I have conflicting information as to how many bowl movements is good or normal. What is the normal amount for a person with a healthy cleansed colon or is on a regular colon cleanse regiment?
Colon Cleanse Archives
Complete Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kits, separately packaged at a special discounted price. Ideal for a partner or friend. Equivalent to the Blessed Herbs Partner Pak
What the Colon Cleanse Kit™ Does |
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1) Assures Regular and Comfortable Bowel Movements* |
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| The herbal stimulant formula not only helps the bowels move regularly (2–3 times/day), but also includes carminative herbs that reduce or eliminate cramps, gas and griping that could be caused if stimulating herbs are taken by themselves. | |
2) Removes Old, Accumulated Waste from Your Small and Large (Colon) Intestines* |
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| In the following section (see Removing Built-up Waste - external link), is explained how cleansing combined with a liquids-only fast enables the herbal blend to literally bind to and pull out old waste that is stuck to your intestinal walls.* The Colon Cleansing Kit™ may alternatively be done without fasting, providing a milder cleanse for increased regularity and gentler cleansing. | |
| To maintain optimum energy during the five day, liquid only fast we recommend taking the Organic Superfood along with the The Colon Cleansing Kit™. It will support your natural energy levels, while allowing you to maintain a liquid only diet. That said, it is not required to take this during the cleanse and many people have completed the cleanse only by taking juice. | |
3) Rejuvenates the Digestive System* |
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| The herbal formulas of the Colon Cleansing Kit™ are designed to restore and encourage the natural functions of your entire digestive system, including the stomach, both the small and large (colon) intestines, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.* | |
| • Stimulates digestive secretions* • Provides tonic support for digestive organs and mucus membranes* • Decongests the liver and stimulates bile flow* |
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4) Prepares You for the Internal Cleansing Kit |
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| The Colon Cleansing Kit™ can be used (2-4 times/year) as a stand-alone cleansing therapy – or as the first step of the Complete Cleansing Program™. It is highly recommended to fully cleanse the colon prior to beginning the Internal Cleansing Kit™. A well-functioning colon enables the herbal formulas to work directly with the other five pathways of cleansing (liver, lungs, kidneys, skin and lymph), without having to deal with a “backed-up” body sewer (colon) – the 6th pathway.* By removing old, accumulated wastes from the intestines, this allows the Para-Cleansing formulas of the Internal Cleansing Kit™ to re-balance the “unwanted guests” population more easily and more completely.* | |
How do I take the Organic Superfood with the Colon Cleansing Kit? |
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| If you decide to take the Organic Superfood it is best to take it two hours after taking Toxin Absorber to assure maximum absorption of the nutrition. You should note that unlike a regular meal, the energy usually only lasts for about an hour. If you take it between Toxin Aborber packets you can take up to five drinks of the Organic Superfood each day of the colon cleanse. The Organic Superfood will not interfere with the removal of old intestinal debris. However, you may notice that some of your bowel movements are tinged with green - this is normal. | |
Daily Bowel Movements |
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| If you get to the end of the day and have not had a bowel movement or if you feel constipated, don't wait until the next day. Take an enema / colema before bed that very same day and also increase 'your number' of Digestive Stimulator capsules that evening. | |
The colon forms the largest part of the large intestine, the 'tube' through which digested food passes.
That food is joined by digestive juices, including stomach acid and bile, on its route through the digestive system. That semi-fluid mass, known as chyme, isn't all just waste, though. A great many things happen to it on its way out of the body first.
The partially digested material that exits from the small intestine still contains a great deal of water, liquid that the body conserves naturally. The muscular and chemical action inside the colon helps extract that water from the chyme along its journey, a trip through the approximately 5 feet of colon inside the abdominal cavity.
Extracting that water isn't just a matter of efficiency, though. Proper water balance is vital to a huge variety of the chemical reactions in the body, as well as playing an essential role in internal temperature regulation. The colon does much more than just pack digested food into feces for elimination.
While that water is being extracted other important processes are taking place. There are over 700 species of bacteria that live in the 'gut', many of them playing a crucial role in digestion and health. Among other things, they help produce vitamins K and Biotin (a B-type vitamin).
The colon absorbs some of those products of the digestive processes of the bacteria themselves, then passes them back into the bloodstream. The blood then distributes those nutrients to tissues throughout the body. This is just one reason that antibiotics need to be taken with care. They can suppress not only harmful bacteria but the useful ones, too.
Those bacteria are also responsible for creating the gas (flatus) that sometimes upsets your stomach or fouls the air. As they consume undigested polysaccharides usually in the form of human-indigestible fiber we eat, they produce that gas. The gas itself is not, contrary to popular thinking, mostly methane or hydrogen sulphide ('egg' gas). It's chiefly nitrogen and carbon dioxide, with trace amounts of those other molecules, along with some hydrogen.
When those bacteria break down fiber they're producing nutrients not only for their own survival, but the vitamins mentioned above. At the same time, they generate compounds that provide nourishment for the cells that line the colon (the epithelium). They also contribute to creating lymphatic cells that form a key part of the immune system.
The chyme, now fully processed, continues to move down the colon by a slow process of muscular contraction called peristalsis. The python-like squeezing and relaxing moves the material ultimately down into the rectum, compacting it and extracting water to form feces. Note, the rectum is the six inch or so 'tube' just up from the anus, the opening. The feces are then squeezed out the anus in a bowel movement.
The whole process can take 10-12 hours and, as you can see, involves much more than simply pushing digested food waste through a 2 1/2 inch diameter tube. It's a necessary partner in total body health.