| Reprinted with Permission
from the Townsend Letter for
Doctors & Patients August / September 2000 (#205/206)
MEDICAL JOURNALIST REPORT
Of INNOVATIVE BIOLOGICS |
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VALUE OF COLON HYDROTHERAPY VERIFIED
BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS PRESCRIBING IT
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by
Morton Walker, DPM
© Copyright 2000 by Dr. Morton Walker
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From the signal stage of history surrounding ancient Egypt,
practices of colon hydrotherapy in their most basic form —
enemas or clysters — have provided people with internal
cleansings adjunctive to their personal external hygiene. The
Ebers Papyrus, from the 14th century BC prescribes internal
cleansing for no less than twenty stomach and intestinal complaints.1
But in the modem era it fell to J. H. Kellogg, MD, of Battle
Creek, Michigan, famous for his invention of corn flakes and
various techniques of good hygiene, to popularize colon hydrotherapy.
This happened from Dr. Kellogg’s publication of his article
in the Journal of the American Medical Association praising
the procedure’s efficacy for saving a dysfunctional large
bowel.2
That descriptive article was the impetus for advancement of
a highly beneficial therapeutic method, which has since flourished
and found recognition among enlightened health professionals
in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
Enthusiastic expressions of approval for colon hydrotherapy
are undeniable medical endorsements for this significant complementary
treatment, which removes metabolic waste from a person’s
large bowel without applying toxic agents of any kind.
Board Certified Gastrointestinal Surgeon Dr. Leonard
Smith Endorses Colon Hydrotherapy
Thirty years ago, Leonard Smith, MD, of Gainsville, Florida
graduated from medical school and eventually became board certified
in general surgery by the American College of Surgery. For more
than twenty-five years Dr. Smith has practiced as a specialist
in gastrointestinal surgery. He has dealt with all types of
colon difficulties, including operations for overcoming colon
cancer, colon diverticulitis, appendicitis, hemorrhoids, and
numbers of other internal organ health problems.
“I am very well acquainted with the colon’s functions,
and my true belief is that colon hydrotherapy is the perfect
cleansing medium for preparing the patient for colonoscopy.
It’s a much better way of getting the human colon ready
for an operation than having a patient swallow a gallon of that
usual presurgery solution known as ‘Colon-Go-Lytely.’
Instead, colon hydrotherapy has the patient avoid this solution’s
noxious side effects of vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping,
and other troubles,” Dr. Smith says.
“Moreover, seriously ill patients tend to be chronically
constipated which results in generalized toxemia. It turns out
that colon hydrotherapy is the gentlest and most effective treatment
to take care of a sick person’s constipation problem.
My recommendation for cancer patients is that they should undergo
frequent colon hydrotherapy procedures to make sure a colon’s
toxic burden is being kept at a minimum while their bodies are
trying to heal,” affirms Dr. Smith. “While not a
substitute for eating a high fiber diet, those cancer patients
who take colon hydrotherapy often experience the elimination
of their aches and pains, improvement of appetite, and they
tolerate a tough healing process better.
“I also believe that normally healthy people will find
it valuable to take colon hydrotherapy every couple of months
in order to experience how well one feels when the colon is
truly empty. It’s a fact that most people fail to fully
evacuate the colon, something they don’t realize. People
undergoing colon hydrotherapy on a prevention basis, become
quite surprised at how much waste is removed by the procedure,”
Dr. Smith says.
“Without any reservation, I declare that my wish is to
see it become an established procedure for many kinds of gastrointestinal
problems. If medical centers, hospitals, and clinics installed
colon hydrotherapy departments, they would find such departments
just as efficacious for patients as their present treatment
areas which are devoted to physiotherapy,” states Leonard
Smith, MD “Such is my true belief, and I do endorse this
therapeutic program.”
