DIARRHEA
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© June 2019, LD Wilson
Consultants, Inc.
All
information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
Contents
Definition
Importance
Diet And Digestion Are Very Important
Body Activity
The Digestive Tract Is Extremely
Delicate
Digestion Is Weak In Everyone
Physical Causes
Biological Causes
Biochemical Causes
Environmental Causes
Bioenergetic Causes
Mental and Emotional Causes
Diarrhea For Detoxification
Causes In Babies
Acute
Chronic
During a Development Program
When To Intervene Medically
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DEFINITON
Diarrhea means liquid or very runny
stools. Normally, as food passes
through the intestine, when it reaches the large intestine the liquid in the
stool is reabsorbed. This should
leave a semi-solid stool. When one
has diarrhea, the water is not reabsorbed and the stool comes out runny or
liquid.
Importance. One loses some water and minerals when
one has diarrhea. If it occurs
occasionally, it is not a serious condition.
In fact, it
can save your life if you ingest a poison in your food. Diarrhea and vomiting are the ways the
body removes toxic material quickly from the intestines.
However, if
one has chronic diarrhea, meaning it occurs often, one can become dehydrated
and one can develop mineral imbalances from the loss of minerals.
In some
undeveloped nations, diarrhea is the leading cause of death, especially among
children. Babies and children
dehydrate faster than adults. The
danger and cause of death or disability is the loss of minerals, vitamins, nutrients and of course, water.
Water can be
easily replaced. Nutrients
deficiencies may take months to develop and cannot be quickly reversed, even
with supplements, as the entire body can become depleted. Therefore, always take care of chronic
and severe diarrhea.
DIET
AND DIGESTION ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BODY ACTIVITIES
This
is completely ignored by most medical and even naturopathic personnel
today. In development science,
however, it is central. For this
reason, the diet is critical, as are food preparation and cooking, eating
habits, food processing and other things related to food and digestion.
Procedures
such as plenty of rest and sleep, red heat lamp therapy, coffee enemas, the
genital bath, learning to think and feel correctly, and the accelerator
procedure called the bidet are all about improving digestion.
DIGESTION REQUIRES ACTIVATION OF THE PARASYMPATHETIC (OR
RELAXING) BRANCH OF THE AUTONOMIC OR AUTOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE BODY. Anything that turns down
or turns off the parasympathetic system will interfere with digestion and
can cause diarrhea.
This is why
it is extremely important to sit down when you eat, eat in a quiet, pleasant
location, eat slowly and relax when you eat. Also, chew all food thoroughly and think happy thoughts
while eating and afterwards. Also,
do not mix food with liquid because this dilutes the digestive juices and often
interferes with proper chewing because people Òwash down their foodÓ. This is not the way to eat.
It is best
to relax for at least 10 minutes before meals to turn off the sympathetic
nervous system and prepare the body to eat and digest food. Also helpful is to sit quietly at the
table after every meal for at least 10 minutes to allow the body to begin the
complex process of digestion before you return to other activities.
Do not eat
while driving a car or if you are upset, angry, or working at your desk. All
these activities tend to turn off the parasympathetic nervous system.
DIGESTION
IS VERY DELICATE AND COMPLEX
The
small intestine should have trillions of tiny hairs sticking into the intestine
that sense the food coming through and are able to absorb that which the body
needs. It is an extremely delicate
and sophisticated system. This is
also not understood by most medical personnel. The intricacy of the digestive system will not show up on
blood tests, x-rays or other scans, so they largely ignore it.
EVERYONEÕS
DIGESTION IS WEAK
This is the truth in all cases.
There are no exceptions.
The reasons are a bad start in life, nutritional deficiencies, toxic
metals and toxic chemicals in the body, chemicals in the food, chemicals on the
food (added to the food), improper diet, bad eating habits, stress, illnesses
and infections, and in some cases other problems.
We
seek to correct all of these with a development program. It is a long, slow process in all cases. With this introduction, let us discuss
diarrhea, one of the primary symptoms of deranged digestion.
PHYSICAL
CAUSES
These
include polyps, tumors, or other physical blockages that the body seeks to
eliminate.
