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The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition
eating trends and accompanying lack of exercise continue. When
combined with other colon diseases, it is already the second largest cause
of death in Britain. When the colon starts to become clearer and cleaner,
the symptoms of the disease begin to ebb away slowly, layer by layer.
Remember, if you do not cleanse the colon, your other organs and
systems will not be able to cleanse their wastes either, and an
autointoxication situation can easily arise, causing extreme ill health.
Check whether close relatives, especially older members of your family,
have bowel problems. This way you will be able to see if your own
tendencies might be hereditary. As always, prevention is the key. The late
Dr. Bernard Jensen, a well-known American herbalist, has written many
books on the bowel; they are worth searching out, not least for their
photographs of autopsies showing the variety of distorted colon shapes
found in the deceased. These distortions were caused by old fecal matter
piling up by the pound, creating pockets, narrowings, balloonings, and so
forth.
In these balloons, old fecal matter slowly becomes part of the bowel
wall itself, hardening and impacting, layer upon layer, encouraging
viruses, bacteria, and fungi to take hold and thrive, with opportunistic
parasites also setting up home— all draining the entire body of health and
vigor. The ensuing strain on the colon walls also causes thinning and,
where the wall has become too thin, fluid bowel matter can slowly seep
into the rest of the body. It is not only toxins that can cause bowel
problems. Beneficial microbes in the colon can become dangerously
pathogenic if they escape from their regular environment.
Many common viruses and bacteria lurk in bowel pockets of both men
and women. Candida is commonly found in the bowel pockets of women
in particular, and can often stubbornly proliferate when parasites are
present. Whenever ballooning of the bowel wall occurs, narrowing before
or after the affected area results. These strictures then make it difficult for
fecal matter to pass through. Very often the result is fecal matter being
dumped into the existing balloon or pocket after attempts to negotiate
the stricture have failed. What little fecal matter does get through is often
very watery and thin, and this is the form in which diarrhea sometimes
presents itself, especially if it comes after years of constipation.
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