Prema, What a great email! Love Liza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prema Qadir" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Constipation-Never take colonics or enemas > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >COLONICS CAUSE CANCER OF THE COLON > > > Greetings! > > QUESTION #1: > What are the signs of colon cancer? > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >Colonics, enemas, laxatives, cleanses, purgatives, cathartics, drastics, > >mineral oil, rectal dilators, anal suppositories and other similar treatments > >to force bowel movements, are all dangerous and harmful to your body. Never > >take them. They impair the entire metabolic processes of your body. All > >forcing measures are enervating. I have cared for over 100,000 patients with > >all kinds of health problems, and I have helped them better their health. > > > QUESTION #2: > Dr. Bernarr, have you ever cared for someone who takes aloe vera powder, daily? > > QUESTION #3: > Do you think there are any benefits or problems with taking aloe vera > powder, daily? > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >With these over 100,000 patients, many cases of cancer of the colon, polyps > >of the colon, ulceration, hemorrhoids, colitis, flatulence, peritonitis and > >other digestive disorders, have had their origin from these forced bowel > >movement procedures. These forced bowel movement procedures are greatly > >enervating. They cause such a great loss of vital energy. Your body becomes > >so weakened as a result of such, that they prevent your body from properly > >detoxifying. They drain your bodily needed resources. They rob your colon of > >its protective coating of mucous, and make your colon weak and lazy. > > > QUESTION #4: > What is the mucous protecting the colon from? > > QUESTION #5: > Should the mucous be eliminated, periodically? If so, how often? > > I have been taking aloe vera powder for several months, upon the advice of > a naturopath, who has been helping me to lose weight and get healthy, > again. I was told that because I was overweight, I "probably" have lots of > sludge stuck in my colon. > > The naturopath wanted me to get regular colonic treatments from Day 1 [Feb > 2001], however, I could not find a colon therapist in my area. I finally > found someone in August, > > The colonic produced nothing, except for pieces of orange-brown slime, > which I typically see in my stool, every day, since I started taking > powdered aloe vera capsules. The colon therapist was shocked by the fact > that no feces was expelled and commented that the orange-brown slime was > probably mucous and that it was abnormal for the mucous to come out. > > My naturopath has a different opinion. He had me read "Rational Fasting" > by Ehret and said that he wanted me to eat a non-mucous forming diet. I > ate a macrobiotic diet, composed mostly of brown rice, couscous, tofu, > beans, nuts, raw fresh vegetables and fruit and juices. I lost 65 lbs. > between Feb. and Jun. > > Last week, I visited a friend and drank several glasses of wine and ate > lots of fish and vegetables. I noticed larger quantities of the slimy > stuff, but it was a dark orange color. > > QUESTION #6: > Is the orange-brown slimy stuff mucous? > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >They are > >not natural and no animals in the wild take them, to move their bowels. Some > >birds wash their rectums by injecting water into their long beaks but not to > >give themselves an enema nor colonic irrigation. > >Mind your own business and let the bowels mind theirs. Their is no law of > >nature that says you must have a daily bowel movement. > >The last half of your colon is the storage colon. The feces are in a > >semisolid form and are not absorbable. There is no absorption of poisons from > >your colon while you are water fasting, while you are on a so-called > >elimination diet or while you are eating the Standard American Diet. Contrary > >to common belief, there is no hardened, caked-on crust of toxic waste > >materials lining your colon which "can only be removed by colonics". Bowel > >movement is not elimination. When your bowels move, there is only voiding of > >what was previously eliminated and what had never been in your body at all, > >but only in your digestive tube. > >If your instinctive, inherent intelligence, your God within, does not want to > >move your bowels, you should not think that you are smarter than your > >beautiful, intelligent living body. Your colon, when permitted to do so, > >performs its function, as automatically and spontaneously, as your heart, > >liver, stomach, kidneys and breathing. > > > Dr. Bernarr, how many times per day should my bowels move eliminated fecal > matter OUT of my body? > > I USED to be severely constipated. My bowels would leave my body, about > every 3-4 days. Maybe if I had trusted my inherent intelligence of the God > within, I might have had a bowel movement by the 5th day or more. I just > could not bear to do that because of the: > > 1) physical discomfort > 2) carbohydrate