USE THIS REMEDY IF:
you are bothered by temporary constipation. Temporary constipation usually results from a disruption of the body's physiological rhythms due to stress, changes in your eating schedule, changes in the quality or content of the food and water you eat and drink, or as a result of traveling.HOW TO USE THIS REMEDY:
To relive your constipation, make and drink this remedy two or three times. If you have no results within an hour, repeat this procedure. If you become constipated while traveling, it will help to establish a regular eating and sleeping routine.Note that it is not necessary to have a bowel movement every day. If you go a few days between movements, this will cause no harm. Stop using this remedy as soon as your regularity is re-established.
If you experience no improvement after 5 glasses of this remedy, switch to the most appropriate among the alternatives listed below, or use the RESISTANCE remedy, page 229.
ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES TO CONSIDER:
Regularize Erratic Lifestyle, page 225A note about commercial laxatives: Using these drugs can cause a complete evacuation of the bowels. This means that it will be several days before it is possible to have a natural bowel movement. It is easy to interpret this lack of activity as renewed constipation, and then take more laxatives. In this way, laxatives become habit-forming. The body never has a change to act on its own. If you use laxatives, be patient.
Jet Lag, page 173
Hurrying, page 157
Tension Release, page 273This remedy does not force the bowels to do anything. It just sends a message to re-establish your natural rhythm.
MEDICAL ALERT:
Seek immediately medical help if your constipation is accompanied by severe abdominal cramps or bleeding.The Well Adult: page 360 gives dietary tips for improving chronic constipation.
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