Ted's Remedies

TED: "P.S. I am following up some eccentric nuns who are using some herbal extracts and cereals that along with borax and baking soda completely got rid of the problem However, I suspect their remedies were mostly plant based insecticidals in alcoholic tincture which killed them. A simple safe insecticidal remedies might be neem oil mixed with some small amount of vodka, along with borax and baking soda. Of course, I can't confirm this, but I am looking into this. In case you are wondering what I am doing!"

My reply: Great! I think I'll have a few shots of vodka while waiting to see if the borax and baking soda works! Thanks! ;)

I would deeply appreciate if the contents of this post could be sent to Ted in Bangkok as soon as possible because I believe it contains the single most important discovery about demodex mite infestation made in the last 50 years. Please read on:

How long does it take a kill a demodex mite?

According to this medical article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1772908/?tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract), 100% strength tea tree oil, alcohol, caraway oil, or dill weed oil will do it in 15 minutes. I've seen other estimates as low as five minutes for tea tree oil, but 15 minutes seems to be the generally accepted figure among medical researchers.

Yet an extraordinary woman named Toni, who lives in Las Vegas, can kill a demodex mite instantly, using a 100% natural product you can find on any supermarket shelf. In fact, you may even have this in your kitchen cupboard already.

Toni has suffered with serious illnesses, including demodex infestation, for the last seven years. Over that time, she has tried most of the usual treatments, without success. So she started her own tireless experiments, using natural substances and testing them on herself, to see if she could find something that eradicates demodex.

Toni doesn't give up easily. And she eventually found it - a simple compound that will turn an active demodex mite into a corpse on contact.

Hard to believe? This video shows an early version of her experiment where the substance wasn't mixed thoroughly enough - the mite was still killed in 50 seconds:

http://www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-17/qt-2/index.html

The video first shows an active demodex mite taken from her face on a microscope slide. She then adds a clear liquid containing blobs of whitish material - and 50 seconds later the mite is dead.

So what kills these mites quicker than any other known substance on earth?

The pharmaceutical companies are gonna love this - it's a very small amount of dry mustard powder well mixed into a little water.

Please note that pre-mixed mustard paste in tubes and jars won't work because of the preservatives and stabilisers in it. You must use dry mustard powder, also sometimes referred to as mustard flour.

After six weeks of using it topically, Toni hasn't found a single mite, and is tickle-free.

I've edited Toni's own words to cut down on the length of this post. Here's her list of ways to use it:

CAUTION: When using mustard on your skin, remember that MORE IS NOT BETTER. If you use more mustard than you should, YOU WILL BLISTER AND BURN YOUR SKIN, and this will leave a scab which will take at least a week to heal. I know this because it happened to me. If in doubt, leave some out.

Before applying any of the following mixtures, test them out on a very small and unobtrusive area of your skin first by using a matchstick or toothpick to apply a tiny dot. If you feel it warming uncomfortably after a couple of minutes, you need to dilute your mixture more.

And DON'T GET IT IN YOUR EYES - be very careful in this area.

1. I take about one teaspoon of mustard powder, mix it with an equal or lesser amount of water, and combine both well to make a smooth paste with no lumps or clumps. Add this to anything like body wash and/or shampoo and use it daily. Let it sit on your skin for about five minutes, then rinse off. This is safe to use on private parts.

2. If you mix it with body lotion, you can apply it after your mustard shower/shampoo, and leave it on all day if you like. You can also filter the mustard and water mix through a coffee filter before adding it to your body lotion if you prefer.

3. It's important to note that once the mustard dries, it stops working. For all-day protection, you need to use something that will keep it hydrated. The lotion I'm using, which works best for this, is called Swanson's Brand Pycnogenol Cream. You can also try using glycerine as a carrier instead. Or try it with an oil like sweet almond or extra virgin olive oil with a few drops of lavender essential oil mixed in.