Colon Hydrotherapy Corrects Constipation
“One of my more significant cases was Tommy, an eight-year-old
boy with the most awful constipation anyone could imagine,”
says former general surgeon and emergency medicine specialist
Paul Flashner, MD, of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Observing their
superior results for his patients, Dr. Flashner has more recently
adapted his treatment techniques almost completely to complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM). Most definitely, he has incorporated
colon hydrotherapy as a regular CAM technique.
“Tommy’s constipation was really bad. He never had
a bowel movement for a week at a time. Recognizing the dangers
of physiological toxicity, his parents took their son for consultation
with numerous gastroenterologists. The child had been subjected
to colonoscopy a dozen times, but nothing could be found as
the source of his blockage. Laxatives hardly helped at all.
There was no diagnosis except that he suffered severely from
constipation,” confirms Dr. Flashner. “Then the
parents found their way to me so that the boy might undergo
examination and treatment one more time. They described their
eight-year-old’s condition.
“I improved the child’s diet and removed all junk
foods. Then I instigated an exercise program, had him drink
lots of water, balanced his colonic flora, and added fiber food
supplements. But most vital for Tommy’s welfare is that
he took colon hydrotherapy under my prescription. The beneficial
effect was dramatic, for within six months he was experiencing
a natural and normal bowel movement every day. No laxatives
were involved in his progress,” states Dr. Flashner. “Now
the child does not need to consult me anymore; still, he continues
his colonic cleansing by having colon hydrotherapy. He did this
once a month for six months, and currently he undergoes the
cleansing just four times a year. It’s been two years
that Tommy remains in excellent physical condition.
“Colon hydrotherapy is the perfect specific procedure
to eliminate constipation and restore normal bowel function.
My approach to medical practice is to balance the GI tract using
stool testing. I find various pathologies relating to bacteria,
yeast, parasites, and other organisms of this nature. A lot
of disease comes from imbalances in the colon, as manifested
by inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, autoimmune
diseases, allergies, multiple sclerosis, and certainly constipation.
Such imbalances can be corrected by means of colon hydrotherapy,
herbal supplements, and diet,” says Dr. Paul Flashner.
“There is no question about the huge difference a health
professional can bring to the patient by utilizing colon hydrotherapy
plus other associated complementary and alternative methods
of healing.”
Giving Colon Hydrotherapy Is Standard Procedure for Sharda Sharnia,
MD
Located in Millburn, New Jersey as a primary care physician
for nearly twenty-six years, Sharda Sharma, MD, dispenses medical
care of a multi-disciplinary nature to her patients. Dr. Sharma
employs colon hydrotherapy, chelation therapy, massage therapy,
acupuncture, Reiki manipulative therapy, and much more. She
treats the body as a whole (holistically).
“I have trained and certified colon hydrotherapists working
as part of my staff. Under my supervision for the past year-and-a-half
they have been rendering care for constipation, abdominal cramps,
allergies, and a variety of other conditions, including ten
patients with hepatitis C. These hepatitis patients respond
to colon hydrotherapy and do well,” assures Dr. Sharma.
“For instance, Mrs. Felicia, a forty-two-year-old high
school teacher, had suffered with constipation-no bowel movements
for six days at a stretch. She was bloated, fatigued, lethargic,
headachy, and crampy. My treatment choice for her was enzyme
supplements and colon hydrotherapy twice weekly for thirteen
weeks. These treatments solved the constipation problem for
Mrs. Felicia. She goes to the toilet as desired without having
to sit there for long periods waiting, reading, meditating,
or undergoing other mental or physical diversions.
“Colon hydrotherapy is excellent as a treatment for the
yeast syndrome. A very anxious fifty-year-old female, Mrs. Sara
Audrey, consulted me because she was running to the toilet every
two hours with either diarrhea or with attempting to find comfort
from constipation. It turns out that she had irritable bowel
syndrome complicated by candidiasis. During the administration
of colon hydrotherapy, I observed that Mrs. Audrey was loaded
with Candida albicans. I recognized the white yeast organisms
floating through the transparent tube of my colon flushing device,”
says Dr. Sharma. “But the patient is now in fine shape-much
relieved. She has good bowel movements twice daily with no gas.
