Just curious re powerful natural laxatives. What food or drink (available in US supermarkets) will clean a person out most quickly and efficiently?
I know eating a lot of sauerkraut will sometimes do the trick as the acid does something funky to your guts. What else will make you go like crazy?
April first is five months away, though.
Prunes and prune juice have been widely known as natural laxatives for some time.
Prunes. Most fruits that begin with the letter “P,” actually (peaches, pears, prunes, etc).
Epsom salts. They taste like aluminum foil though.
For infants and some adults, cornsyrup.
Certain types of sugar-free candy. Man they will REALLY get you going.
There’s prolly more, I’m just not thinking of them.
Happy shopping.
Hoummus does it for me–but lots of it. Have hoummus and pita for lunch and dinner for two days. Big trouble.
If I eat a lot of hot peppers, it will often have that effect on me. But I do have to eat quite a lot of them (and, luckily, I do not seem to suffer from the ring of fire.)
Musn’t forget our friend the cabbage. Especially if she’s raw.
Sugar-free stuffs flavoured with sugar alcohol. They’re the chemicals with the funky names ending in -ol like sorbitol and xylitol. They’ll get you running.
A big bowl of Uncle Sam cereal, a few dried plums and you’ll be in business. 
Oatmeal, anything with bran in it (or added to it), caffeine, and apple cider, just off the top of my head. Go ahead and combine them all (a big bowl of oatmeal with some sliced fruit on top, a nice raisin bran muffin, some cider and some coffee…) Might take a half hour or so to "activate, but when it does… Just leave a clear path to the throne! 
2 words: Taco Bell.
Oh, yes, as I found out the first time I tried the Atkins diet…
“Oh, look! Sugar-free peanut butter cups! Umnumnumnumnum!”
4 hours later…
“WTF!? Gangway!!!”
A definite learning experience. Not a pleasant one, though.
Dried apricots will get ya going, and they don’t taste all that bad.
Coffee. The stronger the better.
glycerin
Castor oil, depending on how eclectic your supermarket is. A really large quantity of any fruit or vegetable. Food which has spoiled ever so slightly. Anything excessively greasy or oily providing it has nothing binding in it. The choices are endless.
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Greasy foods. Water.
Epsom salts. Works in under 6 hours. The salts draw water into your colon and whoosh! Out it all comes.
Colonblow sounds good too! Funny site.
-Thomas
Good Egg wins the thread!
I can vouch for this too.
A very spicy curry also works for me, and it comes with the added bonus of a burning ring of fire.
I can report on it first-hand. The product does work as promised (including the gooky stuff that comes out of you). However the level of success (if that’s what you would call it) depends on your ability to stick to the prescribed method of application. It’s not just one dose, it’s actually three, taken between 5PM and 12 Noon of the next day, during a fast.
Being the only thing flowing through your gastric system, and having swollen up from absorbing tons of water (drink lots!), the bulk fiber (provided by psyllium seed husk) scours your intestines, scraping out stuff that you forgot that you ate. Stay near a toilet, and don’t go on any road trips.
However, it’s a bit pricey, and they include stevia to sweeten it, which gives a funny aftertaste. Instead, go to your local health-food store, avoid the fancy packages, and pick up a $10 jar of psyllium seed husk. It’s a lot cheaper, and you’ll get a lot more of the same for your money.
Magnesium Citrate will get you trotting in about 20 minutes.
Chug the whole bottle in one sitting and let the games begin.