The Blessed Herbs 8 Day Colon Cleansing Kit

Everything you need to cleanse your colon

Colon Cleanse

The Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit is an eight-day intestinal cleansing program that works by using two herbal formulas. The first, Digestive Stimulator, comes in capsule form and works to assure that one has at least three bowel movements a day. The second, Toxin Absorber, is a powder that is consumed five times per day after being mixed with organic apple juice. The herbs in this formula have traditionally been used for their strong absorptive properties and work to cleanse the intestinal system.

the Colon Cleansing Kit
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mucoid plaque
Fecal matter eliminated during use of the Colon Cleansing Kit. Many sites copy our photos

Below is an excerpt from Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management by Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, Ph.D.

"The heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host of putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It's that hard and black."

Note: On this page we have presented an overview of what is known and unknown about the Colon Cleansing Kit and colon cleansing in general. Please read through all the information and make a decision as an informed consumer.
 
General overview of
the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit
The Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit is an eight-day intensive intestinal cleansing program that works by using two herbal formulas. The first, Digestive Stimulator, comes in capsule form and works gently to support normal bowel function.* The second, Toxin Absorber is a powder that is consumed five times per day after being mixed with organic apple juice. The herbs in this formula have traditionally been used for their strong absorptive properties and work powerfully to draw hardened mucus build-up and fecal matter out of the intestinal tract.* We recommend that you do a liquid only fast during five days of the eight days or Toxin Absorber will simply bind to the food you are eating and not to the waste you are trying to remove. For those who elect not to fast, there are two other options. One requires modified diet changes for eight days. The other is a 30 day program with optional diet changes.
Detailed look at the formulas
in the Colon Cleansing Kit

Detail of the formulas:
Toxin Absorber
During this program one will take Toxin Absorber with apple juice and water, five times a day, to draw build-up off their intestinal walls. It will also absorb toxins, heavy metals, and fatty acids from the intestinal tract.* Although liquid when first mixed, Toxin Absorber will begin to thicken as it slowly moves through the digestive system. During this time, it will bond to the build-up on a person's intestinal walls, pulling it out of one's system.*

A herbal supplement of:

Psyllium seed husks, Apple pectin, Ginger root**, and Bentonite clay.

**Certified Organically Grown


Digestive Stimulator
Digestive Stimulator is a natural herbal supplement that tones, cleanses, and purifies the entire digestive system.* The dosages will vary for each person to assure that one's bowels are moving at least three times a day. During this program it is vitally important that one has regular bowel movements to keep the Toxin Absorber moving through the intestinal system.

A herbal supplement of:

Aloe leaf, Aloe Vera leaf, Cascara Sagrada bark, Chinese Rhubarb root**, Triphala (Amla fruit, Chebulic Myrobalan fruit, Belleric Myrobalan fruit), Barberry root, Dandelion root**, Fringe Tree root bark, Meadowsweet aerial parts, Plantain aerial parts**, Ginger root**, Fennel seed**, Peppermint leaf**, Fenugreek seed**, and Licorice root**.

**Certified Organically Grown

Benefits of the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit
A generally accepted benefit of colon cleansing is based on the theory that the hardened mucus that is lining the intestinal wall greatly reduces one's ability to absorb nutrition. Because you are not able to absorb proper nutrition this feeds the cycle of craving more food and stronger flavors. When in fact what your body really wants is better nutrition. Unless this cycle is broken, no amount of will power will successfully change one's dietary habits in the long run.

After removing this intestinal build-up, it has been observed that people feel the body has returned to a more natural state. It has also been observed that people have much greater discernment of how foods actually affects them. This opens the possibility to fully appreciate the "true taste" of foods. At this point, people have found they can easily make dietary changes and really feel (and taste!) the difference!

