Water and constipation

Water helps with constipation

Constipation promotes too little fluid drunk, and beverages with a dehydrating effect. Fully water in the gastrointestinal tract very important features. When the colon gets more fluid stool easier mass travels through the intestines.

Note! If you suffer from constipation, you should take fluids every day in large quantities - a minimum of a 1.5 to 2.4-liter (and even more when it comes to excessive sweating, and so when it is hot or when physical effort).

However, not every drink work with constipation favorably.

Note! Caffeine in coffee, colas and "energizing" because of its diuretic effect dehydrates the body. Extremely harmful is especially alcohol, which makes the renal filtration process consumes a lot of water and in this situation it is not enough for the digestive process.

How do you help?

Laxative provide you with a glass of cold water drunk in the morning on an empty stomach or compote of dried plums. It is also, as advised by the German priest Kneipp, considered the creator of hydrotherapy, drink small sips cold water throughout the day.

What should I drink?

The best will be here lu mineral water table. Mineral water will further complement the shortcomings of elements, among others, calcium, magnesium and potassium in particular, who "escapes" from the body through perspiration.

Note! In order to provide the body with all the necessary ingredients, often changing types of "mineral". 

Vegetable concoctions beneficial for intestinal

Tea with buckthorn

Preparation: 2 tablespoons buckthorn fruit pour 2 cups of water and boil for 30 minutes. Drink strained decoction 2-3 times a day for 1-2 tablespoons.

Senes sweet

400 g dried apricots. 100 grams of dried plums (pitted) and 2 heaped tablespoons of senna leaf grind in a meat grinder. Add 200 g of honey and mix thoroughly, Eat a spoonful after dinner.

Garlic with lemon

Undress to 3 large cloves garlic, peel the husks. Cut into quarters 3 washed lemons, remove the seeds, but leave skin. Grind them together with the garlic in a meat grinder, mush pour 5 cups of boiled water and leave in a tightly covered jar a day in a warm place. Strain the contents of the jar through cheesecloth, squeeze out the remains.

Dosage: Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for half an hour before a meal.

Plum mush

A handful of prunes pour cool, boiled water. After a few hours, when the plums well will become soft, eat it and drink the juice, which gave way.

Such a mixture is best to prepare the evening and take in the morning, on an empty stomach - once a day. Treatment should last at least 6-7 weeks.