Has anyone here done a colon cleanse

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I have been giving this great thought lately,but wondering if anyone

here has done one of these? If you have can you share your experience

with me, and maybe what product you used?

 

Do you need too follow a special diet as well, how long does one

coleanse for.. i have researched this, but i am looking for personal

experiences, so thought i would try here, and see if anyone has done

one of these:)

 

thanks Missy

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We've used the Paraway Pack by Unicity for a few years. It's a 30 days

cleanse. I can't say I enjoy it but I usually lose about 5 pounds with each

cleanse. They sell for about 60 bucks. There are capsules, a fiber type

powder and tea to drink at night in the pack. It works for us. My kids

even thought hubby & I were weird but now do them with us. We don't follow

a special diet when we're on it.

Malinda

 

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Has anyone here done a colon cleanse

 

I have been giving this great thought lately,but wondering if anyone

here has done one of these? If you have can you share your experience

with me, and maybe what product you used?

[Guest guest]

Hi Missy,

 

I have done colonic irrigation, a one week juice fast, and the Robert

Gray program.

 

Also, I take probiotics and psyllium husks on a regular basis. I have

taken aloe vera whole leaf extract and glutamine powder at times to

help heal gut wall. I have cut out wheat, dairy and eggs - partly

because of mucous formation and partly because of intolerance or

allergy.

 

Over the years I have found things have improved for me (i.e.

allergies, skin, transit times), but I have never experienced the

dramatic expulsion of mucoid matter that some people seem to have and

as shown in the photos in some books.

 

 

I found the colonic irrigation was very helpful. You'll obviously

need to find a person qualified to do this. I needed 8 sessions over

a period of a few months as the irrigationist said I had quite a lot

of mucous build up. My digestion improved, I felt less 'heavy' and

bloated, and really all I had to do was just 'lie there'. (note: I

also took probiotics throughout the course of this). I would do this

again every year if I could afford it.

 

 

The one week juice fast was based on Richard Anderson's (author of

Cleanse and Purify Thyself) program. Carrot/apple juice 5 times per

day with digestive enzymes and herbs to stimulate peristalsis with

each juice. We also added betonite clay mixture to the juice,

although many times I found this made me too nauseous. Some people

also added 'green super food' powder, although I could not bear the

taste of it. We also did colemas twice daily. (Colema is not as deep

as colonic irrigation, but deeper than an enema).

 

Some people on the fast were expelling a lot of mucous. I didn't get

such a dramatic effect and was disappointed because of this. I was

told by the organisers that sometimes, if one has problems letting go

emotionally, one also has problems letting go physically. As that is

part of my personality, perhaps there is something in that. The fast

was very tough. You feel very tired, sometimes nauseous. You need to

have nothing else going on so that you can rest and sleep as you need

to.

 

It will be a long while before I feel up to trying this again. And I

feel you probably need to do a bit of cleansing before you tackle a

juice fast. While I was a little tired and queasy there were some

people who had never done any cleansing who felt far worse. One woman

decided to give up smoking at the same time and after a few days she

could barely even keep the juice down. She was expelling mucous

from 'above and below' and developed a dreadful cough. (She had

accupuncture at the same time to help kill the cigarette addiction).

However, by the end the cough had gone and she said she felt great -

but it was a very tough week for her.

 

I had thought about getting a colema board and a juicer and doing a

fast at home. However, there was a great advantage in paying to go on

a retreat. With 5 juices a day, that's a lot of work and you might be

too tired to do it - on the retreat someone else makes the juice and

brings it too you. Also they had all the colema boards, buckets,

disinfectants, etc. Also there was a lot of emtional support from the

staff and from other fasters. I thought this was quite important

because I found my emotions were all over the place. Perhaps I

detoxed more emotionally than physically that week. And besides the

social support there were other things available: yoga, accupuncture,

massage, reiki, etc.

 

 

I have also tried the Robert Gray Intestinal Cleansing Program. His

book " Colon Health Handbook " is helpful to do the program and it's

quite inexpensive (the book, not the supplements). It's a pretty easy

program to follow, in that you don't have to go through the cleanse

feeling too tired to move. His book advises on how to adjust the

program so that you detox at a comfortable rate without too many

reactions. Again, I didn't have the dramatic expulsions of mucoid

matter, but would do this again. You can do the cleanse for 30, 60,

90 days - very flexible

 

 

Hope that helps,

Sharon

 

 

 

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<frustratedinil wrote:

>

> I have been giving this great thought lately,but wondering if anyone

> here has done one of these? If you have can you share your

experience

> with me, and maybe what product you used?

>

> Do you need too follow a special diet as well, how long does one

> coleanse for.. i have researched this, but i am looking for personal

> experiences, so thought i would try here, and see if anyone has done

> one of these:)

>

> thanks Missy

>