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Yes, this works. I am a firm believer in mainstream medicine and I visit my GP twice a year. But, for good reasons, mainstream medicine is not designed to deal with intestinal parasites. It's too unlikely, it's too hard to detect (stool tests are almost completely worthless), and it the symptoms are too vague. You will be tested and treated for just about every other probable cause before any physician will treat you empirically for parasites. My story: I had increasingly frequent diarrhea and tenesmus for several months. Near as I could tell, the only thing likely to cause that was human whipworm. US whipworm cases are rare (1 per 1000 population per year), and are not found in my area. My physician refused to test me for parasites on the grounds that stool tests are unreliable. (He's right about that.) Referred me to a gastroenterologist, where there was a 3 week wait for an appointment. I was miserable, didn't want to wait three weeks. Not to mention having no clue what the gastroenterologist would do. So I "performed the experiment". Figured if I could kill a few parasites, preserve them in alcohol, I could then get proper medical treatment. I took this, along with ground dried papaya seeds (which have a good evidence basis as being anti-parasitic). I then went through what I now know as the "worm expulsion dynamics" for whipworm. I passed worm parts for almost two weeks, getting first increasingly sore (as my immune system recognized the dead worms attached to my intestine) then increasingly better (as they decayed and ended up in the toilet). At three weeks, I was fine, the diarrhea which I had (at that point) had for nearly three months was gone. A single round of treatment may get rid of some parasites, but whipworm is notoriously difficult. Even the preferred mainstream medication (mebendazole, aka Vermox) has only about a 40% cure rate for a single treatment. So at that point, now that I knew what I was dealing with, I just went ahead and bought Vermox (over-the-counter in virtually every English-speaking country except the US). Taken as directed, Vermox produced the same sequence of "worm expulsion dynamics" as this parasite cleanse, but modestly less intense. (Vermox is completely specific to roundworms -- if you don't have some form of that parasite, when you take it, absolutely nothing happens. Hence I had a completely reliable test, based on a mainstream medication, that definitively showed that I had roundworm-type parasites.) Here's the kicker. After my second round, with Vermox, I decided I had better be under the care of an infectious disease specialist. Made my appointment, went to see him, explained what I did, had specimens preserved in 70% alcohol (as directed by Quest labs for gross parasite identification) --- and was literally told that I was crazy. I had "delusional parasitosis". The doc did not understand that this stuff works, so I could not have done what I claimed, and ergo, I was a nut job. (Whereas I am, in fact, sane, have a Ph.D., and do research for a living. My wife -- God bless her -- started laughing before I even finished telling her what the doc said. She'd been with me every step of the way through three months of chronic diarrhea. The idea that I was imagining a problem, and my imagination was so wonderful that it turned off the diarrhea after a painful three week recovery period, following this "parasite cleanse" -- was just ridiculous.) Even though I half expected it, based on what I had read here, it was nevertheless one of the most humiliating things I've ever had to go through. In the end, I'm just happy to be rid of the whipworm in a reasonably timely fashion. I am now fairly convinced that mainstream medicine would not have produced a timely cure, if it had been able to arrive at a cure at all. Even though the entire trade in produce has been globalized, even though NAFTA means a porous border with respect to food trade, even though the USDA banned imports of cilantro from a major Mexican firm just last week due to "toilet paper in the fields", even though I take antacids for GERD (and thus have reduced my natural defenses against parasite eggs), no physician in my area would consider the possibility that I might, in fact, have whipworm. The closest I got was the infectious disease specialist, who apparently thought I had managed to read up on the symptoms well enough to fake it in a conversation. One word of caution. Juglone (in the walnut hull extract) is toxic in large doses. So taking it is worrisome. I did some calculations based on the known toxic dose for rats and dogs. At the highest plausible concentration that you might achieve in a tincture, my estimate is that the two-eyedropper dose could plausibly be 0.3% (point-three-percent) of a toxic dose for a large (250 lb) person. Even though that seems like an adequate margin of safety, you clearly should follow the instructions and do not take this on a regular basis. This is for occasional use only.