Elimination And Your Health

Your health is important to me.
That's why I write.
I write about the healing, about the spiritual, about the new technologies, especially in energy medicine.

All this won't do much good if someone is 'backed up'.

That's right...constipation.

Just because you have a stool every day does not mean you are 'getting everything out'.

I know because I work in the GI lab sometimes doing anesthesia for endoscopy. And when it's really bad--for the patient as well as for the team when we are dealing with this 'subject'--I have to put a basin of ground up coffee on my desk so I can stand the stench! I not only see it, but I smell it and I listen to what the gastroenterologist says...

Apparently for mild constipation, prunes, stool softeners, and metamucil work. They have to be taken every day without fail in the moderate conditions. Citrucil is along the same lines. The mechanism is natural and does not create dependence. It distends the bowel and gives it something to squeeze, sort of a 'work out' for the muscles of the intestines, both small and large.

There is a metamucil-like substance that is twice as strong, it tastes awful, and makes a grey paste that has to be taken twice a day. I do not remember what the name was of it. Apparently there are some people that this works for them, they are motivated, and by taking this they stay healthy in the bowels. Next time I work with this gastroenterologist I will ask the name and update this post, so you might want to check back.

Then comes Miralax when the others fail. It is not exactly 'natural' in that it just cleans and empties the bowel. But it does not create dependence like other laxatives can.

The reason people become chronically constipated is based on the food choices. Bowel likes a great deal of fiber (in most cases, perhaps with more care in divericular disease). When preference is for foods that are refined with lots of sugar, there is no residue, and this is a set-up for problems with digestion down the road.

A nurse had a daughter who had 'stomach aches' but was usually made to go to school. She stayed home some times. Well, an x-ray showed that the daughter was chronically constipated. Although she was about ten, her pediatrician prescribed large doses of miralax twice a day (double strength). It took six months for her to clear out and regain normal bowel function.  Now the family is aware of her needs, and when symptoms recur, she just has to take a short course of miralax until it resolves.

For more on bowel health, here is the original article with some recommendations for natural products, as well as a diagram of what healthy stool and unhealthy stool look like so you may compare http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2014/03/movement-as-above-so-below.html


Aloha and Mahalo,
Namaste,
Peace.

Reiki Doc

Movement: As Above, So Below

Yesterday I was in GI Lab. Sometimes when we do colonoscopy there is 'poor prep' or 'residue stool left in the colon'. The gastroenterologist has to wash it out.

This is often because as we get older, the 'motility' of the bowel weakens, and slows down.

I saw many diverticula, outpouchings of bowel near the perforating blood vessels, a result of high intraluminal bowel pressure too.

How do you know if you are constipated? There is a picture to look at, that shows you what constipated, healthy, and watery 'poop' looks like. Many are constipated because they just don't know they are. Here is the picture (second link provided in the hyperlink attached is bigger, and here is just the picture too) and the story of 'what is what': http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-bristol-stool-chart-reiki-story.html

Here are some products that might help. Please note that they do not sell to major stores like Whole Foods, they only sell to either Mom and Pop stores or online.

Dr. Shulze has some products that have turned people's lives around. I am sending the link to the home page, so you may read the testimonials: https://www.herbdoc.com  (Intestinal Formula 1--take it with dinner because there is cayenne in it.)

And the 'Emptyness' line by Chakrafood, a Korean master herbalists' two step product that is used in chemo patients and in hospitals. It's from Berkeley. You take one packet dry in your mouth, chase it with a glass of water, then take two small capsules. Here is the link for them: http://www.chakrafood.com  (just call to order or find the health food store nearest you-- I tried on MAC and also on a PC, and the program gets 'stuck' at the zip code calculate part)

They are both reputable.

What about children? Many of them are in fact constipated. Little ones would rather play, and 'hold it'. Even the gastroenterologist I worked with yesterday said at  his elementary school, there were no doors on the stalls, and who would want to go like that where everyone could see? He said nobody used it.

I found this laxative--my son agreed to take it because he has 'rabbit pellets' right now (I'm sorry to be so blunt but as a mother I think you moms should know to ask your children from time to time how 'everything's going?')--http://www.renewlife.com/buddy-bear-gentle-lax.html

I also bought everything my mom said to try--prunes (he hated them), dried apricots ('disgusting'),  applesauce, fruits and vegetables (he's picky), increasing water intake, and exercise such as walking.

A gastroenterologist said to put some miralax in the food. It's odorless and tasteless, and really is helpful for just about all children. But something held me back.

According to mom, there comes a time in everyone's life where 'you need to take something for maintenance'. For her, it's applesauce and prune juice every day, and if she misses it one day, she notices it the day after. She has had clostridium difficult colitis several times while in the hospital after her bladder cancer surgery, and this part of her health is very important to her.

I hope you don't mind taking the time to go over elimination in this blog post. It is an important subject. Many in Hawaii in the times of the Kahuna were 'blocked up' and the major efforts and tools of the Kahuna were directed at opening the elimination process. Otherwise a quick death was a result.

If you ask me, one of the prime ways for a 'slow death' at the hands of 'those who do not have our best interest at heart' will have something to do with the colon. I can't put my finger on it, but I just feel in my gut there are slow toxins or something in there to decrease our vitality by affecting this organ system.

And if you suffer from inflammatory bowel disease, know this man 'cured' his ulcerative colitis with diet--that's an important data point too--http://healthwatchman.com

He had nothing to lose, and he gave it a try.

Best Wishes,
Love, and Light.

Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,

Reiki Doc

P.S. The chakra that is affected by constipation is the yellow chakra, the solar plexus. According to Louise Hay and Mona Lisa Shulz, M.D., the imbalance is refusing to let go of the past/stuck in old ideas/ stinginess. The affirmation to use to remedy this is: As I release the past, the new and fresh and vital enter. I allow life to flow through me. 

And of course, there is always Reiki, self Reiki, too.

P.P.S. my general surgeon heard this song and said, 'Look! It's the hemorrhoid song!' (general surgeons fix them, but he wasn't at the time). These recommendations work for hemorrhoids too.

Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash

http://youtu.be/mIBTg7q9oNc