CONSTIPATION
 

The longer the faeces stay in the colon, the larger they become.
Difficult or irregular bowel movement.
Usually always related to wrong (denatured food) diet and then exacerbated by stress overload in body or mind, or both.
If we tend to eat 3 meals a day each one is scheduled by nature to eliminate every ±18 hours.

LIFESTYLE ATTENTION

• If males sit down to urinate rather than stand up - be surprised at the number of times you'll pass stools when you never expected to.
• Never resist any urge to go to the toilet.
• Avoid dairy products, vinegar and salt.
• Do not use laxatives - they weaken the very muscles that help to promote peristalsis movement through the bowel. Ultimately the condition of constipation worsens.
• Introduce and increase to ± 70% vegetables and their fibre into your diet. Fruit and brown rice to 15% Reduce fats, meat, chips, fish to ± 10%.
• Drink at least 4-6 glasses of filtered water daily.
• Substitute rice cakes for bread - all bread.
• In children constipation is often caused by too much cow's milk. Swap to soya or lamb's (ewe's) milk.
• In most cases constipation is diet-related.

HOMOEOPATHIC

• Nux - Used to pass stools, but now nothing comes
• Byronia - Dry, hard stools, particularly in elderly
• Aluminia - No desire to open bowels
• Opium - Lazy bowels
• Graphites - Lazy bowels
• Plumbum - Straining with only little pillules
• Lycopodium - No desire to open bowels and craving of sweet foods

TISSUE SALTS

• Nat Mur - Dry, painful rectum with straining being necessary and then only passing stools that are somewhat hard and crumbly

HERBALS

• Dandelion coffee or infusion of a mixture 2 x in equal proportions of
  dandelion root, yellow dock and 1 x teaspoon of senna, liquorice and
  ginger. Take before retiring each night.

AROMATHERAPY

• Bath Mix - Cardomon (20) Black Pepper (20)
• Massage Mix - Patchouli (50)
  Rub the oil in small slow clockwise cycles on to the area, between the bottom of the ribcage and the top of the pelvis. Simply lie on your back and using the pressure of one hand over the other press, massaging fingers to make an indent of about 2 cms into the abdomen. Move in reverse (anti-clockwise). Repeat several times. This should help loosen the bowels.
• Internal Mix
  Drink warm water with 2 teaspoons of raw honey plus 1 x drop of ginger and 1 x drop of fennel just before massaging.

SPECIAL FOODS

• Live yoghurt on rising mixed with whey powder, spirulina powder, liquorice powder and psyllium powder.
• Dandelion coffee.
• Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables - raw or steamed - particularly green and the root variety.
• Plenty of salads.
• Prunes - about 6 twice a day - sun dried only.
• Wholegrain foods.

SPECIAL EXERCISE

• Consult a specialist for your individual programme.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Bach Flower Remedies - walnut + holly + larch
• Drink 1/4 teaspoon green clay in 1/2 glass warm water.