When you do the Cold Sheet Treatment, there is a lot of prep work to be done to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch. You have to lay everything out, get everything ready, because once it starts, continuity is what makes it effective. You start with a cold enema, from there you need to go right to the garlic injection while the contraction that the cold enema created is still happening. After the garlic enema, you want to get right in the tub and start drinking that tea. Somewhere in there, you have to draw the bath and get it ready so that it's at the perfect strength and temperature for you. And in the background, the bed has to be prepared, the cold sheet soaked, etc, etc. So it should come as no surprise that now and then some critical aspect slips your mind. I only hope that should you do the Cold Sheet Treatment and leave something out, you don't find out like me by a certain burning in your private parts. Yes, my friends, I forgot the vaseline application. After the garlic enema, I was so fired up about worm killing that I pranced over to the tub like Darth Vader, with a "Show me to my royal baths!" attitude, punched the stopwatch, and jumped right in. What must my neighbors have thought when forty seconds later, through the walls, they heard: "Ah, my d*ck, my d*ck!" Was I bathing with a pet snapper turtle or something? It was no big deal though. I jumped out, washed myself in the sink, dried myself off, and fashioned another sexy speedo out of saran wrap, and got back in.
Now, this time everything seemed less severe. The garlic enema, the bath itself, the heat cocoon. I drank 5 out of 6 cups of the tea (we've been brewing it extra-strong so that instead of 8 cups, it is concentrated into 6.) I stayed in over 21 minutes, but I bet I could have stayed even longer. We did use a different source for the spices so maybe they were weaker. Next time, African Bird Pepper and no less (and definitely vaseline, lots of vaseline.)
In the bed, I just didn't feel the intense burning from last time. I was hot, and sweating balls for sure, but I could have taken a lot more. Other happenings were rumbling in my gut from the sage tea, pinching feelings in my gut (maybe worms biting on), and muscle spasms in my legs. I felt a great tightness in my calves. After about 2 and a half hours, I sort of came to, and realized that I was getting a little cold. I had processed the herbs and was now just laying in a puddle. So, I got up to change things around, and as soon as I put weight on my legs, both my calves cramped horribly and I almost fell over. It took a minute or so of coaxing to get them to release. I'm guessing mineral depletion, so as mellow as the treatment seemed, I sweated enough to lose my vital minerals. At that point I was wide awake and tense, so I took some kava and went to sleep with a slight chill.
This morning I expelled the head or scolex of a rather large worm. Not as big as last week's but bigger than all the ones in between then and now. I felt run down most of the day. I was able to get some sun, which helped, but it was a cool day and I still had a chill from last night. This evening, with my second CE, I expelled the length of the afore-mentioned worm. This raises some questions for me. I read that sage has a similar chemical property to wormwood. Although my daily worm-killing regimen kills a lot of small ones, and may weaken the larger ones, it isn't enough to do them in. But they must die!!! So I'm thinking to try the sage tea again in a few days outside of the CST and also maybe to add some wormwood to my daily regimen. I also bought some quassia chips, which I may alternate with the sage tea. And then ground cloves as well, though I'm not sure about their dosage, as I've read that they increase bile production in the liver. But I feel like it's hard to move forward through this program until I kill these large things living inside me.
To help with my minerals, I did the smartest thing I could think of at the time: one thai coconut, 1/2 a banana, 2 strawberries, and some vanilla. I highly recommend this therapy. It's almost worth doing the CST just so that you require it.

In other news, today is the 15th day. Which means I'm halfway through the first month, and a quarter through my first round. Hunger has not been a problem yet, so I see no reason why I can't do 60 days. Might as well.
Talk to you soon,
JT