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What is most responsible for softening the bowels? I've been going, but often hard and dry.
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Bold is mine.Ray Peat said:Emodin and the anthraquinones (and naphthoquinones, such as lapachone) weren’t the reagents that Koch considered the most powerful, but emodin can produce to some degree all of the effects that he believed could be achieved by correcting the cellular respiratory apparatus: Antiinflammatory, antifibrotic (Wang, et al., 2007) antiviral, antidepressant, heart protective, antioxidant, memory enhancing, anticancer, anxiolytic and possibly antipsychotic.
Working backward from these effects, we get a better perspective on the “laxative” function of emodin and cascara. Koch and Szent-Gyorgyi believed that cellular movement and secretion were electronically regulated. In one of his demonstrations, Szent-Gyorgyi showed that muscles could be caused to contract when they were exposed to two substances which, when combined, partially exchange an electron, causing an intense color reaction, but without causing an ordinary chemical (oxidation-reduction) reaction. This kind of reaction is called a Donor-Acceptor reaction, and it is closely related to the phenomenon of semiconduction. The reacting molecules have to be exactly “tuned” to each other, allowing an electron to resonate between the molecules.
In a muscle, any D-A matched pair of molecules would cause a contraction, but the same molecules, combined in pairs that weren’t exactly tuned to each other, failed to cause contraction. Szent-Gyorgyi believed that biological signal substances operated in a similar way, by adjusting the electronic balance of cellular proteins.
An effective laxative (besides preventing inflammation) causes not only coordinated contraction of the smooth muscles of the intestine, but also adjusts secretions and absorption, so that an appropriate amount of fluid stays in the intestine, and the cells of the intestine don’t become water-logged.
In the presence of bacterial endotoxin, respiratory energy production fails in the cells lining the intestine. Nitric oxide is probably the main mediator of this effect.
Haagendazendiane said:What exactly should cascara do? I have 450 mg capsules by Solaray. If I take this I cannot go anywhere. Bowel movement is liquid. I tried opening the capsule and making a tea as someone in the forum suggested, leaving the sediment on the bottom and drinking the liquid. This has also caused liquid movement. Is this what should happen?
4peatssake said:No HDD, it isn't.
I wonder if the magnesium stearate is causing the issue.
I take aged cascara bark as tea and the laxative effect is to stimulate peristalsis and the movements are very natural. I think it's particularly important to get a pure source of cascara. PM me for info on getting it from Italy if you wish. I'm ordering from there next and I can send you some bark (I have a ton of it) if you'd like to try that meantime.
I think perhaps because I take the tea (using aged bark) - and sometimes very strong tea - that I haven't had a liquid experience. The tea is bitter but I've gotten used to it and I like the natural effects I have experienced.aquaman said:4peatssake said:No HDD, it isn't.
I wonder if the magnesium stearate is causing the issue.
I take aged cascara bark as tea and the laxative effect is to stimulate peristalsis and the movements are very natural. I think it's particularly important to get a pure source of cascara. PM me for info on getting it from Italy if you wish. I'm ordering from there next and I can send you some bark (I have a ton of it) if you'd like to try that meantime.
It's definitely dose-dependent.
half a cap is enough for me. More and it's a bit liquid !
Haagendazendiane said:More ripe fruit might help. Do you drink coffee?
Have you tried aloe vera?