This is typical of almost all patients undergoing colon hydrotherapy.”
Dr. Michael Gerber Uses Colon Hydrotherapy Routinely “I’ve
had a colon hydrotherapy device in my office for twenty-five
years,” states Michael Gerber, MD, of Reno, Nevada. “My
present staff person who dispenses colon hydrotherapy under
my jurisdiction uses it for all types of patient difficulties.
The basic concepts of the science have not changed much in the
last twenty-five years; however, the colon hydrotherapy equipment
has improved immensely. How the equipment works so effectively
is nothing short of astounding. Registered with the FDA, current
colon hydrotherapy equipment is safe. It contains temperature-controlled
water mixing and back flow prevention valves, plus pressure
and temperature sensors, and built-in chemical sanitizing units.
Water purification units frequently are installed as well. Disposable
single-use rectal tubes, and/or speculae are employed routinely
for sterility.
“Undergoing a session of colon hydrotherapy has you experiencing
comfort and cleansing with no toxicity. Techniques utilized
allow a small amount of water to flow into the colon gently
stimulating the colon’s natural peristaltic action to
release softened waste,” Dr. Gerber advises. “The
inflow of a small amount of water and the release of waste may
be repeated again and again. The removal of such waste encourages
better colon function and elimination.
“During the treatment, most clothing can continue to be
worn. In addition the patient is draped, or a gown is worn to
ensure modesty. The patient’s dignity is always maintained,”
Dr. Michael Gerber affirms. ‘The benefits of colon hydrotherapy
extend all the way from psychiatric improvement to constipation
elimination.”
Colon Hydrotherapy Reduces Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Joshua Heinermann, the sixty-six-year-old chief executive officer
for Virginia Chemicals Corporation of Chesapeake, Virginia,
had been suffering severely from prostate gland enlargement
(benign prostatic hyperplasia or B PH). For four years the man’s
symptoms had been building steadily, and now they were affecting
his ability to manage in the administrative position he held.
The executive’s nightútime urinary urgency (nocturia)
came with such frequency, Mr. Heinermann found himself perpetually
fatigued during daytime business meetings. His need to sleep
lay on him like a blanket, and he felt as if his mind was encased
in cotton batting. Any capability for him to make vital decisions
on behalf of his corporation became almost nonexistant. To confront
the problem, the CEO finally consulted an urologist located
in his city.
In practice for over sixty years as a specialist in solving
urological problems for both men and women, Emil S. Sayegh,
MD, of Chesapeake, Virginia is eighty-eight years of age. Over
the six decades of his medical practice, Dr. Sayegh has been
consulted by a particularly large number of male clientele who
have sought his help in correcting BPH and prostatitis.
“These two common medical difficulties are closely associated
with having weak abdominal muscles,” explains the board
certified urologist. “Those men possessing flaccid and
weak abdominal muscles experience enormous pressures on their
bladders which never let up. The supportive muscles and other
erectile tissues surrounding the bladder fail to do the jobs
required. The pressure of the bladder’s rectal sigmoid
is so severe that any amount of stool in that area is going
to make urine passage very difficult. Whether urine is present
or not, the need for these men to void becomes overwhelming.”
During the past fifteen years Dr. Sayegh has made use of colon
hydrotherapy which solves his patients’ two particular
prostate pathologies almost every time. “Cleaning the
colon markedly assists the functioning of the pathological male
bladder and prostate organs. Colon hydrotherapy given to involved
men at two-week intervals for three times to start and then
maintained every four weeks for an unlimited period does solve
prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia,” states
Emil S. Sayegh, MD. “From my files, I can offer up several
hundred case studies which testify to that fact.”
Cancer Patients Improve from Receiving Colon Treatment
“I have found over the years that cancer patients who
are not doing well usually are toxic and not being cleansed.
They certainly are in need of colon hydrotherapy,” advises
oncologist and homeopath Douglas Brodie, MD, of Reno, Nevada.
