DIARRHEA

Diarrhea: is an increase in the frequency and volume of bowel movement and a change in the consistency. Diarrhea is one way in which the body rids itself of toxins and foreign substances. It may result from bacterial or viral infection, food allergies, food poisoning, impure water, stress, or spastic colon. Avoid food, drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration.

It is recommended that antidiarrheal medications not be taken when a patient has acute diarrhea unless he or she has an urgent need for control while stricken. Otherwise, purge is probably beneficial and helps speed recovery. This program is designed to help you weather the discomfort of diarrhea and make a speedy recovery, rather than try to halt the course of diarrhea and risk prolonging the illness.
Acute diarrhea with fever and/or blood or mucus in the stool may indicate infection with bacteria or parasites, especially if you are traveling or just came back from a part of the world with poor sanitation. Have stool cultures and an examination to check on these possibilities.
Chronic diarrhea has many causes. Addiction to coffee (and other forms of caffeine) and emotional stress, are two of the most common. Recurrent diarrhea along with intestinal gas, bloating, pain, and constipation is often referred to as Irritable Bowel Syndrome or may also be lumped into a Gastrointestinal Disease, or an Ulcer. A closer look at all symptoms should be considered before calling the pain, anything.
Lactose intolerance is one of the leading causes of diarrhea. While few experts agree that lactose intolerance is the leading cause (most say viral infection), all agree that it is a major cause of diarrhea among adults. Lactose intolerance can happen when you're just a baby, or it can occur suddenly during adult years. You're drinking milk and the next thing you know you have gas, pain, and diarrhea. Avoid lactose-containing foods, such as most dairy products, with the exception of yogurt and some aged cheeses, such as cheddar.

HERBAL REMEDIES:

HERBAL TEAS:

In a stainless steel pot, boil desired amount of distilled water. The moment it boils turn the heat off. Add the following herbs in an infuser, muslin bag or tea ball for a single cup or add one-three teaspoons of herbs per cup for larger amounts. Allow the herbs to infuse for up to 5 minutes. Drink 3-4 cups a day. For flavor-add lemon and sweeten with Stevia or organic honey.

Digestive Tea- Demulcent herbs especially blended for gas, diarrhea, and ulcers. Papaya Leaf, Cinnamon, Spearmint, Raspberry, and Slippery Elm.

Chamomile Tea- Age old remedy for calming and soothing the nerves. Works wonders on the digestive tract and tames stomach troubles and ulcer pain. Chamomile stems, flowers.

Calm Tea- Reduces stress and helps to relax you. Improves circulation and acts as a sedative. Reduces mucous from colds, muscle and menstrual cramps and helps with anxiety and stress. Chamomile, Rosehips, Catnip, Alfalfa, Skullcap, Fo-Ti, Hops, Vervain, Wild Lettuce, Passion Flower, Lemon Verbena.

HERBAL TINCTURES
Herbal tinctures are concentrated liquid extracts of the medicinal properties of herbs. Tinctures represent one of many different ways to prepare and use herbs. The terms tincture and extract are often used interchangeably. Technically these terms are an indication of strength used by manufactures.

Shake the tincture bottle well. As a dietary supplement, place 1/3 of a dropper (6-12 drops) under the tongue, or in juice or water as needed, 3-4 times a day.

Parasite Tincture

BlackBerry Root

INDIVIDUAL HERBS

A great herbal remedy for diarrhea is Blackberry Root Bark (Rubus macropetalus). It contains tannins, which have an astringent action on the intestinal lining. Boil the root bark in water for twenty minutes, strain, and drink a cup every two to four hours till the diarrhea ends.
Carob powder, is a natural solution. Start with one tablespoon, mixed with some applesauce and honey. Take it on an empty stomach with Acidophilus. Carob is very soothing to irritated intestines.

Choose Herbs

AROMATHERAPY REMEDY BLENDS:

Essential oils can help relieve some of the discomforts of diarrhea. Helpful, are Essential oils such as Chamomile, Geranium, Orange, Neroli, and Sandalwood for both physical and emotional soothing oils. Chamomile, Black Pepper, Coriander, Ginger, Lavender, Peppermint relieve stomach spasms. Myrrh, Patchouli, Tea Tree and Thyme help fight infection caused by bacterial and other microbial infections.

3 times a day, morning, noon and night, utilize these blends of essential oils:

Angel's Mist Massage Essential Oil Remedy Blend

Angel's Mist Compress Essential Oil Remedy Blend

Angel's Mist Rub Essential Oil Remedy Blend

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES:

This medical system uses infinitesimal doses of natural substances to stimulate a person's immune system and body's natural defenses. Homeopathic remedies are named for the plant or animal ingredients they are made from. Homeopathy not only offers relief from temporary disorders but, can provide long term healing of a person due to its individual and "wholistic" approach. This often leads to a complete recovery from the dis-ease, as well as, providing an improved understanding of the patient's situation. This type of healing makes it easier and possible to avoid recurrence or relapses in the future and, homeopathy stimulates the body's natural defense system by reestablishing normal immune system and cell functioning.

