Author: Dara Dietz

Dara D Dietz is co-founder with her Husband of H.E.A.L. Marketplace, a private Natural Healing Association. As a teacher and counselor she has been supporting the members of H.E.A.L. with Natural Healing information and herbal supports since 1998. She continues to maintain strong ties to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Since healing her own kidney ailments she has assisted thousands of people in discovering and using natural herbal remedies. Dara has written and compiled numerous articles on a wide variety of natural healing topics. Drawing from her own healing experiences and borrowing from the vast wisdom of natural healers long departed, she continues to provide H.E.A.L.’s international membership with down to earth natural healing wisdom in H.E.A.L.’s bi-weekly newsletters. Dara and her husband currently reside in Rutherfordton, North Carolina.
Herbal Healing, Organs & Glands

Natural Support for the Glands

Dara Dietz
Dara Dietz

Learning how best to support our glandular system, what foods are needed to provide these internal factories with the needed nutrients for them to produce the hormones needed to maintain our best health.  Our glandular system supports, digestion, absorption and utilization of all food elements and the very existence of cells.  No physiological or mental activity is possible without them.  In their absence the body and its activities would cease to be.  Manifestly, the glands cannot pick their required elements form the blood unless their progenitors were previously taken in the foods eaten.

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We are going to take a good look at the best herbal supports and foods to support the Thyroid gland, Adrenal glands, and Pancreas Gland. 

There is so much I could say about the benefits of these glandular formulas.  The Support they have provided in my body and the relief and healing provided to many of our members has been great.  I cannot say enough on the healing power of these God Given Gifts.  I dare not say more. 

The Thyroid, through the hormone thyroxine determines growth, controls body temperature, regulates the metabolism or the burning of food in the body and influences, to a great extent mental and emotional balance.  The master herb for the thyroid is Kelp.  Whither the thyroid is overactive or underactive, kelp will prove helpful in healing and restoring normal function to this gland.  Our info sheet on Thyroid will provide information on how to use the M&L Salve to shrink a goiter or remove cysts from the gland itself.  

Herbal Supports for the Thyroid: Super-kelp Capsules or Powder;  M&L Salve, and the Glands formula.

Thyroid: see my updated Thyroid Ailments information sheet.

Adrenal Glands are absolutely essential to life.  The adrenals, often referred to as the suprarenal, are the Creator’s most intricate chemical factories.  “it would take acres of chemical plants” to synthetically manufacture “the 50 odd hormones or hormone like substances” produced by the adrenal glands. 

Most hypoglycemics have problems feeding themselves, for they crave protein and sugar, yet these substances are wearing on the adrenals, which are often exhausted in hypoglycemics.  You need to feed the adrenals with Licorice root and Hawthorne berries, the later being said to produce natural adrenalin.

Herbal Supports for the Adrenals: Adrenal Formula; Licorice Root extract; Hawthorne extract; Glands Formula.

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Pancreas Gland, Malfunction can manifest in one of two ways; Diabetes, which is high blood sugar or hypoglycemia, which is low blood sugar.  Though they are completely different, they both stem from the same cause, a malfunction of the pancreas, which is what must be supported so it can function normally again.  The Master herb for the Pancreas is Cedar Berries. 

Herbal Supports for the Pancreas Gland: Pancreas Aid; (ELF)Liver Flushing; (LBF #1)Bowel Cleansing.

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Cooking With Dara

Chocolate Tofu Pudding

Dara Dietz

Want something sweet and chocolatey to eat without compromising your food program. Here is your answer.

Vegan Chocolate Tofu Pudding

  • Ingredients:
  • 1 package Extra Firm Silken Tofu
  • 3 Bananas
  • 9 pitted Dates
  • 1/2 Cup Nut Milk
  • 1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • pinch salt

1/2 tsp Psyllium husk powder if needed.

Combine Tofu, Bananas, Dates and Nut Milk in blender. Blend until Smooth.

Add the Cocoa pwd, Salt, Vanilla Extract and Psyllium powder if needed. Continue blending until mixture is smooth. Pour into storage bowel and chill.

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Freezer Brownies

Dara Dietz

Raw Food Freezer Brownies, Yummy food without guilt.