Dr. Brodie has developed CAM methods for treating cancer and
other degenerative diseases aimed at strengthening the immune
system. He emphasizes natural and humane approaches to these
conditions with colon hydrotherapy being among them.
“I do recommend that most of my cancer patients take colon
hydrotherapy or ‘colonic irrigations’ because they
often improve by having such treatment. Liver cancer in particular
shows benefit from colon hydrotherapy, but any internal tumors
show effectual change too,” Dr. Brodie says. “It’s
better than an enema, which is merely a lower bowel cleanse,
as opposed to a colonic which is a thorough cleanse of the entire
bowel. It’s similar to comparing the diagnostic efficacy
of a sigmoidoscopy of the short end of the bowel to a colonoscopy,
which takes in the whole bowel. An enema only goes so far. Colon
hydrotherapy is the best cleansing and detoxifier for the gastrointestinal
tract that anybody would want. I do promote its use.”
Conditions for Which Colon Hydrotherapy Is Effective
Maintaining a rheumatology practice for the past twenty-four
years in Long Branch, New Jersey, Arthur E. Brawer, MD, is an
enthusiastic exponent of colon hydrotherapy for a variety of
health problems. He cites this treatment in his recently published
consumer book, Holistic Harmony.
“Silicone breast implant exposure which results in disease
symptoms responds very well to colon hydrotherapy. I am in the
center of this silicone breast implant controversy by having
consulted with over 500 women from around the world for the
toxic environmental exposure caused by such implantation. I’ve
given testimony as an expert witness before the United States
Congress on this issue along with advising the Department of
Health and Human Services, the FDA, and consultants to the President,
the Vice-president, the Director of Women’s Health at
the White House, and the United Nations. I use colon hydrotherapy
for the treatment of such silicone toxicity, since it does work
to chelate silicone out of the body,” states Dr. Brawer.
“Let me explain!
“From day one of implantation, silicone micromolecules
disperse throughout the body because the pore size (the porosity)
of the envelope or shell enclosing the implant is larger than
most of the silicone molecules contained inside. Thus, the disease
symptoms derived from silicone toxicity is not dependent on
envelope rupture. Symptoms begin immediately! In other words,
the molecules of silicone travel through the membrane osmotically
and become microdispersed throughout the body by means of the
lymphatic system," explains Dr. Brawer.
“Now realize that the connective tissue or collagen in
each person’s body requires silicone as an essential component
in order to provide the body with proper architectural structure
such as for tendons, ligaments, nerve sheaths, and everything
else. Silicone makes up the glue, which holds the skin together,
gives substance to the organs; act as regulators, signal transmitters,
and so forth. It functions as an integral part of metabolism
and physiology. Thus, all tissues are dependent on silicone
as an essential ingredient,” Dr. Brawer says. “But
given in excess as a leaking silicone breast implant, there
is only one place the excess may be dumped or stored by the
body-into its connective tissue. When that happens a whole litany
of complaints occur: joint pains, dry eyes, fatigue, memory
lapses, skin rashes and pigmentations, chest pain, muscle aches,
drug intolerance, odor and smell sensitivity to hair sprays,
room fresheners, deodorants, and more (see sidebar).