DIARRHEA:
Arsenicum Album 6c for symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. Anxiety, restlessness and exhaustion.
Argentum Nitricum 6c if symptoms occur immediately after eating or drinking. It is often worse at night with much flatulence.
Podophyllum 30c if symptoms are profuse or gushing watery diarrhea which is not usually accompanied by pain. Rumbling in the abdomen before hand, diarrhea is worse in the morning with some improvement as the day goes on.

YOGA/MEDITATION THERAPY REMEDIES:

Yoga poses can be good alternatives to "traditional" health remedies because they relax the body and mind, improve circulation and respiration, reduce tension and help the body through it's healing process.

DIARRHEA:
The Yogic breath exercise can be done without instruction, without danger, and with a good chance that your discomfort and stressful feelings will be reduced. Relaxation Breath is the most powerful tool for stress management.

Sit up, with your back straight in any position.
Place your tongue against the ridge of tissue just behind your upper front teeth and keep it there throughout the exercise.
Exhale completely through your mouth.
Close your mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of four.
Hold your breath for a count of seven.
Exhale completely through your mouth, to a count of eight.
Repeat this cycle three more times for a total of four breaths.
Try to do this breathing exercise at least twice a day. You can repeat the whole sequence as often as you wish, but don't do it more than four breaths at one time for the first month of practice. This exercise is fairly intense and has a profound effect on the nervous system.

Deep Diaphram Breath
Sit with your legs crossed in a comfortable position. Breathe slowly and evenly from your diaphragm, through your nose. Fill your lower abdomen, lungs, then chest with air. Hold for a four count then slowly exhale the air out from your chest, lungs, then lower abdomen. Repeat 3 or 4 times. That's it! Just allow your shoulders to drop and your face relax as you breath, deep.
Also consider Alternate Nostril Breathing, Child's Pose, Mountain, Relaxing


MEDITATION:

Meditation is a time-honored technique that can take you into infinite dimensions of consciousness. One major principle to meditation is in the ability to completely quiet your mind. Quieting the mind comes as a result of meditating over a long period of time, but any time you are looking within, you are meditating. There are many meditation methods. Some are passive and others are active -- not in the physical sense, but in the sense that you actually do something during meditation. Meditators learn to focus their awareness and direct it onto an object: the breath, a phrase or word: a mantra, repeated silently, a memorized inspirational phrase, an image in the mind's eye. Researchers have documented immediate benefits in terms of lowered blood pressure, decreased heart and respiratory rate, increased blood flow, and other measurable signs of the relaxation response.
Meditation will calm an agitated mind, creating optimal physical and mental health, undo our sense of separateness, which is the common root of fear and misery, unify consciousness, putting us in touch with our higher self and connect us to higher consciousness. Meditation restructures the mind, allowing us to achieve our full potential as human beings.

Fold your hands gently in your lap and close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Then just sit. If you have never meditated before, you will probably feel as if your mind is full of thoughts. Don't try to stop the thoughts, just watch them. Imagine that you are on the bank of a river and that your thoughts are the river going by. Don't try to stop the river, just watch it. Within a week, you will see the river begin to slow down. You may become impatient, or even bored. That's okay. If you find yourself complaining, just watch the thoughts pass by. Do this for 5 to 10 minutes. You may find that you fall asleep because you are so relaxed. That's good because, in many ways, you have begun to let go. Continue at this pace and each day allow just alittle more time for yourself to meditate. Doing this allows you to relax and forget about time.

Consider the amazing power of Sacred Incense. Whether for meditation, quiet reflection or for creating and elegant environment to be shared with others, the opportunity awaits those ready to explore the world of scent!

COLOR THERAPY REMEDIES:

When you are balanced, you can more effectively fight dis-ease, rid your system of toxins, as well as, negative patterns. You can achieve balance through the vibrational remedy and application of color. Color inteacts with the human energy system in a unique way to stablize physical, emotional, mental and spiritual conditions.

DIARRHEA:
Yellow

HEALING TOUCH THERAPY:

There are many different approaches to massage and applications of it. "Massage Therapy" is a holistic procedure that affects all systems of the body; digestive, elimination, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic, endocrine and nervous systems. Many of today's health problems arise from stress. Because stress upsets the delicate integral balance of all your body's functions, regaining this balance requires a holistic approach.
Massage Therapy not only treats those parts of you which are a problem, but also affects the whole of your metabolism through normalizing your circulatory, muscular and nervous systems and their interdependent functioning. Massage is usually done with soothing massage oils or relaxing body lotions in order for the practioner's hands to "glide" over the body with smooth, relaxing strokes.

Learn How to Give a Massage. This step by step method will help you learn just how to make your subject feel great!

Hot Stone Massage Therapy. is recommended for this conditon. It is an ancient Ayurvedic therapy with river bed stones which draw out stress, tension and impurities from the body.
Crystal Massage works on a deep esoteric level allowing not only the physical body enjoyment and total relaxation but the stones will enhance a positive, reconnecting flow of energy which will allow you to bring up, recognize and clear emotional blocks.

