot, which you should eat on an empty stomach.
Chris Woollams, former Oxford Biochemist and author of best selling book, ‘Heal your Gut; Heal your Body’ said, “This link between Bile Duct Cancer and parasites is not new to me. Several years ago, a lady in India was brought to me for a Personal Prescription by her son and daughter. After about 15 minutes I listened to the symptoms and said ‘Your Mum has a parasite’ to which the daughter answered ‘Everyone in the town has a parasite. We get them from eating the fish from the river’. Mum had advanced cholangiocarcinoma - bile duct cancer.”
The Times of India newspaper produced a review of natural compounds that could attack worms - this included neem, unripe green papaya, turmeric, pumpkin seeds, cloves, garlic, coconut, carom (ajwain) seeds, apple cider vinegar, raw carrot (11).
Royal Rife and Hulda Clark and body energy
We have covered the work of both people on this Website several times. Although their views have been dismissed by Cancer Officialdom - Rife in the USA felt there was a virus behind every cancer and developed a frequency machine to knock out the virus; Clark, a Canadian, felt that parasites (intestinal flukes) lay behind all cancers. At CANCERactive, we have come across a very high number of cancer patients, who indeed did have a pathogen or a parasite making both toxins and micro-RNA that caused message loss in the host. Possibly Chris Woollams’ help to Sir Geoffrey Boycott, who picked up a parasite on his cricketing travels and this led to gut disturbances and oral cancer, was the first, and most famous, of our cases.
The 'Human Microbiome Project' in the USA was very clear - your gut gets ill, then you get ill. And you can’t get better until it gets better. At the end of the day, yeasts, viruses, bad bacteria are all parasites - they feed off the host, reduce the immune system, make toxins and make m-RNA that can ‘trump’ our messenger RNA and cause message loss. This is now widely accepted.
Less so is the use of ‘Frequency machines’ or even 'Bioresonance' which can both identify and kill off the fluke in the right hands. But we have had many examples of people using coffee enemas or parasite killers seeing a toilet full of worms, and even examples of people using Bioresonance or frequency machines and going from a microbiome analysis including parasites to a post-use analysis of none.
We also now understand from numerous research studies that our body has an energy field and that good health is linked to a higher frequency. We know that vibration induces physiological changes. We also know that a healthy body has a frequency between 62 and 72 Hz.
So here, first of all, let us be clear. We are not recommending any machine, nor deriving any financial gain from any sales. You must do your own research and satisfy yourself.
We just want to say this to help people: We have known of people who used a machine called a Spooky2 and got rid of their parasites.
Go to: Review: Parasites, viruses, bacteria, yeasts and cancer
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References
- CDC - overview of Liver Fluke infection in humans https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/liver_flukes/index.html
- Pork as a source of human parasitic infection https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X14618280
- US Department of Veterans Affairs: Bile duct cancer risk and SEA liver fluke. https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/infectious-diseases/cholangiocarcinoma.asp
- The Silent Killer claiming thousands - Bangkok Post, 20 July, 2020 https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1954307/silent-killer-claiming-thousands
- Triclabendazole with flukes; from Science Direct https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/triclabendazole
- Current Threat of Triclabendazole Resistance in Fasciola hepatica. Trends Parasitol 2016; Kelley JM, Elliott TP, Beddoe T, Anderson G, Skuce P, Spithill TW. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27049013/
- Anti-helminthic potential of Thymoquinone and Curcumin on Fasciola gigantica; PLoS One, 2017 12(2); Rizwan Ullah et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289557/
- A comparative study on the impact of two artemisinin derivatives, artemether and artesunate, on the female reproductive system of Fasciola hepatica; J F O’Neill et al, Vet Parisitol 2015; July 30 211(3-4). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26093822/#affiliation-1
- Disruption of spermatogenesis in the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica by two artemisinin derivatives, artemether and artesunate; J. Helminthol; 2017, Jan 91(1). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26979164/
- A comprehensive review on the chemical constituents and functional uses of Walnut Husk; Int J Mol Sci, 2019 Aug, 20(16), Ali Jahanban-Esfahlan et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6719079/
- 10 home remedies to get rid of intestinal worms; Times Food, Times of India; September 10, 2020 https://recipes.timesofindia.com/articles/health/10-home-remedies-to-get-rid-of-intestinal-worms/photostory/65135259.cms