4. I like to take about one heaping teaspoon of mustard powder and mix it with about one ounce of hair conditioner, leave it on for a couple of hours, or until it starts to dry, then I rinse it out.

5. In a spritzer or spray bottle, I mix the dry mustard with Infusium hair treatment and use it on my scalp and hair during the daytime and before I go to bed - don't rinse this out.

6. For something that will help the mustard penetrate the skin, I have used a topical glycolic. Forget the liquid ones and get MD Forte Hand and Body Cream. But if you decide you want to try this out, YOU MUST CONSIDERABLY REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MUSTARD USED OR YOU WILL BURN. This is because glycolics enhance the effect of the mustard. In this case, less is definitely more.

7. Of all the ways I've tried so far, just washing head to toe daily for the past six weeks with a tiny amount of dry mustard mixed with my soaps and applied after showers by mixing a tiny amount with my lotions has made me almost feel like I don't have anything going on anymore.

TONI'S TIPS:

1. You can make your own body scrub using baking soda, dry mustard, aloe gel, and antibacterial soap.

2. Use an empty bottle to mix a single body wash, shampoo, or body lotion "dose" to avoid mucking up an entire bottle. That way you'll have a fresh application every time.

3. For body lotion, if you don't want to make up a fresh batch daily, you can make up no more than a week's worth in an empty bottle, then keep it in the refrigerator. These lotions have preservatives to allow them to be kept unrefrigerated, but if you add anything to them, it changes them, so altering their shelf life.

HOW TED COULD HELP:

1. I believe (and Toni agrees) that this treatment would be a lot quicker and more efficient in mite eradication if an effective carrier method could be devised to take the mustard (or its anti-mite component) directly into infested hair follicles and sebaceous plugs. I'm not sure about using 1% hydrogen peroxide for this purpose.

One suggestion is to use Castor Oil which is highly penetrative due to its low molecular weight - and also has ricin, a poison which may work in tandem with the mustard. Ted's expertise is needed here.

2. Could an internal mustard remedy be devised or would it be neutralised by stomach acid? Ted's expertise is needed again.

3. Dosage refinement research for simple topical, skin penetration, and internal applications is needed to ensure utmost safety. Again, Ted's expertise is required for this.

4. Could this mustard formula be used on animals safely or is mustard an allergenic for them? Ted would know this.

5. Anything else Ted can turn his amazing intelligence to in order to make this more efficient, safer, and easier.

That's all I can think of for the moment (as I hear you breathe a sigh of relief). But I can't tell you all how excited I am by Toni's discovery. An instant kill for demodex is something that's unheard of in medical and veterinary research. It took an extraordinary woman with extraordinary courage and persistence to find it.

I'm proud to know her.

Toni never stops experimenting and trying to refine the dosages of mustard powder she uses and recommends. In the post above, she says:

"4. I like to take about one heaping teaspoon of mustard powder and mix it with about one ounce of hair conditioner, leave it on for a couple of hours, or until it starts to dry, then I rinse it out."

She has now emailed me to say she believes that 1/2 teaspoon of mustard powder with one ounce of of hair conditioner is actually better for leaving on the scalp like a conditioning pack/treatment.

She's also asked me to emphasize that when using mustard, you should never feel burning or even warming sensations. If you do, you're using too much and you need to further dilute whatever you're putting on your skin. Remember: a little goes a long way.

Finally, you need to do the mustard regimen consistently (daily) if you are to successfully deal with the problem. Since we don't yet know what effect mustard has on demodex eggs, it's safest to assume that they're all going to hatch.

Most of those hatchlings will emerge onto the surface of the skin and be killed by the mustard as long as it's hydrated. This will prevent vast quantities of new eggs from being laid since those new hatchlings are either virgin females in search of a new home, or males looking for a female to impregnate.

