Hello - I have watched these and related posts for quite a while feel compelled to respond. I am as dedicated a klismo as anyone and do like to occasionally stretch things, but I wish to caution against potentially harmful practices. You should remember that your colon is your friend. The colon hydrotherapy crowd has it all wrong, casting the colon as a "sewer" and everything in it as being undesirable.
The colon is an interactive and absorptive extension of the digestive system, collecting nutrients and absorbing water from the digested food product passing through. It possesses major and very complex components of the human microbiome that are important for life-sustaining activity. The various microorganisms that inhabit the colon, as well as its own cellular structure, replicate faster than most of the rest of our bodies. Approximately one-third of average "fecal matter" is actually our own cells, the residue from digested food comprising the rest.
Destruction of the colonic microbiome - whether due to taking antibiotics, the use of corrosive enemas, including alcohol, or other causes - severely compromises the natural colonic function. Although natural balance may be restored in many cases, the use of severely irritating enemas, particularly those that cause bleeding, may result in irreversible damage. Also, e-coli, always present in the colon, and other microorganisms may enter the blood stream through the walls of a damaged colon resulting in serious, even life-threatening systemic infection.
So remember, Your colon is your friend and is necessary to your survival. Be nice to it, do answer to its desires, bathe it with enemas cool, warm, soapy and plain, and tease it occasionally if you must, but do not torture it lest it become angry and attack you from within.
bon lavement,
Archimedes