food cravings/binging > 3) lethargy > 4) depression > > When I was chronically constipated, I started out [in my youth] using > Ex-Lax. As I grew older and understood more about my body, mind and soul, > I used "natural" products to eliminate body wastes. Presently, I take aloe > vera capsules and cayenne pepper [infrequently]. > > I have not been constipated for several months. This is the first time in > my existence that this is so. If I ever find myself constipated and in > need of giving my inherent intelligence of the God with some help, I think > that I would blend senna leaves in a fruit smoothie and/or drink some > Smooth Move [senna] tea. > > QUESTION #7: > What do you think about my contingency plan [above]? > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >If you break your arm or leg or you are having heart pains, those bodily > >parts are under inflammatory stress. If you force them to move because you > >think you are more intelligent than the inherent intelligence of the God > >within, you will end up crippling yourself or maybe dead! Your inflammatory > >stressed digestive tract is no different from your broken arm or leg or your > >heart, that is in pain. They all need physiological rest until they heal. > >Leave them alone. Just water fast, in bed, with your eyes closed, feelingly > >meditating on your symptoms, until you are asymptomatic. > > > I think that I could do what you suggest, NOW. > > But, when I was chronically constipated, I do not think it possible. Of > course, there were extenuating circumstances, in my own case. Because I > was overweight, I had problems with cyclic binging, due to food cravings, > which I now believe were the result of improper balance of > proteins/carbohydrates/fats [mainly, not enough protein]. I was not > exercising, either. Since I've changed my personality and now that I've > learned how to properly eat and exercise, I am doing fine. I jes need to > continue to lose more weight. > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >Your bowels do not move because your gastrointestinal tract is under more > >inflammatory stress than you can presently tolerate. Enervation from lack of > >rest and sleep, overeating, wrong eating, incompatible food combinations, > >overwork, nervous tension, nervousness, lack of proper exercise, lack of > >fresh air and sunshine, overworking the kidneys and impairing digestion by > >drinking too much water, atony (lack of muscular tone), spasticity and a > >self-destructive lifestyle, are the principal causes of one's bowel's > >inactivity. > > > Now, that I am "regular" and properly eating, sleeping, exercising, > relaxing, drinking water, meditating and getting out in the fresh ocean > air/sun, I can follow your advice. > > My naturopath said that I should take the aloe vera for the rest of my life > or until my body intelligence tells me that I don't need it any more. He > says it is working to remove accumulated unwanted material surrounding my > organs and it helps to bring water into my colon to assist elimination [I > used to hold more water in my body, especially around my ankles and the > tops of my feet]. > > QUESTION #8: > What signs would I experience, in your opinion, that should convince me to > stop taking the aloe vera capsules? > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >There are occasions when one's body finds it necessary to muster > >all of its energies for some special purpose, as in serious sickness > >accompanied by lack of desire for food, and your colon may remain inactive > >for some time. Give it a physiological rest, a water fast, until your > >digestive tract is asymptomatic and/or you are genuinely hungry > >If your colon is under inflammatory stress, i.e., you are constipated, you > >should, while water fasting, close your eyes, feel, concentrate on and > >feelingly meditate on, whatever symptoms you have in your colon. Your colon > >is always talking to you. Listen and do what your God within, your inherent > >intelligence is telling you to do. > > > I like to believe that I am in a constant state of meditation, plus I > intentionally practice Taijiquan and yoga, but I know that I would benefit > by spending MORE time sitting, lying or standing in silence. > > > >Dr Bernarr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >Then you can spontaneously have all the bowel movements that you need. > >Nothing cleanses your colon but your colon itself. Your bowel is a > >self-cleansing organ. Your God within your colon has successfully cleansed > >itself spontaneously for billions of years, since life began on earth. It is > >already built into the genes, chromosomes and the DNA. You never need a > >therapeutic agent to cleanse your colon. The enema, colonic, cleanses, etc., > >have no power themselves. They are inert substances. Only your live colon has > >the power to react. > >Your colon has but one function in relation to food waste. Your colon retains > >the waste until such time as your inherent intelligence is ready to dispose > >of it. > > > Thank you! > > > forward! > trust, prema