Grandmas Herbs is here to Help the 90% of people who will have a parasite sometime in their lifetime.

New research shows that parasites not only control the behavior of their hosts, they can change entire ecosystems to suit their needs. As an example, "hookworms, another common species, sink their teeth into the intestinal walls of more than a billion people every day to drink their fill of blood." According to the World Health Organization, 3.5 billion people suffer from some type of parasitic infection. Not all of these people live in third world countries; many in the developed world have any number of parasitic infections, some of which are so highly contagious that extremely casual contact with something that has been handled by an infected person can infect another person. Colon therapists report nearly 100% infection rate as they witness firsthand these human parasites in the colon and the bowel during colon therapy. Parasites live mostly in a toxic bowel. However, parasites can be found in almost any part of the body. There are an incredible 500,000 species of worms in this world living is soils and hosts. Parasites are delivered to their hosts through systemic infestation in plants, consumption of infected meats, drinking unsanitary water and even bug bite like mosquitoes. Symptoms may vary depending on the type and amount of infestation from a minor itch to a manifestation of scaly red irritated skin and from a low tolerance to disease to low energy from apparent mal nutrition. The worms may go undetected for years with no apparent symptoms, or they may be seen in the stool almost immediately. No matter what the case is parasites and worms can adversely affect your life and an infection needs to be taken care of.

Bothriocephalus latus or Diphyllobothrium latum; tapeworms are a group of segmented flatworms who find their homes in the intestinal tracts of a wide variety of hosts ranging from humans to bottom feeding fish, shrimp, lobsters and crabs. Humans usually come across the parasite by eating the meat from an infected animal, like beef, pork, or fish. The parasite itself ranges from a few centimeters to as many as sixty feet long, depending upon the variety, and survives on any food or nutrition ingested by the host. A tapeworm makes its home on the internal wall of the digestive tract, its hooked head buried into the intestinal tissue. Tapeworms pre-fertilize their eggs and release them into the feces of the host. Then the eggs will lay dormant until they are consumed by another animal. The eggs can be in the grasses of the fields that are grazed by cattle or the can be in the organic material that bottom feeding fish consume. The life cycle of the tapeworm almost always requires at least two hosts, with the adult taking residence in a host like a human, pig or a cow. The eggs released by the adult worm in the tract of a final host, find their way to soil or water and lie dormant until ingested by their intermediate host. It is in this host that they hatch into their worm-like larval form, called an oncosphere. From here the oconospheres break the intestinal barrier and enter the circulation, where they find their way to a mass of skeletal muscle tissue, where they form cysts. The cycle then continues when a human or another animal host ingests the cyst that the larvae produced in the muscle tissue of an infected animal. Thorough cooking kills tapeworms and their cysts, however, and most meat in developed countries is irradiated or otherwise treated to help prevent transmission of the disease. Raw fish, such as that used in sushi or sashimi, very rare beef or pork are all high-risk foods, as the cyst will escape the preparation process unharmed.