Cited by Rheumatologist Arthur E. Brawer, MD
“Colon hydrotherapy eliminates from the bowel the repository
of accumulated waste material which may disadvantageously get
absorbed. If this absorption takes place, it overwhelms the
other purification organs such as the liver, the kidneys, the
skin, and the lungs. The toxin deposition which becomes lodged
throughout the body’s tissues and cells becomes capable
of triggering a variety of illnesses,” says rheumatologist
Dr. Arthur E. Brawer. “There are lots of them. Some disease
indications for colon hydrotherapy responding well are:
Conditions Responding to Colon Hydrotherapy
| Allergies |
Arthritis |
Asthma |
| Acne |
Attention Deficit Disorder |
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| Memory Lapses |
Hypertension |
Body Odor |
| Brittle Hair |
Brittle Nails |
Chronic Fatigue |
| Cold Hands & Feet |
Colitis |
Spastic Colon |
| Constipation |
Fibromyalgia |
Headaches |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
Mouth Sores |
Multiple Sclerosis |
| Nausea |
Peripheral Neuropathies |
Peptic Ulcer |
| Pot Belly |
Pooe Posture |
Seizures |
| Muscle Pain |
Joint Aches |
Chest Pain |
| Skin Rashes |
Pigmentation |
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| Toxic Environmental Exposure |
Toxic Occupational Exposure |
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“So the silicone molecules become stuck in the body’s
glue, and they cannot be removed by use of medications or supplemental
nutrients or diet. Only certain techniques may be applied to
detoxify the body: colon hydrotherapy is perhaps the best way
and also working as detoxifiers are Ayurvedic medicine, hyperthermia,
steam baths, saunas, oxygen therapy, and the energy-based therapies
such as Reiki therapy and Qigong. Any dietary approach has to
be more an exclusionary basis — take the patient off of
processed foods and have them eat organic,” confirms Dr.
Brawer. “But of all the treatments for symptoms coming
from silicone breast implants, colon hydrotherapy I find to
be one of the mainstays that offer relief.”
Colon Hydrotherapy Is Like Cleaning Baked Lasagna from
a Pan
According to Pamela Whitney, ND, baked lasagna may be used as
a metaphor for colon cleansing. Dr. Whitney, educational director
for the New England Health Institute, is a naturopathic physician
who practices her profession in two locations, Braintree, Massachusetts
and Stowe, Vermont. Here is how she describes the physical action
of colon hydrotherapy:
“If ever you’ve baked a lasagna and then attempted
to sanitize the messy, left-over lasagna pan, you know the difficulty
with getting it clean. For sponging such a food-caked pan it’s
usual for cooks to soak the pan overnight. Then they find that
swabbing it the next day is easy. Colon hydrotherapy accomplishes
the same ease of cleansing on the inside of one’s bowel.
Using hydrotherapy, the colon’s walls constantly get flushed
with clear fluid, which serves to remove mucous plus some of
their longstanding, caked-on fecal matter which contains hidden
bacteria, parasites, Candida albicans-filled pockets, and other
such pathological materials.”
From its home office located in San Antonio, Texas, literature
furnished by the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy
or I-ACT (see the Resource section) defines colon hydrotherapy
as a safe, effective method of removing waste from the large
intestine, without the use of drugs. By introducing pure, filtered
and temperature-regulated water into the colon, the human waste
is softened and loosened, resulting in evacuation through natural
peristalsis. This flushing process usually is repeated a few
times during a therapeutic session.
Colon hydrotherapy is best used in combination with adequate
nutrient and fluid intake as well as with exercise. The modern
and sophisticated technology applied today, manufactured through
compliance with strict FDA guidelines, and promotes both safety
and sanitation of the procedure.
Dr. Pamela Whitney advises that her healing program for almost
any condition frequently involves prescribing colon hydrotherapy.
“I almost always refer my patient to undertake colon cleansing
as the first part of my treatment. I do this for purposes of
detoxification, since most people possess toxic bowels which
may result in either constipation or diarrhea-both coming from
the same sources of toxicity,” she says. “The patients’
toxins tend to kick back to their blood streams to perpetuate
numerous pathologies such as candidiasis, allergies, chronic
fatigue, and other symptoms coming from a recirculation of accumulated
physiological poisons.
