According to certain naturopaths including Bernard Jensen, Richard Anderson and Robert Gray, our intestines are commonly coated with a green to black hardened mucus which is the result of long term dietary errors and emotional resistances. When present it always has a negative influence on overall health. Conventional medicine commonly denies its existence, along with even some nutritionists, naturopaths and alternative health practitioners.
Orthodox medicine says that if they do colonoscopy they commonly see nothing unusual. On the other hand Richard Anderson states in one of his books that a pathologist stood up in a talk he was giving and told the audience how it was standard practice prior to autopsy for them to pump chemicals into the mouth, followed by a high pressure hose, and copious amounts of mucoid plaque would be forced out.
I have heard of natural health practitioners saying that the black strings of hardened material commonly seen on a powerful detoxification programme, are nothing but hardened clay and fibre (substances commonly taken as part of a regime with herbs to help bring out plaque). Contrary to this I have seen herbal detoxification programmes WITHOUT clay bring out the exact same material, as well as for many people taking sufficient quantities of organic colloidal mineral and enzyme supplements, and even intense trauma releasing bodywork such as body electronics.
I would suggest that these practitioners are using a poor detoxification programme with sub-quality herbs, insufficient quantity of herbs or just the wrong herbs. Another question would be that on such a herbal cleanse why is the plaque sporadic? If it is just clay and fibre would you not expect it to come out all the time, as the clay and fibre go in all the time? Why, for instance would someone get overwhelmed with fear or anger, pass a lot of plaque and then feel the emotion is gone? I have seen people heal from phobias and the like by such a process. Why would the plaque only generally be on the outside of what is passed if it were clay and fibre? Why occassionally does someone pass something so dry and hardened it cannot have been in there for a few hours? Could it be that the plaque is sometimes a substance newly secreted by the intestinal wall shedding a lot of toxicity from the body under the influence of the herbal cleanse? Should you care if your health improves permanently because of it as is so often the case (just look at my testimonies page - almost all these people did such an intestinal cleanse)?