Colitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the colon, which can be caused by a variety of factors such as infections, dietary issues, stress, and medication. Symptoms of colitis include diarrhea or constipation, mucus in the feces, abdominal pain, weakness, and fever.
Here are step-by-step recipes for an enema and tea to help treat colitis:
Enema Recipe:
- Take one tablespoon of bayberry bark and one tablespoon of yellow dock root and burdock root each.
- Mix them in a quart of water and let it simmer for a few minutes.
- Steep the mixture for fifteen to twenty minutes.
- Pour off the tea and use it as a high enema.
- For severe cases of colitis, use wild alum root, golden seal, or myrrh herbs.
- Take a heaping teaspoonful of golden seal and a heaping teaspoonful of myrrh to four quarts of boiling water.
- Steep and let the mixture settle.
- Use this mixture as an enema.
Tea Recipe:
- Take one teaspoonful of golden seal and one-fourth teaspoonful of myrrh.
- Mix them in a pint of boiling water.
- Steep the mixture and take a tablespoonful of this mixture six or eight times a day.
- For severe cases, take a tablespoonful every hour.
- Take from one-fourth to one teaspoonful of the mixture one hour before each meal and before bedtime.
- If sumach is available, a tea may be made from the bark, leaves, or berries.
- Take a handful of any of these in four quarts of water and steep for an hour.
- Use this tea as an enema.
