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Comment by technofiend

6 years ago

Particularly if you suffer from diverticulitis as I do, putting pressure on the left side seems to lessen or calm spasms.

Most diverticulitis occurs on the left side in the West and the right side in the East.

  • Really? I thought the lower sigmoid colon was in the same place on everyone. Does that mean some other part of the digestive tract is stressed to the point of forming diverticulae in an Eastern diet?