Proper Bowel Moment, Elimination & Cleanliness
It is said that all the “Death Begins in the Colon and if you keep it clean and empty you are free from all the major disease of the world.
Cleanliness Is An Essential Of Life
2.1 The Need for Cleanliness
The body operates most efficiently when it is unfettered. Filth on the outside of the body most people will not tolerate. They readily appreciate external cleanliness and most keep themselves impeccably clean. While there is much to be desired regarding the ways in which most people maintain external cleanliness, nonetheless they are imbued with the necessity of a clean body—at least on the outside.
However, more important than external cleanliness is internal purity. Internal filth damages the body in two ways:
The mere physical presence of pollutants clogs and interferes with body processes. They hinder operations much as a crowd of people in a street hampers automotive traffic.
All contaminants within are poisonous! The body not only objects violently to the physical presence of filth but it also objects to its chemical presence. The body tries to maintain physical and chemical integrity. Anything that alters the consistency of body elaborated fluids and compounds; anything that threatens cell well-being due to its chemical nature is anti-vital, hence poisonous.
Thus we can see that for best performance the body must not be hampered physically or chemically in its operations.
2.2 A Clean Body Is Necessary to Health
The sum total of all the processes whereby the body is cleansed or kept pure is called elimination or drainage. Elimination is the sequel of feeding or alimentation. Ideally the body must eliminate the unusable debris from food ingestion, spent cells, the wastes of metabolism and extraneous substances that may be admitted in some manner. The more thoroughly elimination is effected, the purer is the body.
A thoroughly clean body is necessary to realize the highest level of function—to achieve the highest level of health. Inasmuch as the basic cause of disease is body toxicity, we need to realize the importance of keeping our bodies clean internally as well as externally.
2.3 Body Elimination Must Be Equal to the Need
Obviously, to remain free of burdensome accumulations, both physical and chemical in nature, the body must have full use of its eliminative faculties. If these faculties are impaired by lack of nerve energy, if they have been disabled by toxic materials or if ingestion of toxic matters exceeds ability to cope, then elimination is likewise impaired. Accumulations further vitiate the elimination process until the body must undertake an eliminative crisis (disease) to free itself of its morbid load.
We Americans are habituated to many eating and drinking practices that fill our bodies with alien materials that must be eliminated. Alien materials always take their toll on the eliminative organs. Nonfood materials are usually inherently toxic, especially the alien substances the average American eats and drinks. A constant load of toxic materials taxes the eliminative faculties. Thus we Americans wallow in toxic materials from exogenous sources and, due to their impairing influences, from endogenous sources, too.
By waste we mean all end-products of all the metabolic activities occurring in every cell and organ of the body. Elimination must equal the processes of supply if balance and health are to be maintained. Just as we can be made sick by living in rooms with our fecal and urinary accumulations, so, too, can we be made sick internally if elimination does not occur apace.
To cope with its eliminative needs, the body must enjoy conditions favorable to elimination. As well, it should not be taxed with toxic materials from without.
2.4 The Body’s Daily Cleansing Cycle
Eliminative processes never cease. Every exhaled breath is an act of elimination of toxic gases. The skin exudes some small amount of wastes continuously. But there is one time in each day when the body heightens its eliminative processes. This time is, roughly, from three to four o’clock in the morning until from ten to twelve o’clock noon.
The body’s stepped up elimination during this time is evidenced in many ways. A particularly toxic person may have a furred tongue upon arising. Hunger will not be in evidence. But, if the body is fed just the same, the eliminative processes are depressed though the tongue may still remain somewhat furred.
The body passes through rather distinct cycles daily. These are roughly as follows:
4:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. — eliminative
12:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. — alimentary
8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. — assimilative
In view that few studies of these phases of physiological activity have been made, little is known about them. The information presented here comes from studies made in Switzerland. These cycles are consistent, more or less, with the way things are with healthy humans who observe the natural norm of working days and sleeping nights. Thus we eat when hungry. This is followed by body assimilation and, upon completion, the body turns its energies to elimination of wastes.
