bowel movement

FREE BOWEL MOVEMENT &

CONSTIPATION

CONTENTS

1. My Innermost thoughts

2. Intestines

3. Immunity in intestines

4. What is Constipation?

5. Causes for Constipation

6. Bowel habits of our elders

7. Disorderly bowel movement

8. How many times to ablate a day?

9. When to ablate

10. How do feces move?

11. Definition of

free

ablution

12. Why

free

ablution is a happy experience?

13. Ideal food for free bowel movement

14. Best way to prevent constipation

15. Relation between mind and bowel movement

16. Ablation after eating

17. Problems from gas

18. How should fasces smell and look

19. Relation between body odors and feces

20. What happens if feces are stored?

21. Worms and bacteria in intestines

22. How fasting cleans intestines

23. Intestine cleaning through Sankha Prakshalana:

Is it useful?

24. Cleaning large intestines through enema

25. Questions and Answers

1. My innermost thoughts

Man likes to listen to sweet words. He cannot bear to listen to bad words. He derives pleasure out of good words. The same way, he feels uneasy at bad words and so tries to avoid them. Generally, we don’t feel like talking about motion or stools. Of course motion is waste material. To talk about it is bad, people feel. We don’t have to think of it or to utter those words, if the feces move out of our body freely, without any problem. But ever since the dawn of civilization, we are able to eat normally, but we are not able to get rid of the waste normally. Though we suffer thus, we hesitate to talk about it to our friends or we feel it as a sickening thought. Thus we ignore it out of ill feeling or shyness. As long as we can bear it we avoid talking about motion. Once it is beyond control, we make effort to consult others and to know ways and means of coming out of the problem. Until then we feel nausea at the very mention of the words motion, feces or stools.

We human beings know very well that we should eat three times a day, but we don’t know how to empty our dustbin, the large intestine. Every other living creature knows it. That’s why they need not be enlightened regarding this matter by people like me or veterinary doctors or their mothers. But we, with all intelligence, are not sensible enough to realize on our own the importance of free motion unless we are taught by someone. This is a problem of not one, but with most! That’s why a general awareness should be enkindled in everyone. When we discuss matters regarding motion, how else can we discuss these without the mention of the word motion? Henceforth, if you desire good health don’t treat motion, feces as bad words. If you treat them so, you cannot read this book. At every step, in every page you come across the details of motion. This book is specially designed to give you all a clear picture about bowel movement and to show you the ways to get rid of constipation. The relationship between the motion and us is highlighted in the following chapters. This book helps you to overcome the motion related problems. Most

of us have this problem and it is very necessary to understand the problem in depth to lead healthy life.

A healthy sign of life is not only to enjoy while eating food but to enjoy while clearing the bowels also. These days, we derive pleasure in eating but we face hell of a problem in driving the feces out. Once we lock ourselves up in the rest room, we only know our suffering. This is an incorrigible suffering. No doctor can prescribe a cure for it. The advancement in medical sciences has brought about a cure for many unwieldy diseases but problems like constipation don’t have a proper cure. There are quite a few solutions, but they are not available to the people. The experiments I have conducted in curing patients from constipation have yielded tremendous results. For the past 8, 9 years thousands of people were blessed with a free motion. I wanted to make every individual eligible for such a free motion. That is what prompted me to write this book.

Every creature gets a free motion automatically. But for us it is the toughest job. I wondered why we couldn’t have such a free motion! As a result I tried some experiments on myself in 1992 regarding this. I started eating exclusively raw food, fruits, seeds etc. The animals eat grass and they get a free motion within 4, 5 hours. I wondered whether the same formula worked out for us also or whether our intestines had a different frame. For one whole week I did not allow another thought to enter my brain, I did not step out of the house and I did not do anything else. I only ate and thought of motion. At 8 in the morning I filled my stomach full with sprouts, coconut, dates. By 3 PM my bowels emptied. I had lunch of raw vegetables in the noon. By 8 PM the bowel was emptied. The dinner’s waste came out early next morning. What I ate three times a day came out in as many times. Another day I started eating like an animal from dawn to dusk. I passed stool four times till 12 am. By midnight my bowels were completely empty. It was possible since I was awake till midnight. Had I slept early two bowel movements would have stopped and

means the bowels were emptying fully immediately. At 4 P.M I drank juice of leafy vegetables. This was done to ascertain the different colors of feces. At 8 P.M the stool was in green color. There was not even a trace of red color. At 8 P.M I had taken papaya and at 12 mid night the bowels were empty and the color was yellow. There was not even a trace of green. The feces did not have any foul smell. It acquired the smell and color of the food. Bowels were emptied as many times as I had eaten. It used to come out in a time frame. The feces were not sticky. It was such a joyful experience. There was no need to spend hours in toilet. Mind was completely free. The routine is finished in one minute. This was the result of taking natural foods.

Then it was the turn of cooked foods. In the next two-three days I ate cooked food like anybody else. It was not digestible, the bowels were not moving. The breakfast I had at 8 A.M was coming out at 6 in the evening, the mid-day meal at 11 in the night and the night meal only in the morning. This was not ablated freely because it lacked the quality of process needed in the intestines. It was different with raw foods. I observed movements in the bowels when I drank plenty of water. I realized that even if cooked foods, salt and oils were eaten plenty intake of water and a desire to ablate would induce emptying of bowels three times a day. Everybody can have a free bowel movement three times a day within no time if sufficient changes are made in the habit of drinking water, eating food and thinking process. It was clear that man also, like animals, could have free and full ablution the same number of times he had eaten with the same color and smell of the food without any foul smell. It was proved that it is a fallacy to say that man has to ablate only once a day and that there is

difference in the intestines of man and animal. Ever since, I have been ablating within 5-6 seconds, three times a day.

Everybody can have this opportunity if only he understands this process.

Thus many had benefited from my experience. Since 1994 I have been educating and brining awareness in people through my graphical discourses on the issues like - how much feces is produced, how much of it comes out, how much is stored, what happens if it accumulates, what kind of foods should be eaten, how to induce free bowel movement, how to clean the

enjoying good results. The method I espoused paved an easy way to free bowel movement. All of them telephonically and through letters inform me their experience of how this method helped them and how joyfully they are leading their lives now. I am placing before you the experiences of thousands of people who practiced this method in a book form. I am not attempting to invade your brains with the information culled from various books. This is a tested and proved methodology, not just a theoretical presentation.

