Beth,
Thanks for answering my questions in such detail, that helped a lot and is very much appreciated. I’m still pain free from that last flush and I’m going on a trip to Texas around the 15th., so I may just let well enough alone until I get back.
I’ve been trying to eat very carefully hoping this will get me through until I do get back. I believe I’ll keep some apple juice and cider close by though :-)
I asked Andreas about the apple juice and apple cider. Here’s what he said which seems to make sense: “The malic acid in apple juice and cider vinegar can trigger the release of extra bile through the bile ducts and take care of a blockage there. Good for you.” He thought I had said “cider vinegar” but it probably does the same thing. In fact I would suspect the original recipe would have been cider vinegar. Anyway I hope it is as helpful to others as it was to me. I think the ES's that blueduck mentioned works good too.
Friends,
...Doug