2.5 A Brief Look at the Body’s Primary Organs of Elimination
You should strive to master physiology and anatomy to understand the body and how it operates. You will learn much about these subjects as called for in each lesson. Nonetheless, it would be wise to consult basic books on anatomy and physiology. Despite its medical orientation, Reader’s Digest publishes some excellent books on how the body works. We advise you to acquire and study them.
The organs of elimination are as follows:
Lymphatic system (adenoids, tonsils, appendix, spleen, nodes, vessels, etc.). These chemicalize wastes in such a manner as to render them less toxic in preparation for expulsion. The lymphatic system also plays other roles.
Liver. The liver further detoxifies wastes. It is the largest organ and performs myriad nutritive and eliminative tasks.
Kidneys. The renal system filters non-utile wastes from the blood and dispatches it to the bladder. The kidneys perform many other functions as well.
Lungs. The lungs, like most body organs, perform a dual role as supplier and eliminator. They obtain oxygen from the air and supply it to the bloodstream In addition, they remove carbon dioxide and certain other wastes from the bloodstream.
Bowels or colon. The bowels perform few nutritive tasks other than supplying the body with water in emergencies, and electrolytes should the body require them. On the other hand it carries out of the body digestive wastes and metabolic wastes as may be excreted into it by tubes from other organs.
Skin. The skin is the most extensive organ of the human body. Among its many functions are protection of the body from outside influences that would disturb homeostasis, temperature maintenance, cooling and warming and elimination of certain wastes in extremely small amounts. In vicarious eliminative processes such as acne, boils, psoriasis, eczema, rashes, measles, poxes, itches, etc. the skin is used as an organ of elimination. The skin performs a nutritive role in receiving sunlight for conversion into vitamin D.
The tongue is sometimes used by the body as an extraordinary organ of elimination. This is very noticeable when you have a furred tongue. The tongue is not a regular organ of elimination but incidentally one in vicarious processes of extraordinary elimination.
There are occasions when the body will undertake massive eliminative measures. The respiratory system and mouth may be utilized in vomiting; the bowels in diarrhea; the mucous membranes as outlets from the circulatory systems (lymph and blood); the kidneys are used for diuresis; and the skin is sometimes used for diaphoresis and eruptions.
2.6 Supplementary Organs of Elimination
We have cited the regular organs of elimination. Those nonregular organs through which the body eliminates in crises are called vicarious organs of elimination. As mentioned, the tongue, skin, respiratory system and mucous membranes (internal skin) are pressed into eliminative tasks in emergencies. The body can cause ulcers or lesions for the purpose of elimination, or it may utilize ulcers caused by tissue destruction as an extraordinary outlet. In emergencies the body may press any tissue system or organ into service as a vicarious organ of elimination. These may be the eyes, sinuses, bronchioles, lungs and so on.
2.7 The Liver as an Organ of Detoxification
The liver detoxifies internal wastes and also attempts to detoxify exogenous poisons. It passes these detoxified materials either through tubes to the small intestine for passing on to the colon or back to the bloodstream for forwarding to the kidneys where they will be excreted in the urine.
An example of liver detoxification may be seen in the case of alcohol ingestion or its formation within the body by bacteria due to indigestion. The stomach and intestines do not digest alcohol. Alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream as alcohol and circulates until eliminated. The liver detoxifies the alcohol to a great extent and passes it on to the kidneys for excretion. The liver, the body’s foremost chemical factory, varies its chemicals to the need in neutralizing or detoxifying poisons in the blood which pass through it.
2.8 Cleanliness at the Cellular Level
A book we heartily recommend you acquire is Dr. Lewis Thomas’ The Lives of a Cell. Though the cell is generally regarded as the basic unit of life it may not be, for it contains bacteria-like components that act as living entities.
So varied and multitudinous are the functions within a cell that one can spend a lifetime of fascinating study of them. It is said that their operations are more complicated than the most marvelous computer systems—more varied and complicated than the activities in a major city like New York City.
