Crystals and Constipation

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Crystals and Constipation

Constipation results when food moves too slowly through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. About 80 percent of people suffer from constipation at some time during their lives. Brief periods of constipation are normal. Constipation is usually diagnosed when bowel movements occur fewer than three times per week on an ongoing basis. Other signs of constipation occur when the stool is hard, dry or there is excessive straining. The stool can often be described as " rabbit pellets " or like " toothpaste squeezed from the tube " . Sometimes it is painful to pass. Sometimes the patient does not feel complete after a bowel movement.

There is widespread belief that everyone should have a bowel movement at

least once each day. There is no " right " number of bowel movements. Each person's body finds its own normal number of bowel movements. It depends on the food you eat, how much you exercise and past history. This kind of thinking has led to the overuse and abuse of laxatives.

Constipation can arise from lack of enough fiber and water, inadequate exercise, advanced age, muscle disorders and poor diet. Pre-menstrual and pregnant women can suffer from constipation also but, the most common cause is usually dietary. However, constipation can be a component of irritable bowel syndrome or can result from a wide range of

causes, such as a drug side effect or physical immobility.

many medications, including pain killers, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and other chiatric medications, blood pressure medication, diuretics, iron supplements, calcium supplements, and aluminum containing antacids can cause or worsen constipation.

Constipation can sometimes have an unknown or idiopathic cause. Some people have a good diet, drink plenty of fluid or do not have a disorder, which can cause constipation, yet become constipated. Their bowels are said to be 'underactive'. This is rather common. Most cases occur in women. This condition tends to start during childhood or in early adulthood and persist throughout life.

Transit Time is the amount of time it takes for a meal to go from the mouth to the rectum. A healthy transit time is less than 24 hours. Constipation is the result of poor digestive and bowel habits, which slow down the transit time, allowing waste materials to sit longer in the intestines. Stool (waste products) builds up along the wall of the colon preventing healthy absorption of nutrients. Our stool is made up of our body's waste including undigested food, toxic waste from the liver and billions of bacteria. As the stool sits longer in the intestines a metabolic process continues. The intestines continue to absorb water, making the stool harder and fermenting the bacteria. This starts the waste to rot creating toxic by-products, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream. This absorption of toxins is a form of self-poisoning, called autointoxication.

Symptoms of autointoxication include: headaches, brain fog, depression, obesity, diverticulosis, PMS, bad breath, foul smelling gas, bloating body odor and include some autoimmune diseases.

Serious diseases, including colon cancer, can sometimes first appear as bowel blockage leading to acute constipation. Therefore, particularly constipation of recent onset should be diagnosed by a physician. Dietary

and other natural approaches should be used by people with constipation

only when there is reason to believe no serious underlying condition exists.

Crystal Remedies for Constipation

Crystals have both piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. This means

that the polarities of the crystal will change when subjected to pressure or heat (even body heat from the hands). This will radiate energy from the crystal due to this reversal of polarities. It provides the transfer, storage and transformation of energy.

Offering a balanced energy field, energy modification, amplifies both energy and thought, clarity in thinking, and harmony and alignment with the chakra energy areas.

The Complete Chakra Kit stimulates the seven main energy sources which govern all the major organs and psychologically alters and clears the body's energy in order to allow healing to take place.

Consider these stones:

Cherry Opal, Citrine, Quartz

Hydrotherapy and Gem Essence: Take a nice hot bath to improve circulation. Add a few pieces of Ruby to the bath water. Bathe with the crystals for 15-20 minutes. Add 8-10 drops of a gem essence of Hematite and Quartz.

Create a gem essence with Cherry Opal and Quartz to increase the free flow of Qi. Take 8 drops under the tongue 3-4 times a day.

A warm water enema helps to clean the rectum of accumulated fecal matter. To the enema water add 2 droppers full of Red Calcite essence. This helps to unblock stagnation. This is not only the safest system for

cleaning the bowels, but also improves the peristaltic movement of the bowels and thereby relieves constipation.

A cold water enema is helpful in inflammatory conditions of the colon, especially in cases of dysentery, diarrhea, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids and fever. A hot water enema is beneficial in relieving irritation due to inflammation of the rectum.

Grid work: along with Chakra balancing and aura cleansing are fantastic therapies for increasing circulation. My personal favorite is doing an Infinite Circuit. Place citrine in the center of the Solar Plexus Chakra. Add 4 quartz in the 4 corners.

The Lower Chakra grid is great for either excess or deficient conditions. NOTE: if more a deficiency, use ruby at the hipbones. If more excess conditions, use any of the above stones or Jasper at the hipbones. Use hematite between the legs.

Additional grids: Hematite, Rhodonite and Copper are all excellent for improving circulation. Poor circulation, means poor nourishment of blood, lymph and body fluids. Use the Tree of Life Grid, Seal of , or Energy Grid to improve circulation for an overall healing.

Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac

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