Dredging the Drains
By Daniel Reid
Of all the excretory organs, the colon is the most abused and overloaded these days. Believe it or not, the average Western male today carries about 5-6kg of dense, rubbery, mucoid material – a thick toxic sludge – imbedded in his bowels, and none of it is ordinary faeces. It’s the sort of deeply impacted slime that you find in the drainpipe of a clogged kitchen sink.
During a detox programme, it’s a very good idea to eliminate as much of this toxic lining as possible from the bowels, and to accomplish that you should take ground psyllium seed shaken in water at least twice daily, and drink plenty of extra water.
The psyllium and the water gel up to form a fibrous bolus that sweeps through your bowels like a broom, loosening and eliminating mounds of impacted wastes from the walls of the bowels. For even more dramatic results and a complete cleansing of the entire colon, a series of colonic irrigations is recommended, especially during the first few days of a detox programme.
In addition to cleansing the colon and eliminating a major source of toxins to the bloodstream, colonic irrigation triggers a strong detox response in the liver, and a major cleansing reaction throughout the body. It’s impossible to describe in words the sheer volume and incredibly foul appearance of the putrid mucoid wastes that come tumbling out of the body with a series of colonic irrigations, after festering in the bowels for years and years. It’s definitely a case of ‘seeing is believing’, and anyone who’s ever done it can testify how good it feels to dump all that bad rubbish from their bodies.
If you really wish to ‘start at the bottom’ in a progressive programme to completely detoxify and regenerate your whole system, then you should definitely begin with a series of colonic irrigations to dredge your bowels of all the putrefied, partially digested debris and toxic residues that have accumulated inside over the years.
This is best done in conjunction with a 3-7 day water or juice fast. Until you do this, regardless of how well you cleanse your blood and tissues by other means, the sludge in your bowels will continuously seep toxins right back into your bloodstream, virtually everyone today has this problem.
Even a hundred years ago, the famous American naturopath Dr Harvey Kellogg, who invented the corn flake and was portrayed in the novel and film Road to Wellville, noted, ‘Of the 22,000 operations that I have personally performed, I have never found a normal colon.’ V.E. Irons, who devoted his long life to promoting colon health, remarked, ‘About the only place you see a normal healthy colon today is in an anatomy book!’
It’s rather pointless to embark on a major new dietary programme and spend a lot of money on expensive nutritional and herbal supplements if your bowels are impacted with toxic wastes from years of pollutants and wrong eating habits. Not only does this thick slimy lining constantly secrete toxins into the bloodstream through the bowel walls, in the small intestine it blocks the assimilation of nutrients and herbal essences into the bloodstream. As Dr. Norman Walker, who lived to the age of 116 by practising what he preached, states in his book Colon Health: The Key to a Vibrant Life:
The elimination of undigested food and other waste products is equally important as the proper digestion and assimilation of food …. The very best diets can be no better than the very worst if the sewage system of the colon is clogged with a collection of waste and corruption.
Those who have done colon hydrotherapy always remark on how much better they feel afterwards and how colon hydrotherapy often eliminated chronic conditions that defied all other treatments. Nothing facilitates internal cleansing and accelerates the detox process as effectively as colonic irrigation. If you’re still a ‘colonic virgin’ and you really wish to know how it feels to unclog your bowels and wash them ‘squeaky clean’, you should gird your loins and take the plunge as the first big step on your own ‘Road to Wellville’.
