What helps with constipation?

For me personally, I rely on peppermint essential oil. I make a roller with it and fractionated coconut oil and rub it on my abdomen. It gives me relief every single time. I also have done abdominal massage which helps get things moving and take a probiotic daily. I hope this helps some. -Elizabeth (team member)

Thank you I'll give the oil a try,I already do massage but not sure if do it correctly or not.

IBgard (time release peppermint basically) helps me the most with constipation. I also take CBD which helps too, but more for the diarrhea.

The other thing that helps me a lot is to do a self bowel massage. this can get painful though, but it has a high success rate for instigating movement in the bowels. Basically I lay on my back and with my hand just push in on the gut on the left side and feel the large intestines and then I push in and put pressure on em. and I work my self down the bowel until I am right around the bladder, where you have to push deep. If you did it right, you will be somewhat exhausted.

The reason this helps is the peristaltic reflex reacts to pressure in the bowel and pushes stuff down (normally this is when it expands with stuff). so you are basically activating the peristaltic reflex.


first time i did this the bowels were very sensitive and painful, but after a few times they got less sensative.