Heather is slippery elm soluable fiber?
#38358 - 01/17/04 01:55 PM
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Hi
Sorry I haven't had a chance to go onto the board for a long time but my computer is broken!
I was wondering if slippery elm is a solulable fiber because it helps with D & C and it makes a gel in the colon?
I don't seem to have much luck with any soluable fibers and even have problems with oatmeal now!!!! 
I tried the acacia powder and can't stop using the washroom. I'm not sure if I have a flu or if it is the powder. I started using it a week ago and put it in gel capsules and take 1 or 2 day. Is that an unusual experience?
Thanks
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I'm not sure about slippery elm being soluble fiber, but how did put acacia in gel capsules? That sounds interesting.
Also, what's your dose at for the acacia? Maybe you started out too much?
Hope you're feeling better soon. 
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Hi Mags! 
What I do is buy the gel caps from my local health food store and just take the capsule dip it in the powder till it is compacted in and put the cap on the top. Pretty easy though it does say on the Acacia bottle that it may be a skin irritant (though it doesn't bother me). The pharmacist that I bought the Acacia powder from said that he would put them in gel caps for me if I wanted instead of having to do it myself.
I never measured a capsule to see how much it is but it's in the teaspoon range. Then I just carry them around with my purse and a bottle of water. I can't stand drinking things like that straight so I take the cheating route. LOL!
I'm still having some problems with it so I lowered my dosage to one capsule a day.
If anyone does have info on the slippery elm please let me know. I take it often when i'm not feeling well and have an easy time with it. It's great especially if you can't eat too cause it gives you nutrients and has lots of great healing properties from fever, d & c, and lots of others. :}
Edited by Robyn (01/18/04 10:49 AM)
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Hey Robyn!
I forgot to tell you before that it's good to see you back on the boards. 
Wow - I never saw the thing on the Acacia about being a skin irritant. If something could be a skin irritant, why would you want to take the chance of swallowing it! 
That's pretty neat with the gel caps. Good luck on your slippery elm quest.
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I'm starting to think that nobody knows the answer to my question!!! :{ Is slippery elm a soulable fiber? I've e-mailed the company I purchase it from in the past and never heard back from them.
Yep, Mafs it's says right in my container about acacia being a possible skin irritant but it didn't really bother me when I filled my capsules and the pharmacist I bought it from didn't say it would bother my IBS (internally) and he is very respected and knows a lot.
I would love to find out that slippery elm is a soluable fiber cause I can handle it so easily but maybe in that lies my answer because I can't seem to handle any types of fibers! :{ If I find out i'll let everyone know.
As for me being back it may be somewhat infrequent because it's my mother board that needs to be replaced. Sob!!
Talk to you all later.
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I am so uspset that no one has an answer for me about my slippery elm questions! I even e-mailed the makers of the slippery elm that I purchase and haven't received a reply and it's been at least 4 months!!!!
Here's what I have found out about slippery elm so far ... it is great if you have a fever or can't eat because it gives you the much needed nutrients, it can be used as an enima, a poultice, and is a water soluable silicon. It acts as a gel like Acacia in the colon and even soothes inflammed mucus membranes.
So i'm still wondering if it can be used to help IBS for people who just can't handle fiber including the soluable kind? I know I need the soluable fiber but every type I have tired causes so much stress, pain and sickness that I don't know what soluable fibers are left for me to use.
If anyone knows please e-mail me back and let me know!
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Hi - it shouldn't hurt. I honestly don't know if it's a soluble fiber or not. But it's a safe supplement that does have anti-inflammatory properties. I'd say try it, and if it helps then definitely continue.
Also - I don't know if the Acacia in caps will work well or not. Try taking it as a powder dissolved in liquid - you'll probably have better results. You'll also need to work up to a much larger dose than what you could fit in a gel cap. Those things are very tiny - you're probably only getting about 1/4 tsp in there.
