The information that we discussed in part one of this article is not new. The role that the colon plays in the development of disease in your body has been known for a number of years. To give credibility to that statement I have included the following information that was copied in part from the "World Report of Iridology Fellowship Journal of December 1974". It was written by Dr. Jensen and reads as follows:

A few years ago, the Royal Society of Medicine, a group of fifty-seven of the leading physicians of Great Britain, discussed the subject of alimentary toxemia in London. Among the speakers were prominent surgeons, physicians, and specialists from the various branches of medicine. These physicians discussed their findings and expressed concern over the number of toxins found in the intestinal tract of their patients.

Some of these toxins were found to be highly active, even in very small quantities, and continually irritated the delicate linings of the intestinal tract to the point where disease finally developed. It should be understood that these findings were not mere theories, but were actual results of demonstrations in actual practice by these physicians. The following is a summary of the conditions that developed in their individual practices as a result of alimentary toxemia.

The Digestive Tract
The digestive tract developed duodenal ulcer causing partial or complete obstruction of the duodenum, intestinal spasm, intestinal obstruction, distention and dilation of the stomach, gastric ulcer, and stomach cancer. Other conditions were adhesions of the stomach and liver, inflammation of the liver, and cancer of the liver. The muscular wall of the intestines became so weak that it was difficult to move the contents along the intestinal tract. The abdominal organs lost their normal relationship to the spine and to each other, on account of the weakening of the abdominal muscles, and it was noted that these displacements were more common in women than in men.

Other conditions of the intestinal tract were: Catarrah of the intestines, foul gases and stool, colitis, appendicitis, adhesions and kinks in the intestines, enlargement of the spleen, a distended abdomen, tenderness of the abdomen, diarrhea, inflammation of the pancreas, chronic abdominal pain, gastritis, pancreatic cancer, inflammation of the gall bladder, gall bladder cancer, gallstones, degeneration of the liver, cirrhosis of the liver, infection of the gums, tooth decay, and ulcers of the mouth and pharynx.

Heart and Blood Vessels
The cardiovascular system suffered from degeneration and weakening of the heart muscles, fatty degeneration of the heart, low blood pressure, high blood pressure, enlargement of the heart, dilation of the aorta, arteriosclerosis, and permanent dilation of the arteries.

The Nervous System
The nervous system produced headaches of all kinds, and these were sometimes strong enough to be wrongly diagnosed as brain tumors. Other symptoms were acute pains in the legs, twitching of the eyes and muscles of the face, arms, legs; irritability, disturbance of the nervous system varying from simple headaches to complete collapse, and mental and physical depression. Also included were insomnia, troubled sleep, unpleasant dreams, unrefreshed sleep, excessive sleepiness, falling asleep in the daytime, shivery sensation across lower spinal region, burning sensation in the face and hands, paralysis, chronic fatigue, perverted moral feeling, melancholy, mania, loss of memory, difficulty of mental concentration, imbecility, insanity, delirium, and coma.

The Eyes
Alimentary toxemia also caused degenerative changes in the eyes, inflammation of the eye lens, inflammation of the optic nerve, hardening of the eye lens, sclerotitis, iritis, cataracts, recurrent hemorrhage in the retina, and causing the eyes to become dull and heavy.

The Skin
The skin became more wrinkled, the pigmentation changed, and the skin became yellow and brown and developed a muddy complexion. Enough poisons developed in the intestines to cause the skin to break out in boils, sores, herpes, eczema, dermatitis, lupus, and acne. Other symptoms that developed were cold and clammy extremities, dark circles under the eyes, seborrhea, psoriasis, and jaundice.

Muscles and Joints
The toxins in the intestinal tract also caused degeneration of the muscles to the point that they became weak and began to tear easily. In young people the muscle degeneration produced the deformities which are called dorsal excurvation or round shoulders, lateral curvature, flat-feet, and knock-knees. Weakness of the abdominal muscles caused an accumulation of feces in the pelvic colon, which made the evacuation of the contents more and more difficult.

Other symptoms were the swelling of bone tissue, rheumatic pains, lumbago, various muscle pains, muscular rheumatism, arthritis deformities, rickets, and arthritis. One of the physicians in this group, Dr. Lane, stated the following: "Rheumatoid arthritis is the direct result of intestinal intoxication. I do not believe it is possible for this disease to obtain a foothold in the body except in the presence of alimentary toxemia".

Genito-Urinary and Reproductive Organs
Further symptoms of alimentary toxemia were various displacement distortions and diseases of the uterus, and changes in the physical forms of women. These included fibrosis of the breast, degeneration of the breast tissue, breast cancer, bladder infections, frequent urination, and movable kidneys. Dr. Lane made a second statement that said: "Intestinal intoxication plays so large a part in the development of disease of the female genito-urinary apparatus that the formation of disease should always be regarded by the gynecologist as a product of an infected colon".

General Disorders and Disturbances of Nutrition
Other findings by this group of physicians include the following: General disorders including degeneration of the organs of elimination, especially the liver, kidneys, and spleen. There is a general lowered resistance to infection of all kind, premature senile decay, retardation of growth in children, accompanied by mental irritability and muscular fatigue. We also see damaged adenoids, enlarged tonsils, scurvy, enlarged thyroid, various tumors, and Raynaud's disease.

The labour of eliminating an enormous amount of toxins, which falls upon the kidneys, damaged the renal tissues and produced premature failure of these essential organs. Any process which develops toxins within the body is a menace to the life of the tissues and should be suppressed as far as possible, and as quickly as possible.

The fact that symptoms of poisoning resulting from constipation do not appear at once is no evidence that injury has not occurred. The fact that chronic constipation might exist in certain individuals as an almost permanent condition without apparently causing ill health is due solely to the power and protective action of the liver. It is not any evidence of the harmlessness of constipation, but only evidence that some individuals possess a colon that is capable of doing any amount of detoxification.

In the face of such an array of evidence backed up by the authority of nearly sixty prominent physicians, it is no longer possible to ignore the importance of alimentary toxemia as a fact in the production of disease. No other single cause can possibly be responsible for one-tenth as many various and widely diverse disorders. It can be said that almost every chronic disease known is directly or indirectly due to the influence of bacterial poisons absorbed from the intestines. The colon may be looked upon as a Pandora's Box, out of which comes more human misery and suffering, mental, moral, and physical, than from any other known source.

The colon is the body's sewage system, but because of neglect and abuse, it has become a disease-producing cesspool. When it is clean and normal we are well and happy, let it stagnate and it will distill the poisons of decay, fermentation, and putrefaction into the blood, poisoning the brain and the nervous system so that we become mentally depressed and irritable. It will poison the heart so that we become weak and listless, poison the lungs so that our breath becomes foul, poison the digestive organs so that we become distressed and bloated, and poison the blood so that our skin becomes sallow and unhealthy. In short, every organ of the body becomes poisoned, and we age prematurely, look and feel old, and the joints become stiff and painful. Dull eyes and a sluggish brain overtake us, and the pleasure of living is gone.

The above information should give you a very good idea of just how important it is to keep your intestinal tract clean. As the quality of our food decreases and we receive less and less nutritional value from it, diseases of all kinds become more rampant in our bodies.

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