Hi All
I am a grandmother and I was diagnosed 5 years ago with UC.. and my life has been one long misery since then. I try and keep myself busy, large beautiful garden, cat/kitten fosterer, chickens at the bottom of the garden, and I look after friends' computers for them...
Since April, I have had a terrible time. It was bad before then but now it was getting pretty bad. Months went by and I was getting desparate. I was visiting the toilet 40+ times a day. I was passing blood and just liquid.. urgency and incredible pain... I sent my husband through to the spare room so that I didn't disturb him, getting up and running to the loo... I was careful with what I ate, no seeds, no spices, no roughage, no vegetables .. just basic food, potatoes, chicken. I was also taking 6 asacol per day and also having to use prednisolone suppositories... But over time, nothing was helping... so I got back in touch with my doctor... she said that she would get in touch with the specialist. I told her I was not keen on yet another colonoscopy.. but just to see if there was any other medication that I could go on... I was totally housebound by this time, as I was even having accidents hanging out my washing. I couldn't answer the phone or go out to the shops... I tried to pretend that there was nothing wrong (Power of the mind) but it didn't work...
At 4.00 am one morning, after many visits to the loo, I grabbed a book called the 'Kitchen Pharmacy', which I had bought about 20 years ago... It could just have easily been a 'Stephen King' book... as I found it helped me to get over the excrutiating pain... Anyway, I opened the book at random, and came to a section about 'cabbage'... How it was used as a cure for 'gangrene', inflamation.. etc and external/internal ulcers and that it was one of the most powerful anti-inflamatory plants known to man. I thought 'Ohh' and decided to check on the Internet the next morning... Anyway, I came across articles that were for and against using 'Cabbage Juice' and that it had been used in an experiment in the 1940s and found it cured 67 out of 69 men of stomach ulcers... I thought I have nothing to lose, so I stopped taking my medicine as I believed it were not effective and started a regime of taking 4 oz of cabbage juice 4 times a day.. Well, I was virtually on my knees by the time I had read about this and sent my husband in the evening to get me some cabbage...I juiced it and drank the 4 oz and I couldn't believe it... I didn't go to the toilet until the next morning !! It was like a miracle... I was a bit bloated but, apart from that, over the next 14 days I was improving... I then found out that I should have mixed carrot juice (equal parts) with the cabbage juice as it is too drastic on its own.. So the 3rd week, I started drinking 8oz of the mixture, 4 times a day.. Sometime during this third week, I noticed I no longer had any pain.. I was starting to become 'normal' when I went to the toilet and I was only going maybe 3 or 4 times a day... I have now completed this 3rd week so I am going to reduce the amount to 3 times a day and see how it goes, but I am able to go out... do things and live an almost normal life. The urgency is still there, but I believe it will go in time and my body hasn't gone into a rhythm yet so I am still careful.
It has saddened me to think that a vegetable so cheap and so plentiful could have this incredible effect on me and that I could have been taking it 5 years ago if I had known about it...
I have made a couple of mistakes... I went and had a couple of bowlfuls of vegetable soup (it also contained beans) and that was a big mistake.. and last night I went and drank 3 small glasses of a cinnamon liqueur... so I ended up running back and forth to the loo all night... I am back to normal again today and I now realise that I will have to gradually introduce foods into my diet and see the effects...
I just wanted to share this, in case there is anyone else out there, desperate and at the end of their tether.. Cabbage juice might just work for you as well...
I would prefer to take cabbage juice for the rest of my life rather than having to take steroids and other medications... so keep your fingers crossed for me!
PM me if you want any more details.
Cheers
I am a grandmother and I was diagnosed 5 years ago with UC.. and my life has been one long misery since then. I try and keep myself busy, large beautiful garden, cat/kitten fosterer, chickens at the bottom of the garden, and I look after friends' computers for them...
Since April, I have had a terrible time. It was bad before then but now it was getting pretty bad. Months went by and I was getting desparate. I was visiting the toilet 40+ times a day. I was passing blood and just liquid.. urgency and incredible pain... I sent my husband through to the spare room so that I didn't disturb him, getting up and running to the loo... I was careful with what I ate, no seeds, no spices, no roughage, no vegetables .. just basic food, potatoes, chicken. I was also taking 6 asacol per day and also having to use prednisolone suppositories... But over time, nothing was helping... so I got back in touch with my doctor... she said that she would get in touch with the specialist. I told her I was not keen on yet another colonoscopy.. but just to see if there was any other medication that I could go on... I was totally housebound by this time, as I was even having accidents hanging out my washing. I couldn't answer the phone or go out to the shops... I tried to pretend that there was nothing wrong (Power of the mind) but it didn't work...
At 4.00 am one morning, after many visits to the loo, I grabbed a book called the 'Kitchen Pharmacy', which I had bought about 20 years ago... It could just have easily been a 'Stephen King' book... as I found it helped me to get over the excrutiating pain... Anyway, I opened the book at random, and came to a section about 'cabbage'... How it was used as a cure for 'gangrene', inflamation.. etc and external/internal ulcers and that it was one of the most powerful anti-inflamatory plants known to man. I thought 'Ohh' and decided to check on the Internet the next morning... Anyway, I came across articles that were for and against using 'Cabbage Juice' and that it had been used in an experiment in the 1940s and found it cured 67 out of 69 men of stomach ulcers... I thought I have nothing to lose, so I stopped taking my medicine as I believed it were not effective and started a regime of taking 4 oz of cabbage juice 4 times a day.. Well, I was virtually on my knees by the time I had read about this and sent my husband in the evening to get me some cabbage...I juiced it and drank the 4 oz and I couldn't believe it... I didn't go to the toilet until the next morning !! It was like a miracle... I was a bit bloated but, apart from that, over the next 14 days I was improving... I then found out that I should have mixed carrot juice (equal parts) with the cabbage juice as it is too drastic on its own.. So the 3rd week, I started drinking 8oz of the mixture, 4 times a day.. Sometime during this third week, I noticed I no longer had any pain.. I was starting to become 'normal' when I went to the toilet and I was only going maybe 3 or 4 times a day... I have now completed this 3rd week so I am going to reduce the amount to 3 times a day and see how it goes, but I am able to go out... do things and live an almost normal life. The urgency is still there, but I believe it will go in time and my body hasn't gone into a rhythm yet so I am still careful.
It has saddened me to think that a vegetable so cheap and so plentiful could have this incredible effect on me and that I could have been taking it 5 years ago if I had known about it...
I have made a couple of mistakes... I went and had a couple of bowlfuls of vegetable soup (it also contained beans) and that was a big mistake.. and last night I went and drank 3 small glasses of a cinnamon liqueur... so I ended up running back and forth to the loo all night... I am back to normal again today and I now realise that I will have to gradually introduce foods into my diet and see the effects...
I just wanted to share this, in case there is anyone else out there, desperate and at the end of their tether.. Cabbage juice might just work for you as well...
I would prefer to take cabbage juice for the rest of my life rather than having to take steroids and other medications... so keep your fingers crossed for me!
PM me if you want any more details.
Cheers