Freezer Brownies

Combine in Food processor as directed below:

  • 1 1/2 cups walnuts
  • dash salt
  • 8 Medjool dates
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa or carob powder
  • 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons water
  • 1/4 cup dried cherries

Chop 1/4 cup walnuts and set aside.

Put the remaining 1 1/4 cups in food processor with the salt and process with the “S” blade until finely ground. Add dates and process until the mixture sticks together.

Add the Cocoa powder and vanilla extract and process briefly.

Transfer to small bowel. Add the reserved walnuts and cherries, mix well using your hands.

Pack the mixture firmly into a 6 inch square glass container. Store in a sealed container. Brownies will keep for 1 week in the refrigerator or 1 month in the freezer.

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Roasted Vegetable Jumble

Dara Dietz

Here is a very tasty way to eat your veggies.

A good mix of veggies to use in this mix is:

  • 2 zucchini (sliced)
  • 2 yellow squash (Sliced)
  • 1 large parsnip (Peeled & Diced)
  • 1 large onion (diced)
  • 1 Sweet Potato (Peeled & Diced)
  • 1 Med. Rutabaga (Peeled & Diced)

Other great Veggies that can be used

  • 4 baby potatoes (diced)
  • 6-8 Mushrooms (quartered)

Once all veggies are cut to size and on cookie sheet sprinkle on:

  • 2 or more tsp. Garlic Granules
  • 2 tsp. Season Salt
  • 2 or 3 tablespoons Olive Oil

Mix to coat all veggies evenly

Optional: Sprinkle about 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese over seasoned veggies

Move to preheated oven and bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes or until nicely toasted. When finished, Remove from hot oven, serve immediately topped with small amount of Feta Cheese.

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Cooking with Chickpea Flour

Dara Dietz

A friend introduced me to Chickpea flour several months ago.  She made a delicious vegetable patty using chickpea flour.  The most impressive part was that no binder was needed, the chickpea flour held together perfectly.  After playing with the seasonings and veggies used in the patty I shared this great find on a video. 

Chickpea Vegetable Patties

Of course I kept playing with the chickpea flour and discovered it also make a great flatbread, known as Socca or Farinata.  I found I could lighten the flavor by mixing oat flour to the mix.  The discovery of Chickpea flour pancakes really made my day.  Everything good, high protein, high fiber, and no wheat flour or eggs needed. 

Most of the recipes for Socca use water but I have found I like the flavor of the bread better if I use a nut milk, and add ½ cup of oat flour.  Once the basic ingredients are assembled any of the herbs or other seasonings can be added as desired.  Adding garlic powder or The Italian seasoning will make it a bit more savory.  Adding vanilla, cinnamon, honey and your favorite sweetener makes for a sweet treat without guilt.

Chickpeas are an excellent source of protein once ounce has 3 grams, and fiber 2 grams for the one ounce.    There is always a container of hummus in the fridge for my husbands snacks. 

For those of us who have stopped using wheat flour in all its forms here are some high protein, high fiber alternatives that taste great too.

Chickpea Flour Flat Bread

1 Cup Chickpea Flour; 1/2 Oat flour; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1/4 tsp Pepper; 1 TBL Olive oi;l 1 3/4 Cup Nut Milk; Heat oven to 450 degrees; Place 10 inch cast iron skillet into oven while heating.

Here is my second offering in my three part series on Cooking with Chickpea flour. This very simple yet tasty wrap will work well with anything you want to put in it.

Chickpea Flour Wrap

1 Cup Chick Pea Flour; 1/2 Cup Tapioca Flour (Starch); 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 Cup Water or Nut Milk; Small amount of Oil to coat frying Pan

The last of Chickpea Flour offering in my three part series on Cooking with Chickpea flour. Here is a yummy Vegan Pancake completely gluten free.

Chickpea Flour Pancakes

1 cup Chickpea Flour; 1/2 Oat flour; 2 tsp baking power; 1 Tablespoon Arrowroot Powder; 1 tsp Cinnamon; 2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup Powder;( or Honey or Maple Syrup ect..); Pinch Salt; 1 tsp Vanilla; 1 1/2 Cups Nut Milk (Almond Milk).

