The Common Colon Syndromes

Large Intestine Damp Heat

Primary Symptoms: Urgent, frequent, loose, or bloody stools. Bacterial, amoebic & fungal infestation.

Individual herbs: Golden Seal, Berberis, Pau d’Arco, Bilberry, Bearberry, Yellow Gentian and Chaparral.

Energetic Herbals formulae: Natural Antibiotic, Diarrhoea Clear and Anti-fungal.

Foods: Especially favourable are: Bean curd, Buckwheat, cabbage, coconut, corn, cucumber, honey, lettuce, kohlrabi, millet, salt, sesame oil, sorghum, soybean (yellow), sweet potato, eggs, basil, cantaloupe and winter melon, apples, banana, beef, chicken, milk, oranges, peas, pear, rice, tomato. Avoid greasy and fatty foods, such as butter, animal fats, egg yolk, cream, fish liver oils, fried foods and lard. Also avoid alcohol, pork, maltose and sweet rice.

Large Intestine Dryness / Fluid Exhaustion

Primary Symptoms: Abdominal distention, pain and swelling, constipation or small, dark, dry stool, congestive headaches, sweating, thirst, irritability, passing of gas, dry mouth, bad breath and/or dry, sticky, yellowish tongue moss.

Individual herbs: Kelp, Bladder wrack, Liquorice root, comfrey root, Iceland moss and Slippery Elm.

Energetic Herbal Formulae: Moisten and Soothe, Peristalsis

Foods: Favour those foods listed as moistening and cooling or moistening and warming (or neutral), avoid those that are drying.

Large Intestine Qi Deficiency

Primary Symptoms: Slippery diarrhoea, loose stools, poor appetite, fatigue, underweight, weakness, emaciation, malabsorption and/or malnutrition.

Individual herbs: Flower pollen, Alfalfa and Spirulina.

Energetic Herbals Formulae: Digestion & Absorption, Herbal Multi

Foods: Favour apricot, bean curd, beef, button mushroom, cherry, chicken, coconut, dates, fig, flour, grape, guava, herring, honey, mackerel, peach, pistachio nut, potato, rice, sorghum, squash, string bean, sweet potato, yellow soybean, Avoid honey, sesame oil, lard and eggplant.