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The Complete Home Guide todiHseerabsse, Nsatural Healing, and Nutrition
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For a Fragile Colon
If you suffer from regular diarrhea or your colon is otherwise damaged,
the following remedies might help.
f Use feeding and soothing herbs. Combine three parts slippery elm in-
ner bark with one part each of the following powdered herbs: chamo-
mile f ower, marshmallow root, licorice root, and peppermint leaf.
Add one to three teaspoons of this mixture to a mashed ripe banana,
three times daily.
f Other useful herbs are red raspberry leaf, cramp bark, meadowsweet
leaf, marshmallow root, yellow dock root, wild yam root, marigold
f ower, and Chinese rhubarb root.
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Massage — very soft movements are vital. Use essential oils of cubeb,
chamomile, geranium, and lavender. You could also put them on an
oilcloth and place under a hot water bottle atop the abdomen.
diverticulitis
Diverticulitis is a condition in which the mucous membranes in the bowel
wall have consistently remained so inf amed that pockets have developed.
If these pockets grow large, they become increasingly capable of catching
the passing and occasionally sluggish fecal matter. These wastes will build
up in the pockets, which will then become a toxic breeding ground for
bacteria, and can lead to inf amed areas that very often bleed. It is usually
this point of chronic inf ammation that produces pain, bloating, and
blood loss— all noticeable warnings that help must be sought.
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Any f brous indigestible pieces of food, particularly raw skins of fruits
and vegetables or their seeds, can easily set off intense pain, and al-
though the problem has usually started through a lack of raw f brous
and unref ned food in the diet, this is not the time to introduce it.
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Nutritious baby food must be adopted—try stewing apples, with their
skins, seeds, and core, in springwater, adding cinnamon and a pinch
of nutmeg. Strain out the pulp and eat a bowl of this apple puree daily
with a teaspoon each of arrowroot, powdered slippery elm inner bark,
and marshmallow root stirred in, with an added teaspoon of cinna-
mon. Honey may be used for taste. Continue until the inf ammation,
bleeding, and pain subside.
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Gently inch into more raw foods. Buy a juicer — juicing fruits and
vegetables will give f rst-class nutrition and aid easy digestion. Super-
food is another option and is perhaps the easiest method of providing
an instant, nutritious meal.
When the colon has started to heal itself, try steaming your vegeta-
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