Hi, I am 14 days into my juice feast at the moment. I have used Bentonite clay with psyllium husk before in conjunction with the juice and also with a 5 day water fast. Together with enemas I produced the traditional black strings of bowel shaped horrors (much to my amusment and facination)
This time I have decided to just juice. I am using both fruit and green based juices and have been using enemas. I am still passing black stuff that smells the same as with the shakes but with out the structure. There is also lots of strings of mucus too. For the past few days I have not done an enema and I eventually passed a very dense black stool. I have wondered from time to time if what I pass is the collective residue from all the juices - even though I put them through nut milk bags they still retain micro particles. The shear amount of greens could contribute to the dark black colour in the finished product coming out the other end? I dont know. There definitly seems to be a large element of releasing stuff that dosent normally come out.

I know this message is pretty old, but I have been looking for answers today. A few months ago, I attempted a Paleo diet to help me lose some weight. It worked and I was definitely feeling some detoxing side affects. I didn't experience Mucoid Plaque though. I kind of fell off the wagon during the holidays and began eating processed foods again. A few days ago I began eating clean again (No processed foods, high fat diet). I take a multivitamin, CLA, fish oil, and my own prescriptions that help my hormone imbalance. This morning I passed, what I am assuming, is Mucoid Plaque. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what it was. I tried googling different answers but came up with nothing. I even started to think it was a worm of some sort. But then I came across a picture that looked similiar to what I had seen and a quick google image search (more than I wanted to see before breakfast) but a relief to my mind. I am not taking any of the items used to detox. So I am curious how that worked.

This is a really old thread so not sure if anyone is going to see this. But, I began passing mucoid plaques WITHOUT FASTING OR USING ANY BETONITE CLAY OR OTHER CLEANSE PRODUCTS. Moreover, I never heard of mucoid plaques before I saw these strange ropey things in my stool which prompted an internet search.

The plaques showed up after just one day of taking a Japanese probiotic called Myarisin. It contains clostridium butyricum, a bacterium which naturally produces butyrate.

Possibly setting the stage for this outcome I have, for about one month prior, been taking spanish black radish to improve bile flow and doing one coffee enema per day.

So, in my experience, I would say that mucoid plaque is something that already exists in the intestine and is not being produced by anything people are taking.

I am neither on a fast nor a cleansing diet.

I have done it with a water fast. I'm not sure how healthy it was....

I started days 1-3 with tea temperature water in my favorite tea cup. I followed it with 3 cups of room temperature water, same cup.
I got the urge to chew, I chewed gum.
Once I got my body used to the change in temperature of the water, my cup got bigger. The idea is to hydrate your insides so that they could start to work on their own to expel the contents. Human body is 98.6, so cold water would shock my insides and make it painful to not eat and be releasing. So my cups were either 22 or 32 ounces, depending on the cup holder I had that day, but I drank at least 3 to 4 full cups over the course of the day.
Day 3 I got a headache, but I also incorporated activated charcoal into my intake with the warm water and I added fresh squeezed lime juice into the first big cup.

What my rule was for liquids:
If i drank lemon in a glass of water, I drank 3 more cups of water.

No chilled water.

No sugar, no honey. No sweetener.


Day 4 I was weary from no food so my first warm water had lemon and the second cup was also warm. I took the activated charcoal with the third cup of water in the tea cup.
*in the evenings, and at meal times, the warm water calms the tummy.

I was constipated for 3 weeks prior to beginning the fast and full to the top of my neck with food, weighing 282 lbs, not even knowing when I was hungry.

Day 5, my family got extremely concerned. So, I started my day just as the previous 4 days, but around 7 pm I drank 2 ounces of orange juice and 20 ounces of room temperature water and as close to 7 pm add possible I ate a small Caesar salad followed by a cup of warm water in a tea cup and a cup of room temperature water in the tea cup. I would do ab excercises to engage my muscles in the effort of passing the gas and matter. I also used a heating pad and warm compress on my tummy to soothe the gas. I started going by day 3 but saw my first sludge in day 5...I'm going to do it again sans juice subbing it with Sea Salt ...i lost 5 pounds a week for 8 weeks eating only mixed green salads, okra, Brussels sprouts and nothing spicy. Small portions though. (I ate 2 meals a day in a bowl the size of a toddler bowl once I reincorporated food into my system the first 3 weeks,{not over filled} adding a 3rd meal the 4th week)
After day 5, I would begin the day as days 1-4, subbing the 2nd and 3rd tea cup with a larger cup of room temperature water (easier for me, but I just calculated drinking 4 cups) At least once a week, I ate okra and Brussels sprouts
to jump-start my bowel movements. I lost 80 lbs in 5 months. I did change my diet to only vegetables, walnuts, and baked fish or boiled chicken. No vinegar and heavy garlic and ginger.