BIOLOGICAL
CAUSES
These
are infections with bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that irritate the
intestines or that the body wants to eliminate. Infections can also come from food one
ate, or from other causes. Here
are some examples:
Improper bowel flora. Most people have some incorrect
bacteria growing in their intestinal tracts such as E. coli and others. This is due to improper diet, an
improper pH of the intestinal tract and more complex biochemical imbalances
involving nutrient deficiencies and toxic metal excess. A newer name for this condition is SIBO
or small intestine bacterial overgrowth.
Yeast
overgrowth. This is an
example of improper bowel flora.
It is extremely common.
Yeasts
ferment carbohydrate foods, forming toxic chemicals that irritate the
intestines and easily cause diarrhea.
The cause
can simply be eating sugar or complex carbohydrates. However, the cause is often deeper and involves copper
overload with oxide and other toxic copper compounds. Bioavailable copper kills yeast in
the body and keeps its amount low.
Along with
copper imbalance, zinc deficiency is always present. Bodies that are too yin are more ill. This is why improving the diet is often
the first thing to do if you are prone to diarrhea. This is also why just going on a Ôyeast
dietÕ, the keto diet or the Weston Price diet is
usually not enough to produce excellent health.
BIOCHEMICAL
CAUSES
Nutritional
deficiencies. This is often
an indirect cause of diarrhea. Deficiencies of zinc, for example, leads to low production
of pancreatic enzymes that are needed for proper digestion.
Without
enough zinc to make substances such as chymotrypsin, food
does not digest properly and instead it ferments or putrefies. This irritates the intestine lining and
can cause diarrhea.
This cause
of diarrhea is now called EPI or exocrine pancreas insufficiency. Because it is epidemic, we always
recommend a powerful digestive aid for everyone. For details, see the section later in this article on
Digestive Aids.
Toxic metals and toxic chemicals in the
body. These
interfere with zinc metabolism, irritate the tissues, and unbalance body
chemistry is hundreds of ways.
Some is are present in everyone.
ENVIRONMENTAL
CAUSES
These are
causes that come from what one puts in oneÕs mouth – food, chemicals,
food combinations, other poisons such as alcohol, medical drugs,
over-the-counter remedies, herbs or recreational drugs. Here are examples:
Contaminated food or beverages.
Food
normally contains a few harmful viruses, bacteria, or fungi. Raw food often contains a lot of this,
and this is one reason to avoid eating a lot of raw food, especially in
restaurants and in unclean nations.
Overeating. When one eats too much, the body cannot secrete enough
digestive enzymes to properly digest the food. As a result, the food ferments or putrefies in the
intestine. This generates toxic
chemicals that easily cause diarrhea.
Bad food combinations.
Eating
complex food combinations at the same meal strains the digestive system and
makes proper digestion difficult or impossible.
Improper
diet. Eating sugar and sweets, for example,
favors the growth of yeasts in the intestine. These ferment the sugar, producing toxic chemicals such as
alcohol and acetaldehyde. This is
a common cause of diarrhea.
Eating too
much protein causes putrefaction of some of the protein. This also produces highly toxic
chemicals in the intestine such as indol and skatol that can cause diarrhea.
One often
knows one is producing toxic chemicals in the intestines because they often
cause gas, bloating and/or foul odors.
Fermentation causes gas that does not smell too bad. Putrefaction or rotting of protein food
cause bad-smelling gas and even a bad smell to the whole body.
Our
experience is that the single most important reason for chronic or recurring
diarrhea is an improper diet.
Often, even
longstanding chronic diarrhea will clear up on a regimen of just animal protein
daily and many cooked vegetables, perhaps with a little well-cooked whole
grain, but no wheat and no spelt, as these are irritating. One must also stop all spicy and hot
foods. Also do not drink with
meals and relax at meals.
One client
had had diarrhea for over five years.
She had gone to many doctors, including bowel specialists and
others. She had been tested for
parasites and everything else, and had tried many remedies with no
success. When she began a
development program that omitted from her diet all sugars, all food chemicals,
all salads, fruit, all juices and all refined flour as well, her diarrhea
cleared up on its own within two weeks.
Prescription of over-the-counter drugs. Some of these can cause diarrhea due to
intestinal irritation or other damage.
