Published on Digestive system.

The Colon is another word for the Large bowel

Bowel - large bowel - Colon

Published on Digestive system.

In the large bowel, the digestive process is already over. This is the rubbish bin. The colon keeps the organism from getting clogged up and intoxicated with the stuff it does not need. Therefore, it contributes to the respiratory process (complements the lungs).

In the colon, the body extracts and recuperates water from the food it did not digest and is going to expel. This is where the garbage collets, though some intake still takes place. Here, just like in the small bowel, the question of what must be kept and what must be thrown away persists.

In nature, to defecate is considered as a gift of excrement, a fertilizer for the earth. Excrement and money are associated in many ways. For example, in many European countries, there is a belief that to step on excrement brings luck and money.

The small bowel is associated with the process of discrimination to allow proper absorption. The large bowel is associated with the underworld, the unconscious, the realm of the dead. It is in the large bowel that decomposition takes place. It symbolizes the nocturnal side of the body.

Constipation (lazy bowels) shows that the person does not want to give, to offer. The person hangs on to what he has. It is characteristic of people who are frugal, skimpy, with money. It reflects the desire to hold on to material possessions. People who suffer from constipation are very egocentric.

Colon cancer, like all cancers, is associated with a great tension that the person experienced and did not verbalize, a tension that was kept well hidden. This tension is associated with unhappiness at home, a feeling that the person was the victim of some dirty and infamous deed.

Cancer of the colon is more prevalent in the ascending colon, in the sigmoid, and in the upper and lower rectum.

Colon tensions are almost always feminine tensions, except those that occur in the ascending colon, which are usually masculine, and those in the lower rectum, which are connected with tensions in the relationship between male and female.

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