How to detoxify, cleanse the intestines and have effective bowel movements

If you want to achieve safe and long-term bowel cleansing, you don’t have to be superstitious about various internet celebrity bowel cleansing products and defecation packages that cost hundreds of dollars. Just adjust your daily habits according to the operating rules of the intestines. Using extreme measures will only destroy the intestines.

It’s really not an alarmist. A while ago, my distant cousin was only 23 years old and had constipation for 3 years. In order to “detoxify”, she bought enzyme plum, intestinal cleansing tea, and fruit and vegetable defecation packages. When she first started eating, she could have bowel movements on the same day. She thought it was really “intestinal toxins”, but she drank more after half a year. It didn't work. My stomach was as distended as a small rubber ball. I went for a colonoscopy and found that the entire intestinal wall had turned dark brown. The doctor said it was melanosis of the colon, which was caused by the anthraquinone stimulant laxatives secretly added to those products. I had to stop those products for a year or two before I could slowly recover.

There are a lot of controversies about bowel cleansing on the Internet now. For example, some people say that one day of light fasting every month is particularly effective in cleansing the intestines. Others say that light fasting is purely hungry and has no effect. I tried it myself and found that this is really annoying. If you just ate several hot pot and barbecue dishes that are heavy in oil and salt a few days ago, and your belly is so bloated that you can't even buckle your trousers, and if you don't have low blood sugar and your spleen and stomach are not weak, occasionally one day Eating only some fruits and vegetables that are easy to digest, such as steamed pumpkin and kiwi, can indeed reduce the burden on the intestines, and the bowel movement will be much smoother the next day. However, if you are already weak in qi and blood, and often feel dizzy, doing so will cause insufficient blood supply to the intestines and reduce the power, making constipation more serious. I once had a colleague who fasted for a day and a half just to cleanse the intestines. He fainted directly at the work station and was given glucose before he recovered.

I myself stayed up late for a week working on a project. I relied on takeaways heavy in oil and salt to eat. I also suffered from constipation for almost a week. I tried various home remedies and finally found that the most effective ones were small and inconspicuous things: don’t touch your hands when you wake up every morning. After using the machine, sit up and drink 300ml of warm salt water. Don’t add too much salt, just a little salty taste is enough. Drink slowly while standing. After drinking, go to the toilet and squat for 5 minutes. Don’t use your phone to watch videos, just concentrate on waiting for bowel movements. After trying it for 3 days, it became normal. When I usually cook, I will mix a handful of oats and quinoa with rice and cook them. Instead of eating polished rice and white noodles all the time, if I feel hungry in the afternoon, I will eat two seeded kiwis or a small half of a red dragon fruit. My stomach is not particularly strong, and I don’t have diarrhea after eating it. My bowel movements are very smooth, and I don’t feel the cramping feeling of taking laxatives at all.

When I went for a physical examination before, the gastroenterologist told me that the intestines are actually like an automatic conveyor belt at home. If you push it with a stick behind it every day, it will become too lazy to move as time goes by. Those stimulant laxatives are like the stick. It is useful to poke at the beginning, but as time goes by, the conveyor belt will not rotate on its own, and constipation will become more and more serious. It’s funny to say that the “stool” and “intestinal toxins” that are so popular on the Internet nowadays have no corresponding concepts in medicine. Most of the black stools excreted after taking colon cleansing products are the product of laxatives stimulating the shedding of intestinal mucosa, and are not toxins that have accumulated for several years.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t use auxiliary drugs at all. If you really haven’t had a bowel movement for three or four days in a row and your stomach is bloated and uncomfortable, don’t hold on to it, let alone buy intestinal cleansing products of unknown ingredients. Just go to the drugstore and buy some lactulose. This kind of medicine will not be absorbed by the intestines.