This will be my second use of this stuff, the first on a whim, this one to get rid of any lingering colonic mucus after the forcefeeding of the holidays.
Basically, it’s Cascara Sagrada bark capsules and psyllium husks dissolved in water. It expands in your colon like that liquid insulation stuff and flushes everything out. I do mean EVERYTHING, BTW. Last time I tried it I swear I saw stuff I’d eaten as a kid. The highlight was the “armadillo poops”, where I excreted what appeared to be a plated, composite turd-think like treads on a tank or overlapping plates on, well, an armadillo. Then I flushed, and I SWEAR this thing separated like a transformer-clickclickclick-
and swirled around the drain like a toddler’s pull-toy, or a train going around a bend. Very cool.
I’m also toying with the idea of getting a digital camera and documenting it for the world to see. Anyone else interested in joining me in a holiday colon cleansing?
Anyone think I’m insane?
ChiefScott, when you wonder about the family gerbil, I must ask… Do you mean to clean out its digestive tract or do you mean to clean it out of one’s digestive tract? Jes’ wundrin’.
However, Louis Armstrong used to send out Christmas cards with pictures of SwissKriss (the baddest laxative on the planet), so you can understand why I fell for it.
Nope,it’s not a joke, and I’m not trying to solicit anything here. Sorry if I’ve crossed a line of some kind.
BTW, I don’t work for these people, I just thought other Dopers would get a kick out of seeing this stuff and (possibly,maybe, and with a doctor’s advice, IMHO, YMMV, IANAL, IANAD, etc.)
Tuba, therefore feel free to remove, lock, annoy, staple, spindle or mutilate this thread as you see fit.
My Goodness. Could you provide more detail? I’m not so much interested in how it looked/smelled/felt/tasted, but more about how damn much? Was it as if you had gone a couple days, or as if you hadn’t been able to get your pants off for a week?
It’s not that it gives you the raging shits or anything (and you fast whilst taking it)it’s that it cleans you out better than muesli, sauerkraut, Taco Bell, and bran muffins combined. I’d average about 3-4 logs on a normal day, approx 2-3 times a day, but with this, it was 3-5 POUNDS, four to six times a day. Yep, 5 pounds. I’m not fond of my local mailing store, so I took a dump in a trashbag, froze it (without my wife’s knowledge, o’ course) and took it to be weighed. Five pounds. That’s what, twenty Quarter Pounders with Cheese?
Next time, why don’t you just weigh yourself pre-Colonblow and then weigh yourself after and subtract? Probably makes more sense than (cough:: liar::cough) carrying your poop off “to be weighed” in a plastic baggie.
And make sure, whatever you do, that you flush those motherfuckers down!
A sidekick of one of our local talk radio celebs used this stuff and was late coming into the booth to do a news segment because he was blasting off the final, “rope-like” (in the words of the web site) poop-snake. The on-air guy called the pooping news guy on his cell phone and he ANSWERED while in mid-delivery. The audience was “treated” to some interesting sound effects, mostly anguished moaning. Hilarious discussion of “Texas bowl-winders” ensued.
Tuba dear, far be it from me to back-seat moderate, but isn’t the ban on commercialism limited to instances when the poster is somehow profiting by the… um… (to coin a phrase) plug?
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the mucous is there for a reason? IANAD, but say…lubrication? Makes it easier to shit?
And isn’t this crap just forcing out the feces while replacing it with itself?
Have you take a normal dump since you did this uh…experiment?
And did you know that there is a prescription drug that does the same thing? IIRC, it’s called “go-litely” or something along those lines and is used before coloscopies. It comes powdered in a big plastic container in different flavors. You fill it with water and drink glasses until you start going (I don’t remember the exact directions). It’s GOT to be better than drinking stuff that can choke you!
I hate to be a party pooper, but your body can become dependent on cascara sagrada and you can end up really constipated if you don’t keep taking it. Psyllium powder is safe enough, but why not just get some fiber in your food?
Andrew Weil has some good discussion of colon-obession on his site.
There was a pretty graphic article in Details a while back (like over a year ago) where two guys went to a fasting/purifying “resort” somewhere in south-east asia, and part of their everyday routine was many many enemas. The guy mentioned that after a couple of days, everyone was very open about the amazingly disgusting things coming out of their rectums…and the ropey things sound just aout the worst. One guy recalled how he heard the “plink” of a ball bearing hitting the bottom of the bowl, and he remembered swalling one as a child, and just had figured he had passed it…apparently he had been carying it around in his colon his whole life. That colon, man it’s amazing!!!
I’m interested in the side-effects of this…'cause I’m sure I got load of nasty stuff clogged up in there, and if I could clean it out nice and easy…well all the better.
