JK, that concoction maybe just fine. It really does depend on how it effects you personally. Licorice tea once was ok for me, but not now, so I avoid it. Just a bit too naturally sweet I guess. THe other ingredients you have may offset some of what the licorice sweetness may do. Some do really well on licorice and have candida, so I'd say it's not too big of a deal for most people. me and Jinx are probably pretty extreme cases in this area I think.

Jinx. I had quite bad candida when I had amalgams are you know, but the diet (even just the looser version) worked dramatically well. I never had to get any stricter ever. But I also found I had dramtic symptoms upon cheating, but the cheating had to be with direct sugar, candy, wheat/gluten. I was fine eating potatoe chips and fruit and stuff. Lucky then eh?

When amalgams came out, I still had to stick to the diet but needs and reactions often change. I found that even though I was on the diet, my symptoms began to be pretty bad from the mercury dump regardless, so I often wasn't able to tell much difference. However, I found that my reactions to wheat/gluten were not the same. I was more tolerant of it. But still wiser to avoid that and sugar, as it did add to the problems to a point.

My later stages of detox when I was improving as time wore on? Well, I got away with FAR more. I remember cheating often, but basically still kept to a heatlhy diet. I had honey in my cups of tea (all day long), and was ok. I cheated on friday nights and had junkfood. I would notice some reaction the next day, but it only took a day to improve again, so my cheats never impacted me nearly as much. I simply tightened up a little again and improved rapidly. So as time wore on, I was improving. I will never know whether I would ever have been able to be completely free or not, as I believe I was still healing from mercury, even though I "felt" ok. I still felt that the diet to a point was always necessary. But never strict like it is now.

When the viral/bacteria infection got me, everything fell apart. Immunity so badly reduced, that I was a total and utter mess from then onwards. I also found my healing from mercury came to a standstill and chelation really stopped working or having much of an impact. My problems had changed and the looser diet was a bad move. I then had to go on this major strict diet to gain any kind of faint relief and there I have remained. I think due to long term poisoning from mercury, even if I had never gotten the viral infection, I may have always had to have been watchful to a point on the diet side of it and I was healthier and my body always told me when it was time to get strict again and my cheats never lasted long and my recoveries were rapid. I really was becoming healthier and healthier as the years wore on, so who knows what might have happened?