The colon or large intestine is essential part of the digestive system and is extending from the cecum to the rectum. It’s a place where the water is stored as well as the remaining waste material as feces before being removed by defecation. A colon that is not working properly will hold this waste material for a longer period which has negative effect over your health. The thing is that the colon wall absorbs the toxic waste and throughout it, the toxins get to the bloodstream.
Healthy colon needs 24 hours to transit the food through our body, but the unhealthy lifestyle and the junk food slows down this process to 70 hours. This inevitably leads to toxic colon and up to 30 pounds of accumulated waste.
Constipation is the first sign of toxic colon. In case of constipation the waste materials move too slowly through the large bowl which is often followed with painful elimination.
The following are the symptoms of toxic colon:
- Digestive symptoms which includes bloating, diarrhea, constipation, gas, indigestion, stomach pain
- General health : Joint pain and muscle pain
- Behavioral symptoms: fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, sudden changes in mood, lack of concentration
- Immune system: low immune function, recurrent vaginal or bladder infections, skin rashes
Bernard Jensen DC, ND, PhD published a book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, in which he talks about the importance of colon cleansing and he explains this need as following: “the heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host of putrefication. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It’s that hard and black.”
Homemade Colon Cleanser
Stanley Burroughs a health practitioner back in 1940 developed a program known as Master Cleanse program with which you can cleanse the colon from 10 to 16 days. 36 years later he decided to present this program to the world, by publishing a book titled The Master Cleanser.
Ingredients (for single serving):
- 10 ounces of filtered water
- 1/10 teaspoon Cayenne pepper powder
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice or the juice squeezed from half a lemon ( it will be better if the lemon is organic)
- 2 tablespoon of organic grade B maple syrup ( not the once that use for pancakes)
Instructions and usage:
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them together.
Consume the mixture at least 5 times a day, in a period of 10 days.
You can also add some essential oils to the mixture to increase the process of detoxification of the body, while increasing the uptake of other nutrients and minerals to help your body re-balance. The power of the essential oils is that they contain nutrients that are readily assimilated on cellular level.
The following is one more recipe for preparation of colon cleanser:
Ingredients:
- Juice from 1 organic lemon
- 10 drops each of Lemon and Peppermint essential oils,
- 2 drops On Guard Blend
Instructions:
Combine the ingredients with 8 ounces of purified water and drink it in a period of 2 weeks.