As I've written elsewhere here, the safest strategy is to kill all the females. Most "research" websites agree that males only live for 15 days, but give different figures for female lifespans, varying from 15 to 24 to 60 days. So I would err on the side of caution and keep doing this 90 days.

You'll want to anyway, since the mustard will leave your skin and hair feeling more alive and cleaner than it's ever been. Plus, it kills fungi and bacteria.

And get adventurous - try using it in cooking and as a condiment.

I've specifically requested the Administrators here to forward the post above to Ted to see if he can refine and improve what Toni has discovered because I don't know his email address. So watch this space for his response...

Since I put up my website (http://www.delusionalinsects.com) I now get lots of email from people asking for help and advice (I advise most of them to come here for additional expert asistance). As a result, I wasn't able to do my first mustard treatment yesterday as planned because I was replying to emails until almost 3am. So I just went to bed.

But as usual, my tickles started up and I couldn't get to sleep. So I decided to get out of bed, make my mustard mixes, and take the first treatment.

I'm six feet tall, pretty slim (about 160lb). My skin has always been super-sensitive such that I've never been able to take daily showers without it screaming blue murder. My normal routine, before all my insect mayhem, was to take a shower once a week.

Body wash: I mixed one level teaspoon of mustard powder using a measuring spoon with another of cold water, mixed well into a runny paste, and allowed it to stand for 10 minutes to allow the mustard to develop its full potency. To this, I added four ounces of body wash and mixed it thoroughly to ensure a homogenous result.

Body lotion: I used the same amount of mustard powder and water, mixed it well with three ounces of hydrating body lotion, and added five drops of glycerine, then mixed again thoroughly.

In the shower, I massaged the body wash mix well into my skin and experienced slight warming on my forehead, eyebrows, and high on my cheekbones, all of which are mite hotspots and all of which had incurred severe drying and peeling effects from both the topical and internal borax treatments.

Before I could even apply some more raw body wash to dilute it, it quickly faded with no ill effects. I left my skin coated with this for five minutes before rinsing and towelling off. I managed to do my the upper halves of both eyelids (another hotspot area) by dipping my finger into the mix, removing any excess, closing my eyes tightly, and carefully massaging it in, staying well away from my eyelashes. Once dry, I started to get some crawling sensations that would stop almost immediately.

After doing my entire body, I still had half the mix left over, which I'll use tonight. So, for me, I think a fresh single application of body wash will from now on consist of half a teaspoon of mustard powder with two ounces of body wash. As Toni says, more mustard is not better, everyone's skin is different, and you should only use the amount of mustard you feel comfortable with.

I then applied the lotion mix and massaged it in well. This, too, produced slightly warmer effects in the above areas, as well as on some parts of my neck and jaw. Again, I chose not to dilute and had no ill effects after it soon faded. This was enough to do my entire body with very little left over. But I will slightly lessen the amount of mustard powder from now on to about 3/4 of a teaspoon. This is what I feel is most suitable for my super-sensitive skin.

After the lotion had been massaged well into my skin, I had no crawling or tickles and I found thousands of sticky gel-like blobs all over my body, particularly in areas with hair growth. These could be any of the following:

1. Dead dry skin broken down by the mustard and formed into globules by my massaging.

2. An unwanted reaction between something in my body lotion and the thick glycerine.

3. Masses of dead demodex congealed into blobs by my massaging.

Tonight, I intend to omit the glycerine and see what happens.

The results: I finally got to bed just after 5am and fell asleep straight away with no tickles. I slept until 9am when I woke to visit the bathroom. No tickles started up as they normally do when this happens. But, as usual, my mind started racing thanks to the tardive akathisia, so I took 10mg of Valium and fell back asleep again until 1pm and woke with no tickles - again, a first for me. And eight hours' sleep - pure bliss!

My skin still feels soft and moist. At 4.30pm (dusk - when the mites always start going to town on me) the only place I had a few tickles was the one part of my body I forgot to do last night (well, two actually) - my ears.

