| FOREWORD
Self Healing Colitis &
Crohn's
© Living Nutrition Publications by Dr. David Klein
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http://www.colitis-crohns.com
Colitis and Crohn's disease (C&C)
are inflammatory bowel illnesses characterized by distressful
bowel function. "Itis" means inflammation.
The body’s intelligence system creates inflammation
just as it creates fevers. Inflammation is an escalated
healing action in which harmful toxic matter is being
broken down and neutralized for elimination at a "feverish
pace." Toxins in the body cause the body to enact
inflammation for purification.
The body enacts disease processes,
such as C&C, in response to systemic toxemia, i.e.,
when the body is overloaded with toxins. A bowel with
C&C is overloaded with toxic fecal matter which
saturates the tissues and typically impairs elimination.
C&C symptoms are “housecleaning” processes.
The more acutely toxic the body and the more vital the
body’s nerve energy, the more intense the self-cleansing/healing
process. C&C symptoms will diminish as the body
detoxifies, which requires that the ingestion of toxic,
indigestible foodstuffs be discontinued and a health-promoting
diet and lifestyle be adopted.
Medical researchers, doctors and
nurses mistakenly believe that the body's inflammation
response is an "autoimmune" phenomenon. That
is incorrect and illogical. The body only works to heal
itself and never creates any physiological process that
would harm itself. When the body is inflamed, the body
is acting to break down, neutralize and eliminate toxins,
not healthy tissue. And some researchers believe that
bacteria cause ulcers. This is also incorrect. Bacteria
consume wastes and assist in elimination. They are not
capable of causing bodily actions. Ulcers are an open
outlet for the elimination of toxins. The body intelligently
resorts to creating ulcers when the load of toxins is
too great for the body to neutralize and eliminate by
inflammation alone. Both inflammation and ulceration
are manifestations of healing. They are the body’s
way of “curing” itself; inflammation and
ulceration are self-healing processes in action. In
order to self-heal, one must understand and trust all
self-healing processes. The body is designed or “programmed”
for perfect self-healing.
The symptoms of C&C may be considered
as a warning that the results of inappropriate lifestyle
and dietary habits have reached a stage requiring that
immediate changes be made. C&C are most common in
societies, such as the West, where meat is a major part
of the diet and stress from fast-paced modern lifestyles
are prevalent. The way to overcome C&C is to stop
poisoning and enervating the body with harmful foods
and lifestyle stressors and allow it to complete the
healing process. As long as the dietary and lifestyle
factors which cause enervation and toxemia are avoided,
healing will take place. The author recommends that
people with C&C take a restful sabbatical of three
months or more in order to give the body and mind the
rest needed for effective self healing.
The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation estimates
that there are over two million inflammatory bowel disease
sufferers in the United States. Medical authorities
state that prolonged suffering with C&C can result
in cancer. Colorectal cancer ranks number two in cancer-related
mortalities in the United States (behind lung cancer
and ahead of breast cancer). There are two basic forms
of inflammatory bowel diseases:
- 1. Colitis is an inflammation of the
colon. Local symptoms may include diarrhea, mucous
formation, bleeding, constipation, abdominal cramps,
spasms, colon disfigurement, flatulence, abdominal
and rectal pain, fevers and stomach distress. Related
non-local symptoms can be many, including weight loss,
emotional distress, headaches, sleeping difficulties,
general weakness and rapid aging. The use of anti-inflammatory,
antibiotic and immuno-suppressant medications, while
sometimes temporarily suppressing symptoms, always
have effects which contribute further to the devitalization
of the person's health. Drugs are toxic and enervating;
the body expends precious energy as it works to get
rid of them.
Colitis may advance into ulcerative colitis which
is characterized by inflammation and ulceration(s)
of the colon. Symptoms can include all of those listed
above plus painful ulcerations in the colon wall which
can both perforate the colon and/or become cancerous.
- 2. Crohn's disease, or regional enteritis,
is an inflammation of any portion of the alimentary
canal. It usually affects the lower section of the
small intestine – the ileum – giving rise
to the name ileitis. Symptoms are typically similar
to those for colitis.
C&C, if not treated wholistically, typically has
a life-ruining effect. Surgical removal of the colon
is often considered by the medical establishment to
be a standard treatment for chronic cases of colitis
and ulcerative colitis. In the past decade, some (but
too few) medical doctors have begun to recognize that
specific dietary changes can lead to an improvement
in C&C. It is prudent for persons with C&C,
even in advanced cases, to get opinions from wholistically-trained
and experienced health practitioners before submitting
to drug therapy and surgery. Most, if not all, colon
surgeries are unnecessary. The body will spontaneously
and completely heal itself of even advanced illnesses
when the conditions of illness are replaced with the
conditions of self healing, or health.
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