How Many Different Ways Can You Flush Bowels?

Because cleaning out the bowel is so important when detoxifying, there are several different approaches to getting this done: isotonic water flush, laxative tea, natural laxative capsules, enema, colonic irrigation, to name a few.  Tammy has done these many times over now and today's approach was a first-time experience for her:  The Vitamin C Flush!

There are a few slight variations on the process depending on where you look it up, but for the most part, this flush involves taking a teaspoon of vitamin C powder (sodium ascorbate) in 250mL of water, on rising.  You repeat this every 20 minutes until you get diarrhea!  Once you get to this point, you take 1tsp of charcoal in 250mL of water and the whole show stops pretty much right away.  Simple, eh?

It typically takes a person 4 to 7 servings of vitamin C before 'liquidation' occurs, but per Tammy's usual practice with bowel flushing (i.e. sluggish), she got all the way up to drink #10 and still no action!  This is a challenge because, like an isotonic flush solution, the concentration of vitamin C 'salt' in the water is similar to the concentration of 'stuff' in the blood, so the liquid doesn't absorb through your intestinal wall.  You can imagine the bloating that occurs after drinking 2.5L of water; this is 1/2 litre more than the isotonic flush! 

Gary suggested we stop for an hour after 10 servings and see where things went.  After about 45 minutes, it seemed like things were starting to 'gurgle' and we did one more serving of the vitamin C.  Maybe another 1/2 hour afterwards, we had a 'breakthrough'!  And then about an hour later, the rest of the flush came out and we used the charcoal to stop the treatment.  

From the time we started until we used the charcoal was about 6 hours.  While Tammy just rested during the entire treatment, it still took the mickey out of her and she was a little weak and tired the rest of the day.  We of course took it easy; I wheeled Tammy down to the main centre and back for lunch and dinner.  

Now, she can add another bowel cleansing technique to her resume!  Of course, there are more left to try: next program, Gary suggested we may do the Ghee flush...