They are obtained through self-experience. The information is detailed and divided into different chapters. If you carefully go through each chapter and proceed thoughtfully to practice then you will be gifted with free bowel movement, There is no need for anybody to suffer from constipation.

First one should have a clear picture of the intestines, the changes that take place in them and their workmanship. Then you will know how to take care of them. You will also know the consequences of your carelessness. So let’s look at them step by step.

2. Intestines

We should honestly admit that many of us are not acquainted with the organs inside our body and the changes that take place in them. Of course they carry on their work silently

irrespective of our ignorance about them. A time has come for us to know about them since we are not able to lead our daily life peacefully. Our life style is causing them many troubles.

our eyes. However, a day will come when we will be forced to pay the needed attention.

The worst affected part of our body is the intestines. With our irregular and improper food habits we create numerous

problems for our digestive system and bowels. If we come to know in detail the process that takes place in our body, we will be able to avoid them to some extent. We can also learn how to maintain good health. First, let us know what happens in the stomach and intestines stretching from mouth to anus.

The length of intestines is 7 meters - half a meter from mouth to stomach, 5 meters from the end of stomach to small

intestines and one and half meters from the end of small

intestines to the end of big intestines. Let us see what happens in the intestines.

To start with, the foods we take mixes with saliva in the mouth and reach the stomach through food pipe. We can call the

stomach a 2-litre pouch that stores food. Hydrochloric acid and gastric juices that facilitate digestion are produced in the

stomach. These juices kill the bacteria in the stomach largely. Food is stored in the stomach for about two hours, whereas the proteins and fatty foods remain in the stomach for three to five hours. It means the poor stomach has to work to digest them for so many hours. The digestive juices in the stomach whip the food. The carbohydrates are mostly digested in the

stomach. A part of them mixes with the blood. Only a small part of proteins and carbohydrates get digested in the stomach. The undigested food is pushed into small intestines for further

process. The food pushed from the stomach contains acids. Digestive juices mix with the food in the front part of the small intestines and dilute the acids. Especially the digestive juices produced in the small intestines, liver and pancreas help

digestion in small intestines. 80 to 90 per cent food digested in small intestines turns into thin juice is sucked by its walls, and mixes in blood slowly. As the earth absorbs water, the walls of small intestines suck the essence of food digested there. The food without salt and oil takes 3 to 4 hours to digest. If the food contains high quantity of salt, oils, meat etc. the same process takes 5 to 8 hours. The food that is easily digestible in the intestines is good for us. Sooner the process completes the better for health.

The food first enters the liver through blood. After further cleansed in liver it reaches all the organs in the body. Thus, process of digestion starts first in the mouth, then in the

stomach and in small intestines. The food we eat digests easily if stomach and small intestines are healthy. We gain strength only when the small intestines absorb all the essence of food.

Large Intestines:

After the small intestines absorb the essence of food the undigested food is pushed into the large intestines. It is just like the coffee decoction we prepare at home. We take the decoction and discard the residue. The same is the process in our body also. The unwanted and undigested part of the food enters the large intestines, which is for all practical purposes a dustbin. The large intestine is of 4-inch width and separated into four parts.

1. First part: Caecum and Ascending Colon 2.Transverse Colon

3. Descending Colon 4. Rectum and Anus

Large intestine also is called bowel. The inside of the large intestine is full of layers that produce plenty of mucus, which facilitates smooth movement of the feces without sticking to walls. There is an exit in the small intestine to push waste product into the bowel and with no way to go back. A wall separates the two intestines. The air filled in a tube cannot come out. In the same way, the wall tube that divides the

intestines performs the role of a guard. The moment the waste product leaves the small intestine and drops into the big

intestine it becomes feces.

The feces are very thin and easily enter the upper part of the big intestine. The unabsorbed food in the small intestines is sucked here. There are a large number of blood vessels in this part of the intestines. The water in the food is to some extent sucked in the small intestines and 70-80 per cent in large

intestines. As a result the feces gets thickened. The peristaltic movements in the intestines push the feces forward. Thus, the feces in the first part of the intestines move into the second part. The oozing mucus in the walls of the intestines helps this forward movement. From there the feces enter the third part. The pressure on feces here creates a desire in us to ablate. When we are ready for it the feces enter the forth part and comes out through the anus.

At no time the feces are stored in the fourth part of the big intestines. It reaches there only when we desire to ablate. Once it reaches there, we can’t wait anymore. This fourth part of the intestines contains a large number of vessels and that is the reason why it pains when feces is hard. The first three parts have fewer nerves that make us unaware even if a large amount of feces is stored there. We don’t even know even if any problem occurs in those parts of the intestine. Feces reach the bowel as many times as we eat and as long as we maintain this ratio we can avoid constipation.

What feces contain

Let us see what it contains, how it acquires smell and what sort of waste products is purged.

a. Water: It contains 60-70% water. If the feces come out within 8-10 hours it is soft and has some water. Water content is reduced as the time increases.

b. Waste products: Feces consist of 15 to 20 per cent waste products.

• The fibrous material that is not digested (fiber in the food) • Mucus in intestines.

c. Bacteria: The feces contain 20 per cent of live and dead bacteria. Feces gets foul smell due to these bacteria.

In addition to all these, the sticky substance in the intestines join the feces to help easy motion. Those who get a free motion everyday are able get rid of the waste material as and when it is formed. On the contrary, those who don’t have regular free bowel movement accumulate the waste in their intestines. There will be an easy movement in those who drink plenty of water since the waste material doesn’t become very hard. If you take non-fibrous food (non-vegetarian, artificial food) the remaining waste material doesn’t come out quickly or properly. Then, it lays a foundation for chronic diseases.

Till now we have learnt the functions of various parts of the body from mouth to anus. Let’s see the time taken for the formation of the feces out of the food we eat, the movement of the feces to the anus and the number of motions required to keep the intestines totally clean, in the ensuing chapters.

