What is the Colon?

The colon is the last five to six feet of the digestive tract. It is a hollow, tube-like organ made up of muscle structure that moves digested food along by a wave-like motion known as peristaltic action. In other words, the colon is the body's sewage system. It is the living room for a host of bacteria that produces toxins. It also absorbs water, nutrients, proteins and minerals back into the bloodstream.

The most unimaginable, despised and neglected part of the body, the colon is the cause of widespread degenerative diseases in modern civilization. In the treatment of every chronic disease and acute maladies, the colon must be considered. The average colon in civilized communities is in a desperately deprived and dangerous condition.

According to Dr. John Kellogg, founder of the Battle Creek, Michigan Sanatorium and the Kellogg Breakfast Cereal Company, the colon is richly supplied with nerves and is highly sensitive to influence by all emotion, pleasurable or the opposite. Studies have shown the unpleasant emotions of all sorts can stop peristalsis. Even slight anxiety, annoyance, apprehension or ill-temper may stop all movement of the intestines, as well as the stomach, together with gastric secretions. The angry colon shuts up like a clam and declares "no thoroughfare here!"

Some people are chronically constipated because of a chronic state of ill will or anger. Grief shuts up the outlet of the body's system as tightly as does fear. The worried colon neither secretes nor contracts. Stress from any cause can and will render the colon dysfunctional.

Both secretion and contraction are need for efficient action - secretion for lubrication and contraction for transportation of the food residues to the exit. Loss of sleep, business worries, domestic trials or harassment from any cause may render the colon dysfunctional.

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