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Treating the Cause of constipation
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While constipation isn't a popular topic of conversation, it is, nevertheless, an important subject that could mean a world of difference to your overall health.

When food remains in the colon for an extended period of time, it begins to putrefy. In other words, germs invade the food and it begins to rot within us. As always, this putrefaction process results in the production of toxic waste. If this toxic waste remained in the colon, the situation would not be too serious. The reality, however, is that much of this poisonous matter is taken up into the bloodstream. What this means, in effect, is that constipation actually gives rise to a process of self-poisoning. In medical terms, this process is referred to as auto-intoxication.

Any program designed to treat constipation and to clean and detoxify the colon needs to address several key areas. The program must:

• Help bring the colon back to life by stimulating the muscle movement of the colon.
• Encourage matter to move forward through the system.
• Halt putrefaction.
• Draw old fecal matter off the walls of the colon and out of any bowel pockets.
• Disinfect.
• Draw out poisons and toxins (including chemicals and drug residues.
• Help leach out heavy metals such as mercury and lead.
• Dietary and life style recommendations to help restore colon health.
• Soothe and promote the healing of the mucous membrane lining of the entire digestive tract.
• Identify and treat the cause not just the symptoms.
• Help stimulate the body to begin the healing and repair of herniated areas.
• Increase the flow of bile to help clean the gall bladder, bile ducts, and liver.
• Promote healthy intestinal flora.
• Destroy and expel parasites.
• Destroy Candida albicans overgrowth.
• Maintain regularity.
• Decrease straining.
• Speed up the transit time of feces through the large intestine.

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According to the well-known author and researcher, Dr Bernard Jensen, auto-intoxication is always attended by misery:

`I believe auto-intoxication is currently the number one source of the misery and decay we are witnessing in our society and culture today. Through it comes the host of uncleanliness, with its entourage of imbalance, derangements, perversions, sickness and disease. Auto-intoxication becomes a powerful master over the body, robbing the inhabitant of clear thinking, discrimination, sound judgment, vitality, health, happiness and loved ones. Its rewards are disillusionment, bitterness, disappointment, financial chaos and failure.' (Dr Bernard Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, p. 4)

With the above in mind, let us consider the direct impact that auto-intoxication has upon the system. First of all, because the bloodstream is loaded with toxins, tremendous strain is placed on the liver as it attempts to purify the blood. Secondly, the organs of elimination, these being the kidneys, the lungs, the skin and the bowels, will be seriously burdened as they endeavor to expel the toxic waste from the body. This process of self-cleansing will also sap much of the body's available energy resources and, with time, it will lead to a continual feeling of weakness and debility.

The tragedy, however, is that in the case of constipation, the source of self-poisoning is ever present - meaning that there is no respite for the affected organs. Night and day, toxins are taken up by the bloodstream and, night and day, the body is forced to engage in a life and death struggle against this deadly and persistent invasion.

Many health authorities believe that constipation is the number one affliction underlying nearly every ailment . . . This means that constipation would be the most prevalent ailment affecting the civilized world . . . It is vital to stress that constipation affects the health of the colon, upon which the health of the body in its entirety depends.

A number of years ago fifty-seven of the leading physicians of Britain met in London and discussed before the Royal Society of Medicine this problem of autointoxication caused by a toxic colon. Autointoxication is defined as "the poisoning of the body, or some part of the body, by toxic matter generated therein." The following twenty-two (22) poisons were identified as originating in a toxic colon.

These are some of the many types of poisons which can be found in a toxic colon. Some of these poisons are highly active and may produce the most detrimental effects -- even in very small quantities.
 
In many cases, these toxins can seep out of the colon to poison the rest of the body . . .

Here are just a few examples of how these toxic poisons can affect your health:

» Weaken and stress your heart
 
» Go into your skin to cause blemishes and paleness
 
» Psoriasis, liver spots, wrinkles, and other facial conditions
 
» Irritate your lungs and cause foul breath
 
» Go to your brain and disturb mental function and cause senility
 
» Go into your joints and cause pain and stiffness
 
» Go into your muscles and cause weakness and severe fatigue
 
» Rob you of your youth, ruin your health and cause you to become old before your time.

If we are having less than two bowel movements per day, food residues are lying in the colon for more than twelve hours. Consequently, the fecal material in the colon becomes putrefied and fermented. Any nutritional elements present in the fecal matter would pass into the bloodstream as polluted products. What would otherwise be nutritional becomes in fact, the beginning of toxemia.

