Shankaprakshalana - TheIntestinal Wash

Benefits of theIntestinal Wash

Anatomy ofShankaprakshalana

Method ofIntestinal Wash

Shankaprakshalana - The Intestinal Wash

Anatomy of Shankaprakshalana

As shown on the diagram, there are 5 valves or sphinctersin our food passage. At any stage of our digestive system,muscular tensions, emotional tensions and even mentaltensions, can restrict the flow in the system. For example,some people may tend to accumulate their tensionsprimarily in the stomach region, and therefore theoesophageal valve (#1) or the pyloric valve (#2) may be themost inactive. Others may have a blockage around theileocecal valve (#3), and others at the colon (#4) or anus(#5). At the anus there are in fact two sphincters, an innerand an outer one, both of which need to co-ordinate to workproperly. The complexity of the GIT, and its sensitivity to dayto day tensions, is why so many people today areconstipated, and why so many especially have so muchtrouble with relaxing their bowels when required.

Normally each of these sphincters is controlled involuntarilyby the body's own timing and control systems, but whathappens after many years of bodily neglect or abuse, is thatthey lose their natural function, become inefficient andgradually the system starts to pack up. This causes what isknown as auto-toxemia, a state where the body's ownwastes begin to poison itself. Poor food, sedentary lifestyles,

late eating hours, habitual snacking and dehydration, are also common reasons that thedigestive system will become inefficient at assimilating and eliminating. More than just somesalty water, the whole of ones lifestyle needs to be addressed for long-term digestive health.

The water going through and all the exercises performed, along with all the breathing in andout being done during the practice, gently massage those valves to relax and open up. Itworks to recondition the function of the valves, the organs connected to them and theircorresponding nervous control systems, giving better voluntary control of those, normally,involuntary activities. The intestines get a good wringing out and any stuck matter is movedinto the water and eliminated very quickly.

Normally when food passes through the GIT, due to a positive osmotic pressure, all the salts,chemicals and nutrients in the food pass through the intestinal membranes and are absorbedinto the blood stream. For many people this happens only poorly, and much of the potentialfood goodness is lost and excreted, due to waste matter permanently lodged in the littlenooks and crannies of the intestines which in turn has caused reduced internal diameter ofthe passages and poor transfer across the cells. The warm salty water firstly dissolves all thismatter, to get the walls clean. It is an interesting phenomenon, that once the physical matteris removed from the walls, due to a negative osmotic pressure caused by the salt in the water,the water then starts to draw salts, acids and toxins out of the bloodstream, and into the waterfor elimination. This is truly an amazing thing the yogis discovered. Here we have a method ofactually purifying the blood and back-flushing the intestinal wall cells. The result afterwards isa clean lining, more efficient chemistry in the GIT and a reversal of toxic accumulations in theblood.

Another aspect which the technique addresses is the function of the auxiliary organs ofdigestion: that is the liver, the gall bladder, pancreas and spleen. At various points along thepassage of our food, these organs inject into, or draw certain substances from, the intestines.During Shankaprakshalana, as the water passes through, it cleans out these ducts andorgans, initially removing the blocked matter, but later on drawing out the toxic substanceslodged within the tissue of those organs themselves. For example, the continual exercising

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and drawing effect helps to dislodge and breakdown gall stones which can be seen to passout in the water.

So we see that there are many, many elements to this deeply rejuvenating technique.Perhaps there are other aspects of anatomy and physiology which Shankaprakshalanaaddresses, of which we are not currently aware, but the evidence of the many students whohave undergone this practice over many years, gives support to so many claims of itsincredible health giving benefits.

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