Nearly everything that you go to a conventional doctor for, you can treat naturally with a Naturopath. There’s always room for integration of natural medicine with conventional medicine but we must learn to treat the person instead of the disease. Treating the whole person instead of just the physical complaint is called holistic healthcare.
Constipation is difficulty passing a stool. Almost everyone experiences constipation at some time of their life. Constipation is anything from having a poo once a week to once a day depending on your bowel transit time. Going to the toilet once a day is the norm but to traditional naturopaths this leaves us with a nation of people full of $h!*.
Naturopaths believe we need to pass a bowel movement for every meal eaten. This removes toxins as quickly as they build up. Everybody has a different bowel transit time. When constipated, stool remain too long in the colon. This allows toxins that should have been eliminated in the stool to be reabsorbed back into the blood. The opposite (a too quick transit time) is harmful to health too because nutrients don’t have time to be absorbed.
Short term effects of constipation are:
In clinical naturopathic practice long term effects seen from chronic constipation are conditions such as:
Physical causes: Dietary factors such as low fibre and low water- based plant foods) are the biggest culprit for constipation. Also eating a diet high in processed foods and dehydration from not drinking enough water.
Lifestyle factors are lack of movement and a sedentary lifestyle. Or too much movement, traveling lots without giving self time to go to the toilet, ignoring the urge to defecate. Intake of drugs like the pain killer codeine or recreational drugs cocaine can also impact bowel movements. Trauma to the area and other digestive conditions like diverticulitis cause constipation also.
Emotional causes: holding on to something, resistance to letting go of a relationship, a belief or an idea can cause constipation. Also it may not be your baggage.. Parents consciously and unconsciously pass down their emotional baggage to their children. Holding onto ‘baggage’ from your parents can cause emotional turmoil. If this is not resolved or addressed it presents as a physical symptom. Where you are quite literally ‘holding onto other people’s shit’.
Meta-physical causes: Negative emotions such as fear, denial, regret, hate, guilt and shame disturb your eight energy bodies and may prevent you from letting go physically. This is especially the case if you have done all of the right things with diet and exercise yet there is no emotional resistance. Try seeing a naturo-therapist online or a local holistic health practitioner from our directory if this is the case. Ask yourself what do I need to let go of?
Try bitters herbs before you go to laxatives. Laxatives like senna and cascara stimulate peristalsis which is great short term, especially if it’s been a long time since you made a bowel movement. But long term this prevents the body from doing what it naturally knows what to do when given the right environment. “Bitters” stimulate the gall bladder to release bile and stimulate the colon to release into the bowel. It gets things moving for good.
Cynara (globe artichoke) is great for the bowel. I mix this with calming herbs like melissa, chamomile and liquorice if there is a large emotional component to not letting go. After all the enteric nervous system links the autonomic nervous system to the gut via the vagus nerve. This is why sometimes when nervous you need to go to the toilet straight away. Vagus nerve stimulation is also responsible for urgent bowel movements after consuming drugs, sugar and alcohol..
Get out of the mental body and address the emotional body with presence practices like yoga and mediation. This helps you to get back in touch with what your body needs. This requires a state of embodiment where you can ask your body NOT THE MIND questions like “how do I feel?” and what do I need? Naturo therapists help you to address the emotional body directly. Mixed with naturo medicine this has great results.
MOVE! Get winding n’ grinding; the more you move your hips and stomach region the more blood circulation and movement in the digestive tract. Endorphins produced during exercise also play a role in a healthy digestion as happy hormones allow your enteric nervous system to LET that shit GO!!!
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