Colon Cleansing With Salt Water - Yoga

2023 Author: Philip Bishop | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 07:54

Bowel cleanse with salt water

Shank prakshalana - this method is very easy to perform, while effective. This is a method of bowel cleansing with salt water from yoga. Shank Prakshalana cleanses the entire colon and removes food debris from the digestive tract, from the stomach to the anus.

When you drink salt water, it enters the stomach, then, with simple exercises, the water is directed further through the entire intestine until it leaves it. The procedure is repeated until the water comes out as clear as it comes in. This procedure is absolutely safe, everyone can perform it, but subject to the exact implementation of all techniques.

In 2010, there was even a pilot study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. It showed that alternating between drinking warm salt water and doing certain yoga poses effectively cleansed the intestines in preparation for colonoscopy.

Attention! If you are not sure that your body works like a clock and you can master this procedure, you better refuse it!

Less than 50% of people who undergo Shank Prakshalana for the first time get a positive result.

And some can harm their health, this applies primarily to people with chronic gastrointestinal diseases, as well as weak kidneys!

Preparing to cleanse your colon with salt water

Dissolve one tablespoon of sea salt (or unrefined table salt) per liter of heated water, the concentration is higher than in physiological solution. Salt water should be available so that it is not absorbed by osmosis through the mucous membrane and is not removed from the body naturally (in the form of urine). In case the water tastes very salty to you, you can reduce the salt concentration to a more acceptable taste.

It should be borne in mind that drinking salt water is hard and many immediately start to feel sick. To reduce nausea, you can add a little lemon juice to the water.

Favorable moment for bowel cleansing

The best time for this procedure is in the morning, before eating.

Keep in mind that for a beginner, this procedure takes more than an hour, so it is best to do it on a day off. On this day, exclude the performance of asanas, or sharp exercises, and the next day too.

1. Fill a glass with warm (about 40 ° C) salt water (the temperature of the water should be the same as the temperature of the soup that you enjoy eating).

2. Do specific exercises immediately.

3. Drink another glass of salted water and exercise again.

4. Alternate the drunk glass with special exercises until 6 glasses of salt water have been drunk and, accordingly, six series of exercises have been done.

5. After all this is done, you need to go to the toilet.

As a rule, the first evacuation takes place almost immediately. After normal hard stools, softer ones follow, and then completely liquid (most likely yellowish).

If this does not happen immediately or within 5 minutes, then repeat the set of exercises and go to the toilet.

If there is no result again, which is unlikely, but it happens, then call an evacuation using an enema from non-salt water (after making a small enema, lie down and relax for a few minutes). After the evacuation mechanism starts working, the rest will be called automatically.

One very useful tip: do not use toilet paper after a bowel movement, but it is best to wash off with water, then thoroughly wipe the anus and lubricate it with vegetable oil (olive, castor, etc.): this will help avoid various irritations caused by salt.

After the first bowel movement, you must:

• Drink a glass of salted water again;
• Complete a course of exercises;
• Go to the toilet for bowel movements.

Continue doing this (drink salt water - exercise course - bowel movement) until the outlet water is as pure as it enters the body. It all depends on how dirty the intestines are, usually 10-14 glasses of salt water is enough (usually no longer needed).

When you are satisfied with the results of the procedure performed (the leaving water becomes clear), you can stop the procedure. At the end of the procedure, you may still feel the urge to go to the toilet for the next hour, this is perhaps the only inconvenience.

Another recommendation: after the procedure, it is advisable to drink three glasses of salt water (if there is a suspicion of increased acidity, then do without salt, with a pinch of baking soda) and do vamana dhauti (induce vomiting), tickle the back surface of the upper palate and uvula with three fingers of your right hand … This will completely empty the stomach and turn off the evacuation mechanism.

In case of failure

If suddenly, after drinking four glasses of salt water, you feel that the liquid in the stomach does not pass normally into the intestines, while you feel an overflow of stomach and nausea, this indicates that the first sphincter did not open as it should. All this is fixable. To do this, do not drink more fluids, but do two or three series of exercises. As soon as the feeling of nausea passes, it will indicate that the passage to the stomach has opened. After the evacuation mechanism is launched, there will be no more difficulties, you can safely continue the procedure.

Sometimes it happens that a gas lock has formed in the intestine, which prevents the evacuation mechanism from being turned on. To fix this, you just need to press on the stomach with your hands or make a sarvangasana or "plow" (a stand on the shoulder blades, it is also possible to make a "plow" in a simplified version, without straightening too much and without touching the floor with your feet, for one minute), as well as the rest four exercises.

In the worst case, when the liquid does not come out no matter what you do, you just have to decide and do vamana dhauti (induce vomiting), for this, tickle the base of the tongue with three fingers of your right hand, you can do nothing, then the water will come out naturally like urine.

