Exercising the Colon with Regular Cleansing.
Compiled by H. Hamilton.
There are some hygienic students who have adopted the idea of cleansing the bowels with warm water once or twice a week, and yet they find that they are not properly cleansed. They still have periods of biliousness and misery. They wonder at themselves for being so rash and bold as to take an enema twice a week, and begin to feel that they have reached a point of positive danger.
One objection is that the use of the enema will weaken the bowels, which are already too ‘weak’ to expel their contents. “Atony, paralysis, fatty degeneration of the gut, are bad enough,” say these objectors, “without having an enema increase their uselessness.” This diagnosis is wrong and the objection groundless. Distend and contract an organ for a short time two or three times a day, and it will gain in strength from the exercise. What more gentle means of exercising the large intestine than by the enema?
Enemas do not have the power to weaken that part of the bowel involved in disease. For 20 years I have found that almost every case of intestinal foulness, diarrhoea, indigestion and self-poisoning was due to too much activity and vigour of the bowels, as a result of proctitis, colitis etc.
The enema does no more than kindly to dilate the constricted region, which when dilated, evokes a harmonious concerted action of all the nerves and muscles to pass along and down the burden of feces, which, without the aid of the flood of water, they had been incapable of moving, and would have had to leave to poison the system.
What an erroneous and absurd idea that the enema should weaken the bowels. Exercise ought to strengthen muscular tissue and what could give the bowels more gentle exercise than the proper use of them? Complete evacuation of the contents of the bowels should occur two or three times a day. This can be accomplished by injecting into the colon from three to four quarts of warm water.
The length of time during which enemas are to be used, whether months or years, will depend on the character of the disease that made its use necessary. Do not give up treatment under which you have improved if it requires one, two or three years to accomplish what you have so well started out to do. From Intestinal Ills - Jamison MD - 1920.
Pain is a warning that actual damage is being done to the tissues. The correct description for the experience of a full capacity enema is discomfort, not pain. You may have to work at increasing your tolerance for discomfort or it will take you a long time to achieve the goal of totally filling the colon with water. Be brave! And relax.
An average colon empty of new food will usually hold about 4 quarts of water. That is the average. A small colon might only hold 3 quarts, a large one might accept 6 quarts, or even more. You can make your own enema can from a two gallon plastic bucket with a small plastic hose barb glued into a hole drilled in the bottom or lower edge.
When increasingly larger enemas are administered until the colon is completely filled, beneficial exercise and an increase in overall muscle tone are the results. Correctly given, enemas serve as strengthening exercises for the colon. This long tubular muscle is repeatedly and completely filled, inducing it to vigorously exercise. The result is a great increase in muscle tone, acceleration of peristalsis and eventually, after several dozens of repetitions [of one enema a day for six months to a year], a considerable reduction of transit time. From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor - Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon June, 1997. (Dr Moser is a Canadian Chiropracter.)
The lining of the colon, over time, becomes coated with toxic waste from poor diet and incomplete elimination. Various parts of the colon become grossly distorted. It is vital to flush out the sludge for a return to good health.
A daily enema rids the body of toxins allowing an energetic, positive attitude. It can be especially helpful in getting rid of migraines, skin problems, arthritis, hemorrhoids and other problems associated with an overloaded immune system. Flushing the unhealthy bacteria and waste out of the colon on a regular schedule is just as important as taking regular baths.
For the body to accept the amount of water needed to flush the entire five feet or so of colon it is necessary for the abdomen to be relaxed so that it will distend and allow the fluid to flow to all parts of the colon. The colon is a muscle and, like all muscles, needs exercise to stay healthy. Expanding the colon with 4 to 6 quarts of water and then allowing the colon to contract to expel the water will strengthen this muscle. Expansion and contraction as an exercise routine is important to keep the colon healthy. Exercising the colon, getting rid of toxins that are poisoning the blood, is the most healthy exercise one can do.
The amount of flushing needed to restore the colon varies between individuals. A daily flush of 4 to 6 quarts for a month may be all that’s needed, followed by a weekly maintenance flush. For others the daily enema may have to be continued for from three months to a year. From Robert Biggs – 2008.
I am a certified colonic hydro-therapist with 25 years experience in the field of not only colonics, but also high-volume enemas. Colon cleansing can help with detoxification but you have to either have colonics, which are expensive or take large enemas every day which you can do just as well at home with an enema bag. You need to get a larger bag than you can from a local drug store. I would recommend the type I have at home which is a 6 quart open top bag. The open top bag makes it easier to take successive fillings without having to unscrew a cap and all that hassle.