Heart, Blood & Circulation, Herbal Healing

Edema aka Dropsy

Dara Dietz

Definition

Abnormal and excessive accumulation or infiltration of diluted lymph serum in the interfibrillar spaces of the subcutaneous connective tissue or in the serious (peritoneal or pleural) cavities of the body which do not drain.

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Symptoms

This condition is accompanied by swelling, scanty urine, poor appetite, sluggishness, and debility. The swelling usually begins in the feet and ankles and proceeds up the legs towards the abdomen.

Cause

Heavy salt users often have edema as do diabetics. We do not pinpoint the symptoms as to locality (hydrocephalus, hydrothorax, ascites, etc.), as does orthodox medicine, but the general problem is that fluid does not eliminate properly through the kidneys and skin.

Dr. Edward Shook had the following to say about dropsy (Edema):

“When sulfuric acid is generated within the organism, it immediately unites with water and swells up. This action produces heat, which expands the capillaries. The osmotic pressure forces the serum through the walls of the blood vessels, producing inflammation and dropsy (edema).

Hence the using of inorganic matter is always poisonous to the human organism in spite of all the apparent evidence to the contrary.”

What Can be Done for Dropsy?

This was a question put to Dr. Christopher in his newsletter. His answer: For mild or beginning forms of dropsy caused by urinary malfunction, we have the following:

For a severe case let us cite a good case of how it can be handled in most cases.

A lady came into our weekly Tuesday night lecture a little late, after we had barely started. She asked if she could interrupt and tell something that had happened to her since the last lecture, a week ago. We said we’d be happy to hear her story, so she told us the reason she was a little late was because of a long distance phone call she had just received.

Just after the last lecture, the Tuesday before, she received a call from her brother-in-law in Chicago. He told her that if she wanted to see her twin sister alive she had better fly back there immediately because the doctors had said she had only a day or two to live.

Our student took a few days off from work and arrived in Chicago on the following Friday. She went in to see her sister and would not have recognized her if she hadn’t been told who it was. Her sister was so badly swollen from edema (dropsy) that she seemed to be only a bloated, unrecognizable mass of flesh. She had been under doctors’ care for a number of months, and they had been unable to give her anything but temporary aid from the water accumulation. Now they were utterly baffled and had, at the family’s request, sent her home from the hospital to die (being given a day or two or slightly more grace).

The sick and suffering twin was in a coma, not recognizing anyone, and our student cried when she saw her favorite sister lying there helpless, with little school children needing their mother so much, so she asked the husband if he would allow her to use an herbal routine she had heard about at a lecture recently. He said the family’s doctor was just waiting for her to die anyway, so go ahead!

Our lady found a little health food store nearby and bought some parsley root and glycerine (this was animal glycerine, we now use vegetable glycerine which is superior).

When she got back she made up parsley root tea (one teaspoon of herb to a cup of water, or one ounce of herb to the pint of water), making up about one gallon of the tea. (Steam distilled water is 30% more efficient than tap water and is our choice.)

One quart of the tea was used straight to give to this patient orally, and three quarts of the parsley root tea was mixed with equal parts of glycerine (making six quarts of the mixture) for fomentations.

They would give a cup of parsley tea each one half hour to the patient to drink, and the heated combination (of parsley and glycerine) was used as a fomentation over the badly swollen legs, arms and abdomen. This was done by soaking white flannel cloths and laying them over the areas. (Use cotton or wool, never use synthetic cloth.)

As the patient lay there so helpless, her sister remembered instructions given to follow the progress of the treatment. She was to lift the corner of the cloth, after the fomentation had been on for a short time, and watch to see if the pores were starting to take the water from swollen areas. She said that as she looked it was like seeing hundreds of little springs coming from the body. She had made this trip and was walking by faith, using a formula she did not know about or had ever used before. She had just heard of it at our lecture that previous Tuesday. She had to fly back to work on Monday, so she left all the instructions with the husband to continue on with the program that had been started.

After work Tuesday she rushed home to get ready for the regular Tuesday night herb lecture and the phone rang. It was her brother-in-law from Chicago. He said, “There is someone here who would like to talk to you.” He put his wife on the phone. Even though she had laid helpless for months and part of the time in a semi-conscious condition, she was on the phone now, so happy she was crying. The swelling had gone down, and she was recovering rapidly–in fact she said she got the children’s breakfast and fixed their school lunches that day and was so grateful “to be a mother again”–not a dying patient. There were not many dry eyes in the lecture room that Tuesday night when she finished her story.