It's now 11. 30pm and I've had about 25 tickles in my eyebrows, cheeks, and along my jawline for the whole day. None in my groin, anus, trunk, and just one on my thigh.

This is unquestionably the most amazing result I've ever had with these pests, but I intend to continue the internal borax in tandem with it to attack them from inside as well as out. Payback for all the torment they've given me. Give them nowhere to run.

I have a friend with a bad collembola infestation and accompanying lesions. He, too, tried Toni's mustard remedy last night.

He didn't do the shower but made up the lotion mix and applied it. He also mixed some mustard powder with Vaseline to make a balm and applied it to a few trouble spots before sleeping. He had one single bite at 5am which was stopped immediately using the Vaseline balm.

This morning, he reported finding more than the usual number of dead ejected plugs on his skin and bedding. More important, he feels, is that he found hundreds of little "floaters" in the toilet after voiding his bowels, many of them plugs and bugs.

He's very excited by the possibility that topical mustard applications might also have a systemic effect that flushes the collembola from his gut. I believe it's very possible (think nicotine and lidocaine skin patches). :)

Since receiving his report, I, too, have visited the bathroom and found that my stools are now dark green (my plugs are almost overwhelmingly pale green). Plus, I, too, found many plugs floating on the surface of the water. This is the first time this has ever happened.

Well, good night all. I'm off now to do my mustard shower and lotion application.

Well I will look into that, but is harder to find here, but what I found is an equivalent d limonene (lemon oil), a known contact insecticide is a lot easier to handle, and also kills in seconds, as well as clove oil, cinnamon oil, pepper oil, etc. Also mustard powder in Thailand I cannot get hold of in Thailand, so I have tried wasabi (which may be harder to find in the States but easier to find here). Wasabi and mustard powder contains thiocyanates, which has anti cancer properties and may be responsible for some of the effects on demodex mites also as it is the least toxic of the cyanides in humans also.

They are also listed in U.S. patents as a contact insecticide (red pepper, mustard, clove, cinnamon, etc), but the most well known is d limonene, because it is the major component of lemon oil and orange oil, and using lemon oil or orange oil would do the job if mustard can't be found. The one thing is both are known skin irritants, that's why I don't post them, but I will if there is the understanding of them.

However, if killing them is desired combined with the use or skin irritants, you need to top out these with lavender oil, liberally to overtake the feelings of skin irritants, so it doesn't get to you. The other thing that is required is DMSO, so you can use the skin irritants (mustard or d limonene) to less then 3%, otherwise it may hurt you.

The reason I didn't pursue these areas of research is the precise measurements needed to kill it so that it doesn't irritate the skin. I have all of them for tests, but I will do it. What I am certain is d limonene will kill any insects no matter what they are and they are contact insecticide. So getting the time down to seconds is really not necessary the problem is getting the use of these remedies that doesn't irritate becomes paramount. The key factor is DMSO which is a known carrier that can penetrate the skin can bring any contact insecticide such as demodex mites killed is the real answer. Because these are known it becomes important that the anti inflammatory oils such as camphor, or lavender oils be used. I will try to get mustard powder in Thailand (I have for some time now) but is not available right now, but will pursue that, in the meantime, will try to make at least a working prototype of d limonene, lavender oil and DMSO in proper combinations. However I must say that DMSO 70% is disinformation, DMSO 100% works a lot better if you talk about deep tissue penetrant.

Once this working formula is in effect (structure), then you can replace the irritant with mustard oil (instead of d limonene) in similar proportion or at least half of the proportion then compare the results. The problem about Thailand is I don't have demodex mites around in my neighborhood, but I will try to get one!

All oils are carrier oils, but their penetrant ability is limited, except DMSO. As far as castor oil is concerned they are not good carrier oils, but I have found castor oil mixed with DMSO to be good and castor oil is needed only 25% and 75% DMSO, then you can mixed with mustard powder, mustard oil, or d limonene at say 2.5%. That will take care of killing then you add say 4% or 5% lavender oil on top of that. That's the approximate number I can calculate.