The cells take on supplies and they defecate. It is the lymphatic system, not the bloodstream, that constantly bathes the cells in a liquid medium. From the lymph fluids the cells derive their nutrients by diffusion, pinocytosis and phagocytosis. The cells pass their wastes back into the lymph. Cell wastes are partially detoxified by the lymph organs in preparation for passing them into the bloodstream. The bloodstream, in turn, transports the wastes to the lungs, liver and kidneys for excretion.
Cells are self-cleansing of their metabolic debris. They expel it to the lymph fluids through carriers that, our physiology books tell us, are not yet clearly understood.
2.9 Illnesses as a Cleansing Process
The body keeps itself clean by thousands of different techniques employed by an army of faculties. A hundred trillion cells represents quite a population to be served. It is an unimaginably large aggregation of living units cooperating as an entitative organism for the good of each and every cell and for the organism as a whole.
Due to unnatural practices or influences, humans frequently accumulate toxic substances in their bodies beyond normal capacity for elimination. When the accumulation becomes intolerable within the context of residual vitality, the body will preempt its nerve energy and redirect it to the task of extraordinary elimination or cleansing. When the body does this, disease exists. Acute disease is a body process. The energies normally available for muscular or nervous (brain) activities, digestion, etc. are preempted and redirected. Hence, the sick person has little or no energy for normal pursuits.
When a person is ill, fasting is indicated as a remedial measure. People should also fast periodically even when not ill to help the body effect extraordinary cleansing and healing.
2.10 How the Body Becomes Befouled
There are more ways to accumulate filth in the body than we can chart. Basically, all unwholesome influences and practices debilitate body eliminative faculties and especially lower the body’s supply of nerve energy. The key to keeping the body clean is a way of life that neither distresses nor pollutes it.
2.11 Normal Activities of Life Essential to Internal Cleanliness
The eliminative capacity of the body is truly immense. The body has over-capacity in almost all its faculties. We can live well with one lung, one kidney, etc. The organism thus has safety margins to insure survival.
Most of the world’s people manage to exceed their generous capacity for elimination. Therefore, the necessity for illness or healing crises in order to remove excesses that accumulate. If we live within our capacities as developed in nature, our system will never become befouled in the first place; hence, there is never the necessity for a healing or eliminative crisis—disease.
The living practices that are attuned to our adaptations will not fetter the organism; rather, they will enable us to thrive optimally. Those acts and indulgences which are contrary to human adaptations are bound to interfere with normal functions in many ways, the result of which is to burden the organism with uneliminated toxic materials.
Health depends on internal purity, and this, in turn, depends on practices that promote health rather than practices that result in the retention of morbid matters.
2.12 Fasting as an Extraordinary “Housecleaning” Measure
Whether the organism is befouled or not, fasting is a constructive condition! During the disease process, fasting is imperative to efficiently restore high-level function. In health, fasting rests the faculties, rejuvenates the cells and heightens functions.
Since all diseases have the same underlying cause; that is, body intoxication, there is a nigh universal remedy for the condition. Fasting affords the body the rest it needs so that it may redirect its energies to the task of “housecleaning.” Under the condition of the fast the body will expel retained wastes and impurities. A thoroughgoing rest is, thusly, an almost 100% effective remedial measure.
Health Benefits of the Natural Squatting Position:
How to sit for the toilet, squatting position is the natural pose for elimination of the feces
“That Is The Way It Has Always Been Done”
When it comes to toileting posture, very few people can explain why they do it one
way, but not the other. There is actually a reason why this is so, as explained in a
story that goes something like this:
A young newlywed woman was preparing a meal of chicken for her new husband.
She took great pains to cut the chicken in a particular, if not peculiar, way, prompting
her new husband to ask her why she was preparing the chicken in that manner.
“Because my mother prepared it that way,” replied the young bride.
“Well, why did your mother prepare it that way?” the husband asked her.
“I don’t know, she just does,” said the bride who was beginning to become quite
flustered.
So the husband took it upon himself to call his new mother-in-law to learn the reason
for preparing the chicken in such a bizarre manner. But the mother replied that she
did not know, it was just the way that HER mother had always done it.
Upon consulting with the bride’s grandmother (the mother-in-law’s mother) the
husband learnt that the reason grandmother prepared the chicken in such a manner
was that this was the only way that she could get it to fit in her small pan!
