It is ironic that, despite widespread information about taking care of our exterior selves ─ keeping clean and staying healthy ー we give little though to the value of maintaining health and cleanliness on the inside. Many of us have childhood memories of enemas performed at home, though. There was radio but no television; everything we had was fresh, homemade, and handcrafted.
Our diet, of course, was clean and natural and very healthful. It was enriched with fresh cheese, curds, kefir(Kefir or kephir, alternatively milk kefir, or búlgaros, is a fermented milk drink that originated in the north Caucasus Mountains made with kefir "grains", a yeast/bacterial fermentation starter.), the obligatory juices (especially celery, carrot, and sauerkraut!), (Sauerkraut is finely cut cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria. It has a long shelf life and a distinctive sour flavor, both of which result from the lactic acid that forms when the bacteria ferment the sugars in the cabbage.), various pulses (Pulses include all beans, peas and lentils, such as:
~baked beans.
~red, green, yellow and brown lentils.
~chickpeas (chana or garbanzo beans)
~garden peas.
~black-eyed peas.
~runner beans.
~broad beans (fava beans)
~kidney beans, butter beans (Lima beans), haricots, cannellini beans, flageolet beans, pinto beans and borlotti beans.), honey, and recently baked homemade bread.
The worst thing for me was the glass of raw milk I had to drink immediately after milking the cow; it tasted too "natural" to me. This is a good moments to begin to rediscover things natural and authentic and incorporate them into our modern lives.
If the toilet or washbasin in your house is damaged, you naturally do not use it and you call a plumber. You wouldn't think of going into a toilet that was foul-smelling and full of stagnant water with thes excrement floating in it. What if no one comes to help you?
Then you have to live in these extremely disagreeable conditions, knowing that you can't flush the toilet and eliminate the residues that have accumulated. Imagine you face when you are confronted with such a repulsive scene!
I am sure that in such a situation, you would react by throwing a bucket of water down the toilet (unless, that is, this merely raises the level of the stagnant "lake"), or else you would calling the 24-hour emergency services or asking for help from a friend. You's be dead right to do so!
If you try to apply this solution to your own body's blocked guts yourself, it won't work; you won't discharge the residues that have accumulated. You have to try to stimulate them from above or from below, without waiting too many days. Agreed? You just need to learn how to do it and what to use; each of us has his'her own digestive character and sensitivity to laxative remedies.
Approximately 70 percent of my current consultations are with people who in addition to different health conditions are suffering from chronic constipation. It is such a common and stubborn complaint, and so difficult to treat, that one day I think I will get all my patients together and found a constipation club (I'll probably look for a more attractive and sophisticated name). Then my team would be able to work with groups to help more people with their therapies, good humor, and various exercises. Reeducating people about good hygiene and diet, accompanied by psychological support, will be important parts of this work. if this appeals, come and join us and help me organize it.
Constipation is a personal, emotional, and social problem, as well as an economic one. Not only is it costly in terms of money spent on laxatives and visits to the doctor but also because of the serious consequences to health that chronic constipation brings, and the bodily toxemia it provokes. Only with a good diet and correct intestinal hygiene (I am referring to transit and microflora) can we prevent cancer of the colon.
Constipation is a very familiar condition: the majority of us have suffered from constipation on at least one occasion. In fact, recent research has demonstrated that one in seven people suffer from constipation. As well as being a relatively common complaint, it has become a social taboo. Often I am the only witness of this illness, in spite of the fact that the person tells me he has a partner, family, and friends.
We learn in childhood that the "stomach" can malfunction, and that if this happens you take a laxative. We all have memories of some constipated member of our family.
