herbal therapy and a raw food diet.
MODULE 6.9
Healthy Bowel ManagementPoor bowel management lies at the root of most people’s health problems. I
have been teaching colon health for the last thirty-five years. My friend, the
late Dr. Bernard Jensen, was teaching this for well over sixty years. Having
worked with over 300,000 clients, Dr. Jensen’s research has concluded: “It is
the bowels that invariably have to be cared for first before any effective
healing can take place.” As a matter of fact, the natural health field mainly got
started around matters of the gastrointestinal tract.
Bowel wisdom is generally a topic that few people desire to discuss. Yet,
keeping the bowels (intestinal tract) healthy and in good shape is one of the
best ways to keep out of the grip of toxicity and cell enervation.
Your gastrointestinal tract is the center or hub of your body, just as the
hub of a wheel is the supporting part of a wheel. It is one of the main organ
systems of your body. Now the real question should be, “How do we save
and regenerate the GI tract, which is as important as the heart?” Without
digestion, absorption and elimination we die. This canal—mouth through
anus—is how you introduce energy and chemistry from foods into your
body. From the colon on is where and how we eliminate our wastes, which is
vital to the survival of your body. The proper elimination of wastes from
food digestion and cellular metabolism is as important as the ingestion of
your foods.
As we learned in Chapter 2, the small bowel is divided up into three
parts: the duodenum, where digestion takes place, which is about 10 inches
long; the jejunum, for both digestion and absorption, which is approximately
9 feet long; and the ileum, for absorption, which is approximately 13 feet
long. The large intestine is called the colon, which is 5 feet long and divided
up into the cecum, ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid and rectal
sections. Each section of the colon has been linked to different organs and
glands of the body and has an effect upon these tissues, good or bad. When
you were in the embryo stages of life, this colon plus the spinal cord were the
first two areas of the body that were formed. You will find all your genetic