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Enemas
and Colonics.
Or, With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemas?
By Vic Shayne, PhD www.nutritionresearchcenter.org
There are all sorts of articles and descriptions of enemas and
colonics, so we won't go into the logistics of the practice. Instead,
let's focus on whether these two practices are viable solutions to
health problems and disease prevention.
First, for reference sake, an enema and a colonic are essentially the
same thing, but a colonic reaches deeper into the bowel. The basic
premise behind employing enemas and colonics is to
1. clean out the contents of the bowels and thereby detoxify the body
of poisonous substances
2. ease digestion by taking stress off the bowel
3. relieve constipation
4. exercise the gallbladder
5. improve the condition of the intestines
6. indirectly heal the body and relieve symptoms
Generally speaking, water is the main ingredient of enemas and
colonics. However, other substances are also suggested such as coffee,
various herbs or chlorophyll solutions.
The use of enemas as a medical treatment is steeped in history. Cancer
researcher Ralph Moss, PhD, writes: “The word itself comes from the
Greek en-hienai, meaning to "send or inject into." The enema
has been called "one of the oldest medical procedures still in
use today." Tribal women in Africa, and elsewhere, routinely use
it on their children. The earliest medical text in existence, the
Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, (1,500 B.C.) mentions it. Millennia before,
the Pharaoh had a "guardian of the anus," a special doctor
one of whose purposes was to administer the royal enema.
“The Greeks wrote of the fabled cleanliness of the Egyptians, which
included the internal cleansing of their systems through emetics and
enemas. They employed these on three consecutive days every month said
Herodotus (II.77) or at intervals of three or four days, according to
the later historian Diodorus. The Egyptians explained to their
visitors that they did this because they "believed that diseases
were engendered by superfluities of the food", a modern-sounding
theory!
“Enemas were known in ancient Sumeria, Babylonia, India, Greece and
China. American Indians independently invented it, using a syringe
made of an animal bladder and a hollow leg bone. Pre-Columbian South
Americans fashioned latex into the first rubber enema bags and tubes.
In fact, there is hardly a region of the world where people did not
discover or adapt the enema. It is more ubiquitous than the wheel.
Enemas are found in world literature from Aristophanes to Shakespeare,
Gulliver Travels to Peyton Place.
“In pre-revolutionary France a daily enema after dinner was de
rigueur. It was not only considered indispensable for health but
practiced for good complexion as well. Louis XIV is said to have taken
over 2,000 in his lifetime.Could this have been the source of the Sun
King's sunny disposition? For centuries, enemas were a routine home
remedy. Then, within living memory, the routine use of enemas died
out. The main times that doctors employ them nowadays is before or
after surgery and childbirth. Difficult and potentially dangerous
barium enemas before colonic X rays are of course still a favorite of
allopathic doctors.”
Dr. Moss writes: “Coffee enemas were an established part of medical
practice when Dr. Max Gerson introduced them into cancer therapy in
the 1930s. Basing himself on German laboratory work, Gerson believed
that caffeine could stimulate the liver and gall bladder to discharge
bile. He felt this process could contribute to the health of the
cancer patient.
Although the coffee enema has been heaped with scorn, there has been
some independent scientific work that gives credence to this concept.
In 1981, for instance, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and his colleagues were able
to show that substances found in coffee-kahweol and cafestol palmitate-promote
the activity of a key enzyme system, glutathione S-transferase, above
the norm. This system detoxifies a vast array of electrophiles from
the bloodstream and, according to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson
Institute, "must be regarded as an important mechanism for
carcinogen detoxification." This enzyme group is responsible for
neutralizing free radicals, harmful chemicals now commonly implicated
in the initiation of cancer. In mice, for example, these systems are
enhanced 600 percent in the liver and 700 percent in the bowel when
coffee beans are added to the mice's diet.
Dr. Peter Lechner, who is investigating the Gerson method at the
Landeskrankenhaus of Graz, Austria, has reported that "coffee
enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with
an endoscope."
Another cancer researcher, Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, writes, “Coffee
enemas have been discussed in the orthodox medical literature for the
better part of this century. Many nursing texts routinely recommended
coffee enemas, and the Merck Manual advocated coffee enemas as a
stimulant in all editions from the first in 1898 through 1977. During
the 1920's and 30's, coffee enemas were prescribed for a variety of
conditions. In terms of their physiological effect, studies have shown
that the rectal instillation of fluids will stimulate gallbladder
contraction and emptying.” (Gonzalez)
It has been the experience of this author that enemas have had
tremendous success in several case studies. First was the case of a
woman in her late 40s, a college dean, who came to me with a severe
case of arthritis in which she was unable to walk more than a block,
was in constant pain and was progressively losing her health. I placed
the woman on a Detoxification Diet adding BFood Complex, Green
Nutrients and ProMin Complex (NutriPlex Whole Food Formulas products)
and she did daily enemas with water followed by organic coffee. Within
a few weeks she reported greater mobility; within a few months she was
walking for miles without the use of a cane.
Another situation involved a 22-year-old young man with flu-like
symptoms who was vomiting with diarrhea and a severe migraine-type
headache without relief for five days. On the sixth day, still in pain
without relief from symptoms, Acupuncture and herbs from a Chinese
medical doctor did not help. I instructed him to a course of: Immune
Support, CalMag Balance (both NutriPlex Whole Food Formulas) and of
water enemas followed by three flushes with organic coffee. By the end
of this session, all symptoms were eradicated to the complete
amazement and appreciation of the patient.
The capability of detoxification with coffee enemas is not to be
underestimated. But be certain to use only organically grown coffee,
as the typical store-bought variety is laden with many toxic
substances. The water used should be filtered and never tap water.
Always be sure the temperature of the enema contents is not hot nor
cold.
http://www.nutritionresearchcenter.org
References:
Moss, PhD, Ralph W., COFFEE: THE ROYAL FLUSH, The Cancer Chronicles #6
and #7, 1990, http://www.ralphmoss.com/coff.html
Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D., P.C., February 22, 2005, http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/history_of_treatment_txt.htm
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