Yogi welcome :),

I asked this burping/flatulence question on your behalf since i didn't know the answer.

YogiKB,
the other reasons for gas which are Sheltons experience (and my own)................

Gas: Many patients have considerable intestinal gas while fasting. Those who suffer with digestive troubles, visceroptosis, colitis, enteritis, etc., and "nervous" patients are most likely to be troubled with gas. In not a few cases there is sufficient gas to cause distress, even sleeplessness. Most of these cases experience difficulty in expelling the gas.

In most cases, distress is probably not due to the presence of a large amount of gas, for this is seldom present in large amounts. It seems rather to be due to increased internal tension. A constant internal tension or pressure is maintained in the digestive tube. This is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system. Increased tension is felt, reflexly, as pain or discomfort in the muscles of the abdomen.

"Nervousness," shock, strong emotions, etc., may cause increased tension in the tube and the faster will experience some kind of discomfort. Subconscious fears also may cause the so-called gas pains. Those who have long suffered with digestive derangements are especially prone to changes in the internal tension of the tube.

Functional irregularities in the stomach and intestine may cause pain because of increased peristaltic contractions that often exist in these. Marked visceroptosis, with sharp angulations, may increase the internal tension and cause discomfort or pain.

Increased peristaltic activity of the stomach walls, due to "nervousness," may also result in discomfort that is mistaken for "gas pains." Increased tension may occur in any section of the tube and thus pain or discomfort may be either general over the abdomen or may be more or less localized.

Fasters who so suffer generally complain that the "gas" makes them nervous and keeps them awake at night. It seems that the opposite of this is the truth--the nervousness causes the increased tension and resulting discomfort. Where these patients are able to completely relax, their "gas pains" cease. Although I no longer employ any of these: suggestion, abdominal massage, hot water applications to the abdomen, a drink of warm water and other measures, will usually relieve this distress, at least temporarily without actually lessening the amount of gas.

Gas rumblings in the intestine mean unstable nerve control of this organ. Cathartic drugs will almost always produce these rumblings. This is due to excitement produced by the irritating drugs.

The gurgling and rumbling often heard in the abdomen is due to the movement of gas from one section of the intestine to another. It may often be due to emotional interference with the normal sympathetic control of the gut. A nervous patient may exhibit such rumbling on the slightest provocation. Enemas, due to the excitement they occasion, often produce these symptoms"...............
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch28.htm

Mighty,

Q. In general but with exceptions which include healing crises, is it generally understood that each subsequent day yields more results than each previous day, or is this untrue?

A. Of course. With each passing day the body goes on with its work of cleansing and healing and where this accumulative.


Q.So you are saying we exhale toxins, correct?... which can just as easily go through our nose?

A. Absolutely. The lungs are also an organ of elimination, just as much as the Liver, Kidneys and skin are and expelled thru the mouth or the nose.


Q. Is this coating toxic material on our tongue (and in mouth) that would otherwise be swallowed and reabsorbed if we don't wipe it away?

A. The coating on the tongue is of a mild toxic nature but is only of a temporary nuisance or inconvenience. Daily brushing is important to alleviate this feeling and mouth hygiene generally.


Q. In burping and flatulance, are we eliminating gaseous toxins?

A. Yes, but only minimally as most of the work of elimination is done by the lungs as you breathe and the "hidden" work of the kidneys and liver. The skin also plays its part with possible eruptions.

Q. So i hear a clear recommendation for this. Anything else you might recommend adding to bath water to be beneficially absorbed in a fast?

A. Only Epsom Salts . I personally would not recommend or use anything else.



"INTRAMAX ...."

Q. Would you recommend this first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and waiting say 15 minutes before eating anything? Is 15 minutes enough?

A. Yes. followed by a small quantity of water. Fifteen minutes should suffice as Intramax is a liquid and therefore the most quickly absorbed.


Q. does intramax contain all the vitamin/mineral supplements needed or would you recommend any others? do you know off hand if it contains the magnesium ascorbate you have recommended to me and in sufficient amounts? I know it contains 200mg magnesium which is listed as 50% of the daily value. I would need more of this, yes?

A. Intramax contains every single known nutrient and is a complete food.
However, it only has 600mg of calcium ascorbate and not magnesium ascorbate in one dose, that is the calcium or magnesium has been chelated by carbon bonding to the Vitamin C or Ascorbate.
Some members here have reported better results (as I did) with twice the daily recommended dose of two capfuls at separate times of day. This what I did for the first month and then tapered down to one capful first thing in the morning. Cost was also an issue with two people taking 2 caps per day.
It isn't cheap, but it is by far the best.

The body needs about 400 to 500 mg of magnesium per day or until you get "the runs" or the bowel tolerance test (same as with Vitamin C or Ascorbate), so an Epsom Salt bath will allow the body to absorb more magnesium if it needs it.
It will not absorb anymore thru the skin if it does not.

Same with Vitamin D absorbed by full-body exposure to sunlight: it will manufacture what is required and then shut-down production regardless of continuing exposure.

The body has an innate wisdom of its own that most people are totally unaware of.

Chrisb1.