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Our grandmothers often made reference to the teachings of traditional medicine . When faced with a child who was continuously getting sick and had problems with allergies or asthma, they declared that "he had worms" and proposed natural therapies indigenous to the region in which they lived. Garlands made of garlic or absinthe infusions or thyme oil often helped in curing the problem. They weren't crazy and some recent studies seem to indicate that they were right.
Intestinal parasites or "worms" are a big, up-and-coming problem. They are hard to identify and only doctors who are aware of the importance of the relationship between the intestine and general body inflammation suspect their presence.
A great number of the modern day chronic pathologies that afflict the world's population are of chronic inflammatory nature.
An inflamed intestine gives rise to the spreading of inflammatory phenomenon even in distant areas of the body. This doesn't solely depend on the presence of food intolerances.
For example, recent scientific works have identified a crossed relationship between the Anisakis infestation and the reaction to mites. In essence, this suggests that a child or adult who isn't allergic to dust can become so when the dust is infested with intestinal parasites.
A research group at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm (Allergy 2001 Jul:56; 660-666) established that (many) people who have been infested by a particular type of intestinal worm (called Anisakis simplex) frequently develop a crossed allergy to many mites that are present in home and work environments.
Let's take a practical example: a boy or an adult spends the summer camping and he remembers having some sort of intestinal disorder (something that happens frequently); when winter comes, he has rhinitis, or asthma, and might have "worms" in his stomach rather than a primary allergic form.
Therefore, the allergic form could be a defensive reaction by the body, and not a defect, and the therapy shouldn't be based on cortisone and antihistamines, but on intestinal cleansing.
Another important study performed by Spanish researchers (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 200 jan;105:178-181) was able to show that allergic reactions to foods are often actually due to the presence of an intestinal parasite and not to a reaction to the food. The parasite accentuates the inflammatory response mechanisms and causes reactions that are closely resemble those of allergies or food intolerances.
Once again these findings emphasize the close relationship between the growing hypersensitivity found in the population and intestinal conditions. That which we eat, together with the condition of our intestine can be the cause of inflammatory disturbances that we sometimes have difficulty in treating.
An example of a natural treatment program for intestinal parasites can be found at the following links: Clark scheme and homeopathic therapy.
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