Antibiotic therapy often causes diarrhea by destroying the normal flora
of the intestine.
Stress or anxiety. Stress of
any kind can interfere with proper digestion. In this case, the body may choose to eliminate the food one
ate so that it does not ferment or putrefy.
MENTAL
AND EMOTIONAL CAUSES
Any negative
thinking or negative emotions can cause diarrhea by interfering with
digestion. Particularly damaging
thoughts and feelings are anger, fear, lying, irresponsibility and intolerance
(unable to ÔstomachÕ things).
Victim
thinking is strongly associated with parasitic infections. For details, read Parasites.
BIOENERGETIC
CAUSES
The
intestinal trace is in the area of the second and third energy centers. Any
problem in these centers can cause or aggravate diarrhea. For details, read The
Energy Centers.
OTHER
Weak
digestion. Most peopleÕs
digestion is weak. Most people do
not secrete enough digestive enzymes to properly digest their food. Also, the flora or intestinal bacteria
are often deficient or incorrect.
This can also cause a tendency for diarrhea.
Rogue
attacks. The rogues can attack the digestive
system with implants, poisons and other means. For details, read The Rogues.
DIARRHEA
FOR TOXIN ELIMINATION
At times,
diarrhea occurs as a purification or healing
reaction. It is part of healing
the body and is just a symptom of toxin elimination. This topic is discussed below.
CAUSES
IN BABIES
Babies get
diarrhea if they do not eat well, or become stressed during a feeding, or if
they have a stomach flu.
Stop their vitamins and make sure they drink plenty of water, some in
addition to breast milk, especially if the lips are dry or the child seems
dehydrated. The diarrhea usually
passes in a day or two. We donÕt
recommend antibiotics or other drugs, in most cases.
ACUTE
EPISODES
A single
bout of diarrhea may just be clearing out a bad meal that contained toxic
bacteria or a virus. This type of
simple, acute diarrhea can also be due to eating too much, eating too fast,
eating when upset or anxious, or even eating when one is too tired.
This usually
requires no special intervention other than rest and drinking extra water. Also helpful is to rest the intestinal
tract by skipping a meal or eating very lightly for the next meal or two until
the intestinal tract calms down.
If you feel
very toxic, you may also take about 6 charcoal tablets or capsules, which are
available at drug stores or health food stores. This may help clear toxins from the bowel faster. Do not take charcoal tablets on a
regular basis, however, because they also absorb and remove nutrients from the
body.
Occasionally,
the remedies listed below such as Kaopectate, bee propolis, or certain brands of colloidal silver may help.
CHRONIC
DIARRHEA
This is due
to deeper metabolic imbalances, improper intestinal flora such as yeast overgrowth or possibly bacterial, viral, parasitic or
other fungal infection in the intestines.
Another possible cause is a low level of digestive enzymes.
Each
personÕs situation will be somewhat different. In some cases, just following a
development diet strictly will end the diarrhea. This means avoiding all sweets, all spicy food, all raw food
for a while, and all spicy and chemicalized
food. For details, read Food For Daily Use.
Helpful
additional procedures are to use a red heat lamp on the abdomen for a minimum
of one hour daily and preferably two hours daily (two one-hour sessions). An alternative is to use a reddish heat
lamp sauna for at least 45 minutes daily or longer.
Coffee
enemas also help detoxify and rebuild the liver and other digestive
organs. All of the development
program procedures can help. One
may have to wait on supplements, although in other cases supplements such as
GB-3, a digestive aid, are essential.
Probiotics. We donÕt need to use probiotics
too often. However, at times, a probiotic is needed to replenish the normal flora of the
intestine.
We prefer to
use probiotic foods, if possible. Excellent ones are sauerkraut, miso soup or plain goat yogurt. Have some 10 minutes before each meal for at least a week or
two.
Danger with probiotics. Store-bought
probiotics are okay, but have several problems that
do not seem to arise with the probiotic foods. Store-bought probiotics
may not contain what the label indicates.
Also, the strain of bacteria they contain may not be correct for a
particular person at a particular time.
In a few cases, they made the problem worse.
A very
powerful probiotic strain is lactobacillus plantarum. We
like the one sold by G&W Herbs in Indiana, USA. The product name is Master Blend Probiotic
Supplement – 120 capsules.