3. Immunity in intestines

The food we eat daily and the water we drink contain many harmful bacteria, viruses, poisons, toxins etc. If they enter the blood stream we immediately die of reaction. If that is not happening it is because of immunity system in our body. This immunity system in our stomach and intestines constantly saves us from diseases caused by food and water. We have to very carefully protect the immunity system to save ourselves from diseases. Here is an example to illustrate how immunity system saves us. If we pour ordinary water into a saline bottle and injected it into our blood we die within 15-20 minutes due to allergies and reaction. If we drink the same water it takes 15-20 minutes to mix with blood and nothing happens to us. The water we drink is cleansed by the immunity system in the intestines and then allowed to enter the blood. The harmful elements in the water we drink are cleaned or helped to clean by useful bacteria.

The small and large intestines contain two types of bacteria: one is beneficial and the other is harmful to the body. If the immunity in our body is at a higher level then the existence of useful bacteria is 80 per cent. As long as we have that much of helpful bacteria in us, whatever water we drink, however

carelessly we eat the food (eating non-hygiene food), the bacteria take care of us.

The change of place, climate, water and food - nothing can affect us. We are strangers to even minor ailments like cough, cold, motions, vomiting, fever, throat infection etc. We don’t have to bother about external hygiene. Just as the armed forces protect our country at the border, these helpful bacteria lodge a war against the harmful bacteria and always come out victoriously. Animals and birds do not wash their food. Even if they drink polluted, unclean water still they remain healthy. It is the immunity system in their bodies that is protecting them. The 20 per cent of harmful bacteria are suppressed by the 80 per cent of useful bacteria.

Our elders ate food that was good for health. They never gave preference to tastes; they did not go for polished rice or wheat. They were consuming sour buttermilk, curd and gruel that gave them ample energy to combat diseases. Now-a-days nobody can claim to have 80:20 bacteria. Utmost priority is given to taste and a time has come when man is living only to eat. This craving for taste and avoidable habits has adverse effect on the body.

Honesty is the best policy is the proverb of the olden days. The life style today proves honesty is not the best policy. The sincere man, who tries to go against the current, is given a deadly blow. Our enemy’s enemy is our friend. Our enemy inside - the harmful bacteria - joins hands with a new and more powerful enemy from outside. Then helpful bacteria remain a silent spectator.

only way is to get back the original ratio of 80:20 bacteria in us.

The intestines by producing antigens to save the useful

bacteria from the onslaught of harmful bacteria safeguard the immunity system of the body. The bacteria useful for the body are called Lactobacilli. There are hundreds of types of such bacteria. The most important among them is Lactobacilli Acidophilus. These bacteria if needed for the body produce some sort of B-Vitamins and Vitamin-K. The lactobacilli acidophilus, within hours of birth and when the child for the first time sucks mother’s milk, reach the child’s intestines and begin to grow. The lactating baby has 90 per cent of useful bacteria. As long as the babies take mother’s milk these bacteria, with their immunity power, protect them. We generally observe that these babies are healthy. The

percentage of useful bacteria is less in bottle-fed babies. The lactose in mother’s milk helps these bacteria grow. Their decrease begins the movement the baby grows and starts

taking solid food. And this is the beginning of unending visits to hospitals. Likewise, the harmful bacteria are called Bacillus Coli. These harmful bacteria have their birthplace in large

intestines. All said and done, most of the bacteria are found in large intestines.

Reasons for the growth of harmful bacteria

When one business magnet becomes powerful, he will try to weaken his. The same way when the harmful bacteria become powerful in the intestines the helpful ones will become weakened. Let’s analyze the reasons behind these changes. 1.

Constipation:

Large intestines are the living place for the harmful bacteria. The large intestines that store a big amount of feces are the lush ground for these bacteria. They, proliferating intomilolions, make all effort to destroy useful bacteria. They cause the feces to further decompose, supply nourishment for their growth and enhance their strength. If the bowels are emptied in time these bacteria loose their hold on

the breeding ground. Those who ablate two-three times a day to a large extent weaken the harmful bacteria to proliferate and strengthen the hold of helpful bacteria..

2. Powerful

medicines:

When a country wages a war

against a bad ruler of another country many innocent people both sides, die along with the bad ruler. Similarly, the anti bacterial medicines we take sometimes - either to kill the harmful bacteria in the intestines or to cure some types of infections - kill not only the harmful bacteria but also millions of useful bacteria. The same way, the antibiotics we take also kill thousands of helpful bacteria. This is not strange. We have heard many times that a person loses resistance power when he uses powerful medicines, but we may not have known the reason behind it. Now it is crystal clear to you. The tragedy is people today use powerful medicines even for minor ailments like fever, cough and cold. As a result, they lose many helpful bacteria to undergo adverse consequences.

3. Laxatives:

Those suffering from constipation tend to take laxatives for free bowel movement. They may help in emptying bowels but do cause immense loss for intestines by purging out the helpful bacteria.

How to increase helpful bacteria?

1. Natural food like egetables, fruits and cereals help to a great extent in this connection. Not much can be gained if they are cooked to satisfy taste buds. More and more intake of natural foods increases the number of helpful bacteria, which in turn increase resistance power. Our daily food should consist at least 50-60 per cent of uncooked food.

2. Curd contains plenty of helpful bacteria. They are more in sour curd and buttermilk. That is why our elders used to eat as

3. Free bowel movements 2-3 times a day

We can regain our lost resistance power, if we lead a life in accordance with nature like all other living creatures. Then automatically the helpful bacteria grow in our body to protect from disease. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. The dew drops on leaves in the early morning, the pleasant breeze, the early showers, and the sun’s rays in the twilight are some of the wonders of God’s creation. Coconut, honey, seeds are the blessings showered on us by God. But the tragedy is - neither can we enjoy the beauty of nature nor can we eat the natural food!

4. What is Constipation?

If the food we eat today is not ablated as fasces before we take

food tomorrow then it is called constipation.

In our view constipation means no bowel movement once in a day. In the earlier days when people used to have motion twice a day, they felt they had constipation if bowels were cleared only once. Now a days 50-60 per cent of people empty their bowels once a day. They think it is normal. In fact bowel movement once a day is also constipation. The daily food taken in three or four installments cannot be purged at one go. Two third of it remains in the large intestines. It is also

constipation. In cities some people attend to nature call once in 3-4 days. Even if they can manage it once in two days they do not consider it constipation. Whatever it might be, we have to ablate fully three times a day to clear the large intestines. Otherwise, motion gets stagnated inside causing constipation and inconvenience.

