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08-08-2010, 12:05 PM | #1 | ||
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08-09-2010, 09:55 PM | #2 | ||
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I gather you are going for the corn because it's in season right now. Perhaps introducing a new grain into the diet is helping to get things moving in the digestive tract. The body responds well to variation, rather than the same thing over and over again. Good luck and thanks again! |
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08-29-2010, 04:29 PM | #3 | ||
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08-30-2010, 05:49 PM | #4 | |||
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One quick remedy for constipation is virgin olive oil.
1 or 2 tablespoonfuls will often work for many people.
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10-10-2015, 07:33 PM | #5 | ||
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Whatever happened to good old prune juice? From growing up from the 1950s through the 1970s, it was: constipation?--immediately reach for the miracle remedy of all miracles. Two glasses and in ten minutes you're at a dead run(s). I don't even hear it mentioned anymore.
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The people here on our other forums who use opioids in high doses have a paste they use sometimes, made from dates, raisins and prunes. For a while I collected old pharmaceutical remedies, vintage age. 1900's and before. I am going to do watercolors incorporating remedies so I needed some reference material. By far while searching Ebay, I discovered just how common laxative remedies were in the 1800's and early 1900's. Just about every "cold" product had a laxative in it. From my experience it seems like almost all remedies in the past, had a laxative added to them. Back then they were called purgatives. Historically doctors mostly bled patients or used purgatives for just about everything. When I don't buy an offer, I save its photo digitally and here is one that illustrates my point: Black Crow Pills:
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10-11-2015, 09:28 AM | #7 | ||
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I've been using an insoluble fiber product for constipation. I can post the name here or by PM. Like with most laxatives (for me), it worked effectively in the beginning. Now, it takes a little more time and a lot more water.
Prunes and prune juice, dates and figs can be good, but one worries about the sugar. |
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10-11-2015, 11:09 PM | #8 | ||
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Regarding the old catch-all "cold" (you might just as well call them "whatever") remedies, in most that I've found, not only is a purgative and/or an emetic added, but don't forget the ever-present companion: Paregoric, combined with the odd evolved folk cures many of which were local tweakings of lore come to our shores from age old African cultures due to the slave trade. It seems that before the widespread acceptance of Microbiology, the philosophy of medicine generally was: treat the symptomatic discomfort, and purge the body either from one end, the other, or sic your leeches and bleed the patient half to death. In the mid-1960s, back when folks still read, I'd frequent old bookstores in the East Village, Manhattan where the shelves were filled with such relatively ancient medical "textbooks"for around 25 cents per. I was in my teens and guess I figured they'd always be around. Wrong once more. |
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