Bowel Cleansing

Bowel Cleansing

Jo Francks MH

Natural healers have always said that 90% of all disease starts in the colon. Some even go as far as to say that there is only one disease and that is constipation. Constipation is the effect of improper eating habits and eating the wrong foods over a period of time. If the bowel doesn’t have a chance to eliminate before more food is taken in we end up with constipation. Throughout the years of not taking proper care of the bowels they accumulate fecal matter along the walls. It gets stuck there like glue and then another layer and so on. When this accumulated waste is not eliminated it keeps the body from absorbing nutrients from the food we eat. It also causes what is called autointoxication. This means that instead of absorbing nutrients to make us healthier we are absorbing the toxins back into the bloodstream from the old fecal matter. This starts a vicious cycle. When all those toxins can’t be eliminated from the bowel guess what happens? They go to the parts of our body that are inherently weak and start dumping in those areas. They develop stones in the kidneys or liver, or try to eliminate through the skin causing acne, boils, eczema, psoriasis etc. we end up with problems in totally different area that the bowel but the origin of the problem is in the bowel.

Vitology – The human body has an inherent ability to move toward wellness.

Herrings Law of Cure – All cure comes from within out, from the head down and in reverse order as the symptoms have appeared in the body.

When the body is involved in the natural healing process, symptoms tend to move from the deeper parts of the body toward the surface.  Symptoms may include flu like symptoms, skin rashes and eruptions on the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, runny nose, cough, diarrhea or infection. We have been taught to take something to stop these symptoms when the body is getting rid of toxins as a natural process. Disease can be stopped by antibiotics and other medications that suppress the symptoms, but the toxins remain in the body and become solidified.

We have 4 channels of elimination; the bowels, kidneys lungs and skin. We also have organs that help detoxify; the liver and lymphatic system.

The Bowel

In your chart you can see that there is a reflex area in the bowel that corresponds with all the areas of the body. If the bowel is toxic in one area there may be symptoms in the area of the body associated with that reflex area.

The bowel is like a rubber hose. If there is too much pressure in an area due to a blockage, the wall of the colon will become weak in that area and balloon out. It may also produce diverticular pockets which get full of fecal matter and that will putrify and become toxic and inflamed causing diverticulitis. The Merck Manual states that these occur mostly in the sigmoid colon. “They are uncommon in persons younger than forty but increase rapidly then after that, so that essentially every person will have many.”

Most people don’t know they are there because there are no symptoms and we have fewer nerve endings in the colon so we don’t feel the pain when they are there.

We will only be able to absorb 10% of nutrients from food when the colon is clogged up. After the colon is cleansed and working properly we can absorb up to 40 to 50% of nutrients from food.

Friendly Flora

A healthy colon is not squeaky clean. It is full of bacteria we call friendly flora. When the friendly flora is out of balance there are a lot of other problems and symptoms that occur. Antibiotics are responsible for many of the problems associated with what we call candida overgrowth. The antibiotics wipe out all of our friendly flora except one, candida. The candida starts multiplying rapidly and takes over the whole colon. Then things start happening like perforations in the walls of the colon and that becomes leaky gut syndrome. The colon becomes inflamed. Proteins escape out into the rest of the body and cause symptoms that duplicate other diseases.

Herbal Cleansing

If you are sick, look to your colon. Change the diet, cleanse the colon using herbal aids, get enough exercise.

Dr. Christopher said “Never will we have peace as long as we have constipated warriors sitting around the peace table glaring in hate at each other. Peace will come from a clean, sweat happy body…” The first thing he did with his patients was the three day cleanse and mucusless diet.

One case he tells about is when a lady came into his office with her two sons. She was holding them apart from each other because she couldn’t stop them from fighting. He knew that a dirty colon makes people mean and angry so the first thing he did was to give them a lower bowel formula to help clean out their colon. It worked too because the mother brought them back in later and they were like different people.

The Three Day Cleanse booklet outlines a cleanse that is easily done using juices. It also gives a description of Dr Christopher’s formulas. There are many cleanses on the market today. There is increasing evidence that cleansing the bowel is an important part of overall health. This is where we start for any condition.

Herbs for the Bowel

Dr. Christopher’s Lower Bowel Formula is a combination of herbs designed to cleanse the bowel and heal it so that eventually it can start working properly on its own. It is best used along with a cleansing diet.

A mixture of 70% slippery elm and 30% licorice root is used for inflammation in the bowel. It is recommended for use during a candida cleanse.

Equal parts astragalus root and marshmallow root are also used for inflammation. These herbs have also been used with great results for allergies.