Toxemia is a condition in which the blood contains poisonous products which are produced by the growth of pathogenic or disease-producing bacteria. Pimples for example are usually the first indication that toxemia has found its way into the body.

• How Constipation Effects the Colon's Function •
 
If solving the problem of constipation were merely a case of washing out loose material lying free inside any part of the colon, it would not be too great a difficulty to clear up the situation. A high enema would most likely be sufficient to take care of its removal. However, it is not so simple to dispose of this problem . . .
 
Constipation involves not only the unnecessary retention of feces in the bowel, but also the retention present throughout the first half of the colon, from the cecum to the middle of the transverse colon. The cecum is found next to the ileocecal valve at the beginning of the colon.
 
The wall of this section of the colon is equipped with sensitive nerves and muscles whose function it is to create wave-like motions - known as peristaltic waves - to propel the contents of the colon from the cecum to the rectum for eventual evacuation. This is a distance of approximately five feet.
 
Besides the formation of these peristaltic waves, the first half of the colon has two other very important functions. First, it must extract from all the residue coming from the small intestine any available nutritional material which the small intestine was unable to collect. For this purpose, it mulches the material which passes into it from the small intestine and transfers the liquid and other elements through its walls into the bloodstream. The nutrition which has thus been extracted from the colon is collected by the blood vessels lining the walls of the colon and is carried to the liver for processing.
 
The other important function of the first half of the colon is to gather from the glands in its walls the intestinal flora needed to lubricate the colon. Far too many people, professional and laymen, think that enemas and colon irrigations wash out the intestinal flora and thus deprive the colon of a valuable means of lubrication . . .
 
This school of thought is utterly false and totally devoid of truth and fact. Obviously, when the packed accumulation of feces in the bowel leads to fecal encrustation, it is not possible for the lining of the colon to function normally, and the glands in this lining cannot produce the necessary intestinal flora or lubrication. Such lack of lubrication only serves to intensify a state of constipation and to generate toxemia.

This fecal encrustation interferes with -- if it does not actually prevent -- the infusion of the necessary intestinal flora for colon lubrication, the formation of peristaltic waves for evacuation purposes, and the absorption and use of the additional nutritional elements present in the waste residue coming into the colon from the small intestine.
 
It does not require much imagination to perceive that the adhesive quality of the feces in the colon is readily susceptible to creating a coating on the inside of the lining or wall of the colon, resembling a layer of plaster in its consistency. It is equally obvious that such a coating . . . in preventing the normal functioning of the colon . . . has the insidious effect of becoming a generator of toxicity, to the detriment of health, happiness and longevity.
 
When the bowel is toxic it can harbor an amazing variety of very harmful bacteria and parasites. It's interesting to note that worms outrank cancer as man's deadliest enemy on a world-wide basis . . . It is estimated that 200 million people are infected by these intestinal parasites.
 
These worms range in size from microscopic single-celled animals to twenty-foot-long tapeworms! These parasites kill more people annually than does cancer. One in four people in the world today are infected by roundworms. The United States is not immune to these parasites. The number of parasite cases has increased in the past few years

Vicious circle

Waste that sits in the bowel for longer than is normal can cause your bowel wall to stretch and the muscles to function less efficiently. If it happens over a prolonged period it can become more difficult for waste to move through the bowel, which can make you become constipated again and so the vicious circle continues.

Any program designed to clean and detoxify the colon needs to address several key areas. The program must:

• Help bring the colon back to life by stimulating the muscle movement of the colon.
• Encourage matter to move forward through the system.
• Halt putrefaction.
• Draw old fecal matter off the walls of the colon and out of any bowel pockets.
• Disinfect.
• Draw out poisons and toxins (including chemicals and drug residues.
• Help leach out heavy metals such as mercury and lead.
• Identify and treat the cause of constipation not just treat symptoms.
• Soothe and promote the healing of the mucous membrane lining of the entire digestive tract.
• Help stimulate the body to begin the healing and repair of herniated areas.
• Increase the flow of bile to help clean the gall bladder, bile ducts, and liver.
• Promote healthy intestinal flora.
• Destroy and expel parasites.
• Destroy Candida albicans overgrowth.
• Maintain regularity.
• Decrease straining.
• Speed up the transit time of feces through the large intestine.

For an appointment call

Natural Health Technologies Clinic
(253) 564-9223           

Natural Health Technologies Clinic

Center for Colon and Digestive Health

Detoxification Therapy

Tacoma Colonic Therapy

(253) 564-9223

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