"I had been drinking city water for several months when I started my fast. On the third day, I woke up in the night and my water tasted like pure poison!! What it actually is!! I couldn't believe I'd never tasted it before." - Shalom Volchok, co-founders' son

Other benefits that have been reported to us include deep emotional catharsis leading to an amazing clarity. One theory on this says that emotions can become trapped along with the intestinal debris and when they are released one may relive old emotional experiences leading to a great freedom of internal energy.

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What we know and don't know about Colon Cleansing
An article by Shalom Volchok, son of Blessed Herbs Co-Founders


The purpose of this article is to provide a clear picture of what is known and unknown about colon cleansing and to allow you, the consumer, to make an educated decision whether it is something you want to do for yourself. It is divided into three parts. Part One covers our experience with colon cleansing in general and specifically the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit. Part Two covers the observational data gathered by two Naturopathic Doctors who studied and used colon cleansing extensively as well as some observational data from ourselves. Part Three presents the view from some medical professionals that colon cleansing is useless and unproven.

Part One: Our experience and point of view on colon cleansing.
The Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit was created by my mother, Martha Volchok. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and has been a practicing herbalist for over thirty years. About twenty-five years ago she had extreme digestive disorders and started using colon cleansing to assist herself. Since that time she has continued with, at least, yearly cleanses. She has used many products and different herbal combinations. Four years ago she decided to create the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit, a product of her own, based on her years of self experimentation. She says:

"I have tried many different herbal formulas for colon cleansing over the years, but it wasn't until I decided, as a professional herbalist, to create my own formula that I got everything that I wanted -strength of action combined with gentleness- to make colon cleansing as thorough and comfortable as possible."

The benchmark for any colon cleanse is the ability to consistently produce thick, dark and rubbery bowel movements, the sign of a successful cleanse. Martha created such a cleanse in the Colon Cleansing Kit. The process is simple; it consists of two formulas and a system for taking them.

After she had created the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit my dad, myself and six or seven of our employees were the first to use the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit. We all followed her recommended system, which included a five day liquid only diet, and all of us saw similar thick, dark and rubbery material being passed in our bowel movements. This was our first observational data that the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit was indeed performing as a great colon cleanse should. At this point I want to clarify the difference between observational and experiential data and "scientific data". First, the governing scientific bodies and major medical journals want proof in the form of double blind, randomized, placebo controlled, crossover trials. That is what I mean by "scientific data". Scientifically speaking they don't like observational data. However, even some of them are starting to recognize the limiting nature of this mindset. I recently read a study from the British Medical Journal (a major medical journal, no less) making fun of this strict process. My favorite quote from that study is shown below:

"Conclusions: As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute." (read full article at www.bmj.com)

That said, we are currently working on creating one of these trials. However, traditional holistic practices, like colon cleansing, resist the narrow view needed to conduct one of these scientific studies. The benefits of colon cleansing are different for everyone and even if we create a successful study on the Colon Cleansing Kit we must pick "one" benefit to study and there is no guarantee we will be able to conclusively prove anything that is relevant to you or your health.

All that said. I want to emphasize the importance of YOU taking responsibility for your own health. Not just here, with your decision to use the Colon Cleansing Kit, or not. But with every decision you make in your life. It's your life. For me, embracing the responsibility for one's own life is the the principal that I see at the heart of holistic living. I urge you to not hand it over to us or anyone else. Only you know what is right for you.

With that mindframe we believe you, the consumer, should have access to other people's experiences with products that are not yet and may never be proven in that scientific way. Remember these are other people sharing their experiences. Even the Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) are just sharing what they know for themselves to be true. It's your job to apply this information to your life and accept that colon cleansing is not "proven" like mainstream medicine. It's a different process. The process is people sharing what they got, you applying that information to your life, making an active decision and then taking full responsibility for your decision. Remember, this is not just about our product. Do it when you go to the doctor or the acupuncturist. Do it always.

