One or two figs eaten fasting is sufficient for some, and they are
especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in
getting them to take them. A spoonful of wheaten bran in a glass of
water is a simple remedy, and quite effective, taken half an hour
before breakfast; fruit eaten raw; partake largely of laxative food;
exercise in the open air; drink freely of cold water during the day,
etc. It is impossible to give many of the numerous treatments in so
short a space, suffice it to say that the general character of our
diet and experience is such as to assure us that at least one-quarter
of the food that we swallow is intended by nature to be evacuated from
the system; and if it is not, it is again absorbed into the system,
poisoning the blood and producing much suffering and permanent
disease. The evacuation of the bowels daily, and above all,
regularity, is therefore all important to aid this form of disorder.