Colitis Cures?

Colitis Cures? I was asked this yesterday. ‘Are there any good colitis cures?’ My answer was ‘yes there is one – it’s a natural one and it’s the same as the one for IBS and Crohn’s.’ Any other inflammatory bowel condition cure is bogus. Why is this so? It’s because these are all the same condition with the same cause and the same cure. What is the alternative? Covering up the symptoms of colitis with synthetic drugs is not a cure. You would be surprised at how many people think so. One person told me- ‘I don’t have a bowel problem—- I take prednisone!’ The one true cure is to rebuild the colon using the organic raw materials that it is made of. The last that I checked colons are not made of chemicals.

Exploring the Train of Pain

You may not realize that the various inflammatory bowel conditions are actually related: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, and Crohn’s. Let’s take a minute and look at these conditions. From the point of view of a naturopathic practitioner each of these issues is really just a progressively worse version of the previous one.

With each of these conditions as time goes by without the proper treatment there is more and more damage being done to the tissue of the GI tract. You can compare this damage to that of first, second, and third degree burns. As the level of a burn gets higher not only is it more painful but also more complicated to treat.

I call this progression ‘the train of pain.’ Each GI issue can be considered a stop along the way. The symptoms accumulate at each ‘stop.’

The 1st stop is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The symptoms here include some pain that is more like cramping, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. These symptoms are barely tolerable and as the train runs down the track do nothing but get worse.

The next stop is Colitis. Now the symptoms of IBS have gotten more pronounced, especially the diarrhea which by now has become urgent and intolerable.

As we keep rumbling down the line the next stop is Ulcerative Colitis. Nobody likes this stop especially those who can’t stand the sight of blood—in their toilet bowel!

Now we find ourselves getting to the end of the line. We are running out of tract—as in the gastrointestinal tract from our digestive acids eroding our colon. Imagine all of the above symptoms ramped up to another level with the addition of mucus in the stool. This is the last stop on the line - Crohn’s. You don’t want to go there.

All of this pain and suffering can be avoided if you jump off that train early by seeking an alternative means of getting where you really want to go—perfect colon health.

Hail, Hail Antibiotics! The Double Edged Sword

I have harped many times on this blog about the evils of antibiotics. Now it is time to give praise where praise is due. Hail, hail the lifesaver— hail, hail antibiotics!

Hail, hail Mother Nature —for giving us penicillin! Hail, hail Louis Pasteur for discovering it!

Hail, hail my grandmother who in our house taught us to fight over the gray/green moldy-looking stuff on the bread! Before refrigeration, our ancestors got their daily dose of natural antibiotics—nature’s gift—penicillin.

Penicillin being alive and intelligent is a natural resident in our lives there to keep the inner ‘landscape’ balanced. That is until science got a hold of it and pumped it up to a ridiculous potency. Throwing it and us out of balance by opening Pandora’s Box.

Hail, hail the fact that we couldn’t live without antibiotics!

Hail, hail the fact that I will be the first in line if I need them!

Hail, hail the knowledge about what to do after we take this miracle natural medicine! Penicillin functions within the ‘whole’-maintaining balance. The new stuff can blow a hole in your colon in one dose.

The biggest problem that we have now is the man-made synthetic antibiotics. One example is cipro which will kill anthrax. This chemical will go into your body and devastate your immune system in 1 dose.

If you really really want an inflammatory bowel condition go get some of this stuff or something of it’s ilk.

Please! For your own sake and that of your children before you run down to the drugstore ask your doctor what this stuff that he prescribed is and what are the side effects. That’s just very basic and not even one of you does that.

Hail, hail the knowledge of pro (for life) biotics!

Hail, hail the fact that with this knowledge each one of us can avoid or reverse the manmade ‘conditions’ such as IBS, Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease!

Hail, hail The Golden Rule of Bowel Management- if you take an anti (against life) biotic then take a pro (good bacteria) biotic—that will save your quality of life!