“I use the services of at least three skilled colon hydrotherapists
who practice near to my two offices. I don’t know of any
patient receiving colon hydrotherapy who has not benefited from
it. Certainly the treatment will get a sluggish bowel refunctioning
again. In my judgment, the action of just one colon hydrotherapy
is an experience equivalent to someone undergoing twenty coffee
enemas,” says Dr. Whitney. “What we eat, the processed
foods such as breads, pastas, sugars, and refined deserts hit
the gastrointestinal tract like a glue which becomes nearly
indigestible. A prime source of allergies to wheat and other
flour products is this flour made into a kind of mucilage by
being mixed with saliva. This glue-like substance sticks on
the walls of one’s GI tract to slow down the individual’s
metabolic rate. Thereafter, constipation with inflammation can
develop, but colon hydrotherapy solves such a problem.”
As is obvious, Dr. Pamela Whitney is a great advocate of colon
hydrotherapy, which she prescribes as a standard part of her
treatment.
A Gastroenterologist Prescribes Colon Hydrotherapy
Board certified as a gastroenterologist from 1972, Robert Charm,
MD, of Walnut Creek, California, a clinical professor of medicine
at the University of California, combines conventional allopathic
medicine with CAM in his practice. He also continues to make
house calls.
“I prescribe colon hydrotherapy by calling upon a superbly
trained practitioner of the art in the San Francisco Bay area.
She is certified by I-ACT. Also, I’m very impressed by
the sophisticated technology as illustrated by the colon hydrotherapy
equipment. From my observation, it’s engineered quite
well,” affirms the gastroenterologist.
“Frequently while performing colonoscopy, I see that the
patient is cleaned out from above but below the diverticular
still contain fecaliths, those small turds remaining in pockets
formed on the gut mucosa. They indicate the presence of an unhealthy
colon, and over 50 percent of Americans possess diverticulosis
colae. When inflamed, gastroenterologists called them diverticulitis
colae, which can be serious by creating fistulas. Some people
then will poop through their bladders. Some women actually poop
through the vagina,” Dr. Charm says. ‘With patients
for whom I perform colonoscopy, about one third of them over
the age of fifty who are otherwise cleaned above, still show
residual stools sitting in these gut mucosa pockets. Some have
held onto the stool pockets for decades. A toxic dumpsite like
this is dangerous for them by the elevated concentration of
poisons stored in the dumpsite. Environmental cancer can develop!
“A good cleanout by use of colon hydrotherapy is excellent
treatment. Surely I recommend that people undertake colon hydrotherapy
for themselves. Clean out the body’s pipes,” Dr.
Robert Charm suggests. “And by all means, I prefer my
patients to undergo colon hydrotherapy the morning of a colonoscopy.
It’s a safe way to cleanse the gut. It’s a healing
technique for the relief of irritable bowel syndrome with gas
and bloating, chronic constipation, abdominal discomfort, and
many other GI tract problems.
“My patient, Fran Wilson, a former model, now age forty-one,
the mother of two, was just too busy to go to the bathroom.
She didn’t celebrate having a good bowel movement, which
is the thinking in our society. For her, defecation was an annoyance.
Fran labored under the mistaken illusion that pooping every
three days was normal, and she came to me complaining of feeling
logy, fatigued, bloated and abdominally cramped. None of the
various drug laxatives had been doing the job for her,”
explains Dr. Charm. “Rather, these drug-like laxatives
were depleting Fran of her potassium. The psyllium seed, fiber,
and other natural agents did not work either. Therefore I recommended
that she undertake a series of colon hydrotherapies and the
drinking of more water. This cleared up her discomforts remarkably
fast despite her lifetime of bad habits.
“The lesson to learn is that when one gets the urge to
move, you must do so. Being too busy in our society to give
into the need to defecate is wrong. Find a way,” advises
Dr. Robert Charm. “Some people don’t poop enough!
Let’s get people thinking about eating and pooping. If
these don’t occur together, colon hydrotherapy should
be employed.”
Frank Shallenberger, MD, Supports Colon Hydrotherapy
Usage
Frank Shallenberger, MD HMD, of Carson City, Nevada, declares:
“I support the use of colon hydrotherapy and do occasionally
refer my patients to undertake this treatment. It may be the
best way to detoxify them.”
