Col Cer gets it's name because the major use of this formula is with colitis and ulcers or digestive tract disorders. It's good for the digestive tract membrane, the stomach, the mouth, throat, small and large intestines. Today in the American diet we eat to many refined carbohydrates that change the pH of the digestive tract which causes an acidic reaction which starts to digest our own bodies. Antacids are very commonly used today, but in reality an antacid causes the body to produce more acid because it's trying to achieve it's normal pH. It's usual defense is to react with an acid when you use an antacid. Changing the diet is an important thing to do for digestive tract disorders.  Col Cer soothes the endothelium or digestive track membranes, cold sores and it's good in thrush with little babies as a mouth rinse. It doesn't taste very good but it sure makes a big difference with those types of things. People need to know that with digestive disorders it takes a while to re-build that digestive tract. You can't just take one magical little pill and it change your life, it's going to take some time. When I was 18 years old I ended up in the hospital  with bleeding ulcers. The doctors had no clue why I was bleeding internally so they decided to pack my stomach with ice and irrigate it and then watch to see if I kept loosing blood.  Well, I kept loosing blood and kept loosing blood so they ran a camera down me and found out that the ulcer was not in the stomach, it was in the duodenum. The physician struck me as a very honest man…very unusual, he said "...the therapy that we are using is causing him to bleed more." (I do not think today you would hear a physician say that) So they quit packing my stomach with ice and they didn't do a thing, they let  me lie there and I recovered by myself.  I often wonder why I was in the hospital when they were doing nothing and I recovered on my own… oh well. After I recovered and started doing better the doctors took me in a room to sit down and started to quiz me to find out why this 18 year old had ulcers. After our interview and a nice little discussion they started giving me medication. When I got out of the hospital I continued to take medication until one day I was filling the prescription at the pharmacy. The pharmacist looked at me with concern and ask "Are you the one that's taking this formula?" My response was "yeah, why?" I asked him what it was and he explained it to me. I found that it did to me absolutely everything I did not like about myself. I would lie on the couch and think I needed to recover, I was in the hospital after all, I needed to gain my strength back.  That in itself is a preposterous statement! I was in the hospital to recover from an illness, why would I possibly need to recover from being in the hospital? Perhaps it was the food. For the first time in my life it occurred to me that I might be  taking the wrong thing. I was taking Valium. I didn't have any energy...I didn't care about anything. So I discontinued taking it and you know the interesting thing is I started to get better because I changed my diet and I changed my lifestyle. As I got older and the ulcers reoccurred because my lifestyle changed a little bit, this is the formula that I used and I am no longer plagued with ulcers. Col Cer has enriched the lives of many people helping them with diverticulosis, spastic colon, and hemorrhoids, …I could go on and on. For any digestive tract disorder it's a wonderful formula.  Traditional use of the contents:  Golden Seal Rt. & Oregon Grape Rt. are helpful with ulcers & colitis and promote good intestinal Flora.  Myrrh is an excellent tonic for sores, ulcers, colitis & spastic colon. Cranesbill Rt. soothes & tones the digestive tract. Marshmallow Rt. soothes the membranes of the digestive tract.