Cleansing & Flushing, Getting Started, Herbal Healing

The Cleansing Programs

Dara Dietz

For those new to detoxing and cleansing programs, getting into, and doing the work can be overwhelming.   Today I want to take the time to lay out a good plan for the simple week of cleansing or the extended long term healing programs.

The “Incurables Kit”, can be divided into four parts:

Foundational items: Lower Bowel Formula #1; Lower bowel Formula #2, Superfood; Echinacea

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The Foundational items will be started and continued throughout the entire healing or cleansing program.   

Liver Flushing Items: Detox Tea; Detox Formula; LP Formula; (if included, Digestive tonic)

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Kidney Flushing Items: Kidney Bladder Tea; Kidney formula; Detox Formula; Cayenne.

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Nutritional tonics Specific to the issue you are healing: The items here are the rebuilding tonic specific to the areas needing attention in your body.  Examples would be: BF&C Formula; Female Formula; Prostate Formula; Heart Tonic; ect…

The First step when beginning any detox or healing program is to establish the Foundational programs.  The most vital being the Bowel Cleansing aids.  In most cases the bowels are not moving well, they are backed up, which will prevent the start up of any of the detoxing programs.  Until the bowels are open and moving waste out effectively it is not wise or helpful to begin any detox program.  That said, the first step in any healing or detoxing program is to ensure the bowels are open and moving well.  The Lower Bowel Formula #l (LBF #1) needs to be established starting with the first day of your program. 

Day one: Take one capsule with your dinner meal or around the dinner hour if you are on a juice fast.  Increase by one capsule each day until your bowels are open and working well.  It may take several days for you to find “your number” of capsules needed to support bowel function.  Be patient with yourself, this is an important beginning, getting the bowel supports established well will prevent any number of detoxing issues from appearing as you are doing the Flushing Programs.

During the first week while you are discovering how many LBF #1 Capsules you need to use each day you will also want to begin the herbal supports to build up your immune system.  Using an ounce of Echinacea 4 days each week (Monday-Thursday) is a great place to begin.  When the stronger programs are done it may be needed to increase the Echinacea to an ounce each day for 6 days each week.  Always rest from this formula one day each week. 

The Nutritional Supports include your food program Which will depend on the extent of detoxing or healing you are doing.  When setting up for a strong healing program or detoxing program it may be advantageous to juice fast for the first 30 days.  This will aid the body in the detoxing, healing, processes by providing massive amounts of nutrition at cellular level.  Flooding the body with the healing nutrients needed to clear whatever issues you are facing.  For the best understanding of the benefits of juicing read the article: “Health through Nutrition”.

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The Superfood Powder is a powerful nutritional supplement which can be used freely.  The Suggested use while doing your healing programs is 2 tablespoons in juice three times a day.  It is an excellent meal replacement when juice fasting.  Superfood will provide the protein support needed when doing a raw food program or Juice fast.  When the energy level droops later in the day a large dose (4 tablespoons) of Superfood will often revive the body in about 15 minutes.   

Those using a Vegan or Vegetarian food program will find 2 tablespoons of Superfood taken once a day an excellent source of the B Vitamins that can be hard to come by for those who choose not to consume  animal products.

Once the bowels are open and functioning well it is time to begin the Lower bowel formula #2 (LBF #2).

LBF #2 is taken 1 tsp every three hours throughout the day.  This will usually come to five doses a day.  ( I have found the hours of 3,6,9, 12; an easy way of staying on schedule when doing a formula that needs to be taken every three hours.  This is only a suggestion, do what will work for you.

When using the LBF #2 the bowels will tighten up a bit so you will need to increase the LBF #1 by 1 or 2 capsules daily to accommodate the use of the LBF #2.  This is the actual bowel detoxing formula.  It works as a “Bowel Vacuum” drawing toxin from the bowel walls. 

Remember with the Lower Bowel Formulas you are in control, if the bowels are too tight take an extra LBF #1 Capsule at dinner time.  If the bowels are too loose drop a capsule from your daily dose. 