After the procedure, rest and avoid hunger.

It is important to consider

There are 2 conditions, without which you may not succeed:

• The water should be warm, around 40 ° C. If it is mildly warm or even cold, there will be problems!
• The water must be very salty! Necessarily saltier than blood, otherwise it will not go through the intestines, but will be excreted by the kidneys - and this is a strong blow to the kidneys!

First meal

After shank prakshalana some guidelines should be followed. There is no earlier than half an hour and no later than an hour after the procedure. It is forbidden to leave the digestive tract hungry for more than an hour!

What should the first meal consist of? Refined rice cooked in water, but not too boiled (the grains should melt in the mouth). You can add a little salted tomato juice to rice, you can not use peppers and various hot spices. You can add well-cooked lentils or carrots to rice. With rice, you need to eat 40 grams of butter together. The butter can be melted in rice, but it is better to do it separately, in a water bath, or eat it from a spoon without melting it. Instead of rice, you can use boiled wheat, oats or flour products (pasta, noodles, spaghetti, etc.), seasoning them with grated cheese.

Attention! Rice is not allowed to be boiled in milk. Also, over the next day, you can not drink milk or kefir, and acidic food and drink, fruits and raw vegetables are contraindicated. Bread can be eaten with the second meal. Any hard and semi-hard cheeses are not prohibited. Not recommended, eat white and fermented cheese (brie, camembert).

At the end of the day, you can switch to your usual diet, limiting only the consumption of meat.

Drink

Salt water will direct some of your body fluids to your digestive tract. This will be the main part of cleansing. After the procedure, you will feel thirsty. But you shouldn't drink any liquid, even clean water before the first meal, as you will support the evacuation mechanism and will continue to go to the toilet.

After the first meal, you can drink water and weak infusions: linden-mint infusion, mineral water (slightly carbonated or still). It is strictly forbidden to consume alcohol during the day!

The first bowel movements will appear 24 or 36 hours after the procedure, do not worry. They will be golden yellow and odorless like a nursing baby. It is good to carry out this procedure at least twice a year. The average frequency of its holding is four times a year (according to the change of the season). People who are seriously involved in cleansing can perform this procedure every month. Dhirendra Brahmachari recommends doing shank prakshalana once every 15 days.

In general, this procedure cannot be called pleasant, of course there are more enjoyable activities. The most unpleasant thing in this procedure is drinking warm salt water, the rest does not matter. People with a delicate taste can be offered a drink from a weak decoction of leeks or other vegetables.

People who suffer from constipation can do shank prakshalana every week, only they should limit themselves to six glasses of water. In this case, the entire procedure will take approximately 30 minutes. This is a very good "exercise" for the intestines, and the walls of the colon are not stretched.

The beneficial effects of bowel cleansing

The first result of cleansing the intestines with salt water is getting rid of impurities, deposits that have been absorbed into the lining of the colon. One can be horrified at what the intestines can absorb. Many people who do not suffer from constipation systematically empty their bowels, mistakenly assume that they cannot have anything in their intestines. But what will be their surprise when they find a cherry pit, swallowed several months ago, among the removed "waste". In a yogic hospital, it is often amazed how many different wastes can remain in the intestines, accumulating there for months or even years. It is surprising that a person can have so many all kinds of impurities, is it worth it then to wonder where different diseases come from when the whole body is literally poisoned by toxins that have accumulated in it.

In any case, it is unwise to put up with it. Therefore, it is worth doing shank prakshalana and getting rid of those deposits that have accumulated in your digestive tract. The positive effect of this procedure will not affect the next day and will not be conspicuous to everyone, but it will certainly manifest itself in the form of fresh breath, the skin on the face and body will be cleansed. Of course, if you follow a low-toxic diet (without excess meat), body odors, which are very strong, will disappear, and your complexion will improve. Among other things, this procedure has a tonic and stimulating effect on the liver (this will be noticeable by the color of the excrement).

Doctors Lonovaly successfully healed diabetic patients in the initial stage by performing shank prakshalana once every two days for two months (they also observed food regimen, pranayama and other yogic procedures).

Probably, the pancreas, under the influence of general stimulation, produces more insulin.

Also, colds and other diseases associated with metabolism, and seemingly unrelated, are cured quite easily and quickly.

One of the most important results of performing shank prakshalana is getting rid of allergic diseases.

The result of cleansing the digestive tract is a good absorption of food, which leads to the fact that the thin get better, and those who need to lose weight lose weight.

Contraindications for bowel cleansing with salt water

There are few contraindications. These are people with stomach ulcers, first they must heal the ulcer, and then they can be treated for peptic ulcer disease by performing shank prakshalana. The same recommendation for those who have diseases of the digestive tract during an exacerbation is dysentery, diarrhea, acute colitis (chronic colitis after performing this procedure can be significantly alleviated, again, you should not perform it during an exacerbation), acute appendicitis and, moreover crayfish.