The big problem is most demodex mites lives outside the body and can stay outside for a very very long time so the chances of reinfections are very high, and much of it directly is in sanitizing the house with a concoction of spray that prevents their egg laying ability. That's why the borax and H2O2 is used around the house, at the very least.

Ted

Ted, thank you so much for your wonderfully informative and extremely promising response.

I have replied by private email to some of the points you raise and will await your response.

I've suffered with generalised democidosis diagnosed as delusional for almost three years now thanks to medical ignorance, arrogance, and intransigence, and your borax water remedy literally saved my life - for which I will be eternally grateful.

However, some people - and I'm referring specifically to the disabled, the elderly, and the infirm - can have difficulties either ingesting borax or applying it topically several times a day. I know this because I'm one.

And this is why I'm so excited by Toni's mustard discovery which only requires one daily shower and two topical applications. It's still tough and enormously time-consuming for me, but I can manage it.

Ted, thank you so much for all the good you do in the world. You are in my prayers.

With you now on board, I believe we'll beat these demons.

PS - this may be a duplicate post because this board's software keeps logging me out before I've had a chance to finish writing. Then, when I log in again, it deletes everything I've written so I have to start all over again.

I would like to know where I can buy the cream or where Toni bought her Pycnogenol cream. Checked cvs, they don't carry it. Also does it say MD FORTE on the jar?

@Brenda - Toni DID say that the Swanson Pycnogenol Cream was the one that worked best "for her. " But she also states that ANY decent hydrating body lotion will do just fine as a mustard carrier. And if you wish to prolong its hydrating time, add five or so drops of pharmacy-grade glycerine to the mix and stir it in well.

However, if you insist on using what Toni used, remember she lives in Las Vegas. Your best bet is to enter "Swanson Pycnogenol Cream" into Google and you'll get pointers on where it's available.

MD Forte Hand and Body Cream is a completely different type of product to body lotion - it's a topical glycolic. This means it penetrates the skin, bringing the mustard with it.

PLEASE NOTE: glycolics potentiate the effect of the mustard. So if you wish to try this out, you MUST considerably reduce the amount of mustard powder used or YOU WILL BURN YOUR SKIN.

My advice is to stick with the mustard body wash and the ordinary hydrating body lotion. That's what I'm doing because I can't get Swanson Pycnogenol Cream here in Ireland. It's working fine for me.

In reply to David from Dublin; about mites-

Dublin Dave and Bangkok Ted;

I found a web page blog on the springtails/collembola morgellans, and toluene connections. A very long page of good info, and some interesting theories on what causes the problem. check it out.

http://morgellonspgpr.wordpress.com/category/collembola-springtails/

Summary

From my First Post

• Dr. Wymore cultured Pseudomonas Putida (soil bacterium) directly from Morgellons fibers
  
• A clinical study that was done under the auspices of the National Pediculosis Association found Collembola in those originally told they were DOP
  
• Collembola (tiny Microanthropods) prefer to feed on Pseudomonas Putida
  
• Pseudomonas Putida can transform synthetic oil and glucose (readily found in the human body) into Toluene
  
• Toluene is a very toxic neurotoxin not easily eliminated from the human body
  
• Morgellons Patients have told me they have had Toluene show up blood work (hearsay evidence I agree)
  
• We have Trisha Springsteads article stating her observations - "So the human bodies of these sufferers are becoming like soil and what does that attract? Fungus, mold and parasites"
  
• There's more too about fibers that move and such, you must read my first post

From this Post

• Morgellons sufferers (not all) and Meth users get lesions and sores on their skin.
  