Which brings me to SAFETY. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself what "safe" means? What does "safe" mean? Again we feel this is your responsibilty to decide. Take for example, prescription medication. It is highly tested and supposedly safe, yet an article in the Journal of American Medical Association says that approximately 106,000 people die every year from non error, adverse effects of medications (article available at: www.jama.org - $30.00). That means prescription medication is the sixth leading cause of death in the USA. I'm not saying don't take prescription medication. I'm not telling you to take or not take anything. I am inviting you to use a three step process I feel is the heart of a healthy, holistic life. One, take responsibility for your own health. Two, educate youself about your options (there are always options). Three, make an educated choice and take full responsibility for that choice. Four, (I know I said three) don't blindly trust us or anyone else!

When it comes to the safety of the Colon Cleansing Kit. This is what we know. Over 10,000 people have now done our Colon Cleansing Kit. We offer a satisfaction guarantee and just under 2% return the Colon Cleansing Kit to us. Some people return the kit because they didn't get the results they wanted and others complain of cleansing reactions such as: headaches, bloated feelings, constipation, abdominal pain and sore eyes. Cleansing reactions are part of cleansing and are not the same as "side effects" normally associated with medication. These cleansing reactions are regarded by those experienced with cleansing as the body dealing with whatever it is releasing during the cleanse. That said, if you experience anything you are not comfortable with during the cleanse you should stop immediately and only continue with the supervision of a holistic practitioner who is familiar with cleansing. The herbs in the kit have been safely used for hundreds of years and observational data suggest the Colon Cleansing Kit is safe when used as directed. Again you're the one putting it in your body. Take that responsibility.

Part Two: Observational data supporting colon cleansing.

When it come to these thick, dark and rubbery bowel movements produced by our Blessed Herbs Colon Cleansing Kit, and a few other programs, we don't know what they are in scientific terms. In observational and experiential terms a substantial amount is known. That is what I am going to share with you now.

Below is an excerpt from Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, (Escondido, CA: Bernard Jensen, D.C., 1980), by Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, Ph.D.
Bernard Jensen is one of the pioneers of using colon cleansing to improve a person's quality of life. If you buy this book there are some amazing stories of things he saw accomplished through colon cleansing and removing this rubbery matter. In fact it was out of this book that my dad made my mom her first "colema board" over twenty-five years ago.

"The heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host of putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. One autopsy revealed a colon to be 9 inches in diameter with a passage through it no larger than a pencil. The rest was caked up layer upon layer of encrusted fecal material. This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It's that hard and black. Another autopsy revealed a stagnant colon to weigh in at an incredible 40 pounds."


Another leader in cleansing is Dr. Richard Anderson, ND, N.M.D
Dr. Anderson has also written two books on cleansing which can also be purchased at Amazon.com or most large bookstores. He also has tremendous personal experience with colon cleansing and conveys much of this in his two books: Cleanse and Purify Thyself Volume 1 & 2.

In an internet article on "colon plaque" he says:
The phrase, "mucoid plaque," is a coined term that I use to describe various conditions found throughout the body, especially in hollow organs and the alimentary canal. It is a substance that the body naturally creates under unnatural conditions, such as attack from acids, drugs, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals.

Read the full article here. (Recommended reading.)

An article written by Marc Leduc on his
independent website dedicated towards healthy living.
http://www.healingdaily.com/colon-kidney-detoxification/colon-health.htm

An article written by Kristina Amelong, CNC, CT
documenting intestinal buildup and its effects on the body. http://www.optimalhealthnetwork.com/tek9.asp?pg=cleansing


 The experience of colon cleansing by Martha Volchok, AHG.

"...I observed all of my bowel movements and studied them as a scientist would. After my first cleanse, I got out just what Dr. Jensen showed in his book, Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management. Not only that, but popcorn kernels came out and I hadn't eaten any popcorn in years! Having something come out after all those years, gave me more faith in Dr. Jensen's work. I reasoned that if the popcorn was that old, how old was the rest of the stuff coming out? Surely some of it was from that same time period.