5. Causes for Constipation

Man began encountering constipation with the advent of civilization. The comforts and knowledge lead him more and more towards of unnatural way of living. Lack of natural elements in food they take disturb the natural movements in intestines. We never see whether the food we eat is useful to us or not. From morning till evening we eat mostly to satisfy our taste buds. Hardly we take food that helps our body. We are prepared to bear the suffering with a grin but we are not prepared to change our habits. Every organ in our body is loosing its natural qualities because of our mechanical life. Our habits in the case of food, water and physical exercise are

pulling us far away from good health.

These mistakes warn us in the form of diseases. It has become an inveterate habit for man not to heed to these warnings. Constipation is the mother of all diseases. With effort we can get rid of it and health can be regained slowly. If one desires a smooth change from constipation to happy bowel movement one has to remove all obstacles that crop up in between. Six hurdles block such a joyful journey.

1 Non-fibrous food:

Non-fibrous foods immediately result in constipation. There is close relationship between fibrous foods and free bowel movement. The quantity of feces depends on the percentage of fiber in the food. If we take foods that have less fiber or no fiber at all then the travel of feces through the one-meter long large intestine becomes a strenuous effort to avoid constipation. Constipation in 95 per cent people is mainly due to consumption of fiber less food. Polished rice, wheat floor, cereals, sugar, oil, milk, yogurt, cakes, bread, biscuits, chocolates, ice creams, sweets, cool drinks, egg, meat, chicken,

2. Inadequate intake of water:

There are many who avoid drinking water in sufficient quantity fearing frequent urination. Some others do not like its tastelessness. Most of the people think that one or two liters of water a day would be more than enough. Some people substitute even that with sodas, juices, beer etc. They eat all kinds of junk food, but don’t drink enough water to clear that junk. Thus all that is bad in the food dries up in the body, feces being one among it. Softness or otherwise of feces depends on the water we drink. The feces when it is soft facilitate easy passage through intestines. The density of the motion depends on the water content. When the motion is formed in the intestine, it is in semi liquid form to enable a free movement. Only then it can pass through the intestine without getting stuck to walls. Those who drink plenty of water have sufficient water inside. So the water from the motion need not be absorbed again and so the liquid state continues. It doesn’t get solidified. It doesn’t cause constipation. On the contrary, if you don’t drink sufficient water, the body tries to extract water from whatever source available. So it takes water back from the fecal matter in the large intestine. Then it gets

stiffened. Such a solidified motion can’t move forward easily. It gets stuck to the walls on its way. When it gets stuck thus it takes many days to reach the anus. This is what is called

constipation. All this is nothing but a result of inadequate water

supply to body. It does not take even a minute for us to drink the required amount of water. But we exhibit incorrigible lethargy to avoid it but prefer to spend agonizing 15 to 30 minutes in toilet. The whole day is spent restlessly, both mentally and physically. We can safely avoid this needless exercise by drinking every day at least 5 to 6 liters of water.

3. Small intake of food:

The volume of the feces produced is in equal proportion to the food we eat. Physically working

people have great hunger and consume more amount of food. They also produce larger quantity of feces resulting in extra pressure in intestines and its quicker passage. It saves us from constipation. Those who do not indulge in physical work are less hungry. . The food that is made out of salt, oil, ghee etc. makes them feel sick of it within no time. So they don’t eat their stomach full at a time but in easy installments. The feces also is made in small quantities which cannot move faster, because the pressure is not sufficient enough.

The slow movement makes feces to stick to intestines. This is the beginning of constipation. Some may have doubts: Intake of Higher quantity of food in more quantity may help free

bowel movement but it may trigger obesity. If our food

contains three fourths of vegetables and one fourth of rice or wheat our weight may increase but not obesity. By eating more fruits we can keep constipation at a distance.

4. Lack of concentration:

Man likes to eat different tasty foods. But he does not think of purging of the residue of what he eats. He may eat the right food in right quantity and drink plenty of water. If you don’t desire to have a motion, even if it is ready at the exit door, it can’t come out because you have not given orders. The nerves holding the feces should loosen their grip. By putting your mind on clearing the bowels the nerves get loosened facilitating the easy movement. Have you ever wondered how you are enjoying so many things in life? It’s because you long for them and go in search of them. You desire to be well dressed, to eat tasty food, to earn lots of money, to enjoy all material comforts etc and you see that you get these. But how many of you desire or at least think of your motion? You can take 64 horses to the river but 64 people cannot make even one horse drink water! Why? Because it is not willing! So to achieve anything in life, the first requisite is a desire to achieve it. The desire guides your mind in the right direction to get right thoughts. Your motion waits for your green signal, but you wait for its signal! It is not right. It cannot signal to you! You are its boss! Some even keep a long face to think of this dirty element! It may be dirty, but it’s the most important element! You can’t afford to ignore it. So just as you chalk out your day for every aspect of life, you have to chalk out a time for clearing the bowels. Otherwise, it is stilled there.

5. Tensions:

The word tension has become the fashion of the day. Everybody says he is under tension. Even a small child

grin. Since we cannot do so we are prone to tension,

depression, irritation, anger, fear etc. The very movement you face one of these, the feeling goes into your blood and the harmful hormones to the body are promoted at once. Due to the influence of these hormones within a few minutes the blood, the cells, the nerves and the muscles lose their natural state. Then the nerves get stiffened. Have you ever seen a soldier standing in attention at the order of his officer! He stands so stiff that his nerves become tight! Whatever may be our tension our nerves get tensed up like a soldier. The nerves holding the motion in intestines also become stiff. Just as a frightened child clings to his mother, the frightened nerves cling to the motion. However much you may struggle, it’s all in vain. As long as you face tension, you cannot think of motion. Even if you think of it while you are tensed up the body doesn’t co-operate! The nerves can’t release it! The result is

constipation! If you undergo tension, anxiety, fear, irritation etc on waking up in the morning, that day you can forget about your motion. You cannot have it that day.

The solution is you get up early in the morning in a peaceful mood and don’t jump to work at once. Wait till you clear your bowels and then proceed on to next. Early morning your mind is so fresh and the nerves are so free, that they obey your command instantly!