• Morgellons sufferers and Meth users feel the sensations of bugs crawling under their skin
  
• Toluene is an ingredient in Meth
  
• Toluene, if my assumptions in part one are correct, are present in both the bodies of Morgellons and Meth users
  
• Toluene is a known and strong skin irritant, which can cause burning, itching, redness, swelling and dermatitis of the skin, as well as nerve damage.
  
• There is a condition called Neuro-Cutaneous Syndrome (NCS) that references Toluene as being one of the major factors behind the condition, which includes "pin prick and crawling sensations, skin lesions and sores, respiratory and bowel disturbances, gum disease, sensitivities to light, noise and mold, and fatigue and insomnia"
  
• On the Neuro-Cutaneous Syndrome (NCS) site they even talk about fibers.

We are vastly moving beyond the point where we can believe this is all sheer coincidence. If you look at the material safety sheet it can cause all kinds of things, including heart problems, central nervous system problems, and even death, not to mention all the facts that point to it being the cause of our condition. Could NCS really be Morgellons?

In our case however, if it is the Putida, we are different than the Meth users in this regard because Putida is a soil based organism and can be strong attractant to Collembola and other bugs, we not only have the nerve damage from the Toluene that makes us feel like we have bugs, but potentially, many of us also do have real bugs.

Finally, I'll leave you with a quote from this page I found, I'm not sure if it is true, but have no reason to think it is not. From "America's Next Top Bacteria"

I am so happy that I came upon this website. Never had this problem before..... Read about the mustard flour and went out to purchase it at the Whole Foods an hour ago. Did my mixture and hopefully this works because I'm starting to lose my mind. I do have one question... How will I be able to get rid of them in my house? I did spray down my furniture, mattresses with the some spray from Lowes...... Please help!

Hi Mina, Try diatomaceous earth & just sprinkle it all over especially on your mattress & bedding, carpets & furniture.

@Dud - thank you so much for finding this incredible research.

The mind boggles. How did KP miss these connections? Unless perhaps they WANTED TO. After all, a positive finding for Morgellons would have cost them billions in health care costs. Talk about putting the fox in charge of the henhouse...

I will pass your links on to all my Morgellons and collembola friends.

By the way, I've taken the liberty of putting your borax and Epsom Salts baths treatment on the Delusional Insects website here:

http://www.delusionalinsects.com/styled-23/styled-26/index.html

Thanks again for that great find.

I read the "mustard sauce" anti-mite posts with great interest. It seems such a natural. So I googled mustard and other words like acne, blemishes, etc. And found a pretty good site with other recipes. One includes mustard (plus turmeric plus neem). Another sounds very soft, made up of Vaseline and raspberries.

Here is the url

http://www.beautytipshub.com/skin-care/natural/face-packs-for-acne.html

If that doesn't work, just go to beautytipshubDOTcom

Thank you for the direction, earthclinic.

Pluto

Hi, Thanks for your posts! The borax/epson salt baths saved me. I am trying tea tree oil/olive oil treatments with mixed results. Basically, it seems to clear me up until I go to bed. Then I have sensations. Am now looking into the mustard.

Question: I have not found mites on me. But I don't have a good microscrope. Everything you describe matches my sensations/symptoms so its the best I have as the Dr's are stumped (scrape test was negative & I have not insisted that it is bugs to avoid the DP diagnosis). The difficulty I have is why is it that the sensations will be gone from me until I enter a particular room or sit in a particular chair where I previously was while "infected". When I enter that room I immediately feel stuff jumping or appearing on my hair, face, hands etc that then move over the rest of my body. If this is dermodex I didn't think they could jump! What are they floating in the air on dust?

Has anyone else noticed this? Any theories?

Sprays: Have had Talstar applied to the house. Its a broad spectrum spray with a ~7 month half life. I can go back in the living room again after ~1 year with aid of the baths.

@Mary B from Chicago - Demodex can only survive in the environment for up to 60 hours, depending on how dry it is. Their natural habitat is inside hair follicles and sebaceous and other glands.