Once the basic program are in place, the LBF #1 and the LBF #2 are established it is time to add the detoxing  programs.  I prefer to begin my Five Day Liver or Kidney detox on a Monday. 

The five day Liver Detox is best done juice fasting.  If this is not needed or possible a raw food program can be used.  My day begins early with my juicer humming as I make my drinks for the day.  Once all my fruits and veggies have been made into the great juice I will drink throughout the day it is time to do my first liver flush for the day.  I suggest doing three each day during the five day flush week.  See the schedule in our Liver flushing E-book for details. 

The Five day Kidney Detox can be done best with a juice fast but the raw food program will work also.  Again you will make you daily juices for each day first thing in the morning. Follow by your first Kidney flush of the day.  See the Kidney Flushing E-Book for detail instructions.

Herbal Healing, Infection, Colds & Flu, My Opinion

Impacted or Inflamed Sinuses

Dara Dietz

Herbal Suggestions for Clearing: Impacted or Inflamed Sinuses

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Today we are going to discuss a program for clearing impacted or inflamed sinuses.  This past week I realized the program I have suggested for several members over the years has never been put in writing.  The Suggestions provided have worked wonderfully to clear even impacted sinuses.

The herbal supports you will need to have on hand are:

  • Snuff
  • Herbal Antibiotic
  • Echinacea
  • Bowel Cleansing Routines: LBF #1 & LBF #2
Bowel Cleansing

When the sinuses are so blocked no air can move through them it is necessary to pry them open just a bit so the herbal Snuff can be inhaled and begin its work of softening and removing the blockage from the area.  Here are a couple suggestions that never fail to get that small opening into the sinuses which will enable to herbals to be inhaled into the blocked up sinus cavity.

Suggestion #1: Cut up several onions.  In Cases where the blockage is not too severe the vapors from the onions will be enough to get the eyes watering, the nose running.  Please do not discount this simple suggestion, it can be highly effective for a stopped up head.  Once air can be pulled through the nose begin to inhale the Herbal Snuff into the Sinuses.  Keep drawing it up until you can taste the bitter Goldenseal herb in the back of your throat.  As the herb begins to work you will need to blow your nose several times as the backed up waste is melted from the head.

Suggestion #2: Blend Fresh Horseradish Root with Apple Cider Vinegar to an apple sauce consistency.  Hold ¼ to ½ tsp between your tongue and the top of your mouth.   The oils and vapors from the horseradish are an amazingly effective for opening the air ways in the sinuses. Once air can be moved through the sinuses begin inhaling the Herbal Snuff, as described in Suggestion #1, to clear the packed up waste from the sinuses cavity.

Suggestion #3: Use your Wasabi paste, (Japanese Horseradish). It is a powerful highly effective aid for opening the sinuses.  A word of caution for those who have never experienced Wasabi, it can be painful for those not used to the effect. I would suggest starting slowly with a good Wasabi paste.  It will not physically hurt you but the effects can be uncomfortable for those new to this type of food.  Again once you are able to pull air in through your nose you can begin to inhale the Herbal Snuff into the sinus cavity.

Using the Herbal Snuff

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What to expect when snorting this herbal mix into the sinuses:  Some people will experience a warm feeling in the sinuses, along with watering of the eyes.  Shortly after the herbal powder is pulled up into the sinuses the nose will begin to drip.  To me it feels like the waste is being melted out.  The hard packed waste in the cavity will begin to soften and move with the pull of gravity to be expelled through the nose.  I heard the testimony of one woman who pulled ropes of hardened mucus from her nose, effectively clearing the sinuses in her head.

The Snuff can be used freely.  When I have needed to clear my head I have taken the time to inhale this mixture repeatedly until my head felt clear.  Please note I have never suffered from blocked sinuses beyond the effects of a bad head cold.  For those working to clear impacted sinuses the herbs will need more time to do the work of softening and clearing the waste.

Additional Aids for Clearing Congestion from the Head are:

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Flushing the eyes with the Eyebright Formula:  this will bring good circulation to the areas surrounding the eyes as well as clear waste from the eyes themselves.  With the sinuses impacted or inflamed it would not be a surprise to discover the eyes are being affected and the circulation to them is also blocked up.