6. Lack of physical exercise:

The feces move freely in intestines of those who engage themselves in physical work better than those who do not. Physical work strengthens muscles and facilitates good blood circulation. When blood circulation to nerves in the intestines is improved they receive proper signals. This is the reason why the workers ablate twice a day. In physical work stomach moves back and forth pressing the intestines. With that feces are freely pushed into the large intestines. In those who have less or no physical work there is not enough pressure on intestines. The result is constipation. Thus many reasons combine to end up in constipation. Nobody welcomes it but many omissions and commissions on our part lead to constipation. Firstly, we have to get rid of laziness as far as the above issues are concerned. If one has to get rid of constipation and ward it off forever then he has to drink 5-6 liters of water daily, eat more fibrous food, exercise regularly

and keep his mind clear. Constipation makes man miserable, both mentally and physically. It is time we wake up to this reality in time.

6. Bowel habits of our elders

In olden days everyone was working for his living. Hard work meant more hunger. It resulted in more intake of food. The food they were consuming had sufficient fibers in it. More and more leafy vegetables were consumed. They used to sweat a lot during the work and drink ample of water. Heavy physical work stimulated intestines. Food digested in no time. They had no other distractions and tensions. Early to bed and early to rise was their motto. They enjoyed sound sleep.

First ablation:

Immediately after waking up in the early morning they drank water kept near their bed. That was the first load on the intestines facilitating easy clearance of bowels.

Evening ablation:

The amount of food also helped the large intestines to do its duty properly. They were eating the night’s leftover food as breakfast in the early hours of morning,

sumptuous lunch at 11 am again at 2.30 PM and diner at night. This stomach-full feeding produces large quantity of feces. The bowels were moving freely forcing them to ablate again for a second time. Ablation once in a day was considered a sign of sickness those days.

Our forefathers knew the secret of their good health. They knew they had to have motion twice a day. They knew it was

minute things and saw to it that they had good health. ‘Old is Gold’. The method I advocate to you is more or less on the lines they followed.

7. Disorderly bowel movement

Now-a-days man is capable of doing any job in a jiffy unlike his elders. His mind power is so great that sitting in his own place he is able to control things far away. But the tragedy is, the man who has brought the universe under his control, is not able to control his own body! He is not able to keep his bowels clean. He is not realizing that this is the upshot of his lifestyle. Gone are the days of physical labor. A time has come when he employs his hands only to push buttons. The days are so

comfortable now that both men and women need not strain themselves much physically. When you don’t physical activity, you don’t feel very hungry. If you don’t feel hungry, you eat in easy installments. Since you don’t slog you don’t feel thirsty too. As a result you don’t drink sufficient water. For want of movements, the food won’t get digested easily. The digested food won’t move out easily. Man is extremely busy till late night and also has enough tensions. He cannot sleep because he has not exerted his body. Even if he tries he cannot sleep since his mind is full of thoughts. Somehow he sleeps late in the night and wakes up late in the morning. Then it is the

beginning of the running around and endless routine. He has to run with the clock. Naturally nerves in the intestines become taut. Even the small amount of feces gets hard due to tension. Painful ablution: Day starts with bed coffee. It does not put enough pressure on intestines to move bowels. Then it is the

time for newspaper and headlines. Mind is preoccupied with what is happening in the world. There is no need for him to go for ablution immediately after he wakes up as in the old days. Now he has furnished closed toilets. Since there is no desire the bowels do not move. Then begins the grand exercise to free

are used to a particular brand of coffee. They believe that only that brand of coffee helps them in this exercise. Some try by

smoking. For some others it is newspaper that prompts easy bowel movement, at least that is what they believe. Some press their stomach to stimulate intestines. Some run around the house. All this is only before he enters the toilet. Once he closes the toilet door that is another dreadful story. He applies

stress on intestines. There are many who spend at least an hour in the toilet engaged in this sort of exercise. Since he has to spend that much time in the toilet there is every need for fans, phones, and newspapers there. Some others do not

vacate toilets unless others bang on the door. Thus it is a sore exercise everyday. . If they are successful in their attempt, they are happy for that day. Otherwise, they are irritated and show it on others for silly reasons.

The breakfast consists of oily foods that make the intake meager. Water is not taken in proper proportion. Many prefer light breakfast or lunch fearing that a heavy dose of food may induce sleep. In the afternoon the stomach is filled with fried and other non-fibrous snacks. Reaching late in the evening they eat their stomach full. Since they sleep at once the food doesn’t get digested. The feces of morning food is still in the intestine. Before the night’s food is digested, the day breaks. Thus they are not fulfilling any of the six requisites for free motion. They don’t eat properly, don’t drink water properly, don’t do exercise properly, don’t have a peaceful mind, don’t think of a free motion, don’t know what it is good for health. They are whiling away their time in such ignorance. This

causes commotion inside and ailments outside. The sum total result of all this is ill health from both chronic and temporary diseases.

We neither clean the body nor allow it do it. Thus both ways we are losing. Many do not know that a free bowel movement is the prime criterion for good health and it is a joyful

8. How many times to ablate a day?

Some may be scared to hear this. “We don’t ablate even once a day, but he talks of number times” they may curse me. Many believe ablating once a day is the sign of good health. And we follow to hilt this self-conceived rule and consider any other deviation a big mistake. Some think our intestines are

comparatively long. Animals have shorter intestines. That is why we ablate once in a day, they conclude. That is entirely wrong. This false notion is also packed in many books and called a symptom of good health.

Our peers were ablating twice a day and workers engaged in physical labor now do the same thing. Let us examine the lactating baby. The baby which drinks mother’s milk stomach-full a number of times ablates as many times. It drinks milk roughly once in three hours in which time the feces reaches the outlet. The moment it drinks another dose it applies pressure on the intestines and the result is a free bowel movement. This repeats 5-6 times a day. This is the nature of our body. Like animals we also have the natural ability to ablate as many times as we eat. The trouble for the first time starts in the baby

the moment mother’s milk is substituted with bottled milk. As it begins eating solid foods constipation also sets in. The baby is fortunate if it can ablate once a day or once in two days. For any creature it is natural that it ablates as many times as it eats. Animals used to vegetarian food eat continuously. And they ablate in the same manner. Carnivorous animals do not eat until the previous food is digested. They eat only after the previous intake is ablated. They eat only once in a day or once in two days, and ablate as many times. That is natural for them. What about man? What is natural for him:

Vegetarianism, non-vegetarianism or both? How many times he eats is important and also how many times he ablates.