MUSIC/SOUND THERAPY:

Vibrational medicine which validates that everything in the universe is in a state of vibration and the frequency at which an object or person most naturally vibrates is called resonance. The chakras, bones, and organs in the body all possess a different resonant frequency. When an organ or part of the body is vibrating out of tune or nonharmoniously, it is called "dis ease" or disease. A body is in a healthy state of being when each cell, each organ creates a resonance that is in harmony with the whole being.
Music is a powerful tool that can be used in so many ways. It has been proven that the type of music that makes a person relax or become receptive is not any one kind. It all depends on the individual and their affinity with it.

Healing Music is recommended for this condition.

METAPHYSICAL REMEDIES:

The power of your mind and your belief system has everything to do with the condition, the speed and the way that you heal.

* Our Belief System is one of the major factors that can get us through situations or can cause our life to crumble around us! I do believe that there is a lot of innate goodness and balancing our minds do subconsciously to get us through hard times. The other portion of this is how we "program" ourselves to deal with any given situation.

* Our self-confidence and self-love are often the key to opening and strengthening this portion of our thoughts which in turn emanates from ourselves!

* Energy follows thought. Program thought to be positive and your energy will reflect it!

* Really appreciating what we DO have as opposed to what we would like to have, sometimes makes a signifcant difference. This is always an important element in healing that is often neglected.

STONE & CRYSTAL REMEDIES:

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.

DIARRHEA:
Ilvaite

CANDLE THERAPY

The power behind Candle Therapy is not only therapeutic, but works on a psychological and spirtual plane as well. The candle's flame has always been a metaphor for the soul. It possesses a tranquil and almost hypnotic atmosphere to those who allow its power to take them to a very special place!

Botanical Candles such asOcean Breeeze, Rose, Lilac, Magnolia, Freesia are all wonderful for this condition.

Healer Candles such as Stress Release, Calm, Energy and Balance can allow their powerful mix of herbs and essential oils to help the body heal.

The Chakra Candle Set is very appropriate for any kind of balance and energy work that is needed in healing.

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NUTRITION

Water is essential in any healing process. Distilled water is the best. 6-8 eight ounces glasses per day.

Remember the ABC FORMULA: Apples, Bananas, Cereal.

Start with a 'clear-liquid' diet. Chicken broth, Jell-O, or other foods and fluids you can look through. The reason is that the bowels need rest during the time of diarrhea and that's why you should stick with a diet like this until it subsides. You don't want to force your system to handle more than it already has to. After you've tested the waters with broth and Jell-O, rice, bananas, applesauce, or yogurt can be introduced gradually as your symptoms improve.
Keep liquid levels high. The most important thing is to make sure your fluid intake is high. Consuming large amounts of liquids during bouts of diarrhea increases your fluid intake and is vital to fight dehydration. Fluids that contain salt and small amounts of sugar are particularly beneficial, as they help the body replace glucose and minerals lost during diarrhea. A good rehydration fluid can be easily made by adding 1 teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt to 1 quart of water. A more complex but tastier mix can be made by adding 1/2 teaspoon of honey or corn syrup and a pinch of table salt to 8 ounces of fruit juice. Stir well and drink often. For those who don't feel like making anything, Gatorade comes highly recommended. It contains glucose and electrolytes in sufficient quantities to replace those being lost by your body.
Avoid these foods: beans, cabbage, and brussels sprouts. Other foods containing large amounts of poorly absorbed carbohydrates can aggravate diarrhea. A short list includes bread, pasta, and other wheat products; pears, peaches, and prunes; corn, oats, potatoes, and processed bran. Avoid dairy products during a bout of diarrhea. Whether or not milk products caused the problem, they tend to aggravate diarrhea after you have it. Avoiding carbonated beverages. The gas they contain may add additional problems.

People who are lactose intolerant—meaning they lack the enzyme needed to digest milk sugar—often develop diarrhea after consuming milk or ice cream. People whose lactose intolerance is the cause of diarrhea will rid themselves of the problem by avoiding milk and ice cream or in many cases by taking lactase, the enzyme needed to digest lactose.

Large amounts of Vitamin C or Magnesium found in supplements can also cause diarrhea, although the amount varies considerably from person to person. Unlike infectious diarrhea, diarrhea caused by high amounts of Vitamin C or Magnesium is not generally accompanied by other signs of illness; the same is true when the problem comes from sorbitol or fructose. In these cases, avoiding the offending supplement or food brings rapid relief.

Drinking lots of coffee causes diarrhea in some people. People with chronic diarrhea who drink coffee should avoid all coffee for a few days to evaluate whether coffee is the culprit.

Allergies and food sensitivities are common triggers for diarrhea. For example, some infants suffer diarrhea when fed cow’s milk-based formula but improve when switched to soy-based formula. People with chronic diarrhea not attributable to other causes should discuss the possibility of food sensitivity with a nutritional doctor.

MANAGING YOUR DIARRHEA

Good hand washing by you and other household members will help keep a parasitic infection from spreading. Letting diarrhea "run its course" is the best medicine. If, however, you absolutely must go someplace and be in control of your bodily functions while there, an over-the-counter product called Imodium, available in capsule or liquid form, is probably your best bet for slowing the flow.

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