You should start out giving yourself a 3 quart warm water enema, using the vaginal douche nozzle attachment that comes with the bag. This nozzle sprays the water inside your rectum in a fan-tail fashion that is less obtrusive and pressurizing than the smaller, straight enema pipe. Use a generous amount of K-Y or other water soluble lube.
Open the clamp to bleed the air out of the hose. Lie on your back and take full, medium-deep breaths while slowly massaging your abdomen counter-clockwise. This will help the water travel high up into you. You should feel the progress of the water and hear the gurgles inside your tummy as it climbs higher and higher. Allow the water to fill you as slowly as possible taking 10 - 15 minutes to empty the 3 quarts. (Five minutes per quart.)
After the bag has drained, hold the water while continuing to massage your tummy for 10 to15 minutes longer. Slowly get up and empty into the commode. It will take a few minutes to empty completely. Usually, you are completely empty after you pass some gas and then expel one more bout of runny waste.
Wait for half an hour to be sure and then do the whole process over again with 6 quarts of warm water, (as warm as is comfortable when running over the back of your hand), with 6 teaspoonsful of salt, (the salt helps maintain the proper electrolyte balance in the colon). I know, some people will say that taking as much as 6 quarts is dangerous. That’s not true, as long as you take it slowly you can distend the colon with 6 quarts without vomiting.
The reason the 6 quarts are necessary is because the endocrine glands and all ‘elimination systems’ of the body are stimulated when the colon is filled completely and the enema is continued until walls of the colon are stretched to a safe level. (Dr Gershon has shown that neurotransmitters are released from the walls of the colon which stimulate the endocrine system and boosts the immune system. See ‘The Second Brain’ by Dr. Gershon.)
If you do this every other day for a month, you will be healthier and have more energy than you have in years. After the first month, I would keep up this treatment at least twice a week for 6 months to a year or longer. The 6 quart enemas WILL NOT cause a lazy colon which will require more enemas to make it work. So, don’t be put off taking the regular large-volume enemas and enjoy your new found health and vitality! From Michael Woods – 2007.
When the inflow rate is slow, the time it takes to reach the contraction tension threshold is maximized; when the inflow rate is rapid, the time it takes to reach the contraction tension threshold is minimized. Sooner or later, the pressure will reach a level where one will have a desire to expel the water. As one gains experience with this procedure, one will be able to tolerate greater filling before feeling the need to expel the water. This is due to the strength of the colon’s musculature being increased through exercise. It is the stretching of the wall of the colon with the inflowing water against its resting tension that exercises the colonic musculature, increases blood flow throughout the colon, and with time and persistence restores normal anatomy and function.
From Colonic Irrigation – Mavin Dreck – 2004.
Some individuals take intestinal hydrotherapies occasionally to correct temporary constipation, reduce flu symptoms or relieve gas. Others use them weekly to cleanse and improve the tone of the intestinal tissue. Some people are detoxifying so strongly they need high colonic enemas from once to three times daily. Other individuals with parasitic infestations, chronic constipation, environmental illnesses and various degenerative disorders might take several high colonic enemas or colon hydrotherapy sessions daily for from several months, to as long as several years.
I want each person to feel free to experiment to find what they like and what works best in different situations. The truth is that it requires time, energy, perseverance, discipline, trial and error, practice and a sense of humor to cleanse effectively and thoroughly. People must also work with diet, fluid, exercise, herbs and attitude to help promote the loosening of waste. It takes a long time to cleanse the GI tract, heal the walls and restore peristalsis.
From Sheila Shea - Intestinal Health Institute - Tucson - Arizona - 1998.
Some physicians threaten their patients with disaster if they take enemas, but I can’t see the sense of this because in 37 year’s experience I have never seen anyone whose colon appeared to have been damaged by repeated washings.
Recently I saw a woman who had taken enemas every day for 17 years, but X-rays of her colon showed nothing unusual. Furthermore the mucosa was perfectly normal. In another case in which the woman had taken enemas everyday for 10 years, I was able to study a pile of films which she had had made of her colon at yearly intervals. These showed no change in the size or shape of the bowel, and in this case also the mucosa was normal.
I have asked hundreds of physicians, if they had ever seen enemas do harm, but all that an occasional one could tell me about was a scratch on the rectal wall produced by the tip on the end of the tube. I have therefore no fear of enemas, and I cannot see why so many physicians now object to them as they do. From Nervous Indigestion and Pain - Dr. Alvarez. 1950.