In the last 40-50 years man developed a habit to visit the toilet once a day. If fortunately some children do it twice they are hauled to the doctor. There are many parents who feel worried that by doing so their children are purging all strength at the

conserving all that is good, some believe. According to this logic those who ablate once in 3-4 days or 10 days are the strongest!

The valuable part of what all we eat is sucked by the small intestines and waste products reach large intestines. The body does not expect anything from the waste product. It is only expelled. Later again it accumulates. Thus it is a never-ending process. We should expel feces whenever we want and not once in a day or so. The key to this success should be in our hand and not vice versa.

9. When to ablate

One may wonder if really a specific time and method is required to clear the bowels. Yes, it is better if a definite time is fixed. In this speed age everybody is busy all the time. The available time is distributed for all engagements. A time table is drawn:

time to read newspaper, to drink tea or coffee, to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, for

entertainment, for earning, for sleep – the entire day is thus divided and followed accordingly. All this is good. But trouble arises in fixing a time for toilet. In case of animals that is not required as they can ablate as and when they need. It is not possible with humans.

When man neglects to fix a specific time for ablation, body itself takes initiative and fixes such time as once in two days or so, not necessarily every day. We should not be habituated to follow the dictates of the body. One has to set up a fixed time for ablation. The feces in the intestines come out in fixed amount at a fixed time. Our elders

followed a regimen, which started the day with ablation.

The first ablation:

Immediately after getting up from sleep one should ablate. At that early hour there are no other thoughts in our mind. The nerves in intestines are also tension-free. If our mind is engaged in some other activity it takes more time for ablution. The effort put in by the body to expel feces immediately after we wake up is 50 to 60 per cent. If we put in the rest of 40-50 per cent of effort the bowel movement is an easy and joyful experience. There should be a strong desire in us to defecate. Let us see

of drinking water. If thoughts wander we find it difficult to sense them. When the concentration is full, bowel movements quicken and force one to rush to toilet.

As suggested above, if water is taken at a time pressure is applied on stomach from where signals are sent to brain facilitating movements in bowels. For example, take the case of a school-going child. His mother asks him to go to toilet in the morning. He refuses saying that he does not have the urge. He is bathed, dressed and prepared for

school. He is given his breakfast and a glass of milk. School bag is hung on his shoulders. As school bus is about to arrive at the doorsteps he runs to toilet in such a tearing hurry that he cannot even wait to take out his shorts. The same thing can happen to us if we take enough water. After the first bowel movement we can go about our daily routine. Twenty minutes after drinking water we can walk, exercise or practice

yoga. A free bowel movement facilitates easy and agile movement of body.

The second ablution:

The first ablution pushes feces to the end part of lower

intestines. It takes at least 30-40 minutes for the upper intestines to push feces down. The physical exercise, walking and any other work are helpful for this. Effort should begin for second ablution after 45 minutes or one hour of drinking the first dose of water. The same earlier process should be repeated and this time the bowel movement is freer and feces thin. Now the large intestine is totally free and one feels as if a great weight is taken off his head.

The third ablution:

The right time for third ablution is between 5 PM to 7 PM. Most of the people return home by this time. A few others don’t come home due to other avocations. Wherever they are if they want to ablate it is quite possible. All efforts should be made to make it possible. This time also, when the stomach is empty

stomach-full of water should be drunk and concentrated on the act. Concentration is necessary as our minds are preoccupied with many other things. The intake of water at this time facilitates also in emptying of urinary bladder, which does not disturb our sleep later in the night. Even if ablution does not take place, it is important that it occurs before going to bed. If getting up two or three times in the night for urination is not difficult, more water can be taken on empty stomach and defecated.

10. How do feces move?

We take food thrice a day. Let us see how the feces are formed as many times, at what time it reaches large intestines and how it is emptied.

1. 8 A.M

A) After stomach-full of breakfast.

2. 12 Noon

A) Waste product of breakfast eaten in the morning is ready to reach first part of large intestines.

3. 1 P.M

A) Waste of breakfast reaches first part of large intestines. B) Stomach is filled with lunch.

4. 5 P.M

A) Waste product of lunch is ready to reach large intestines.

B) Waste product of breakfast in third part of large intestines ready for ablution.

5. 6 P.M

A) The feces of breakfast are ablated. Third part of large intestines is empty. B) The waste product of lunch reaches first part of large intestines.

6. 10 P.M

A) The feces of lunch reaches third part of large intestines and ready for ablution. Since it is not ablated at that time it remains there till morning. B) The waste product of food eaten at 6 P.M is ready to reach the first part of large intestines.

7. 5 A.M next day

A) Waste of yesterday’s lunch is ready for ablation in third part of large intestines.

8. 5.15 A.M next day

A) After taking first installment of water and first ablation the waste of yesterday’s lunch emptied from third part of large intestines.

B) Waste of yesterday’s evening food is ready to travel from second part to third part of large intestines.

10. 6 A.M next day

A) Feces of yesterday’s evening food reach third part of large intestines and ready for ablution.

10. 6.15 A.M next day

A) When second installment of water is taken and made efforts waste of

yesterday’s evening food is emptied from third part of large intestines as second ablation.

11. 8 A.M next day

A) Breakfast reaches stomach

B) Small intestines are waiting for food.

C) Empty large intestines are waiting for feces.

Thus as illustrated above three ablutions a day facilitate complete emptying of large intestine the same day

without storing feces in it. All living creatures in the world ablate as many times as they eat. Their bowels are

completely empty before they eat again. This is the secret of life. The nature of our body is similar. If not three, at least two ablutions a day are good for health.

Those who ablate two times

A) The feces formed everyday.

11. Definition of free ablution

Are you surprised? You may have read many definitions for many words. May be this is the first time you are coming across definition of ablution. Our elders were teaching us about these things in the good old days. That tradition had vanished long back.

Definition:As a rule ablation should take place instantly without any effort or force. The whole process should be

completed in 5-6 seconds and at one go. The anus should close up the moment the act is finished. Then only it can be called a

free ablution.

