Is there science showing enemas prevent cancer? $64. 000 Question

Hi everyone. What I would really like to know is ; have any studies been carried out to compare the rates of colo-rectal cancers in enema users and non users.

It seems to me that the bowel contents being in contact for a long time with the mucosa very likely hold the clue about causation of neoplastic change. If this is correct, surely starting again with an empty colon must be a step in the right direction to avoid cancers. If statistics bore this out, what a strong argument in favour of our inclination that would be!

I do hope to get some replies to this topic which I think is most important.

Of course, one would need to know that one was not introducing a carcinogenic substance when taking an enema!

My understanding is that coffee enemas are often used by cancer sufferers. Connection?

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My understanding is that coffee enemas are often used by cancer sufferers. Connection?

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So was Laetrile.

Yes you are quite correct in believing that coffee enemas are prescribed in the treatment of certain malignancies but that was not quite what I was meditating about. Has anyone any evidence that enemas taken regularly can prevent malignancy.

Switchable Susie, have you any knowledge on this?

It's all about *TRUSTABLE* research that's still ethically possible.

IIRC the largely below our public awareness factors where researchers "Broke Protocol" upon the confirmation that continuing an experimental drug trial would have condemned participants to avoidable deaths. One legacy of WW2 atrocities and horrors like Tuskgee etc is a mindful of ETHICS worldview. A mindfulness we'd likely not have achievedat all, let alone so worldwide- had not those horrid lessons been so brainburningly Made Of Pure EVIL.

All the above serves as intro for my theoretical answer to your initial query. The answer may be found in "Data Mining" techniques. Quite ethical if identity protection rules are pre-written into your software from day zero. All the events being mined have already happened. so there's no risk of altering lives in unethical fashions for experimental purposes.

Getting a decent confidence level of health data samples that list enema use and presence or absence of CA might be an interesting non-trivial element even before sifting other confounding factorials. The simple setup of "enema user true cancer false" alone seems too simplistic and socially variances skew the concept away from enema users as a whole being a considerable smaller subset of all population. Finding declared enema users might be even more dismal of a hope. Someone could do a thesis on this and have access to medical records that most of us never could get.

Privacy could be preserved by a Perlscript etc routine that would essentially parse the keywords cancer and enema from records. Barium studies being a potential false hit?

Too much 'puter work in my bqckground,eh?

I don't think anyone has done an in-depth study about enemas and the prevention or cure of any disease. Harvey Kellogg touted the health benefits of a clean colon, via enemas, and his clinic in Battle Creek was world famous. What we need now is a modern day Harvey Kellogg. How nice it would be if our National Institue of Health came out with a study that showed coffee enemas prevented, and cured, liver and colon cancer. I would open a national chain of coffee enema spas. In two years, I would have a chain larger than McDonalds!

Someone once said that the 'rarest human quality is common sense.'

If fermenting food residues remain in contact with the colonic walls, Common sense should tell us that disease processes will be stimulated, in spite of the body's natural defence mechanisms. The immune system will eventually become overwhelmed.

The Ancient Egyptians did not need a double-blind study to prove their need for regular enemas. Here are three historical items:-

There are ancient Egyptian writings that indicate that a ritual morning and evening enema was necessary for the elite. Royal enema instruments were made of pure gold, and several were recorded in the treasure of King Tutankhamun but never displayed. A proper Roman citizen always had an enema at the public toilet and bath. Slaves were assigned to “assist” the toilet visitors. A slave would bring a large fired clay vessel with a nozzle-shaped protuberance on the bottom. This was inserted in the rectum of the male or female, and a full enema was taken. These broken devices have been found all around many Roman toilets from Italy to Northern Germany.

From Silver Jouett – An Assistant to a Colon Therapist – 2007.

The Greek Travellers were struck by the Egyptians’ cleanliness. In Hellenistic times - and this may well have been a very old custom - the Egyptians tried to be clean not only externally but also internally, by evacuating the intestinal tract with emetics and enemas, for three consecutive days every month as reported by Herodotus, or at intervals of three or four days as reported by Diodorus. The Egyptians explained the custom rationally, saying that the people believed that diseases were engendered by the waste products of the food. A History of Medicine - Henry E.Sigerist - 1987

Colonic lavage was first recorded in Egypt in 1500 BC in the document Ebers Papyrus which outlined Medical treatments of the time. Hippocrates recorded using enemas for fevers in the 4th and 5th centuries BC and Galen recognized and used enemas in the 2nd century AD. The great French surgeon Pare, [who coined the phrase ‘I treated him, God cured him.’] in AD 1600, recognised the difference between colonic irrigation and the enema therapy which was popular at the time.

From Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Diverticulosis S. Trickett 1990.

No study is considered scientific until it is independently repeated and verified.

The only real study ever done of Klismaphelia was done in 1985, by a doctor Joanne M Danko, who is apparently no longer publishing. No one ever duplicated it or expanded the size of the sampling. both of which are important.

Columbia Univ. Hosp. started a study to see if coffee enemas impacted pancreatic cancer patients. They halted the study because of patient drop outs.

After my bowel resection for cancer over 10 years ago, I've been taking lots of irrigations, but every 3 years upon scoping they find new polyps. In time, these become villous adenomas.

Unfortunately there is not much good science suggesting that enemas actually prevent anything!!

Enemas of various sorts are still used in alternative cancer clinics in Mexico. They also use a variety of diuretics to rid the body of fluids and laxatives to rid the body of stool. Causes a dehydrated state and severe electrolyte imbalance in the body. Does not cure. Coffee enemas were reported to have lowered blood pressure. With the invention of a "pill" medication can treat anything theory, scientific enema research is gone. The things the enema will always do is provide pleasure to those who partake, and relieve constipation. This site proves that enemas provide happiness and personal pleasure.