take tamarind, it work wonder.
Chronic constipation - get over it.
The following are natural laxatives that help with constipation but do not irritate or poison your colon like laxatives or medicinal herbs. Tamarind:
The following are natural laxatives that help with constipation but do not irritate or poison your colon like laxatives or medicinal herbs.
Tamarind:
Some of you who've tasted tamarind may wonder how can this be a fruit! It's so sour! Well, lemons are considered a fruit and tamarind is just like lemons. If you eat a lot of tamarind fruits in one sitting you'll end up with diarrhea! Tamarind is a powerful natural laxative. More powerful than prunes. So it is an excellent natural solution for constipation problems.
Tamarind also aids digestion, lowers fevers, has antiseptic effects and is also known to be high in vitamin C.
Tamarind can be found in grocery stores in the fruit section. It has a tan/brown pod-like shape and paper like skin. Buy only closed pods, not broken ones and make sure the pod color is closer to tan not toward gray. Press on the papery skin to break it and remove the strings and seeds. Eat the black moist meat. Open the meat part with your fingers and check the inside. If it's totally white, it's good to eat. If you find little seedy brown things inside the meat, then it's not good to eat (this indicates that it's decomposing).
If you have a severe case of constipation, you are better off drinking a glass of tamarind juice at night before you go to sleep and another glass first thing when you wake up in the morning. To make juice, buy tamarind paste from Thai or Chinese groceries (Whole Foods grocery sells this paste in the Asian section). Sometimes it is sold as a liquid or dried. If you get dried tamarind, soak in water for an hour, then using a fork, puree the pulp, mix with water and drink.
You could also use dried or tamarind paste for cooking. Many Thai recipes use tamarind fruit and lemon grass for their sour taste instead of salt. Now you can avoid the harmful side effects of salt and get the same sour taste for your recipes. Tamarind is truly an incredible fruit.
Cinnamon:
Also called cassia, cinnamon is the fruit of a plant that is found in most tropical countries. It is one of humanity's oldest fruits used for medicinal purposes with its recorded use in Egypt dating back to 2,500 B.C.
Cinnonman helps with constipation because "...it triggers a biliary release and activates intestinal peristalsis.....Cassia is particularly indicated in the event of constipation during infectious illnesses. But how does cassia facilitate detoxification and trigger the elimination of all kinds of abnormal material from the body? The exact mechanism is not known, but it appears that cassia acts to permit large proteins to cross the intestinal membrane in order to pass from the blood into the colon. Cassia is a natural food which can play a crucial role...to facilitate the detoxification processes...Between six and eight hours after cassia has been ingested, its laxative effect manifests in the form of diarrhea which is abundant but not painful...It is important, however, not to take too much cassia, especially at the beginning. The doses should be small at first, and gradually increased until the point is reached where the regulation becomes instinctive." (Comby, pgs. 199-200).
Dates:
This sugary sweet fruit is one of the most ancient plant foods of the Middle East. Dates are used in the Middle East for weakness and digestive health. Most of us are aware of dates nutritional value and high sugar content which sometimes can be up to 60 percent. However, most of you may not be aware that dates have complete protein (all the essential amino acids). Also dates are good sources of B12, niacin, iron, and potassium. Present in small amounts in dates are calcium, chlorine, magnesium and vitamins A, B1 and B2. Fiber is also high in dates which helps the digestive system.
Figs:
Figs have many medicinal properties. They aid digestion by cleansing and soothing the intestine; they also treat dysentery and constipation.
Of all the common fruits, the fig has the highest sugar content. Dried, a fig is about 50 percent sugar; fresh, about 10 percent. Dried figs have more dietary fiber than prunes, and-ounce for ounce- are higher in calcium than cow's milk (Wood, pg. 129). According to a report in the scientific journal (Nature April, 1998), in which about 60 species of figs were studied, figs contained up to four times the calcium content of most other fresh foods. Five figs can give you 250 mg of calcium (Delicious Living, November 02). Figs also have high amounts of protein, and abundant magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium.
If you eat figs fresh, eat their skin where most of the fiber and calcium are.
Don't know if an enema it would have been a long term solution.
Which is a good thing as I'm now confident that there's less buildup of waste in the colon. Somehow the oils act as lubricants for the body
