How to Clean Out the Colon Naturally With Food

Adopting a colon-cleansing regimen is very beneficial to your overall health. Managing your day-to-day food intake is an easy, economical way to keep your colon healthy and working properly. Clean out the colon by first adopting a high-fiber diet. Half of your diet during the cleanse should consist of high-fiber foods. The fiber acts like a toothbrush, scrubbing away the unwanted substances from the colon and cleaning out the plaque and toxins that could be hindering the absorption of water and important nutrients. Follow the high-fiber cleanse with detoxifying herbs and probiotics to help achieve overall balance and functioning.

Things You'll Need

• High-fiber fruits and vegetables
• Herbs, such as psyllium, cayenne pepper, ginger, senna, garlic, fennel or aloe leaf
• Probiotics

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Instructions

• 1

  Incorporate high-fiber foods into your diet. These include: prunes, figs, dates, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, apples, Brazilian acai berries, kiwis, oranges, tomatoes, mangoes, plums, raisins and papayas. Eat them raw and keep the skin on if you can. Vegetables such as spinach, peas, Swiss chard, beets, carrots, broccoli, parsnips, rhubarb, brussels sprouts, kale, corn, squash, bean sprouts, sweet potatoes, artichokes and bok choy are also good choices.

• 2

  Drink juice made from these fruits and vegetables. These are great colon cleaners because of their fiber, salt, enzyme and water content, which helps flush away the wastes and toxins that have built up in the colon. Consult a doctor before starting a juice fast because of the affect it can have on insulin levels.

• 3

  Incorporate other fibrous foods into your diet, such as wheat, oatmeal, oat bran, rye, barley, flax, psyllium husks, brown rice, raw and unprocessed nuts, beans and popcorn, all of which have a good amount of fiber content as well as much-needed nutrients.

• 4

  Use detoxifying herbs after cleansing the colon to purify other unwanted substances from other parts of the body. Psyllium, cayenne pepper, ginger, senna, garlic, fennel and aloe leaf are herbs that have little side effects. Follow the instructions on the product bottle for individual dosages and frequencies.

• 5

  Take probiotics. These are foods and supplements that contain naturally occurring bacteria and microorganisms that are beneficial to the body and help to replace the good bacteria in the colon that were lost during the cleanse, as well as help to stimulate the immune system. Onions, bananas, yogurt, and garlic are natural sources of this, or you can use store-bought supplements. Follow the instructions on the label for dosages and frequencies of the individual products.