So now it’s day 4. Wow, wow wow, the butternut squash soup with pesto on day 1 was amazing. It was from Renee Loux Underkofflers’ book, ‘Living Cusine’. I have a lot of trust in this woman, she is a raw chef and seems to have a really good understanding of flavours.
Day 2 began with a smoothie; mango, banana, avocado (only one between four of us) and a bunch of juices that i can’t remember. There was lots of snacking on raw fruit and veg and we had a lovely soup in the evening, followed by an amazake, blueberry and passionfruit dessert. A rather indulgent day but it kept the BF, D&G from bickering. A decided not to join us, on the basis that she would find it too difficult to give up smoking or reduce it to a low level. She has decided to do the flush sometime after she has quit smoking.
Unfortunately after the smoothie I got a nasty cystitis flare-up. I had a real panic when I started spotting because I’d never had this with cystitis before, but I soon realised that this was actually my period. Doh!! So that’s why my tummy was swollen and hurting. At the same time the effects of the Colosan were in full force- this made for a rather unpleasant dependency on the bathroom. I had to hide in there for about two hours with a pyrex jug full of water and Pure Synergy after taking loads of probiotics and some antifungals. This and my bath seemed to do the trick with the cystitis.
Later I took some Potassium Magnesium Citrate (Viridian), Zyflamend (New Chapter), Headache Take Care (New Chapter) and Gingko (Bioforce) for the period pain and walked to the shop- this seemed to help, but I’m not sure whether it was less toxic than taking a painkiller would have been, considering the combiination and potency of the herbs.
Juice day (Day 3) started out OK, but soon decended into chaos when two shopping parties failed to come up with the required goods (namely hot water bottles, olive oil and lemons) until the last minute. The BF decided to go to Argos to buy a hoover and didn’t have any juice first, then when he got back it was already time to prepare for the flush with two spaced doses of Colosan, which had to be taken on an empty stomach. There was a lot of bickering and I developed a nasty migrane at about 6pm so was not motivated to manage everyone’s behaviour and the timing of doses of Colosan, the number of lemons required and other such details. Instead I lay in bed with a pillow over my head. In the end we took the lovely oil and lemon mixture between 11 and 12-PM!! Absolutely not ideal. The BF got to bed at about 12:30!!!
Many lessons were learned. But there were successes!! G had to go to work, but he told us, spent the night rubing his liver and stomach and passed about 40 stones before work!! He bounced into our room happliy this morning to show us the photograph of them on his phone. Apparently he later buried them in the garden. I felt extremely sick straight away after drinking my mixture last night and didn’t feel well enough to take my Colosan first thing. I fell asleep with a bag of frozen peas on my head (migrane) last night feeling awful, although I slept OK in the end. I have been sitting up in bed for most of the morning, waiting for the nausea to subside. I eventually went down for Colosan at about 11 and just started passing stones about 15 minutes ago!! I have passed a few dozen tiny ones and two rather large ones about 1cm across.
I had been considering collecting and photographing them but decided to flush them down the loo. It’s not that I am at all squeamish, I’m not very, rather that it seemed like obsessing over the past and it felt more liberating to flush them away. They were all really bright green except for one of the large ones which was sort of whiteish in colour and they floated on top of the water above all of the other poo.
I am quite surprised because although I know that my diet has been really appaling at times, I am quite slim and eat a lot less meat and food in general than other people. Also I have been through lots of healthy eating phases where I have been almost exclusively vegan and I haven’t bought dairy milk for years. On balance, however, with all of my health problems and bad habits over the years, not to mention poor childhood eating, I have conceded that there must be a lot of dodgy crap in me.
My poor BF has been suffering badly with this whole process. Yesterday he only managed one glass on apple juice due to poor planning and timing. He insisted on drinking all of his flush cocktail despite my warnings to stop before he felt sick. He couldn’t get to sleep and woke up feeling awful, then vomited, however I don’t think he got it all up as he said that he could feel the oil sitting in his stomach. He is OK now and going downstairs for his first meal. However he hasn’t passed any stools at all. Since we both felt ill this morning I called a local health clinc and booked him in for a last minute colonic, today at 2pm. We were very lucky to get the appointment as it was due to a cancellation.