In our daily lives we perpetuate similar practices, for similar reasons – because
THAT IS THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE
In truth, people generally prefer the comfort of the status quo as opposed to learning
and taking in new ideas, knowledge and ways of doing things, especially if the idea,
knowledge or way of doing things – toileting posture included – is different from what
they know and/or have been doing. And thinking is hard. It was Henry Ford who
said that this was why no many people want to think.
The famed German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, put this in another way when he
wrote: “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we
are still not thinking.”
New ideas, concepts and experiences can be frightening, especially when we are
not really thinking. Combine this element of change with a taboo subject – toileting
posture (squat or sit) – and you literally have people quickly running for cover.
We can use “potty humor” and poke fun at “the john” and “crap”, yet when it comes
to actually “doing the deed”, the majority of people are covering their ears, their eyes
tightly shut, chanting in a sing song tone: “I can’t hear you! La la la la!”
“THAT IS THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE”
The reality is that while many Westernized countries have adopted the sitting
toileting posture, it is not the healthiest practice. Numerous studies have linked the
porcelain throne to many serious colon, bladder, prostate and pelvic health problems
that are prevalent in the Western world.
In contrast, the groups which who have a squatting toileting culture, such as the
Chinese, Indians, Japanese, Middle Eastern peoples and Africans, tend to have
fewer occurrences of digestive and elimination problems.
Aristotle said, “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s
way.”
This has been proven over and over to be true. Squatting is the natural position for
elimination and the best way in which the body responds. Squatting promotes the
correct and natural placement of the colon and other internal organs, allowing them
to function properly.
Sitting simply does not facilitate the natural function of elimination. The use of sitting
toilet posture is not only unnatural to the body, but also hinders its natural process of elimination.
“Long ago, Buddha saw the strong connection between the mind and body when he said, “To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
The Ability Or Inability To Squat – Does It Really Matter?
The ability to squat is important because it is intended that human beings evacuate
waste in the squatting position. The Western habit of sitting is actually a recent
development which began about 150 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution,
when sitting-type toilets were introduced to the masses.
Steven Arnott, in his book Wash Your Hands! (Prion Books, 2001), explained why
squatting is better than sitting in such a simple manner that even a young child can
understand:
“Squatting… spreads the buttocks to
reveal the anus, whereas sitting can do
the opposite.”
Sitting toilets can actually do much more harm that just keeping the anus “closed”.
The long-term use of sitting toilets for waste evacuation is detrimental to one’s health.
What many may not be aware is that in the sitting position, there is a natural kink
between the rectum and anus. One has to strain and bear downwards in an attempt
to force a turd around the bend.
It is this straining and ‘pushing downwards’ with the diaphragm while holding the
breath that are the root causes of many serious colon, bladder, prostate, pelvic-
related ailments and diseases
The men who invented the ‘more civilised’ sitting toilet did not understand how the
human body works, the natural requirements of waste elimination or its serious
impact on the health of users.
The truth is that squatting is the best toileting posture as it aligns and straightens the
rectum and anus, resulting in quicker, easier and more complete evacuation.
The foundation of colon health is the use of the squatting position for bowel
movements.
Aside from squatting for bodily functions, the other two elements of colon health are:
(1) daily bowel movements (at least one per day, ideally one for each meal), and (2)
colon cleansing and detoxification (two or more times a year).
Together, they constitute the roadmap to colon health, the result of which is a clean
and healthy colon that provides natural protection and immunity against colon and
digestive ailments and diseases.
Although the old saying “Death Begins in the Colon” may seem to be an
oversimplification, it is more accurate than not in many cases of ill health and
disease.
The situation is quite serious. Diseases of the colon have reached an all time high
worldwide — and are still on the rise.
For instance, in America alone, close to 100 million people today are affected by
colon disorders and diseases such as constipation, diverticular disease, hemorrhoids,
colitis and Crohn’s disease and colon cancer. The total cost for all aspects of these
colon health problems is estimated at more than $100 billion per year.
