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Colon Cleansing
Medical Support
Reprinted with Permission from the Townsend Letter
for
Doctors and Patients
August/September
2000 (#205/206)
(If you do not want to read the
entire report you can click on one of the links below.)
Healthy people will find colon
hydrotherapy beneficial
Colon Hydrotherapy Corrects
Constipation
Disease comes from
imbalance in the colon
Hepatitis C
Yeast Syndrome
Benign Prostastic Hyperplasia
Cancer patient
Diverticulosis
Silicone breast
implant exposure
Drug and alcohol
addiction
Medical Journalist Report of Innovative Biologics
By Morton Walker, DPM
Copyright
2000 by Dr. Morton Walker
Freelance
Communications
484 High Ridge Road
Stamford, Connecticut 06905-3020
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 cleansing 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.
But in the modern era it fell to J.H. Kellogg, MD, of
Battle Creek, MI, 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.
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, Fl graduated from medical school and
eventually became certified in general surgery by the American College of
Surgery. For more than 25 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 pre-surgery 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 alternative and complementary
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 gastroenteroligists. 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.”
“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 four times a year. It’s been two
years that Tommy remains in excellent physical condition.
“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 Sharma, MD
Located in Milburn, 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
the supervision for the past year-and-a-half they have been rendering a 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. Feleicia, 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
has 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 Ger 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
Jushua Heinerman, the sixty-six-year-old chief executive officer for Virginia
Chemicals Corporation of Chesapeake, Virginia, had been suffering from prostate
gland enlargement (benign hyperplasia or
BPH). 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 nighttime 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 nonexistent. To confront
the problem, the CEO finally consulted a urologist located in the 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-years of age. Over the six decades of his medical practice, Dr
Sayegh has been consulted by a particular large number of male clientele who
have sought out 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 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. 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 the day one of implantation, silicone
micro-molecules 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 micro-dispersed 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, acts 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.”
“So the silicone molecules become stuck
in the body’s glue, 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.”
Conditions Responding to Colon Hydrotherapy
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’s lots of them.” Some
disease indications for colon hydrotherapy responding well are
Allergies
Arthritis
Asthma
Acne
Attention Deficit Disorder Body Odor
Memory Lapses Hypertension
Chronic Fatigue
Brittle Hair
Brittle Nails
Cold Hands & Feet
Colitis
Spastic Colon
Constipation
Fibromyalgia
Headaches
Irritable Bowel
Mouth Sores
Multiple Sclerosis
Nausea
Peripheral Neuropathies Peptic Ulcer Pot Belly
Poor Posture
Seizures Muscle Pain
Joint Aches
Chest Pain Skin Rashes
Pigmentation
Toxic Environment Exposure
Toxic Occupational Exposure
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. 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 Colon hydrotherapy accomplishes the same ease of cleansing
on the inside of one’s bowel. bacteria, parasites, Candida albicans-filled
pockets, and other such pathological materials.”
From it’s home office in San Antonio, Texas, literature furnished by
the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy or I-ACT defines colon
hydrotherapy as a safe, effective method of removing waste from the large
intestine, without he 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 the therapeutic session.
Colon hydrotherapy is best used in conjunction 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,
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 re-circulation of accumulated physiological poisons.”
“I use the services of at least three skilled colon hydrotherapists who
practice near 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 re-functioning 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.”
A Gastroenterologist Prescribes
Colon Hydrotherapy
Board certified as 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 housecalls.
“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 their 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 some
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 if 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 Shallenger, MD Supports Colon Hydrotherapy Usage
Frank Shallenger, 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 medical/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 that 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, M.D.
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.
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, ND., 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 the 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 powerful 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 ass
the 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 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 digestive 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 Manderville, 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 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 alcoloic 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 78247-1285; telephone (210) 366-2888; teleFax (210) 366-2999; Email: iact@healthynet:
Website: www.I-act.org
Receive an I-ACT membership application with descriptive literature or
for further information about colon hydrotherapy contact 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 LXVIII (26): 1957-1959, June 30, 1917.
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