thank you for your reply.

i thought about mucilagenous herbs a lot, hoping they would work. i tried soaked flax seeds put into a blender with water to make the right texture. it worked really well for about 2 doses and then i started to have huge clumps of hair fall out from my head, and it also felt like it was drying me out. part of the problem too was that i needed upwards of 6 tablespoons to make it work as a laxative.

so it's either that flax seeds are a goitrogen, or that they were too cleansing for me in a way that i couldn't tolerate.

out of all the vegan things i've tried bananas seem to work the best as they have the right texture. the problem again is that i'd need to eat like 20 bananas a day to make it effective, and i've even tried this. but too much potassium unbalances me and i don't like too much sweet fruit. but even so they work for me sometimes.

i think chia would be similar to flax but i'll give it a try, those have been on the back of my mind for a while too.

i did something similar to the schulze formulas a LONG time ago, the Grey colon cleansing program, and it was a disaster.

i have tried about 90 percent of all the herbs in the if formulas but not as a formula together...

ingredients: Curacao and Cape Aloe leaf ( Aloe spicatal and ferox), Senna leaves and pods (Cassia officinalis), Cascara Sagrada aged bark (Rhanmus purshiana), Barberry rootbark ( Berberis vulgaris ), Ginger rhizome ( Zingiber officinalis), Garlic bulb ( Allium sativum ) and African Bird Pepper ( Capsicum africana)

senna and cascara just give eme diarrhea, ginger i do well with cooked in food, but not raw, garlic i do well with cooked, too much raw and it causes bleeding, same with strong cayenne it causes bleeding.

the bleeding might be that it is destroying parasites near the rectum, and i'm ok with going through some bleeding for a while -- i just got scared last time. but i've been through worse and it didn't hurt.

i don't do well with herbs that draw water into the intestine, it seems like a short term fix for people who only have 1 bm per week. i go 3 times a day if i eat what my body wants, it's just not a good situation and i'm trying to improve it. however i will try this formula again just to make sure that i have covered the bases.

formula 2
Ingredients: organic Flax seed ( Linum usitatissimum ), Apple Fruit Pectin, Pharmaceutical Grade Bentonite Clay, Psyllium seed and husk ( Plantago Species), WildCrafted Slippery Elm inner bark (Ulmus flilva), Organic Marshmallow root ( Althea officinalis), Organic Fennel seed ( Foeniculum vulgare ) and Activated Willow charcoal ( Salix alba).

flax seed, like i said long term flax makes my hair fall out, and i have possible goitrogen/thyroid issues with it. Bentonite i like, but it constipates me and i can only take tiny amounts. (tiny amounts could be really good for me, i haven't taken it in a long time). psyllium seed is horrible for me, makes be bloated and more constipated. slippery elm is sort of neutral, i've taken it before. charcoal is extremely constipating. marshmallow and fennel might be ok.

in theory the mucilagenous herbs sounds really good, but i think of them like a woodworker thinks of wood. when you add water to wood it just dries it out, oils are what seal in moisture and help protect wood from drying. maybe it's a bad analogy but that's sort of how my body reacts.