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COLON CLEANSING
Speak with your Doctor or
an experienced practitioner of complementary medicine before carrying
out this cleanse to ensure that it is suitable for you.
This article is not for the squeamish. You may not wish
to know what you're about to read, but never mind, I think you should
read it anyway!!
Extract from "The Definitive Cure of Chronic
Constipation", by Prof. A. Ehret:
"A physician of Berlin, whose life work was the performing of autopsies,
stated that 60 per cent of all the corpses contained in the alimentary
canal various foreign matter - worms and petrified faeces - and he further
stated that in nearly all cases the walls of the intestines and colon
were lined with a crust of hardened faeces, making it evident that these
organs had degenerated to a state of utter inefficiency. Progressive
American physicians are rapidly awakening to the fact that retained
faecal matter is one of the chief causes of disease. Autopsies are constantly
revealing indescribable filthy astounding conditions. One physician
publishes the following:
" 'I have found a prototype of the cause
of all diseases of the human body, the foundation of premature old age
and death. Surprising as it may seem, out of two hundred and eighty-four
cases of autopsy held, but twenty-eight colons were found to be free
from hardened faeces and in a normal and healthy state. The others,
as described above, were to a more or less extent incrusted with hardened,
rotten, rejected food material. Many were distended to twice their natural
size throughout their whole length with a small hole through the center
and almost universally these last cases mentioned had regular bowel
evacuations daily. Some of them contained large worms from four to six
inches in length."
When the bowels become constipated or overloaded,
there is an increase of load on the other eliminative organs. Often
they cannot handle it properly and then the body stores the toxins in
places such as fat cells and joints. If bowels do not function as they
should, the liquid waste from the delayed faecal material must be reabsorbed
into the body. It is picked up by the blood stream, carried through
the circulation system, and brought to kidneys, skin and lungs. The
kidneys, faced with having to remove an extra load of liquid wastes
or poisons from the blood stream, day after day and month after month,
may enlarge. Frequency of urination increases. There is a strong urine
odour. The overload can bring about a lowered resistance to infection.
The skin tries hard to do its part and the
sweat and sebaceous glands work overtime. But they are not up to the
task. They soon cease to function properly. Finally, the lungs. These
have a minute-to-minute vital function to perform. The body often calls
upon the lungs to shoulder the overload of the other organs of elimination.
The lungs are busy ridding the blood of carbon dioxide and renewing
it with oxygen for every cell in the body. Yet when the lungs must take
over part of the bowel job the breath becomes unpleasant.
The Benefits of
Colon Cleansing
The accumulation of old faeces in the colon
can stretch it and related body structures out of shape until it becomes
three or four times as wide and twice as long as it should be, with
only a small channel through which material may pass.
This can create hernias, collapsed colon,
spastic colon, prolapsed colon, redundant colon, diverticulitis and
haemorrhoids. In the majority of cases, colon cleansing alone will be
sufficient to end any disturbing symptoms due to mechanical abnormalities
(Robert Gray).
The accumulation of mucoid material along
the walls of the small intestines can further interfere with nutrient
absorption even though nutritional intake may be adequate. The nutrients
that suffer the most are the large molecules, namely the proteins, vitamins
and enzymes.
Stagnation is the failure of matter in the
alimentary canal to continue moving until expelled through the anus.
When material becomes lodged in the alimentary tract, it can continue
to putrefy and release toxins for weeks. Stagnation occurs primarily
in the colon and is usually the body's largest contributor to putrefaction
and the consequent autointoxication. The primary objective of colon
cleansing is to remove stagnant material from the colon and entire alimentary
tract. Doing so will sizeably reduce putrefaction and autointoxication
within the system. The stagnant material in the alimentary tract can
be divided into two types - putrefactive and postputrefactive. Putrefactive
matter is still moist, decaying, and releasing toxic substances. Unless
removed it eventually becomes so dry and hard that it does not putrefy
any further. This postputrefactive matter is very difficult to dissolve
or remove, except with special herbs and fibres. Worms, amoebas and
other parasites live in and thrive upon this stagnant putrefactive matter.
