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carrying around with you unknowingly. You doubt this—then there is all
the more reason why you should study what we have to say on the subject.
Read to the end of this chapter, and you will see for yourself—you will
doubt no more.
The Colon, among the majority of animals and persons living a natural
life, is free from obstructions, and is evacuated by frequent natural passages.
With the majority of people living our so-called “civilized life” however, the
Colon is seldom kept in good working order, and it is estimated that of such
people nearly seven-tenths suffer from Constipation in some form or other,
to a greater or lesser degree. Reports from hospitals where autopsies have
been conducted show that in about five hundred cases in which examinations
of the colon have been made after death of the patient, but about fifty were
found to have Colons in a natural condition. The majority were found to be
greatly clogged with hardened excrement. The Hindu Yogis have known this
for centuries, and Western physiologists now admit the fact.
Even among persons who claim to have a natural movement every day,
there is often a condition of impacted Colon manifested. As Dr. Forrest, an
American authority, has written: “There may be a discharge every day, even
more than one, and yet the person may be badly constipated. Bear in mind
that, accurately speaking, constipation means a loaded colon. Now, if from
one end of this packed organ a small quantity is discharged daily, the colon
still remains full by the addition at the other end, and thus constipation
is present and continues even though there be a daily discharge. The
discharge is from the lower end of the colon only.” And, as another wellknown
American authority has said: “Daily movements of the bowels are no
sign that the colon is not impacted; in fact, the worst cases of costiveness that
we ever saw, were those in which daily movements of the bowels occurred.”
Medical writers have, time and time again, expressed surprise at the
amazing capacity of the Colon for holding excrement. There have been
cases known in which enough matter was stored away to fill several Colons
of normal proportions. The walls of the tube were greatly extended and