Many harbor a doubt: Animals and birds can only accomplish the above act. Can there be such lucky ones among humans? We were also like that as long as we were fed with mother’s milk. Changes occurred as we discontinued mother’s milk or started eating cooked food. The small child completes ablation at a time and asks its mother for a wash But the mother insists that he wait for some more time. The child knows it was futile as the act is already complete. But the mother does not know this. Only after 5-10 minutes the child is liberated. It is not the mother’s fault. She does the same daily. She is habituated to expelling excreta in small quantities. Though we have a natural tendency to ablate instantly and at a time, we lost that quality, for which seeds were sown long back at a tender age.

We urinate the moment we sit on the toilet commode. When it stops or even while it is continuing ablution begins. Since the act is not complete anus is open. When applied force some more is expelled and this is repeated 5-6 times in 15 minutes or half an hour. Exertion and pain in legs force one to get up but not after a satisfactory ablution. This is the case with many in towns. Some do not want to waste their time in toilet and they carry a newspaper with them. They complete reading the newspaper but not the intended work.

12. Why

free

ablution is a happy experience?

Body is always happy when it is given what it needs and expels what it does not require. It simply suffers when waste

accumulates. It has a great quality of shedding the unwanted. Likewise it does not keep quiet when the unwanted enters it. It forces us to make all efforts to remove if something sticks in between the teeth and does not rest until it is taken out. Take a tiny particle in the eye. It sheds water until it comes out or drives us to a doctor.

It constantly tries to throw out unwanted products like carbon dioxide, perspiration, urine and feces. If helped in this process the body is happy. A brisk walk in the morning makes our body perspire profusely and feel agile. It is the same after we

urinate. Ablution is also in the same category. What all that is not needed in the food we eat is pushed into the large

intestines from where it has to move out. The body tries it best to purge useless product before it harms. If we help it do its duty we are a healthy and a happy lot. The body asks us to scratch at a certain place and we oblige it. The result is comfort and happiness. Suppose we scratch when the body does not ask for you can imagine the result.

Man is happy only when he has a free and full bowel movement.

13. Ideal food for free bowel movement

The formation of feces depends on the food we eat. The fiber in the food plays a vital role in this. More fiber means more

quantity of feces, which immensely helps in free bowel movement. The foods with less fiber or no fiber result in

constipation. What is fiber? We chew pomegranate seeds and gulp the juice. What is all left is fiber.

Let us see what happens in large intestines when we eat fibrous food.

The food we eat moves forward in stomach and small

intestines, the essence (strength) of it being sucked slowly by them. The left over fiber expands when it mixes with water in intestines. It starts its journey while cleaning intestines and pushing down the undigested food, dead cells, vain mucus, harmful bacteria etc. and reaches the large intestines. The moment the fibrous food in small intestines drops into large intestines it is called feces. The more quantity of fibrous food means more quantity of feces. Likewise, more quanta of feces accelerate its free, speedy movement. This keeps constipation at door. More intake of food also does not end up in

constipation then. The incidence of constipation in working people is less because of this reason only. If we eat only non-fibrous food the intestines suck all its essence and nothing is left. There is no medium left to cleanse the intestines off dead cells, harmful bacteria etc. They all make intestines their living place causing chronic diseases. The carnivorous animals whose intake of food is sans fibers ablate once in two days in black and in small quantity. The feces contain only dead bacteria and mucus.

Fibrous foods: Wheat floor, raw rice, green gram, chick peas, wheat, groundnut, sesame, dates, coconut, all leafy vegetables, vegetables, fruits and all natural foods contain fibers. It is

enough if we eat them daily.

List of fibrous foods (in 100 gms. quantity) 1. Wheat 1.2 gms.

2. Wheat Flour 1.9 Gms. 3. Bajra 3.6. Gms. 4.Raw rice 0.6. gms. 5. Sprouted wheat 1.4. gms.

13. Curry Leaves 6.4 gms. 14. Carrot 1.2 gms. 15. Drumstick 4.8. gms. 16. Beans 2.0 gms. 17. Clustered Beans3.2 gms. 18. Brinjal 1.3 gms. 19. Snake gourd 0.8 gms. 20. Tomato 1.0 gms. 21. Dry coconut 6.6 gms. 22. Raw coconut 3.6 gms. 23. Peanuts 3.1 gms. 24. Sesame seeds 2.9 gms. 25. Dates 3.7 gms. 26. Dry dates 3.9 gms. 27. Banana 0.4 gms. 28. Apple 1.0 gms. 29. (pedda usiri) 3.4 gms. 30. Guavas 5.2 gms. 31. Grapes 3.0 gms. 32. Mango 0.7 gms. 33. Papaya 0.8 gms. 34. Pomegranate 5.1 gms. 35. (sapota) 2.6 gms. 36. (seetaphalam) 3.1 gms. 37. Meat 0 gms. 38. Egg 0 gms. 39. Oil 0 gms. 40. Fish 0 gms. 41. Sugar 0 gms. 42. Milk 0 gms. Advantages of fibrous food:

1. There is every possibility of 2-3 ablutions if the fibrous content in food is more. Fiber makes the feces smooth. The feces expelled are high in quantity.

2. The useful bacteria in intestines act on fibers producing emulsified gas making feces smooth.

3. Higher quantity of fibers produces more peristaltic movements in intestines. This helps in quick digestion. Feces move quickly. This sees to it that food in

also contains formation of gas. The only way to evade gastric trouble is to consume more fibrous foods daily. 4. Fiber allows neither storage of nor hardening of feces

in large intestines.

5. More fiber in their food is a must for those who ablate 5-6 times a day and in small quantities, feel pain, expel watery feces due to change in water or atmosphere, who take a long time to ablate etc. They can avoid the above and many other diseases.

6. Researchers say that the dangerous cancer-causing bacteria are given birth in the stored feces in

intestines. Their birth is dependent on the acid present in large intestines. The bacteria in intestines break fiber into pieces and make feces more acidic.

7. Since fibers facilitate quick removal of feces without allowing it to store in large intestines there is no scope of toxins developing in feces.

8. Fibers help wonderfully in producing useful bacteria in large intestines. At the same time it reduces ammonia in intestines and help cells retain immunity.