Christopher J. Hussar, DO, DDS, Took Colon Hydrotherapy
From his medic/surgical practice in Reno, Nevada, osteopathic
physician and dental cavitation specialist Christopher J. Hussar,
DO, DD., does offer the following personal statement, “I
have enjoyed two colon hydrotherapeutic treatments when, at
the time, I was experiencing partial bowel obstruction. Each
colon hydrotherapy had me feeling better. It’s my belief
that this treatment should be recommended for any person who
is having chronic constipation. Then, the local colon hydrotherapist
can become a main factor in keeping that individual comfortable.
I maintain that one should do whatever it takes to keep up with
regular bowel movements. Colon hydrotherapy is a safe and natural
laxative, which works better than any other type.
“In Reno, I refer my patients who are in need of bowel
cleansing to a colon hydrotherapist. The only reason that I
don’t refer people on a regular basis is because most
of them arrive to see me from out of town. Therefore, I tell
them to use the services of a skilled colon hydrotherapist located
in their area so that they can go for treatment often,”
says Dr. Christopher J. Hussar.
Colon Hydrotherapy Is Usual for the Patients of W. John
Diamond, MD
For W. John Diamond, MD, medical director of the Triad Medical
Center in Reno, Nevada and coauthor of that useful consumer
text, An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer, colon
hydrotherapy or high colonic irrigations are usual modalities
for which he refers his patients. “For some patients with
chronic constipation or extensive yeast problems, colon hydrotherapy
works advantageously to get rid of the physical load of pathology
in the gastrointestinal tract. This treatment stimulates the
liver and gets rid of the debris that’s sticking to the
mucosa. The last time I referred my patient to take colon hydrotherapy
was just yesterday. There’s hardly a week that goes by
which does not see me utilize this fabulous treatment for one
or more patients. The colon hydrotherapist in this city of Reno
is skilled and does a fine job.
“Let me describe a particular patient of mine, Mrs. Constance
Overmacher, who benefited from colon hydrotherapy,” says
Dr. Diamond. “This woman at age forty-six has a long history
of antibiotic usage for chronic sinusitis. She is a sugarholic
to the extent that her food is totally carbohydrates with hardly
any protein or fat. She exhibits a variety of symptoms including
extreme fatigue, migraine headaches, irregular menses, chronic
constipation, abdominal pain, and yeast growing in the bowel
upon testing by EAV [electroacupuncture according to Voll].
Presence of the yeast was confirmed by stool culture and blood
tests for yeast antibodies and skin testing.
“For such a complicated case, I tried every kind of treatment
that was appropriate, but nothing did any good. The only program
that gave Mrs. Overmacher relief was colon hydrotherapy prescribed
for her to receive three times a week. It took me a month to
get my patient stable, but finally the treatment’s effect
kicked in. The lady did get her bowel cleaned up; she’s
now experiencing normal stools and I have her following a restrictive
protein diet. Her energy is returned, and she has been showing
normal menses for the last two months. Her migraines disappeared,”
Dr. John Diamond affirms. “It merely meant that I needed
to get the woman back to normal bowel function, off antibiotics,
and onto probiotics all the time. Now she takes colon hydrotherapy
on a regular once-a-month schedule. Mrs. Overmacher will likely
be forced to stay on her therapeutic program continuously.”
Janet Beaty, N.D., Took Training in Colon Hydrotherapy
My original training in colon hydrotherapy was when I administered
it twenty-five years ago as part of my massage therapy program
and that training went a lot deeper when I attended Bastyre
University. I was one of several instructors in colon hydrotherapy
at that naturopathic college,” says Janet Beaty, ND, whose
practice is in West Concord, Massachusetts. “Now I don’t
own the physical facilities for doing it in my office but I
regularly refer patients to a competent nearby colon hydrotherapist.
“My experience with the treatment is totally positive.