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Hearing Loss Routine: Following this routine as found on our Hearing Loss Info Sheet, will aid in clearing the vertigo issues that often accompany impacted sinuses.  The head can also become off balance causing occasional dizziness to occur when the sinuses are full of waste.  The hearing can also become affected, remember the entire head is impacted because of the large amount of waste being held in the sinuses.  Clearing the waste from the ears and supporting better circulation in this area of the head will also aid in clearing the sinuses.  It is all connected.

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Infection Program

Herbal Infection Support

For a full write-up on a good blood and lymph infection formula, with the herbs, proportions and how to make it at home, see Getting the Herbs to Where the Infection Lives.

Following the Herbal Infection Routines will prove helpful in aiding the body to remove the toxic waste you will be draining from your sinuses.  A good infection program would be to follow the suggestions provided in our Infection Information Sheet. Depending on how long the issues have been allowed to remain unchallenged in the body will determine how long the infection work should be continued.  There will be no harm in continuing to use the Infection formulas for several weeks to several months.  Let your body tell you when enough is enough.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Detailed Enema Instructions for First-Timers

Dara Dietz

You are what you eat, drink, breathe, and think…

AND what you don’t eliminate! 

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Well, here it goes! J If this is your first time, the idea of an enema may make you feel really uneasy and awkward, and rightfully so. You also may not be confident in the purpose of it.  Truth is, it may not be something you would choose to do if you were at a day at the spa, BUT you may feel just as good when you’re done!! At first it will be awkward, but it will become more natural and easier in a very short time. It’s only water… give it a try! J 

General Information

1.   Purpose: The purpose is to internally wash your colon (large intestines).  The general American diet involves highly processed foods that do not promote colon health.  The foods become sticky and thick, line the colon walls, and impede healthy peristalsis movement (wave-like contractions).  Excessive mucous thickens the waste also causing it to move through sluggishly. As a country, we have advanced in digestive difficulty, and increased in colon disease.  Because of this, we have to take some extreme measures to keep our colons functioning properly. Some choose to change their diet to mostly whole grains, veggies, fruits, and to do some cleansing programs and enemas. Others have medical colon exploration and testing, life-long prescriptions, and surgeries.  This may be you one day.  Hopefully you’ll choose the former. J

2. Reasons for an enema: 

Constipation: If you are not going daily (preferably as many times as you eat a meal), then it’s time to make some changes. If you can imagine the bulk of food you have eaten in a day, pretty much that same amount should exit your body.  If you have ever done juicing, that is the best example. Your body is a juicer, and it spits out the fiber. — You need to be sure that you are eliminating or you will find serious problems down the road. Enemas can help get things moving.  You will also need to focus on hydrating yourself (with water), changing your diet, increasing fiber and probiotics, and maybe even use safe herbal laxatives as necessary until you are going frequently and thoroughly.  Once you start seeing a change, you will amaze yourself!

Stomach aches/gas cramps: As stated above, these signs are often caused by some level of constipation, a reaction to food, or a common symptom of detox as your colon attempts to break loose and remove old fecal matter, mucous, and toxins.  A series of enemas can give almost immediate relief to these symptoms if they are caused by your diet or cleansing.

Headaches:  Sometimes a series of enemas can help with a headache, depending on the cause of it. Just helping to release some pent up toxins and hydrating the bowel can be helpful.

Children and High Fevers:  This process is especially helpful for children. An enema can reduce a high fever by at least one degree if not two… and can be done every time the fever begins to spike again.  You want the fever to do its job, but not to get too high, whether for comfort sake or for danger.  It also will help hydrate though the colon while the heat of the body might cause dehydration.

  Use an adult sized Fleet (or generic) bottle …emptied and then filled with warm water.  Even infants can hold about a cup of water in their colon. (Don’t worry, you can’t put too much… they will just start going on you if they’re done taking water!)J  Lay them on the floor on a towel. If it’s a baby, also put a clean diaper underneath, so that as soon as they start to go, you can quickly close up the diaper to catch any output.

Keep them calm by talking, singing, and smiling while gently, but quickly getting the water in them with a lubricated nozzle. (They may cry because of the slight discomfort, but will quit as soon as you are done giving the enema. Just try to be quick!) If they are little, you can massage their tummy in a clockwise motion. If they are older, you can teach them to do it themselves, if they’d like. If the water does not come back out within about 20-30 mins, it probably means they were so dehydrated, they absorbed it through their colon, and you will likely need to do another one.