They're tiny enough to float like a dust mote, but they WILL fall to the floor eventually - unless the room in question is draughty, in which case they MAY be kept aloft indefinitely by the air currents. They don't jump and they don't fly.

Try a little experiment: tightly close all the windows in a room where you experience this. Seal any spaces where draughts might get in with duct tape. Lock the door and seal all around its edges with tape. Now stay out of the room for at least four days, but preferablhy a week. If you get the same experience when you go back into that room, it's definitely not demodex.

One possibility is Red Mites dropping from your ceiling and/or light fittings. These are very tiny (but visible to the naked eye) and can be carried into a home by mice or by a bird making its nest in the attic space (through a hole in the eaves or a broken roof-tile). If the chicks die, these will happily infest humans.

Here's a discussion of Red Mite home invasions (read the comments as well):

http://blog.poultrykeeper.com/tim-chicken-blog/will-red-mite-infest-your-house/

Image search for Red Mites

It's unclear whether mustard will help with these since so little is known about human infestation by those whose job it is to investigate these things. But, like dermatologists, entomologists seem to assume that evolution stopped once modern man arrived and that the massive changes in soil biochemistry that have taken place over the last 20 or so years will have no effect on insects.

You can thank the chemical and bio-engineering industries, GM and Roundup-Ready crops, and agrobacterium and horizontal gene transfer for these changes. The companies behind this technology all claimed that they were doing it to feed the world, stop famines, and make commercial crop-growing viable for Third World countries. And I'd say many of the scientists actually believed this PR BS. But the the real motive of the men in suits was money. Now the world is starting to pay for it. And it will only get worse. OK, rant over!

Besides Red Mites, the only other possibility is micro-flies. You need to read this research paper (written by an environmental scientist) to understand this:

http://www.morgellonsuk.org.uk/micromyiasis.htm

If this turns out to be true, mustard may well work to kill larvae once they emerge from the eggs. But once again, very little is known about this new phenomenon.

I wish you the best of luck in dealing with it. Please report the results of the experiment suggested above, and your results with the mustard.

Hey guys, the mustard powder works on mites. l had it mixed up to 5 tablespoons powder to a little cold water, then added to our 8 oz shampoo. Shake well, then scrub all over for 3-5 min. Works great for your hair. killed them all but for one.

Well, finally, after 7 years, my dear ole mom discovered a heck of a treatment to kill mites. Citric acid. Mixed in a plastic pitcher 4 cups hot water, 2 cups citric acid. Stir til dissolved. Run about 4 inches cimfortably hot water in your tub. Take the pitcher and pour some over your scalp to start, avoid the face and eyes at first. As it starts to itch, scrub your scalp well and make sure you cover all head areas. Then, slowly start working some more on neck, face, ears, shoulders, eyebrows. If you get it in your eyes, splash some bath water on your face and wipe with towel. Scrub well after each application as it seems to sting a little where the mites are. Keep scrubbing and scraping until stinging stops, about a minute or so. Work slowly down the body, By the time you have covered your body, your bath water will have enough citric acid to sit and soak for a bit. Reapply wherever the itching has not stopped.

Amazing how fast it brings the mites and larva to the surface of your skin and kills them. If your scrub brush is not stiff enough, your fingernails do a good job. All the nasty stuff on those infected " hills" will come off, including the areas that seem to be "wet" and itchy all the time, allowing you to clean out the nests. Once you feel no more itches, shampoo your hair and condition it in the bathtub water, Use a cup to rinse once with clean water, then dry off. You can do this in a shower with a trickle of hot water coming from the showerhead, and the pitcher. Keep a towel handy for your eyes.

You can purchase citric acid at your local feed store in bulk for $12-19 for a few pounds of it. You can mix a small amount in a cup, half and half, to use for any "spots". I would not recommend this bath for an animal or small child as they cannot tell us where it "itches" and would be uncomfortable. By the way, dear Ted, it is vital to kill these mites on your body fast, as they will crawl out of the treated areas. I can't wait to try it on upholstery in my cars.