EPISODES
DURING A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Short bouts
of diarrhea can occur during a development program as the body as part of
healing reactions and retracing.
Diarrhea may
occur as toxic metals and toxic chemicals are removed from the liver. The metal or chemical may irritate the
intestine, damage the normal flora, or the body just wants the toxin out as
fast as possible.
One may also
retrace old, chronic infections in the small and large intestine. As this occurs, symptoms may flare up
temporarily such as fever, pain or temporary diarrhea. Emotional healing reactions can also
possibly cause temporary diarrhea.
In most
cases, the problem is short-lived.
One can just rest more, be sure to drink more water, and perhaps use
charcoal tablets until it passes. If
diarrhea continues for more than three days, try the following:
1.
Do not continue with charcoal tablets if they are not working.
2.
Be sure to continue drink a lot more spring or carbon-only filtered tap water. Do not drink other beverages like
coffee, regular tea, soda pop or any juices. This is important to avoid dehydration, which can occur with
diarrhea.
Do not drink
water with meals, as this further impairs your digestion. In general, drink an hour or more after
meals and up to 15 minutes before a meal.
3. Either skip eating altogether or eat
very light food such as chicken soup with vegetables in it.
4. Strictly avoid all raw food, all
fruit, all juices, all sweets and all spicy or irritating food items.
5. Stop your nutritional supplements. They
are not too helpful at this time.
Especially stop supplements that contain magnesium, and digestive aids
with pancreatin and ox bile, as these can aggravate
diarrhea.
6.
Relax, and rest and sleep more. You are probably retracing an infection in the intestines.
7.
Use a red heat lamp on your abdomen for at least one hour daily and preferably
2 hours daily.
8.
Other remedies that sometimes can cut short diarrhea are:
Probiotics. We
usually prefer foods. We donÕt
know which, if any, will work at a particular times because the cause of the
diarrhea and condition of the body is different for everyone.
We
recommend having the following 10 minutes before each meal for a few days:
- sauerkraut (2 tablespoons), OR
- miso soup (a small bowl and you
must not boil the water with the miso in it because
this will kill the bacteria) OR
- live culture goat yogurt (3 tablespoons).
Among
commercial probiotics, we like Bio-K Original, a
teaspoon before each meal. Another
very interesting one is L-plantarum from G&W
Herbs. The product is called
Master Blend Probiotic Supplement – 120
capsules. Garden Of Life also
sells some excellent probiotic products.
Problems with probiotics. At
times, these make a person worse because they do not contain the correct
bacteria for the person at a particular time. This is one reason we prefer to begin with probiotic foods.
Kaopectate. This
is a drugstore product that contains kaolin (a clay) and pectin (an absorbent
fiber). It is a safe product that helps
in some cases.
Products
we use less are:
Colloidal
silver. This is a potent anti-infective
agent. An excellent brand is Arabesque
(1-888-891-0286 or http://micro-bionutrition.wixsite.com/arabesque/product-page/true-colloidal-silver-8oz). Another good one is Sovereign Silver in
the health food stores or on the internet.
The adult dose for these is
between 2 to 3 tablespoons daily.
Take it by itself, and do not eat or drink 20 minutes before or after
taking it for maximum benefit.
Take it for at least five days and up to 10 days, if needed.
Bee
propolis.
This is sold at health food stores or on the internet. Follow directions, and do not use it
for more than 1 week, as a general rule.
Get help if you are not sure how to use any remedy!
What
about patent drugs such as Immodium? These
are less recommended unless natural method do not work. Most are narcotics that have the effect
of somewhat paralyzing the intestine.
Occasional use is okay.
ON RARE OCCASIONS, ONE MAY NEED STOOL
ANALYSIS AND MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR DIARRHEA
Diarrhea
that is severe and continues requires medical attention. It can cause dehydration and even
death. Go to a competent health
professional in this case who should ask for several stool samples and
rehydrate your body.
Stool
testing, unfortunately, is not very accurate in my experience, but it might reveal
a parasitic infection or something else. This is rare needed with a development
program, in our experience. On
rare occasions, antibiotics or other drugs may be needed, though we find this
to be rare.
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