Sandra Hillawi

Unblocking and cleansing your digestive system and restoring inner flow and transit on a physical level helps you feel so much more comfortable, less bloated, lighter and brighter. Plus it can help alleviate many digestive symptoms. Here is everything you need to do a cleanse at home.

Today I had an email from a person asking advice about colonics and her questions and the answwers apply to many people, so I have included them here. She asked me :

Why did nothing release in my colonic? and

Can a colonic a irrigation regime really rejuvenate my sluggish system?

The answers include understanding the role of diet in colon health, the effects of dehydration on the colon, and how stress held in the colon can also slow us down.

An enema is a simple flush out of the lowest part of the colon, the rectum and descending colon with water. Enemas can be self adminstered and kits which can be obtained from wholistic health specialists online, are inexpensive allowing the healthy practice of maintaining inner hygeine and colon cleansing to be carried out at home, or by taking your kit with you, as you travel. Enemas are used as an option for cleansing the colon on healing and detox retreats where there is no colon irrigation system installed.

The colon is the body’s largest eliminative channel, but as a result of neglect and abuse it can become blocked or slow down. Congested and toxic toxins, fermentation and putrefaction can seep back into the bloodstream and so poisoning every organ in the body. The fifty million pounds that are spent annually on laxatives in the UK clearly indicates that effective elimination is a major problem for many people and the resultant auto-intoxication, literally self-poisoning, is a causative factor in many serious diseases.

There are a number of herbs which are traditionally known to assist in the cleansing of the colon. They can be used alone or alongside colonics or enemas to deepen the cleansing effects of those treatments. One of the advantages of taking a herbal cleanse is that taken orally, the herbs cleanse and detoxify the whole digestive system, the stomach, the small intestine and the large intestine.

Many people ask what is colonic irrigation and what are the benefits? Sandra Hillawi trained as a Colonic Irrigation Therapist in 2000 when she qualified as a Master Herbalist with the College of Herbs and Natural Healing. At her healing and detox retreats Sandra uses various forms of colon cleansing, including colonics, herbal cleansing and enemas. This article answers the commons questions about colonic irrigation : can it help weightloss ? digestive problems ? energy levels and vitality ? is it painful ? is it safe ? are there downsides ? can it help candida ?

How a detox works and why we use raw foods and juices is simple to understand when we think about the process of digestion and the role of enzymes. Enzymes are found in raw food, but are destroyed in cooking. Cooked food therefore requires the body’s enzymes to digest it, which can take up to 70% of our energy. Going raw means the enzymes which are both the life force and the digestive power are still in the food and can assist in digestion. This makes much more energy available to the body for other process such as living, cleansing and repair. A raw diet is a healthy low calorie diet so a healthy way to lose excess weight.

At our healing retreats the focus is on natural healing.
Natural Healing is about stimulating and supporting the body's own healing and repair abilities. Recognising that blockage and poor nutrition is the main cause of disease we aim simply to restore flow and start putting the right fuel into the system. The body can then start to heal itself.

So let's take a closer look at those factors effecting our overall health, the causes of disease, and our approach to restoring health naturally.