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Can a mucus problem help inoculate soil

 
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This is an odd question, which Google seems unable to help with.  Turning toward my soil people for advice, I must warn you that this topic is slightly gross.

There's some overgrowth of bacteria in my body that has been going on for a decade, which to me seems like Candida. One of the many byproducts of this, is a heavy phlegm in my throat. Having filled bottles of this stuff, I am curious if this would help my garden grow.

Many other products are probiotic bacteria, which is where I see the similarities.  When I think of adding this mucus to soil, I think of terra prata and how we still don't understand how this soil concoction was made.  

Can we brainstorm benefits and possible detriments to a garden? Is it likely to help or hurt myccorhizae? What is your opinion?
 
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I am not a soil expert, nor a bacteria expert... just sharing my gut feeling. While I generally support a wide range of bacteria and fungus in my garden, if the bacteria is causing this sort of reaction in a human body, I don't think I would want to inoculate my soil with that particular one.
 
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This sounds like an interesting concept.

As far as I know there are good bacteria and there are bad bacteria.

I would not want to inoculate my soil with that instead I feel it would be good for a compost pile.

As for the mucus problem there are herbs that will help with that.  Have you tried a nice cup of mint, thyme, chamomile, or echinacea tea?

Have you tried using a vaporizer or a Neti pot?

https://permies.com/t/68780

I would also suggest that you look into Reishi mushrooms:

https://permies.com/t/219170/Reishi

This course might be of interest:

https://permies.com/w/fermented-sodas-combo

While these are not mucus related these might be useful:

https://permies.com/t/3051/iodine-cure-flu-cold

https://permies.com/t/124976/ve-Cold-favourite-remedy-tincture

 
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This health problem has been a difficulty to deal with, but I have found several things that help. Eating too much sugar inflames this, and is one thing that I must stay away from.

My skin gets this film on it, which I have had success with Dr bronzer peppermint, but better result with Lume body wash.  It uses mandelic acid, and is one of the only things which makes my skin feel clean. Bath in baking soda helps with this, and can get to the point where I soak for a while, then scrape off stuff, and soak and scrape more.  It's as though The baking soda is killing more than what is on the outside of my skin. Boron in bath seems to help a little, but the baking soda does more.

In my mouth there is a biofilm that I have needed to find method to deal with. A tongue scraper was essential due to the white film that girls on my tongue, but more is needed. Mouthwash with cpc (crest intense) is the best that I have found. Rather than using it at full strength, I pour this mouthwash into my waterpik at about 20 percent, and use that to shoot the mouthwash in between my teeth. Gargling with this is the best way that I have found relief.

As I gargle, the first few games don't do as much, but then gargling starts to pull mucus from my throat, and ends up creating a big mass of mucus that nearly chokes me before I have to spit it out.  Gargling baking soda does similar, but better results with crest intense (in my experience).  Coral toothpaste with nano silver also helps make my mouth fresh, but I have to add m18 bliss oral probiotic.

Turpentine worked great for me years ago, but I kind of traumatized myself doing the turp on sugar cubes method, because it worked too well, and gave me bad herz reaction.  I have done turp with castor oil, and it helped me although I generally steer away from this method because of my bad prior experience.  

I shy away from mentioning these things, because it's pretty nasty symptoms.  
 
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As for fermented sodas, I do enjoy kombucha quite often.  This does help me with some of my symptoms, as it helps when my throat is feeling thick with mucus or my teeth feel kind of itchy.  It's difficult to describe the way that my teeth feel, but it is uncomfortable.
 
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I have generated a lot of phlegm ever since I was 17 or so. Last summer I finally thought, "Hey, I might have allergies." I made a mimosa tincture and used it up over the winter. But Swedish Bitters have been the biggest help for me.

Sometimes I have spat some phlegm onto bare dirt. I figure that the germs will die in the sunlight and the stickiness of the mucus might help the dirt stick together.
 
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This seems like a wild idea, but there is much research showing the benefits of yeast inoculation towards plants.


Here is an article that details another candida strain benefiting rice. And screenshot shows some additional results

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139311003143
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Yeast garden
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I feel that it is a well known fact that folks here on the forum understand the benefits of yeast in fermented products.

Fertilizer can be made with 1 oz of dry yeast and 1 cup of sugar this is very similar to many of the compost tea recipes.

There is wild yeast floating in the air.  That is how I make my sourdough.

https://permies.com/t/54482/Homemade-Lactobacillus-Serum

https://permies.com/t/211238/composting/easiest-compost-tea-liquid-fertilizer

https://permies.com/t/25813/permaculture/DIY-Indigenous-Microorganism-Culture

I feel any of these or the articles you have listed might make great experiment for you to do and report back with your results.
 
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Appreciate the suggestion, because I have several bricks of instant yeast sitting around
 
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Anne, you mention sourdough prompting me to suggest that there's a free starter at Carlsfriends.net
The different thing about this one is that it traveled the Oregon trail.  How much older it is than that, we don't know. It is fun for those interested in history, or in those who want some dried starters for emergency use.  
 
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I have over the years seen mention of that sourdough starter from 1847:

Since the year 2000, it has been maintained and shared by a dedicated historical preservation society; its volunteers keep the starter alive, feeding the organisms flour and water, and mail free samples worldwide on request for use by bakers in seeding their own cultures.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Griffith%27s_sourdough_starter
 
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