I understand even more, now, after years of observing the material that comes out whenever I do colon cleansing. I have observed that the material coming out now has become progressively lighter, less smelly, and of a consistent texture; rather than initial dark, hard, rubbery, foul smelling stuff. There was a time when I would see some chunks of the hard rubbery stuff mixed in with the type of stuff I see today. Whenever I do my yearly cleanse now, I see clearly the striations on the outside of stool that reflect the same indentations from different parts of the intestinal wall; both small and large (colon). Could this be an actual thin layer that had accumulated directly on the intestinal lining? These markings are never present on my everyday bowel movements. The stool from my colon cleanse has a thin, outer layer that is decidedly a different, deeper color than the inside of the stool. It is also much firmer and cannot be pulled apart; whereas the inner portion of the stool looks remarkably like the Toxin Absorber drink and it is possible to pull apart easily."



Part Three: The other view on colon cleansing.
There are some doctors who say there is no buildup in the intestines and colon cleansing is a complete hoax. I feel their point of view is valuable and you should be exposed to other opinions. I know this information and I still do colon cleansing. Your decision is yours for you to make.

The following is a quote from Quackwatch.com saying that "mucoid plaque" doesn't exist:

"I have seen several thousand intestinal biopsies and have never seen any "mucoid plaque." This is a complete fabrication with no anatomic basis. The small and large intestines normally secrete mucus for lubrication, but it does not form into any type of 'plaque'." (find site here: www.quackwatch.org)

Dr. Richard Anderson's response to such statements in his book Cleanse Purify Thyself: Book Two, (Mt. Shasta, CA: Christobe Publishing, 1998), page 88-89:

"Surgeons and regular doctors are not trained in the subject of mucoid plaque and therefore remain unaware of this important bowel condition. The mucoid plaque is usually less than one-fourth of an inch in many areas of the bowel (except in heavy meat and dairy eaters). It usually develops from a semi-transparent liquid solution (mucin) and may look like it is part of the intestinal wall itself as it takes on the exact shapes, striations, and bulges of the intestinal wall. Until the mucoid plaque begins to mix with fecal matter, its color and texture may appear similar to healthy bowel mucosa. Unless one knows what they are looking for, it may be difficult to identify, especially by sight. Therefore, to doctors using endoscopy and to surgeons, it is unnoticeable unless they are familiar with the many different appearances mucoid plaque may have."


You may have seen the following quote on other colon cleansing sites. In fact we once had it on our own site before I realized the information on John Wayne and Elvis was probably false:

The following was reported in January 11, 1999 issue of USA Today:
 "Most people who eat the standard American 'goo and glue' diet have about 5-10 pounds of matter stored in the colon. It's said that, according to the autopsy, John Wayne had 40 pounds of impacted fecal matter in his body at death. Elvis reportedly had 60 pounds."

This quote has drawn a large amount of negative attention to colon cleansing on the internet (example view: www.snopes.com). I tried researching it and found that the information on John Wayne and Elvis is very hard to verify and is most likely false. I was able to find the complete article from USA Today and the quote was part of an article talking about the journalist's experience at a health spa. Someone at the spa told her that information and she quoted it in her article. I think it is unfortunate that so many sites in their enthusiasm to prove the benefits of colon cleansing grab such information without verifying the source. Even I was guilty of this. In hindsight I see this reflects poorly on what we do know and the real experiences of people who have done colon cleansing. The fact is colon cleansing is not widely accepted by the medical profession and I think it's OK to share that with consumers. I think this gives more validity to the experiences we do know. Again I'll say it is critical thinking that is the key to holistic health. It is not accepting what someone else proved or disproved.

If you want to know more about colon cleansing and the many benefits experienced by thousands of people I suggest you read Cleanse & Purify Thyself: Book Two, by Dr. Richard Anderson and also Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management by Dr. Bernard Jensen.
 

 



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