The Importance of Proper Digestion and Food Assimilation by Rita Lambros-Segur, M.H.

opening of the colon. In eight hours the food has traveled more than

twenty-five feet or ten times the distance which remains to be traveled.

When the work of digestion is finished and the useful part of the food

has been absorbed, there remains nothing to be done but to dispose of the

indigestible and useless residue by pushing it along two or three feet

further. Certainly no good reason can be assigned for the further retention

of the waste matters. It is indeed highly absurd to suppose that forty

hours are needed to transport the feces two and a half feet when they have

already traveled twenty-five feet in eight hours.

Dr. John Christopher, a naturopathic doctor, recommended moving the bowels

at least three times a day or after each meal. Four movements daily is a

still better rhythm and is easily established by a biologic regimen. When

toxic waste matter is left to stagnate in the lower bowel tract, the system

becomes polluted with poisonous gases which congest and irritate the surrounding

organs, causing adhesions, and other ailments.

The carmine capsule test shows that in most cases in which the bowels

move once daily, the waste disposal function is always several days in

arrears.

The colon contains the waste and residues of several meals--anywhere

from five to twenty or even more, so that there is ample opportunity

for the putrefactive process to get well under way. The putrefaction

is the source of the foul odor and gases which originate in the colon,

and which are not only most offensive to the sense of smell, but as is

well known, are also highly poisonous, and may give rise to nausea,

"biliousness," loss of appetite, foul tongue, bad breath, dingy skin,

headache, Bright's disease, and a host of other grave disorders.

Meat also has become a culprit in the developement of constipation, as

it encourages putrefaction of the colon both by introducing putrefactive

organisms in great numbers and also by providing material which is best

calculated to encourage the growth of putrefactive organisms in the colon.

Through the putrefaction of undigested remnants of the meat eaten,

ammonia and other alkaline substances are formed which paralyze the

bowel.

The infection of the bowel which results from meat-eating also gives

rise to colitis and causes a spastic or contracted condition of the

descending colon, a condition found in the most obstinate forms of

constipation.

Most persons who suffer from constipation also habitually drink too

little water. Women drink less than men. It is difficult to account for

this scanty use of a necessary of life, which costs little and is of

such inestimable value to the body. The consequence of a scanty use of water

is abnormal dryness of the feces, which delays their passage through the lower

colon, and often causes an actual stoppage in the pelvic colon or the rectum.

Persons who sweat much, either as the result of hot weather, vigorous

exercise, or hot baths, are likely to suffer from constipation, unless

special care is taken to supply the body with water sufficient to make

good the loss. The skin ordinarily throws off as perspiration an ounce

and a half of water each hour, or more than a quart in twenty-four hours.

By active exercise or sweating baths this amount may be increased to thirty

or forty ounces in an hour. The kidneys excrete two to three pints daily.

It is evident, then, that care must be exercised to replace the water

that is lost through the skin and kidneys.

Of course, one may receive temporary relief of constipation by using

an herbal laxative to clear the lower bowel tract, but only lower bowel

tonics will get at the cause. With these quality tonics and stabilized

probiotics, we feed the eliminative organs and allow them to work on

their own and eventually eliminate the use of enemas, colonics and

laxatives. The proper procedure is to build up the body, to cleanse

it, and see that the bowels work freely.

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