If you are concerned about keeping bacteria balanced in your child, just empty an acidophilus capsule or two into the enema or in their juice later. You can take it for yourself as well.

During a Cleanse: When you give the body an opportunity to purge, it will release toxins into the body, bringing them to the surface. The goal is to eliminate these as quickly as possible. If you don’t, these now exposed toxins will absorb back into your body through your colon wall (or wherever they happens to be) and potentially now make you sick.  Your body had them hidden, buried in fat or some sort of tissue, until it was able to get rid of them safely, or until they cause you trouble. To put it simply, if you don’t ever get rid of these poisons, they are your potential for getting diseases or cancer later on as the immune system becomes weaker.  Occasional cleanses aid the body, but only while doing regular enemas to keep toxins moving out quickly and safely.  Also, building your immune system with large amounts of Echinacea as well (1/2 oz – twice a day) will be very helpful during a time of cleansing.  If anyone is doing any type of cleanse, you MUST be willing to do enemas, or I personally would not recommend doing a cleanse AT ALL! 

3. Enema types: There are two basic types of enemas, a regular enema and a high enema.  The first only cleans out the rectum.  These would be the Fleet sized enemas you can buy. —  A high enema means that you wash the length of the large intestines… sometimes adding something to the water for stimulation, or for a deeper cleanse (such as herbs, raw vinegar, probiotics, coffee, etc).  You can add to your enemas later on if you desire, but for now, only use warm pure water.

You’re on Your Own Now!: J

    What to buy: You will need to buy an enema bag system. Enema bags are usually sold as a combination enema/douche kit. The bag is the same, the only difference is the nozzle that you use. You will also need some lubricant for inserting the nozzle rectally. You can use either natural oil-based products, even pure Olive Oil, or a water soluble lubricant.

Preparing your equipment:

1. Clamp: Enema bags come with a clamp that fits over the tube near the nozzle end. Clamp the tube shut.

2. Warm Water: AFTER hose is clamped (or you will have a mess while attempting to fill it up!) J … Fill the bag with lukewarm water. The water should be around body temperature (95o to 100oF). You can test it on your wrist. You do not want to have the water too hot. You cannot hold the water in you very long when it is too hot, and it is uncomfortable when exiting. Don’t have it too cold, or your rectum will contract/close up, and won’t accept the water. Please be sure your water is as purified as possible. You will absorb some of the water through your colon. Clean water is important!

3. Hang it up: Place the enema bag about 3-4 feet above the floor in your bathroom. The kit comes with a hook or hole of some type. The bag must be placed at a point where you can easily reach and insert the tube when you are laying flat on the floor. Hooking the enema bag on the doorknob or towel rack is usually about the right height. The higher the bag is above you, the stronger the flow of water.  Individuals may vary on preference as to whether they like a slow or quicker flow. We actually attached a hook permanently on the wall and leave our emptied and rinsed bag hanging there, covered with a towel when not in use.

4. Clear air from tube: You’ll need to clear the tube of air bubbles.  Hold the nozzle over the toilet and open the clamp to let the water flow a couple of seconds until the air has been released from the hose (you can hear it clear out)… then quickly clamp shut again.

5. Prepare your spot: Place a towel over the spot where you will lie flat. This is usually best position (as you will read later), but if necessary, you can get on your knees, or even do it while sitting on the toilet (just be sure that your hose doesn’t kink, and that your bottle is much higher for better water pressure, to get it in the colon as far as possible).  This may help if you have back issues or other difficulties that would make it complicated getting up from the floor and to the toilet. 

6. Lubricate: Place some lubricant on the nozzle and on you to make it easier to insert.

Prepare yourself:

1. RELAX and Breathe!  Granted, this isn’t the most pleasant thing you could be doing right now, but it is going to be profitable for your health and cleansing. Play some music, listen to a speaker, read your Bible, a book, this wonderful enema reading material J, or just take advantage of some quiet time to think and pray!

