Colonics always water?

Just curious as I’ve had many colonics over the years from closed system machines, all of which I understood were done with plain tap or perhaps filtered water. Not counting any pre-colonic enemas I read about here occasionally, has anyone ever heard of or been given a machine colonic with anything but plain water?

Eric

I had a therapist in Colorado who claimed to use “oxygenated” water. Lots of articles on this if you google it - most by natural “health” practitioners who applaud its benefits.

http://www.appliedozone.com/colonics.html

All the colonics I’ve gotten were with plan water using a closed system. She gave a continually tummy massage during the colonic. This was between 2008 and 2014 when she closed her business locally and moved across the country to SeaTac, Washington.

I had a therapist in Colorado who claimed to use “oxygenated” water. Lots of articles on this if you google it - most by “health” practitioners who applaud its benefits.

http://www.appliedozone.com/colonics.html

I had a couple of those in the mid-70’s with a closed system. As far as I knew, the colonic fluid was simply tap water or perhaps filtered through a filter on the machine before entering the patient. The oxygen tank was out in the open near the colonic machine. A few minutes after the therapist had begun to fill me, she would say that she was going to turn on the valve and bubble the gas into the colonic fill line. I could hear and feel the oxygen bubbling into my colon. She’d do that intermittently during several fill cycles. It actually felt quite interesting and pleasant without the gas inducing any cramping, at least in my experience.

I’m a retired doctor, and my feeling was that this oxygenation had no other value than as a sales gimmick. I’ve never been aware of any reputable evidence that it had any beneficial effect on one‘s health. It was decades ago for me, but I honestly can’t even recall any specific benefit that was claimed for it at the time.

Eric

Does anyone know if “back in the day” when the bath houses were around hot springs areas, was the spring water used for colonics. Would there have been a mineral in the water that would have been considered beneficial?

Dan

Great question, ilffer. There were lots of these “health resorts” situated at springs, hot or not, all around the eastern US. Since health was the theme and enemas were certainly in vogue at the time, It would be interesting to find out if enemas were offered and claims made.

The lady that did my colonics between 2008 and 2014 had a rather expensive three stage water filtration system on the main water line feeding the whole house. It was in her finished basement along with her waiting room, treatment rooms, and office.

According to my experience I saw colonics machines only connected directly to the drinking water system and it was no additives at all.

I have underwent few colonics and it always been a tap water, maybe filtered within the machine. On the other hand I have used some clinics are adding the chlorophyle after the colonics…

A lot of hydrotherapists offer implants after the colonic. They claim healing effects, restoring “good” flora etc. I don't believe there is a health benefit from these implants, but they are favored by many naturopaths. From one web-site:

“An implant is a concentrated mixture of herbs or other substance that is inserted into the colon at the end of a colon hydrotherapy session. The implant is held for a number of minutes and then expelled. We offer wheatgrass implants, probiotic implants, chamomile and anti-parasitic herbal implants.”

Medical fecal implants however are very effective at restoring healthy flora to patients with C-DIFF.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gastroenterology_hepatology/clinical_services/advanced_endoscopy/fecal_transplantation.html