Transit time is how long it takes after
food is eaten until its residues are expelled through the anus. The
shorter the transit time, the less the food will putrefy before being
expelled from the body, and the less will be the resultant autointoxication.
Colon cleansing reduces transit time.
Lymph Detoxification
When waste material leaves the body cells,
it is carried away by the two circulating body fluids, namely, the blood
and the lymph. The lymph is formed out of the blood but contains no
red blood cells. Because the lymphatic system carries away toxins from
all body cells its proper functioning is important to the health of
the entire body. When too much mucoid material is produced in the body,
the lymph cannot dispose of it fast enough and it builds up. Ancient
Chinese medicine teaches that the colon is the principal organ for detoxifying
the lymph.
An unobstructed colon will absorb the mucoid
material in the lymph through its walls into its interior. As the walls
of the colon become more obstructed with linings of faecal deposits,
however, its ability to detoxify the lymph decreases and the accumulation
of mucoid matter begins to back up into the lymphatic system. When the
colon cannot perform the necessary rate of purification of the lymph,
then the body uses the liver to do the work instead. The toxins taken
up by the liver are excreted as part of the bile. When the flow of bile
becomes excessive, bile backs up into the stomach, and the result is
nausea. So, when the colon becomes clogged, waste material gets backed
up into the lymphatic system. As this process continues, waste material
backs up into the body tissues and disease can result. This process
can affect any body part because the lymphatic system serves all body
cells.
What can be done?
1. Skin brushing
2. Cleansing diet (or fasting)
3. Special fibres, herbs, and acidophilus and bifidus bacteria
4. Enemas or colonic irrigation treatments
Skin brushing
As the largest eliminative organ, the skin
plays a vital role in ridding the body of toxins and impurities that
are potential sources of illness. It has been estimated that the skin
eliminates over one pound of waste per day. For this reason daily skin
brushing would normally go hand in hand with an internal cleansing programme.
Skin brushing is one of the most powerful
ways to cleanse the lymphatic system. Waste material is carried away
from the cells by the blood and lymph. Skin brushing stimulates the
release of this material from the cells near the surface of the body.
Eventually most of the toxins along with their carrier cells, primarily
lymphocytes, find their way to the colon. It also stimulates the sweat
glands and increases blood circulation to underlying organs and tissues
in the body. Today, a sedentary lifestyle and general lack of exercise,
along with the common use of anti-perspirant, keep people from perspiring
enough. As a result, toxins and metabolic waste are not released through
sweat as they were intended, but instead, back up into the body. Skin
brushing opens up the pores, allowing the body to breathe and thus enhances
proper functioning of the organs.
Purchase a natural bristle brush from a
health food store and brush the skin daily BEFORE bath or shower. That
is, use a dry brush on dry skin, and then wash. Five minutes per day
is ample, brushing in long stroking movements, always in the direction
of the heart.
7-day COLON CLEANSING PLAN
This cleanse has been adapted from 'Tissue
Cleansing through bowel management' by Bernard Jensen DC. Thanks also
go to Peter and Angela Bradbury, Iridologists and naturopaths of Pimlico,
London, who first encouraged me many years ago to try a version of the
7-day cleanse myself.
It is strongly advised that you consult
a qualified nutritionist or naturopath before embarking on this cleanse,
so that you can be advised and supported through it. Please do not carry
out this cleansing without qualified supervision - do the more gentle
4-week cleanse mentioned later, instead.
Recipe for 2-part cleansing drink:
Part 1:
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2 oz freshly pressed apple juice (not
from concentrate)
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8 oz spring water
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1 tablespoon Bentonite clay liquid (see
below)
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Level
teaspoon Colofibre (Higher Nature)
(mix quickly and drink quickly - mixture thickens)
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