2. What to expect:  You will feel the water entering your colon. It will slowly start to build up a pressure feeling, and may even cause some cramping.  These can be small twinges, or extremely painful.  You have either hit fecal matter, or gas bubbles in your colon.  If you clamp it shut and relax or move side to side a little and massage, it will often move things around and pass it so you can continue to get more water in.  If the pressure is just too uncomfortable, go ahead and leave it clamped, remove the nozzle, and move to the toilet and release. Afterward, go back and do your second enema to get water farther up into the colon. It will likely be easier the second time around… and even more so after several days of enemas.  It is not uncommon that the first time or two you ever do an enema that nothing but water comes back out.  Eventually after the first couple, you should start to see a mixture of water and fecal matter as things loosen up a bit.

**You are now ready to begin:**

1. Position: If on your back…Lie on your LEFT SIDE, not your right, always start an enema on your LEFT SIDE.  If you look at a diagram of the intestines, you will understand. If looking down at yourself, your colon (or large intestines) goes up a short distance and quickly makes a 90o turn to the left and then goes up the left side of the body, then it crosses over at your ribs, and goes down the right side of the body. If you started an enema on your right side, it will make it more difficult for the water to work its way through. That is why it helps to do an enema beginning on your left side.

2. Begin: While laying on your left side, gently insert the nozzle being careful to go straight in to feel comfortable and get good water flow. The instructions with the bag will indicate how far in to place the nozzle. Usually an inch or two is as far as it needs to go.

3. Water flow: Open the clamp on the nozzle and let the water flow. (If it doesn’t seem to be flowing properly, look for kinks in the hose, and adjust the nozzle in you, being sure it’s not pressed up against the wall of your rectum and cutting off flow.) The first time you take an enema, the water flowing is a rather odd experience. You become used to it after a few times.

4. Massage: As the water flows in, gently yet firmly, massage your abdomen. This does two things. It helps to break up and release as the water flows. It also releases trapped air as the water flows in.

5. Roll with it:  Guess-timate when you are 1/3 through the bag then turn on your back, flat. You sometimes can even feel about where the water is, depending on the temperature. After another 1/3, turn to your right side. Hopefully the water has travelled through a majority of your large intestines.  On occasion, I have been able to get up, add more warm water to my bag, and continue until I can feel I’m filled to the max.

6. Wait: Remember, the water is washing the inside of a dirty tube. You  should try to learn let the water stay in you for 10 to 15 minutes. Initially, you may not be able to hold the water in that long. Often the urge to go becomes intense after the water has gone in. Your first few times, you might just want to go to the toilet and release until you become more familiar with the feeling of it.

7. Move and groove:  This may be too much for you, but it is recommended by some that when you stand up to go, shake your stomach from side to side, back and forth, and round and round. You will often hear the water sloshing inside you. The more you can shake and slosh the water, the more cleaning you get, and the more sludge you will break loose. Some also suggest that you should lie there while the water is in you and roll from the left side to your back, then to the right side.  Others suggest to slosh while lying down. While lying on your back, raise your hips off the floor and slosh.  That will help the water get evenly distributed throughout the colon. Just beware of sudden urges that take over you. Don’t want to create more clean-up for you! J 

8. Release!:  Finally!… When the urge becomes too strong, or your 10-15 minutes is up, just sit on the toilet and release… a very watery bowel movement will eliminate quickly.  Sometimes after a few minutes, you will feel a second… and  maybe third… urge as more water and fecal matter works its way out. Message your colon in a clock wise motion for best elimination results. — Occasionally you may get a painful cramp as a gas bubble tries to work its way through and exit the body.  Just bend over, and continually message your colon to help it exit as quickly as possible.

9. REPEAT: I recommend that you do the enema three times at each session. This helps to be sure you have a thorough cleansing.

10. Clean-up:  Quickly scrub and wipe down toilet, it is easier to do so immediately afterward. Sometimes, old fecal matter that you eliminate can stick to the sides of the pot like cement if left to dry. (Aren’t you glad it’s out of you now?!) J  Empty remaining water that’s in the bottle, and wash the nozzle thoroughly with hot water and soap, and hang it all to dry. You are now prepared for your next session!

11. Great work!  You have done a great service to your body, aiding it in its constant effort to keep you clean and healthy!  Keep up the good work by continuing in a diet of pure food and water for a heathier more energetic life!! 

This article authored by Breanne Fariss