@ritzgerb and @iamawriter - Here are the basics in a nutshell for a gut rebalance:
1. The Tea - make each morning and drink through the day.
Ingredients: 1/2 t. each cumin seeds, coriander seeds, and fennel seeds.
How: boil 4-5 C water in a pot, while it's heating add the seeds (I use a teaball). Boil for 5-10 minutes depending on how strong you like it (it's very pale). Afterward strain the seeds out or remove the teaball. Pour tea into a thermos of some sort and sip on it all day. These herbs are all very healing to the GI tract and gut.

2. Triphala - 1000 mg daily or before bed. (This is NOT a laxative.) It's very healing and soothing and promotes colon rebalance - helps bowel start to behave normally. (Easy to research Triphala.) If you don't experience bowel normalcy within a week, add another 1000 mg. You can go up to 4,000 mg if needed.

3. Fiber - 1 t. each of psyllium husks and ground flaxseed stirred into a glass of warm or room temperature water every other evening. (tastes fine). I did this only a few times, I have a fairly high fiber diet. If you don't and need it, good thing to add.

4. This is something I learned partially from the book and on my own by experimenting: believe it or not apples! Particularly cooked apples. Cooked/stewed creates pectin and some other things which are soothing and helpful for colon issues. Also easy to research "Stewed apples and gut health". Easy to make. Eat alone or add to oatmeal, yogurt, other.

The book goes on to Stage 2 once you have things sort of rebalanced and detoxed, which I won't go into. You add some other things like Ashwaganda and Brahmi. But I found myself with a back to normal colon within about a week from the things listed above. Hopefully this will help even just one person to heal and feel better.