Apparently, these contraindications are not final. In practice, there is a unique case of curing dysentery shank prakshalana, moreover, before that the patient had previously undergone a standard course of treatment, and he did not bring him relief.

This procedure is very effective at the final stage of the treatment of oxyurosis.

In fact, when the entire contents of the intestine are evacuated, the worms with their eggs also come out. But still, there are so many of them that some of the eggs may remain.

In order for the water to pass through the entire digestive tract, it is enough to perform the exercises below. Each movement must be performed four times in each direction alternately at a fast pace: the whole series of these exercises takes about one minute (or faster).

Exercises

First exercise. Starting position: standing, the distance between the feet is approximately 30 cm, the fingers are intertwined, palms up. The back is straight, breathing is even free. Standing straight, first tilt to the left, without stopping to tilt to the right. Do such inclinations in both directions four times, in other words, do 8 inclinations to the left and to the right in turn. In general, this should take about 10 seconds.

This exercise opens the pylorus. With each tilt, part of the water leaves it, passing into the duodenum and small intestine.

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Second exercise. This exercise forces water to flow through the small intestine. Starting position: standing, spread your legs, stretch your right hand forward horizontally, and bend your left so that the index and thumb touch the right collarbone. Make turns of the body, pushing the outstretched arm back as far as possible (while looking at the fingertips). Not forgetting at the same time that the lower part of the body must remain motionless, that is, the turns are not done with the whole body, but around the waist. At the end of the turn, without stopping, return to the starting position and immediately make a turn in the other direction. This double exercise should also be repeated four times. The duration of this series of exercises is approximately 10 seconds.

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Third exercise. In order for the water to continue to move through the small intestine, it is necessary to perform the cobra variant, but at the same time the big toes should touch the floor, and the hips, therefore, should be raised above the floor. Feet separated by 30 cm is very important. Having taken this position, turn your head, shoulders and torso until you see the opposite heel (if you turn to the right, then you need to see the left heel). Again, without stopping, return to the starting position and turn in the other direction. Turns are made only with the upper part of the body, the lower one remains, motionless and parallel to the floor. Only downward bends are allowed. The double exercise is repeated 4 times. Duration 10 - 15 seconds.

Fourth exercise. This exercise is aimed at allowing water that has already reached the end of the small intestine to pass through the large intestine. Of all the exercises, this is perhaps the most difficult, but accessible to everyone, with the exception of people with diseases of the lower leg and meniscus.

Starting position: squat down, feet apart by about 30 cm, while the heels are located at the outer part of the thighs, and not under the seat, the hands are on the knees, the knees are also separated by about 30 cm. Then turn the torso and lower the knee on the floor in front of the opposite foot. The palms alternately guide the right thigh to the left side and the left thigh to the right side so as to press on one side of the abdomen and press on the colon. Turn your head back in order to increase the twisting of the torso and put more pressure on the stomach.

First, you need to put pressure on the right side of the abdomen, in order to put pressure on the ascending colon. In contrast to the previous exercises, in which it was not important which direction to start doing (right or left).

Like other exercises, this must be done 4 times as well. Duration 15 sec.

If suddenly this exercise, for any reason, is difficult to perform, it can be replaced with the exercise "lazy" plow for one minute, then lie down and relax for one minute.

Video (details about Shank Prakshalan)

Summary of the overall process

1. Drink a glass of warm (about 40 ° C) salted water, one tablespoon of salt per liter of water.

2. Complete the entire set of exercises.

3. drink a second glass of water and again do the set of exercises.

4. Repeat this process until you have drunk six glasses.

5. Then go to the toilet and wait until the first evacuation takes place. If this does not happen within 5 minutes, do another set of exercises while not drinking water anymore. If, again, there is no result, then do a small enema to increase peristalsis.

6. Drink a glass of water again, exercise and go to the toilet.

7. So continue; water - exercise - toilet until you are satisfied with the result. Yogis do this procedure until the outlet water is as clear as you drink it.

8. In order to complete the procedure and remove water from the gastrointestinal tract, do vamana dhauti (induce vomiting): drink two glasses of warm water without salt and empty the stomach. Thanks to this, the liver, spleen, gallbladder will be cleansed and the evacuation mechanism will turn off. If you do not do vamana dhauti, then within an hour you will visit the toilet several more times.

9. You need to give yourself a rest for about half an hour, then you can eat, do not leave your stomach empty for more than an hour.

10. You can only drink after eating, so be thirsty.

Drink probiotics for several days after the procedure to normalize the composition of the intestinal microflora.