How long have you been on Colonix? Try not to go on for entire 3 months of cleanse with Senna tea. Aim for prevention then cure. There's no proven way to regain peristalsis, some folks use Triphala, others use mixes of Cascara.

Nonius

Hmmm, methinks the term "addicting" needs to be seriously re-examined.

Yes, some herbal products induce peristalsis to an intestinal tract that is not "peristalsising" correctly. When one takes the product, they "go"...when discontinues them, they "stop going"...this does NOT mean they are addicting! When someone is paralyzed or in a coma, they hook that person up to a machine for regular exercise (or a physical therapist moves their muscles) for them. When the machine/therapist is gone, the muscles stop moving...this doesn't make them addicting!

Anytime anyone gets their bowel cleaned of putrefying junk, blockages and build-up, it's a great thing...no matter HOW they get it out!! (within reason, of course). Drinking a 12-pack of caffeinated soda-pop or a pot of coffee daily will cause at least one bowel movement daily (for most folks)...but obviously, that's not a "cure", it's only a symptom remover. What we're looking for optimally, is a cure.

And one can use 'natural products' to achieve regular bowel movements, too (just like coffee or pop)...but regular & healthy bowel movements aren't achieved by using a "product", it's ultimately achieved by cleaning out the rubbery build-up AND strengthening the musclature of the intestines AND eating & exercising in a healthy manner.

Senna, Cascara & similar herbs increase the peristalic action of the intestines; they cause the muscles to squeeze, thus removing fecal matter AND strengthening the musculature of the intestines. Magnesium based products flood the intestine with water, causing the bowels to flush, without squeezing & exercise. Take EITHER product continually, without changing the diet and exercising...and when you stop using it, the colon will not respond to food & elimination in the optimum manner. BUT if one uses the "squeezer herbs", at least the colon will have used is muscles everyday. Granted, the reason they got exercised and 'squeezed' is due to the herb causing it to happen...and one has to deal the results of that ultimately.

But when using the magnesium based products, the colon gets NO exercise at all.

Imagine someone in a coma...the physical therapist manually moves their muscles daily (or hooks them up to a machine that does it)...to keep the muscles from wasting & atrophying. That's what the senna/cascara herbs do. They cause the squeezing to happen, whether or not the colon is doing the squeezing or not.

This is one of the reasons that it makes sense to me, that Dr. Schulze s Bowel Cleanse is in two steps. The first, get the bowel movements going via the "herbal therapist" (IF#1), get that colon squeezing and exercising daily. THEN, add the deep cleanser...with psyllium for roughage/fiber, apple pectin to both draw the fecal matter from the lining of the colon AND to keep things 'solid' (pectin helps prevent loose stools& diarrhea, it's great for IBS), and the bentonite/charcoal for detoxing accumulated poisons & buildup so it doesn't reenter the bloodstream (the Bentonite also provides bulk). Now, the colon is gonna have to squeeze even more/harder to eliminate this. Some folks still need IF#1 to help them continue 'squeezing' through this stage (I didn't), but the end result will be that the colon is much cleaner, less swollen & engorged (thereby more ABLE to squeeze) and then one is well on their way to optimum colon health.

The most important thing here? It took Dr. Schulze himself TWO YEARS to retrain his colon to produce bowel movements several times daily...and that was with a virtually perfect diet AND exercise (he has three different black belts in martial arts). However, it takes some of us much less time, as Schulze had only 1 bowel movement weekly when he started.

After a lifetime/decades of a muscle being out of shape, one cannot expect it to be an "optimum squeezer" after a few weeks of ANY type of product (especially when that muscle can't be exercised 'manually'). The only kind of exercise we can get to it, is the exercise an "herbal therapist" can provide. So folks take an "herbal therapist" for a couple of weeks or a couple of months, stop taking it, and complain that their bowels won't work without it. Go figger, eh? Was the product "addicting"? Heck no! Did the product make them dependent upon it? ONLY if the product/procedure allowed the bowels to move WITHOUT squeezing or exercising, further weakening an already weak muscle.

Enemas & colonics? ...sigh, both move the bowels and cause elimination without causing much peristalsis. However, getting the build-up OUT is necessary for a muscle to be able to squeeze and constrict. If it's stretched out around a tube of rubbery junk, it's going to be very difficult for it to squeeze itself...so enemas,
colonics, AND magnesium based products can ALL beneficial to a point (assuming that the magnesium based product actually affects the build-up/rubbery lining, and not just the normal fecal matter...I have yet to see evidence that they do that).



Well, that's my thinking for everyone's consideration...I'm off to work!

Unyquity