Colon Health — As Easy As 1-2-3
In summary, colon health boils down to three things, namely daily bowel movements, doing it in the correct way (squatting) and colon cleansing and detoxification.
SQUATTING TIP
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If you have difficulty in doing a squat, place one or two tall-back
chairs at your side and use your hands to hold on to them for support.
Or you could practise squatting with a big exercise ball placed
between your back and a wall.
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Where in The World Can Squat Toilets Be Found?
Squat toilets are relatively unknown in the Western world.
But they are commonplace in many other parts of the world.
There is a surprisingly a large number of countries and
cultures in Asia, the Middle East and Africa where squatting
toilets have always been a part and parcel of daily life.
The locations where squat toilets easily outnumber sitting toilets include the two
most populous countries in the world today: China with a population of 1.8 billion and India, with a population of 1.5 billion.
In fact, about two thirds of humanity (about 4 billion) still uses the squatting position
for bodily functions. The rest – mostly people in the Westernised countries – uses the
seated posture.
In addition to Asia, Middle East and Africa, there are many regions in the world
where squatting toilets can still be found. These include a number of European and
Mediterranean countries, such as France, Germany, Italy, the Balkans and Greece.
They can also be found in Russia and many countries in South America.
They may not be exactly prevalent in some of the countries mentioned, but squat
toilets do exist in many public areas, buildings and homes. Visitors may or may not
encounter them in the newer or more developed areas of these countries. But you
move away and go out to the more rural areas, you would find that squat toilets are
quite common and widely used.
Most of the world’s toilets, however, are largely concentrated in Asia. Countries like
China, India, Pakistan, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, Burma, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore.
Of course, we must not forget countries in the Middle East and Africa. The peoples
of these countries and continent have traditionally been using squat toilets since the
beginning of time. Countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait,
Mauritius, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
SIDENOTE
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As a result of increased Western influence, sitting toilets are now making huge inroads even
in countries which have a cultural tradition of squat toilets. Nowadays, too many people are
giving up – by choice or circumstances beyond their control – squatting toilets for sitting ones.
Few, if any, would switch from sitting to squatting types.
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Proper Sleep & Rest
Why we need sleep?
We spend 1/3rd of our life sleeping, we do not know why we have to sleep so much if we do not sleep we get sick. Health is directly associated with how many hours we sleep. While you sleep body monitors hormones level and thousand other conditions and then it balances all of them to get you going through next day. You may not realize it but a thousand different things are also repaired automatically every single night. Our Lever the world’s most advance chemical factory works in midnight during 1.00am to 3.00 am. To make ourselves healthy we need to sleep, lack of sleep causes blood infection by common and harmless virus. Sleeping is connected with immune system.
The Five Day Gallstone and kidney Stone Flush
The following is a five-day fast (diet) to flush out gallstones and kidney stones without surgery. Please follow instructions to the letter and don’t change anything.
First Day:
Eat only fruits and crackers and drink whatever you like, Brush and floss your teeth well before going to bed. Brush and floss your teeth well before going to bed. You will not be brushing your teeth during the fast as it will stimulate your digestive juices making you hungry as will chewing gum, sucking on a tooth pick or straw or eating hard candy.
Smoking is very dangerous on extended’ fasts. This is a short fast – if you must smoke decrease the frequency and number of inhalations as it will give you a headache and produce stomach acid profusely, causing your stomach and intestines to gurgle. By the second and third day, your body will flush the nicotine reservoirs, and upon breaking the fast, people experience greater ease at stopping the habit.