9. It helps the dead cells to purge out with feces and clean intestines.

A few tips here suffice. While eating fruits their fiber should not be thrown out. For example, fibers in pomegranate, orange, guavas etc. should be taken in. In a hurry to consume as much fibers as possible to avoid constipation don’t gulp down pieces of drumsticks, fiber from mango kennel etc. forcibly. You

should discard inconvenient fibers.

medicines is dangerous. In fact it aggravates constipation. Given below is step by step regimen to ward off constipation.

1. Get up from bed early in the morning. Drink 1.25 to 1.50 liter water. Concentrate on intestines. Complete first round of ablution.

2. After 20 to 25 minutes of taking first round of water exert body by walk or exercise or yoga or some work for an hour until it profusely perspires. This helps muscles, veins and blood circulation.

3. Drink same amount of water as earlier after a few minutes of exercise. Concentrate and make efforts for second ablution. If it is free it is all right or else stop the effort.

4. If one does not have free ablution after the above routine or has only a little or unsatisfactory ablution or those with a history of chronic constipation have to go for enema after the second dose of water intake. 5. Take any food after 25-30 minutes of taking water. It

is better if the above schedule is completed by 7.30-8 A.M in the morning. The breakfast should be natural and uncooked food. Stop imbibing coffee and tea. If it is in juice form it is all the more better in the morning as it is good for intestines. Juice of raw vegetables is a waking up call for intestines. There is no need for drinking limejuice and honey. Drink juice of snake gourd, ribbed gourd, bottle gourd, cucumber, carrot, tomato, beetroot etc. Add four spoons of honey (one or two for diabetics) and limejuice to it. It can also be taken without filtering it if it is ground softy.

Otherwise, fruit juice or limejuice with honey can be taken.

6. After 45 minute or one hour of drinking juice eat any food. Some take sprouted cereals or beans. But they are not suitable for those who have constipation. And those who are required to go for enema in the

morning should eat papaya, pomegranate, clustered apple, mango, dates etc. for breakfast. They generate hunger. They are easily digestible, and move freely

down the intestines. Diabetics should not eat fruits. Continue enema until digestive system comes back to normalcy. Those who have no gas problem and are not hungry should immediately start eating sprouted beans, raw coconut, dates etc in the morning.

Sprouted cereals and beans should be soaked in

water in the morning, drained in the night and tied in a cloth to drain water. After two days they sprout. If you are diabetic don’t eat dates. After one week of stopping enema one can eat sprouts. 10-15 dates can be eaten a day.

7. Take one liter of water in installments in two hours after breakfast and half an hour before lunch.

8. Take lunch between 1-2 P.M. Do not eat white rice. Eat cooked pounded rice, wheat pounded or milled or rotis (wheat bread without oil). The vegetables to be eaten in lunch should weigh at least half a kilogram. It should be devoid of salt and oil. In the natural life pattern seven items – salt, oil, ghee, sweats, chilly, and spices – should be avoided completely. If you cannot avoid the above at least cut their use to one third. Don’t drink while eating. You can take curd. 9. Water should be drunk only after two hours of eating

food. Then drink one-liter water in two-three installments in one and one and half hours time. 10. In the afternoon between 4-4.30 take a glass of juice

of orange, citrus fruit, pomegranate or any other fruit. A spoon of honey can be added to it. In place of juice, fruits can also be taken. If both are not

available mix honey in lemon juice. If you are not too hungry fill the stomach with water.

Those who are not hungry, or suffer from indigestion and heaviness in stomach or have lost appetite should take

available fruits instead of cooked food. Dates can be added to the list to avoid weakness. Fruits are easily digestible, give rest to intestines and create hunger. If your appetite is normal and all other health aspects are in order then you can take 2-3 wheat rotis (breads) and avoid rice. If after 20-30 days

constipation dissipates a small quantity of rice can be taken. Don’t eat anything after the main meals. After two hours of having dinner drink one or two glasses of water or buttermilk. If awake until 10 or 11 in the night, drink lemon juice with honey.

15. Relation between mind and bowel movement

‘Where there is a will, there is a way.’ Solution cannot be found to any issue unless you apply your mind, our peers used to say. This applies to bowel movement also. However, if we eat natural foods, drink plenty of water and exercise

adequately even without applying mind we can have 2-3 ablutions a day. Water increase pressure on intestines

resulting in reflexive mechanism prompting orders from brain to body asking it to go for ablution. An animal ablates instantly. But it is different with humans. Though the intestines and

nerves are ready for the act man has many constraints to listen to them. Hence, he locks the calls in his mind and by force

stops the desire to ablate. But if one has to keep constipation at bay he has to ablate at a convenient time as many times as his body desires.

The feces of the breakfast reaches large intestines at about 2-3 PM but stops there as we are generally either in office or busy with business. Our mind knows that we cannot attend to the call. It is stored there. The feces of lunch reach large intestines at 7-8 P.M. At that time we may be on the way home or taking dinner or engaged in some other work. The feces of 4 P.M fruits or snacks are ready by 10 P.M. At that time we may be busy

with preparation for sleep or already asleep. The waste of

dinner reaches large intestines by 3-4 in the morning. Then we are asleep. Thus man is preoccupied whenever the body wants him to discharge the waste from his body. He is forced to put a stop to natural process. The result is constipation. And some term this natural modus operandi of the body unnatural. If you have the will the bowels listen to you.

In the morning, we all are comparatively free, mentally and physically. It is better to put efforts to concentrate at this time to move bowels. It is not possible for all to move bowels by concentration without putting any pressure on the stomach. If we pressurize the stomach with water it sends signals to brain that in return send orders to intestines. First, we should make effort by drinking water and then concentrate on large

intestines and in turn they loosen the nerves. It is just like a stone in our hand. If the brain orders the hand to grip it and the nerves in the hand obey. Then if brain orders loosening the grip it does so. The same happens with the intestines. One should go to toilet only when nerves loosen their grip on intestines and not vice versa.

Imagine this scenario. You sense movement in large intestines within 5-6 minutes of drinking water. You concentrate on

intestines. Suddenly phone rings. You are totally engaged in conversation for 10 minutes. As your thoughts wander,

movements in intestines stop. By the time you are free from telephone the pressure created by water subsides. The result is not hard to guess. This is the case with majority of people. Take the evening. One cannot concentrate on intestines as in morning because we are preoccupied with many issues and thoughts. The cause is lack of concentration. So, all this is connected with mind. This is the relation between mind and bowel movement.