Constipation is a condition in which the bowels are evacuated with difficulty or at long intervals. It is a malady so common that people have rather become indifferent to it. Many think there is no cure for it and that also, it is probably a natural part of living. These ideas are of course untrue.

Constipation is a source of needless suffering. There are no reason for its existence, unless a person is in some advance stage of an organic disease which is resulting in obstruction of the eliminative tract. If not relieve at once, constipation will double the work of the other organs of elimination. This will in turn deplete them, disturb their normal cellular activities, until they themselves become ripe for disease. This is the reason why constipation is cruelly known as the “mother of all diseases”. This is also the reason why we are exerting the nature, causes and effects of ailment. All naturopaths believe that many diseases can be prevented if constipation can be blotted out of existence.  (more…)