Second Day:
Mix apple juice and good, clean water in a 50/50 ratio (distilled or filtered water –no tap water). Drink as much as you like and as often as you like. Do not drink pure apple juice. Your liver stores glucose with which to fuel your body, and should you drink pure apple juice it causes spikes in your energy levels, which you will experience as ups and downs in your energy levels. Sometimes during day 2 allow your stomach to empty by drinking no juice/water for atleast 45 minutes. Then heat 1 qt of water and mix in 2
.teaspoons of salt, preferably sea salt; but if it is not available then iodized salt will work fine, although it may produce a slight short headache. While still warm, drink the salt water fairly rapidly. The ratio of 2 teaspoons (one chow hall spoon) to a quart is very important, as it is a salt water mixture that matches the specific gravity of your blood. If you drink blood it cannot enter your kidneys, and since your body will think this is blood, it goes straight into intestines. Your intestines discover it is salty and the salt water will pass through you within an hour or so, flushing your intestines out like a laxative, yet without all the harsh chemicals. You will not need to use such harsh chemical laxatives ever again, knowing that salt water works in this way. Wait until the first time you use the bathroom before you drink again, so that you do not add fluid to any saltwater remaining in your stomach. A “healing crisis” is the term used to describe the process of your body flushing out toxins, preservatives, dead cells, etc, as you fast. For them to leave your body they must enter your blood stream and you may experience short bouts of flu like symptoms, dizziness, or tiredness. This is a good thing; and it will pass. Do not get discouraged- your system is merely cleaning itself. You will see your tongue turn white, your nose may run, your eyes water, etc, as the toxins leave any way they can. Suffer through it.
Third Day:
Repeat the process of the second day.
Fourth Day:
Repeat the process of the second day. In the evening allow your stomach to empty. Then drink ½ cup of virgin olive oil (a vitamin c bottle full), followed by ¼ cup of lemon juice (vegetable oil will work in place of olive oil). Immediately lay on your right side with a pillow or two under your hip for a minimum of 2-3 hours. Your hip should be cocked enough to be uncomfortable. This will tilt you, allowing the oil and the lemon juice to help your gall bladder eject the stones into your stomach. You might even feel it happening. If you need to urinate, do so quickly and return to your position. After 2-3 hours, you may remove the pillows, roll over and go to sleep. During the night, some people awaken in need of going to the toilet to evacuate the stones as a bowel movement.
Fifth Day:
Both the persons who evacuated during the night and those who did not should do a salt-water flush immediately upon awakening, to evacuate any remaining stones. Continue with apple juice and water all day. This is very important as you have put your organs through some work and the need a lot of rest and continued flushing before being assaulted with a stomach full of food to digest.
Sixth Day:
Break your fast upon awakening. Treat your body delicately and begin with small quantities of fruit, crackers, then later build towards heavier foods, light soup or oatmeal. Eat nothing heavy or rich, like meat or thick spicy soup on this day. The longer the fast the longer one should take to return to their normal diet. This is a short fast, so you can return to a normal diet within two days. A healing crisis may occur upon breaking the fast as your system uses the first nutrients (if they are good ones) to start the cleansing process.
By day 2 and 3 kidney stones will be leaving with your urine. If you wish to validate them or save them, urinate through some kind of strainer.
Upon ejecting the gallstones into the toilet, you will see a rainbow of colours. The big, dark stones are the oldest; some of them have been there since childhood. The small green stones are the youngest. The apple juice has softened them somewhat. Still, if you wish to save them or examine them scoop them up with something and rinse the fecal matter off. They will soon return to their original hardness. Everybody passes stones if this is their first flush. If you did not pass stones you did something wrong. There should be from 50 to 500. One person did something wrong by putting the pillow under his stomach instead of his hip; another avoided the saltwater flush for fear it would aggravate his blood pressure (there was no need to fear this as the SW cannot enter your kidneys if the ratio is followed and the intestines reject it just as they reject blood if you drank it). Both persons later did the process again and ejected stones.
Fasting is one of the best suppressed secrets of our age. Fasting prevents sickness, as it flushes out built-up toxins that in later years cause sickness. It also stimulates the immune system as the energy normally used to move food through 30 feet of intestines (intestinal peristalsis) is used to heal and flush. It gives your organs a rest. We assault them day in and day out for decades with everything we put in our mouths and all that goes with it.
Allergies vanish, intestinal problems disappear, blemishes clear, the skin tones up. There are records of our body flushing every type of foreign substance imaginable- up to tumors and cancers- during fasts. Lew Strugat cured so many people of cancer at his Houston clinic that he was arrested 5 times. His cured patients and their families organized a petition to the courts and now they do not arrest him anymore: but he cannot advertise!
