Word: psyllium
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...food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen, is to get more bulk into the colon. Thus far, the job has been done awkwardly by sprinkling agar-agar, kelp and psyllium seeds on breakfast foods...
...hawkers and pitchmen who peddle drugs from suitcases and wagons. They do $15,000,000 business a year. They slander our advertised products. They slander the American Medical Association. They should be stopped." Recently stopped by court order was Philadelphia Nuva-Dex Co., generally rated the biggest supplier of psyllium seeds, liniments and cure-alls of this irregular commerce...