The human
body is made up of a number of systems
The skeletal system,
the nervous system, the respiratory system for our breathing, the circulatory
system for our blood, and the digestive system for our food, are some of the
main ones.
I will take up the
digestive system, also called the alimentary canal.
This consists of a
pipe of more than 30 ft in length.
The fore-end is our
mouth and the nether end is our rectum.
In between we have the
stomach, duodenum, the small and large intestines.
These four organs
carry out their work automatically without any help from us except to see that
they don't become ineffective because of our dietary mistakes.
We have the power to
control the two ends.
We care for the mouth,
brush it once after getting up in the morning and again before going to bed.
We floss and do hot gargle,
if required.
We go to the dentist
if our teeth give us problems or to the ENT specialists if the throat gives us
pain. That should be for it is the first to be seen by the outside world and
may make or break your office, home or social life.
But what about the
nether end?
Except for a
perfunctory wipe with a toilet paper or a slush wash with water, we forget all
about that end unless piles occur.
I agree this end is
not visible to the outside world unless you be an exhibitionist but shouldn't
we take more care of it.
Those who live in
apartments know that if the drain pipes are blocked, water flows back into the
toilets or kitchen, creating a mess.
Then we start looking
for a plumber to clean the pipe.
As I said earlier, our
alimentary canal is a pipe and if the rectum end gets blocked the waste enters
the large intestine creating problems.
Then we start using
various home remedies or allopathic purgatives like "dulcolax" to
clean this pipe. There are various Ayurvedic formulations under different names
which liquefy your stool so that it moves out quickly.
They sometime liquefy it so much that you
cannot leave your home.
Further, we old people
have another embarrassing problem. We pass out gases of both the silent foul
smelling variety and the shockingly loud neck turning one.
What is the solution?
Last year, after
coming back from Ahmedabad in July, I had mentioned in our blog of an enema set
up I had installed at home.
I am proud to say that
both my wife and I have been using it very satisfactorily for two years with no
side effects.
A picture of the same
is given below.
This enema kit with extra insertion pipes
(in the bottom picture) for use of individual members of the family can be
bought in any of the medical instrument shops in Central Avenue, besides
Central Metro Station.
Some of us had mentioned to me that the enema
pipe may damage the sphincter muscles at the entrance of the anus or the lining
of the rectum.
We use a a few drops of soap water to
lubricate the anus before the insertion so there is no damage or pain.
People normally eat every three to 4 hours
so our large intestine releases stool into the rectum in the same intervals.
If we can wash out the rectum when the
rectum is loaded, say every six hours, our body will not release any obnoxious
gases.
Once the rectum is unloaded, there is no
back pressure on the large intestine.
This is beneficial for those who are having
piles problems.
We Indians are in the habit of eating hot,
spicy food.
This aggravates ones piles and going to the
toilet becomes a painful affair. For the whole of last year, I am pleased to
say, that our piles have not troubled us at all.
For a smiling non-painful start to the day,
I would recommend it to everyone who have their own toilets, not common toilets
like we had in school.
After using it for the whole year, I just
wonder, why I had not started using this earlier.
I assure you, you too will feel the same.
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