{"id":30451,"date":"2025-09-24T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/?p=30451"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:52:34","slug":"i-was-very-constipated-laxative-didnt-work-so-i-tried-salt-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/i-was-very-constipated-laxative-didnt-work-so-i-tried-salt-water\/","title":{"rendered":"I was very constipated, laxative didn\u2019t work so I tried salt water\u2026.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I drank 16 ounces with 2 tsp of kosher salt. I\u2019ve been having extremely watery\u00a0<a href=\"\/recommends\/TummyTrumbles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">diarrhea<\/a>\u00a0for the past few hours. When can I expect this to stop?!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What you did is basically a salt water flush &#8211; which is an oral enema &#8211; for lack of a better description. And, as just a point of advice, even though detoxing and cleanses can be very beneficial, it would be prudent to do them under the care of a natural health professional &#8211; they can carry risks. It\u2019s a common misconception that just because something is \u2018natural\u2019 that it is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, within 24 hours you SHOULD be over the effects, although you could still experience some nausea, so be careful what you eat &#8211; eat light &#8211; fruit juices and water are very good during flushes &#8211; especially water with a bit of lemon.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, have some aloe capsules on hand. 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Answer: What you did is basically a salt water flush &#8211; which is an oral enema &#8211; for lack of a better description. And, as just a point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insomnia-mind-and-spirit-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}