I refer people to have it when they are constipated because
their colons are not fully emptying and bringing on GI discomforts
of some kind. My sense is that the patient must empty out old
waste products so that there is no interference with healing
modalities,” states Dr. Beaty. “I am using colon
hydrotherapy as my beginning treatment for detoxification, particularly
for patients with congested bowels. While I focus on the gastrointestinal
aspects of colon hydrotherapy, I also prescribe it for the treatment
of allergies, arthritis, and other health difficulties.
“If I had my druthers, I would get all of the patients
with any health problems on colon hydrotherapy. Why I don’t
is because it entails the payment of cash-out-of-pocket and
some people find the concept too ‘ kinky’ even to
imagine doing it,” Dr. Beaty says. “Yet, probably
most patients should receive at least one colon hydrotherapy
during the course of taking care of themselves. It is a very
helpful tool for nearly any patient in order to get the bowel
peristalsis to work. An effective technique for stimulating
such peristalsis is to start out with giving colon hydrotherapy
using warm water and gradually decreasing the water temperature
as treatment continues. This lower temperature tends to stimulate
the bowel muscles. The cold temperatures cause good peristaltic
action for a retraining of the bowel.
“The ideal treatment program I follow is that from four
to eight weeks the patient receives colon hydrotherapy. This
time frame is necessary for unloading a bunch of toxins from
the liver. Here is a typical case history: a thirty-six-year-old
patient, Mrs. Cynthia Mangie, had experienced several ectopic
pregnancies which resulted in her having a number of miscarriages
and ending with chronic endometriosis. Also, she had her belly
sliced into many times. Her caesarian pregnancies left her with
too much scar tissue so that now the endometriosis must be managed
without further surgery,” says Dr. Janet Beaty. “The
solution to my patient’s problem of endometrial pain is
to take a colon hydrotherapy one week before her period. The
pain is then reduced markedly because her usual premenstrual
constipation is prevented. With the bowel clean, Mrs. Mangie
has more room in her belly. She currently takes colon hydrotherapy
routinely for improving the quality of her life.”
Colon Hydrotherapy Used by James P. Carter, MD, DrPH “
After conducting a comprehensive digestive stool analysis on
any patient suspected of having dysbiosis (poor intestinal hygiene),
I attempt to wipe the bowel clean by prescribing colon hydrotherapy
once a week times three. In my medical practice, I employ a
registered nurse on staff to administer this treatment,”
says James P. Carter, MD, DrPH, MS, of Mandeville, Louisiana.
Dr. Carter is Professor and Head of the Nutrition. Section at
Tulane University School of Medicine.
“Also I use colon hydrotherapy as part of an overall detoxification
program, and it may be combined with treatment from above as
with drinking Epsom salts, but both are not taken on the same
day,” he advises. “It promotes the second stage
of liver detoxification to cause dissolved poisons to come out
in the bile as a solvent. The patient’s washout at least
once a week from below is adjunctive with the Epsom salts.
“Colon hydrotherapy is an excellent detoxifier for the
overindulgence of alcohol drinking and drug addictions of all
kinds. Residues of drugs and other agents in the tissues are
eliminated with colon hydrotherapy,” states Dr. James
P. Carter. “It takes away any desire to use drugs or imbibe
in alcoholic beverages. Colon hydrotherapy should be part of
nearly any addict’s therapeutic regimen.”
Resource
Colon hydrotherapy is taught at eighteen schools located in
various regions worldwide. The schools are approved by the International
Association for Colon Hydrotherapy (I-ACT), located at Post
Office Box 461285. San Antonio, Texas 78246-1285; telephone
(210) 366-2888; TeleFAX (210) 366-2999;
Email: i-act
@ healthy.net
Or visit their website at: www.i-act.org
Receive an I-ACT membership application with descriptive literature
or for further information about colon hydrotherapy contact
the organization’s executive director at the organization’s
San Antonio headquarters. |
| References |
1. Bettman, O.L. A Pictorial History of Medicine.
(Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1956), p.6.
2. Kellogg, J.H. “Should the colon be sacrificed or may
it be reformed? JAMA LX VIII (26): 1957-1959, June 30,1917.
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