nickdutch wrote:FEISTY wrote:nickdutch wrote:Ordered myself an enema kit to help me with general health during normal times and possibly rehydration in more difficult times
Now I subscribe to "You Are What You Eat" and I wish I was a bit more salad, but if you eat your roughage, drink your water and don't eat too much crap, you absolutely do not need an enema kit
. It might come in useful for siphoning water/petrol though
.
If you have GERD, IBS, Candida and more recently diagnosed genetic liver abnormality, you will do whatever you can to function as well as you can and to do so in a manner that is known for its efficacy as well as doing it holistically, healthy and cheap rather than buying tonnes of stuff that might not help the problem and might make matters worse.
Practicing enemas once every 1-2 weeks is probably a good way of doing things. However I admit that I have more research to do.
Hi nickdutch - I'm sorry if you have any or all of the above, but I googled GERD - already familiar with IBS and Candida - and cannot for the life of me see how an enema can make anything but a very temporary difference. GERD affects the "stomach" and the oesophagus. The enema will work on the lower bowel to flush out already processed waste, whether that waste is well processed or the bowel as a whole is not working at optimum capacity and things have become a bit compacted, etc. I can't see how it would help anyone with IBS, as that to my mind doesn't seem to be a problem with what's in the bowel and, whereas the spasms might be painful, the people I've known with IBS's other problem is getting to a loo fast enough. Similarly, I can see no reasonable need for using enemas with the other conditions. Obviously, I'm not a doctor, but I would worry that you might actually do some damage with what is quite an invasive procedure. If you think it benefits you, it probably does, but I would rather get to the root of a problem than treat the symptoms. Personally, I think doctors are too busy to sort things out in a holistic way and just prescribe a cocktail of drugs which makes matters worse and thankfully I haven't needed to go to one in years. Touch wood
! The more I look at this list of illnesses, the more they look connected. All to do with the digestive processes and you'd seem to have an acidic system which allows candida to flourish and that is a marker in cases of IBS - it can also cause acid reflux. If I was you, I'd be working on eating for candida reduction (making your system more alkaline). I'm not a big fan of drugs, but wondered if you'd tried Candiclear? I really hope you can sort these things out or at least reduce the symptoms to manageable levels. People scoff at her, but I reckon Gillian McKeith has the right idea about most things, except for the enemas, which I think are designed to give her patients a "quick start" weight loss (maybe they do need an enema - I cannot believe how long many of them have gone without going
!) and it's good television.