Well, I used the mustard in my shampoo all during April, when I had to travel to my relatives and children, who are all infected with mites. I was using the mustard shampoo bath only once a day, and due to constraints with many visitors using the bathrooms, sometimes only every other day, during one whole week. When I came home, unfortunately, I started to pop out every 3 days with new spots, as apparently under heavy exposure, the mites were able to burrow into me. It has now been 6 weeks, and I still have a few spots or "hills". Very disappointed, but it defintely helped out, just not as good as I had hoped.

I would consider using "cedarcide" for ridding the home of the mites. Cedarcide (made from the cedar tree) will certainly kill fleas on contact and I'm interested to see if it could also kill mites and their eggs. I once had a horrific flea infestation in a rental home I own and nothing could get rid of them including professional exterminators. I tried repeated "bombs" etc; nothing worked. Finally on the internet I found and read about cedarcide from an outfit in Texas. Bought it and used it in a large spray container and just sprayed down the house and five feet up the walls (eggs can be that high). After first spray, five days later I walked throught the house and found only a few. (I used myself as the test... Walking in bare feet in my shorts with my bare white legs as a tempting treat for the fleas. ) Two or three were present in the whole house after a slow walk through every room. Sprayed again. Three days later the same test. Nothing except in one roorm where an air intake was present. I took off the grate, sprayed into the intake with the air conditioner running... So the cedarcide was being sucked into the vent system. Then a few days later I re walked the entire home... Again using my bare legs as a lure... Nothing. And nothing thereafter.

The point is, cedar worked when nothing else did. Just wondering if it might work on mites. By the way, the cedarcide won't hurt plants and it absorbs even into furniture without damage, and onto any surface it dries without harm. No harm to animals or humans. I intentionally sprayed it all over my legs to kill the fleas on the first trip through that infested rental home and the fleas died en mass in one second. Also... I found if I get a mosquito bite that a bit of cedarcide will take away the itch in seconds.

Re: Ted's Remedies for Mites. Just found this site, think I'm going to try them all. I'm not sure when I first noticed I had picked something up, Posslibly Jan 2014 in Woodbridge, NJ. Mediocre Hotel we picked out that allowed smoking in a few rooms. I started itching immediately. I'll never really know but have been dealing my problem from then until now. First thing I noticed effected my eyelashes. I've been to the first optomitrist 2 months ago and an optomologist a couple weeks ago. First gave me prescription for bacteriam (probably not spelled right) the second did nothing and stated it looked like I may have taken care of the problem.

What started out noticably on my eyelashes has now effected my face / hair. I have used tea tree oil since January along w/ listerine, nix, medicated toilettes w/ no results. I am going to try each and everyone of these remedies until I feel "miteless". Like most others it's been a new experience and one that seems trivial and I guess to most maybe not even real since you don't have much evidence. Again, like others on this site I'm glad I happened on it and going to celebrate Memorial Day Disinfecting Internally & Externally. Wish me Luck and Thanks I appreciate all the Info. Patty

hi david

the best possible carrier for the hydrated mustard powder and countless other remedies is dmso. the mustard should be organic. when dmso is mixed with other substances it should be used within an hour. don't add anything you wouldn't want to be carried into your system by the dmso. what I have been doing, and it works quite well, is dumping about a half spice bottle of org. mustard powder in a full tub of water, add about an ounce of 70% dmso and just for good measure a cup or two of organic vinegar. when I mix it to apply directly to my skin and hair before a bath I add two or three drops of 7% lugols - helps to cure the damage done to the skin.

cheers and good luck

p

How can I meet these eccentric nuns that seem to know what they are doing with mites. Also can people recommend Natural dr that have helped them recover from mites external or Internal.

Is this ok to do if you have pets in the house? Thanks. Did you successfully get rid of them?