He has never had a colonic before but I think that it will be excellent for him. His whole digestion/absorbtion/elimination system is behaving extremely poorly for a man of his age (he is in his early 20’s) due to work, stress, poor diet etc, as well as (to me) blatant base chakra issues. I was also able to secure an appointment for myself on friday and I am really excited!!!
D, apparently, didn’t hold onto the flush cocktail last night and it went straight through him. He hasn’t passed anything this morning but says he feels fine. He doesn’t seem dissapointed but I think that he is just going along with it for the experience anyway and because the rest of us are doing it.
So, lessons learned? Planning and preperation. Being ready. Timing and organisation. It seems thet for some of us, our ability to digest fats is not up to the task of drinking 200mls of olive oil in one go and keeping it down. Before his next flush, I have advised the BF to start taking Centaurium (Bioforce) before his meals and enzymes 15 minutes after his main meal, to observe food combining rules and generally do everything he can to improve his digestive function. Additionally we will book him in for more colonics when we can afford it. I expect that low blood sugar probably also contributed to his nausea and inability to take the cockail.
I am very happy with G’s result. I think that stress had a lot to do with his good response i.e lack of, he watched the football and juiced regularly yesterday whilst the rest of us were out shopping and panicking. He observed the rules pretty well and was fairly self motivated when it came to taking his doses of Colosan and such on time. He has been presenting a glaring candidiasis picture (reflux, fullness, bloating, severe brain fog, fatigue) and is determined to start a new healthier regime. He previously had no knowledge of candida and ate bread and drunk beer everyday. Since the first day many of his usual symptoms have dissapeared or eased.
D seems to be a bit of an anomaly. He never complains about his health, feels invincible and seems to stay slim as a beanpole whatever he eats (usually lots of cheese, bread, seafood and sweets). He has been a vegetarian (fish eating) for a couple of years and says that he feels better. I believe his positive attitude has been doing him plenty of favours regarding his health. He cheated on the regime and it didn’t work but he is not concerned and plans to continue the vegan diet with us for a few more days.
I feel that I am really beginning to heal. Apart from my migrane, cystitis flare up and period pain, an old cold sore that I only ever see when really run down popped up a couple of days ago. This confirmed for me that I am going through a healing crisis and not deficiency symptoms- I feel confident about this because I have felt well and energetic otherwise and have been eating a varied diet. I have previously gone for days just eating junk with very little good quality protein without seeing this cold sore. The process was much more uncomfortable than I was expecting because of the nausea and the healing crisis.
Next time, I will;
1) Do the flush away from my period. Apart from the pain, I also frequently get nausea, loss of appetite, moodiness and constipation around this time. All very incompatible with the flush.
2) Ensure a calm environment with all of the required items obtained and arranged beforehand, as much as possible
3) Plan an entire menu, at least for the first two days
4) Extend the preperation period by at least a few days
5) Prepare my digestive system for a few weeks beforehand with bitters, enzymes food combining etc
6) Ensure that my sleeping pattern is in good order; it is so important to eat and sleep early
7) Only use organic olive oil. We could only get conventional, this probably contributed to our bodies rejecting it
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9) Eat less fruit (I usually don’t eat a lot of fruit as it can aggravate my cystitis, but ate more since the diet was otherwise restricted)
10) Have colonics beforehand and an enema kit ready
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11) Try not to be responsible for three fully grown men. They kept looking at me brandishing various foods and asking ‘can I have it’? I kept telling them, ‘You know the rules, I’m not giving you permission, you’re a grown man, you chose to do this, you eat what you like’. But it was quite stressful.
So that’s it. I conclude that the flush does (or at least can) work and hope to do another one in August at the latest, followed by a series of them form March onwards. Some say that the stones are congealed from the epsom salts or olive oil, but I don’t believe this. I stopped short of cutting one open to smell it or sending it to a lab, but others have done this and I can report that what we have seen looks consistent with photos on the web. Just look up liver or gallbladder flush.
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