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CAUSES:
• Unbalanced diet
• Excess stress
• Excess anxiety, which causes contractions in the deep musculature
in the abdominal area .
REMEDIES:
• Regulate the diet
and in particular: decrease the quantity of grains (if they exceed
50% of the foods eaten), favouring organic whole-grain rice (it
has a soothing effect and is easily digestible); increase the quantity
of vegetables (especially raw fennel); decrease the consumption
of fat, meat (fish is better) and heavy foods.
• Fight stress, practice passive
meditation and get plenty of sleep. If you suffer from insomnia,
see the pertinent short sections.
• Attain the relaxation of the deep musculature. There are
various tricks:
1 - Breathe as much as possible by moving the muscles of the lower
belly (see 3rd key). Moving these
muscles also helps prevent the production of intestinal gas due
to the immobility of the intestines.
2 - When spasms of pain are felt, don't resist them with contractions,
but let the pain "move" in the direction in which it is
"pushing" (whoever has experienced this type of colic,
knows that the pangs give the impression of moving in a certain
direction).
3 - Deal with the colic by relaxing and listening to the different
"tensions" in the various parts of the belly. Listen and
let the "energies" move freely (obviously, we are talking
of subsensations in a figurative way. If you take me literally,
the discussion becomes absurd).
4 - Try also the exercise of the balloon
full of water
• Practice pleasurable self-massage.
• Digestive herbal teas: one part fennel seeds, one part anise,
and one part liquorice (very good).
• Nibble often on organic puffed rice wafers. Rice milk is
also very soothing (these are products that you can find in health
food stores).
• A good idea is to begin the cure with two or three days on
a liquid diet: homemade carrot, apple and grape juice.
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