MD Cause: Crohn's disease is categorized as one of several Auto-immune Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. According to Wikipedia: "It is caused by a combination of environmental immune and bacterial factors in genetically susceptible individuals… The exact underlying immune problem is not clear… the body's immune system is attacking the gastrointestinal tract possibly directed at microbes that are there. Did the words “are not clear” stand out to you?

MD Rx: There are no medical conditions or surgeries that can cure Crohn's disease, nonetheless antibiotics and corticosteroids and immune suppressive medications are used to manage the symptoms.

ND Cause: Nutrient deficiencies and consistent consumption of pro-inflammatory foods. Bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections subsequent to antibiotic use must be considered. As far as I am concerned anytime that there is an inflammatory condition of the gut then historical antibiotic use must be considered as a factor.

Discussion: When I treat someone suffering from a disturbance of the digestive tract, the first thing that I think about is the patient's diet. It is of paramount importance. If every time you filled up the gas-tank of your automobile you put in 50% gasoline and 50% diesel fuel, it would only be a matter of time until something bad happened to the engine. It's the same with the human body. You cannot expect to consistently consume inflammatory foods and have nothing happen. The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease has increased remarkably in the last 100 years. I think it has a lot to do with the quality of the food that we are eating – and the increased use of antibiotics. There are more bacteria living in your digestive tract then there are species of animals on planet Earth. It is a highly complex and sophisticated biome. When that biome is messed with by the administration of antibiotics then one would expect collateral damage. Remember – the MDs have a lopsided understanding of how the human body works and it is difficult for them to consider that the side effects of their therapeutics (in this case antibiotics) could have anything at all to do with the genesis of any disease. It simply can’t be their fault…

The naturopathic strategy here is simple and straightforward: stop eating food that is hurting the body; introduce to the body the raw materials that it needs to fix itself (90 EN); and clean the colon out with therapeutic fasting and colon hydrotherapy.

My Rx: In addition to the 90 EN and the elimination of the 12 Bad Foods:

• Sometimes with this illness the potent nutrients found in the Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0 powder (which is a fundamental part of the 90 EN) can irritate the digestive tract. If this occurs, then switch to the Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0 Tablets – one bottle of tablets per one canister of the powder. Take the tablets in divided doses with meals.

• Ultimate Enzymes: one bottle per 100 pounds per month. The dose is one or two capsules at the beginning of each meal.

• Ultimate Flora Fx: one bottle per 100 pounds per month. Three caps per bottle before bed.

• Cell Shield RTQ: 1 bottle per 100 pounds per month. Take in 3 divided doses with meals.

• Ultimate Microbiome: 1 cannister per 100 pounds per month. 1 scoop per day per cannister can mixed with water, juice or the BTT cocktail.

• Deca Aloe Supreme Immune Health: Get 3 bottles and take as directed until all 3 are gone. Get this here: https://DecaAloe.com

Homeopathy:

Mercurius corrosivus

o   Gastrointestinal ulcers and fissures are common presentations.

o   Tenesmus (uncomfortable feeling of needing to pass stool even when the bowels are empty), not ameliorated by having a bowel movement.

o   Incessant, persistent stool - hot, scanty, bloody, slimy offensive; shreds of mucous membrane and terrible cutting, colicky pains.

 Podophyllum peltatum

o   Thirst for large quantities of cold water.

o   Diarrhea: of long standing; early in morning, continues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sensation of weakness or sinking in abdomen or rectum.

o   Stool: green, watery, fetid, profuse; gushing out chalk - like, jelly - like; undigested; yellow meal - like sediment; prolapse of rectum before or with stool.

Aloe socotrina

o   Sudden and continuous desire to go to stool.

o   Desire for a stool after each meal.

o   Rumbling and cramp in the abdomen, before and during stool.

o   The hard stool falls out without being noticed.

o   Involuntary soft stool, while passing wind.

o   With the diarrhea, flatulency, pinching in the abdomen, pain in the back and rectum, and chilliness.

o   Stools like mush - thin, bright yellow, gray, hot, undigested.

o   During the stool, congestion to the head and red face, or hunger.