Hydrochloric acid query

Hiya Charlie,

I've been recently reading about hydrochloric acid levels and how important it is to have the body produce the right amount.
I am wondering whether i have too little bile production or too little HCL acid production causing alot of gastro symtoms that seem to link to sluggish liver/and or candida.

I really am fed up with reading 'take this - take that' because i believe my (healthy) food should be my nourishment for a balanced healthy body. I am not taking pills everyday of my life. I wasn't born holding a pill box now was i?! hahaha

Would herbs renound for cleansing the liver help with bile flow, HCL production thus easing the above mentioned symptoms?

I know it is essential to get to the underlying cause....then the body will work at aligning itself. Are all the imbalances of secretions in the body caused mainly because of a sluggish liver?

If i were to cleanse heavily on alkaline (acid-binding) foods to purge the waste from my body would it cause my liver to become full of mucous waste too quickly? I am finding i am suffering with alot of mucous from the throat, nose. I ate the other day an indian spiced vegetarian meal with rice and was horizontal, unable to talk due to extreme fatigue hitting me like a brick wall. Low back sickly feeling pain and stomach pain lasted 2 hrs, i just had to sleep. First cooked meal for a while! I had lower back ache and a very heavy sicky stomach. Since eating mainly raw foods i am finding i am putting on weight and cellulite has appeared.
I need to get my body to expel the waste it is moving around, but the constipation is increasing! Hence my feel that bile is v.low or HCL levels low....aarrrrgggghhh!!

Any advice would be really helpful...sorry to rant!!

purple bec