Best,
Heather
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Our Acacia is not a skin irritant. It doesn't say anything like that on our label. I'm not sure what product you're using, but it isn't our Tummy Fiber. There's no problem at all getting our Acacia on your skin.
- Heather
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Hi Heather
I check which brand it is that I purchased. It was at a local drugstore cause I live in Canada maybe that's the difference between yours and the product that I purchased.
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Thanks Robyn. I've never even heard of Acacia being available in Canada. It's not out in shops in the US, though it's commonly used as an ingredient in food products and such.
- Heather
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I'll try to post the name of the company tomorrow afternoon cause i'm at my mom's and my computer is still broken.
I was surprised myself that I even found the powder cause I live in such a small community on Vancouver Island. Only one place sold it here (the health food stores didn't even have it!) I know it's in a giant white container. Though I agree myself that it didn't cause me any skin irritation. I wonder if it has to be labled that way in Canada???? I find that Canada labels somethings different that the US.
I did some research on Acacia powder and of course found out it is in the same family as slippery elm but I also found out it is also used for lowering cholestrol.
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Hi!
I've been doing some looking around on the internet and can't find out if slippery elm is soulble fiber. However lot's of brands of fiber put slippery elm in it. So I bet it is. Sounds like good stuff..from all that I have read on it.
Good luck!
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Hi - I think you're probably right about the Canadian labeling. There's often a lot of differences between how the exact same product has to be labeled in the US and Canada. And I've found that for dietary and herbal supplements, the FDA sometimes has labeling requirements that don't even really match the product itself. The best example of this is the soluble fiber supplements that market themselves as laxatives (like Citrucel or Metamucil) that are required to put all sorts of warning and cautions on their label that don't even apply to soluble fiber - they're only applicable to stimulant laxatives. But the FDA doesn't distinguish between the two. Canada may have some guidlines comparable to this.
Oddly, I had heard from a Canadian manufacturer that the only two products Canada allows to be labeled as fiber are psyllium and inulin, and this is why products like Citrucel and Benefiber aren't sold in Canada. I don't know if this is true but it's interesting. Was your Canadian Acacia labeled as a soluble fiber?
- Heather
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Hi
I think that I got the info right. It was a very confusing label!!!! It's in a 500 mg bottle.
PCCA
Willow-PCCA
London, Ontario
N5W 5N5
pccanada.com
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Hi Robyn!
Is that web address correct? I tried it and got a computer place.  Somehow I have a feeling that's not related to acacia! 
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Hi
It is exactly the address that I pulled off the bottle of acacia!
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Nope it wasn't labeled as a soluable fiber or even a laxative or anything which is really weird. Maybe the pharmacy that brought it in had more info with the box.
It's just a 500 mg bottle that has the name lot, an address, it also says CAS: 9001-015, AC500 500, a picture of a warning and the warning about skin and eye contact and says refer ti M.S.D.S. It didn't even say if anything else was in their or how strong it is. I didn't even see a din number which should be on the bottle though it does have a sku bar on it.
You know for being bottled in Canada that is really weak! I find that Canada is usually more strict about the labeling.
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I take it, but haven't a clue as to if it's soluble fiber or not. As far as I know it's just the bark off a particular tree, ground up. Sooo, you decide......
What do you wanna bet the manufactures don't even know. Let's face it, most people don't know the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber.
I discovered, the hard way, you DON'T mix it into hot water (I take the powdered stuff). If you do it gels up and gets soooo thick, RIGHT now. That alone may tell you what it is doing inside your gut. If you take in tepid water it doesn't do that. Of course you have to stir like crazy to get it to disolve. This is an ancient old herb used to calm the digestive tract. Makes me feel good!
(Thanks for researching Steph........that was really sweet of you.)
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It is more on the soluble side;Please read full article:
http://www.medmelon.gr/slippery-elm-bark/ Also,NOT for pregnant or nursing women.
Edited by sgcray (07/03/15 10:30 AM)
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