| Approaches to Digestive Health YOUR ESOPHAGUS AND STOMACH 
After you chew your food it travels down the esophagus [Latin for "I swallow"] to your stomach where one of the most powerful acids found in nature hydrochloric acid (HCL) - dissolves your food. HCL is so strong that if it were ever to escape from the stomach, it could dissolve your heart, lungs, liver, veins, arteries and every other organ in your body! You'd eat yourself alive! What keeps the acid from escaping? A thick layer of mucous that covers your stomach's inner walls.DYSPEPSIA AND ULCERS Chronic stomachache, also called nervous stomach or dyspepsia, is a common stomach condition. Another is an ulcer, which occurs when the powerful acids and digestive juices start to eat through the stomach and intestines - a very painful condition. HEARTBURN/GASTRITIS/ PYLORIC STENOSIS Heartburn occurs when food reverses course and jumps from the stomach up to the esophagus. Gastritis is a term used to describe inflammation of the stomach walls. Pyloric stenosis is a tightening or shrinking of the pyloric valve that connects the duodenum and the stomach. The stomach can also develop both benign and malignant tumors. THE MEDICAL APPROACH Digestive troubles are often poorly understood. As one major medical text has stated: The major symptoms of [digestive] tract disease are dysphagia, heartburn, abdominal pain, bleeding; nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation. All these symptoms arise from disordered function, but...our knowledge of normal alimentary tractfunction is so incomplete. 1THE CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH Every organ in your digestive system - mouth, tongue, throat, esophagus, pyloric valve, stomach, intestines, glands, pancreas and others - needs a healthy nerve supply from your spine. The chiropractor analyzes your spinal column for the vertebral subluxation complex or spinal nerve stress, a condition that damage nerves and can interfere with proper communication between your brain and internal organs, including those of the digestive system. The vertebral subluxation complex can interfere with your body function and lower your resistance to disease. CORRECTION OF THE SUBLUXATION With a spinal adjustment your doctor of chiropractic will correct or relieve your vertebral subluxation complex. Remember, the chiropractic purpose is to relieve spinal pressure on all your nerves, including those that go to the digestive system. WATER Along with spinal health it has been discovered that drinking water (about 8 oz. an hour) can correct many digestive problems, including ulcers, constipation, colitis and dyspepsia and that most people are dehydrated and don't know it.2 RESEARCH As early as 1921, it was discovered that spinal abnormalities could cause stomach, esophagus, duodemum and intestinal disorders.3 Later 87% of a group of adolescents suffering from duodenal and/or gastric ulcer were found to have "pelvic distortion" and "blockage" in the spine.4 Spinal care has helped those with dysphagia (difficult swallowing) and "abdominal nausea."5 The famous researcher Maigne has written relief of interference of the nervous system helps digestive pains and "pseudo-ulcers," others find spinal adjustments help "dyspepsia and epigastric distress."7 In one fascinating study scientists surgically created an artificial vertebral subluxation in rabbits; within 2 1/2 minutes there were changes in the stomach and duodenum.8 "These changes could make the upper gastrointestinal tract vulnerable to disease and dysfunction."9 Of 100 people with stomach and duodenal ulcers, 86 had spinal abnormalities of the area that supplied the stomach with nerve fibers. 10 Spinal misalignments produce disease by irritating the nerves that supply various organs and correction of the spinal problem relieved stomach ulcers, gastritis, colitis and spastic constipation, according to others.1l,12 THE JOB OF THE CHIROPRACTOR IS TO ENSURE THAT THE AND THE REST OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM RECEIVING AN UNOBSTRUCTED NERVE SUPPLY.IN CONCLUSION The digestive system can weaken, work improperly, and fall prey to a multitude of diseases. The job of the chiropractor is to ensure that the stomach and the rest of the digestive system (as well as all the other organs of the body) are receiving an unobstructed nerve supply. This promotes body harmony, enhanced ability to cope with stress and improved resistance to disease. Remember, if the nerves are impinged upon by vertebral subluxations, no amount of drugs will relieve the pressure. A chiropractic spinal adjustment is what your body needs. Postscript: You can always benefit from a healthy spine no matter what disease or condition you have. It is as important for healing as proper nutrition. A doctor of chiropractic will remove your spinal nerve stress (vertebral subluxation complex) to help you better tune in to your natural innate healing ability (your internal healer) for better physical, mental and emotional healing. That is the goal of your doctor of chiropractic: to strengthen your inner healing ability. Are you, your family, your friends carrying the silent killer, the vertebral subluxation complex, in your spines? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.
|
| References | |
|
| Offsite Interests | |
|
| Related Items Onsite | |
|
 |
reprint distribution or sale of content prohibited.
produced for educational and informational purposes only.
always consult a qualified medical professional for course of treatment.