Home Remedies

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CONSTIPATION is many times caused by a too concentrated diet, or one containing too little roughage.

It has also been discovered that some individuals who are troubled with faulty elimination digest this
cellulose, and only the more resistant, like bran, is not absorbed.

For those, the Japanese seaweed called agar-agar in the laboratory, but more familiarly known as agar by the layman, is excellent.

The most industrious digestive tract apparently can not digest that. It has the further property of absorbing a large amount of water, thus increasing its bulk.

Mineral oils (refined paraffine) also are not absorbable, and they act
with benefit in some cases. About the worst thing to do, in general, is
to take physics constantly.

These are not physics, however; they act mechanically. Even the C.S. (common-sense?) individual can take these.

The agar may be taken two or three heaping teaspoonfuls in a large glass
of water before retiring, or in the morning before breakfast, or in lieu
of 4 o'clock tea. Drink it down rapidly--for goodness' sake, don't try
to chew it.
Mineral oil will make fine mayonnaise dressing. It has little or no food
value, so the constipated overweight individual may indulge freely.

For faulty elimination, then--
1. Correct diet.
2. Exercise--especially brisk walking.
3. Regularity of habit.
4. Possibly the addition of bran, agar, or mineral oils.
5. Sweet disposition. Mean people are always constipated.