Re: Chrisb1
Sara,
I agree mostly with VeryGnawty and completely with Chiron.
You are most definitely in need of rest, both physical and physiological.
The sickness and constipation that you have are all the more reason to undergo a water fast.
I would use the salt-water flush or an enema or both pre-fast, to stimulate your bowels into activity, and once they are cleared the bowels will correct themselves after the fast with greater regularity than before: so this is nothing to be overly concerned about.
The sickness (meaning nausea or vomiting)? is caused by your body being unable to accept ANY nourishment, and your digestive system has basically shutdown: this is Natures way of saying that your body is unable to accept external nourishment, and where if you do, this will only exacerbate any problems that you have........and further your already toxemic condition.
You need to live from internal food reserves for a while by water-fasting (as suggested) to give your digestive system time to recuperate, and also to eliminate your toxemic condition.
Chiron was spot-on here about this.
On the subject of Parasites..........
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parasites along with their larva and eggs are almost as ubiquitous as bacteria. We come in contact with them daily and in a hundred ways. It is probably impossible to avoid taking them into our bodies in some form. We must, therefore, possess a very adequate defense mechanism that protects us from their infestation so long as we do not break it down.
It is common to think that there are parasitic diseases and the textbooks list a whole catalog of these. It is the Hygienic view that
parasites are merely incidental and adventitious elements of disease and NOT cause. Wrong habits of body and mind reduce the powers of the body and make it possible for
parasites to live in its cavities. To repeat, the parasites are not the cause of the disease, but incidents of the disease. When you start homesteading parasites you may know that your tissues and secretions have become so impaired that the parasites find residence in them possible. Parasites of all kinds must find favorable habitats if they are to set up housekeeping.
Intestinal parasites do not trouble those of normal digestive powers; those who have normal resistance. After they have impaired their digestive system and broken down their resistance, parasites can live in the intestines and colon. An intestinal tract that does not harbor decomposition and putrefaction will successfully resist an invasion of parasites and bacteria. Intestinal catarrh permits the inroads of parasites. When the intestinal catarrh has reach the ulcerative stage it becomes a serious menace to the life of the patient"...........
Dr H M
Shelton D.P., N.D., D.C., D.N.T., D.N. Sc., D.N.Ph., D.N. Litt., Ph. D., D. Orthp.
This was born out of his experiences with his patients who had suffered from parasites.
Your parasitic health problem is therefore caused by providing a "medium" within your body for these to survive and indeed thrive......ELIMINATE YOUR TOXEMIA VIA WATER-FASTING and this will eliminate the "HABITAT" for parasites to exist within your body. It really is as simple as that.
It is also by living unhygienically, and allowing the build-up of toxemia that will allow parasites to co-exist within you. Eliminate toxemia and the biological-environment that they need will disappear..........and so will they.
Your symptoms of sickness are ALL THE MORE REASON TO UNDERGO A WATER-FAST.........the WORSE the reaction on a water-fast.......and the greater the symptoms of elimination.....the MORE there is a need to do so.
On the subject of Autointoxication.................
"Fasting animals, whether hibernating, æstivating, fasting during the mating season, fasting during illness, or fasting because of a lack of something to eat, do not have and do not need enemas. Some of these animals fast for much longer periods than is possible for any man and do not die of nor suffer from the much-feared poisoning by absorption from the colon. I can find no proof that poisons are ever absorbed from the colon; but, assuming that they sometimes are, the absorption of a very small fraction of what was thrown into the colon can certainly produce none of the evils attributed to it. If it could, the whole of the material thrown into the colon would have killed the patient before it was thrown therein.
The Canadian bear enters upon hibernation with a flesh that is repugnant to flesh-eaters. When he comes out of hibernation his flesh is sweet and is considered a great delicacy by the people of the North. Canadian biologists describe the bowels of a bear that had just settled for the winter, and which they opened, after killing the bear, as emitting a stench that was "overpowering," the flesh "nauseating, fishy and unfit for food." By Spring the bear's flesh has undergone a complete and remarkable change, so that it is "the most sought-after of all northern foods." By this time very little residue is found in the digestive tract and "the bowel was odorless and quite sterile. No cultures of any of the usual intestinal flora or bacilli could be obtained."
This complete sterilizing and deodorizing of the intestinal tract together with the sweetening of the flesh of the bear, all without a bowel movement in four to five months, or in some cases longer, will not be easily explained by those who insist upon the urgent need of enemas in the fast. As the hibernating bear never suffers with autointoxication during the most prolonged period of hibernation, we are forced to accept the fact that he is not poisoned by any hypothetical re-absorption of waste from the colon"........................
Dr H M Shelton. D.P., N.D., D.C., D.N.T., D.N. Sc., D.N.Ph., D.N. Litt., Ph. D., D. Orthp.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch13.htm
The bowels and colon go thru a complete "sterilization" within 5 to 7 days of the commencement of a water-fast, and where autointoxication is only a fallacy and has no basis in truth whatsoever.
Kind Regards
Chrisb1