Find Colon Hydrotherapy Schools and Practitioners. What is Colon Hydrotherapy? Colon Hydrotherapy is a gentle and safe infusion of water into the colon through the rectum. Because no chemicals or drugs are used, the colon hydrotherapy is soothing and successful. Throughout colon hydrotherapy, the client lies on a customized table in total relaxation. A small disposable speculum is then gently introduced into the rectum where 25-30 gallons of warm, clean water enters into and out of the colon.

A colon hydrotherapy session is equivalent to 20-30 regular bowel movements. Throughout the colon hydrotherapy session, the hydrotherapist will make an evaluation as to whether more or less treatments are necessary. Because the systems are sealed, waste is discretely transferred into a drain line without offensive odor and is done in a dignified manner with respect to the person. Skilled colon hydrotherapists will use light massage techniques and numerous intakes and outputs of water to free toxic waste matter.

Colon Hydrotherapy was already used in 1500 B.C. in Ebers Papyrus. Even Hippocrates documented the use of enemas for fevers. A healthy colon functions to conserve water in the body and to eliminate waste from the body as well. An average person may have 10-25 pounds of dried fecal matter in his/her colon. Someone who is overweight or an allergy sufferer may store even more. Different indications including constipation, diarrhea, frequent headaches, backaches, fatigue, and many other problematic symptoms may be a sign of an unhealthy colon.

When colon hydrotherapy is performed, the body is rejuvenated, toxic debris is removed and over time, the colon is returned to its natural shape and function ability. Colon Hydrotherapy also restores pH balance to the body, stimulates the immune system, allows free passage of nutrients into the blood, prevents toxic absorption into healthy mucosa and strengthens natural muscular contractions in the colon as well.

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Colon hydrotherapy is often confused with a single term ‘hydrotherapy’ that includes treating various health ailments with the help of water. Hydrotherapy is used to treat many health ailments that may not be linked with intestines. For instance, hydrotherapy can be used to get rid of cracks on the heels, to treat menstrual problems, kidneys and also to relieve the pelvic congestion; whereas, colon hydrotherapy particularly targets intestinal infection and problems.

Colon hydrotherapy is an alternative health care technique that cleanses the bowels by flushing the entire gastrointestinal tract. The technique has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The therapy includes gentle infusion of plain or in some case, medicated water in and out of the colon. The water used in the therapy reaches everywhere in the intestines and improves patient’s overall health since intestines are the organs that nourish the entire body.

A typical colon cleansing session will be equal to 20-30 normal bowel movements and during the therapy, the person is asked to lie on a table and is inserted with a small speculum into the anus. The therapist then starts monitoring the temperature of the water that is introduced into the intestines and getting that out of it. The pressure, along with temperature has also been measured. One of the most favorable things for the colon cleansing therapy is it expels all the impurities, unwanted and harmful materials present within the intestines and making them total clean. The intestines get cleansed with hydrotherapy that removes all the sticky or gluey substances that has coated the intestines since years.

Once the hydrotherapy is done, the body feels relaxed and rejuvenated. There would be new energy and feeling of well being. The toxins are removed and hence, all the bodily systems will get new life since the metabolism is corrected and all the hormonal and enzyme levels in the body are restored.

Colon hydrotherapy also stimulates all the bodily organs to produce good enzymes and their secretion that in turn, results into healthy body. It boosts the immune system and allows free passage of the nutrients into the bloodstream. Many health experts also believe that colon hydrotherapy can also make you rid of parasites/worm infestations and hence can make your entire digestive tract healthy.

The colon hydrotherapy prevents toxic absorption into the healthy mucosa and can strengthen the peristalsis movement that improves digestion, absorption and assimilation of the foods consumed. The water is a natural flusher and possesses the capacity to flush out any toxins present in the intestines. On the other hand, it also gives the feeling of fullness of the stomach and hence can act as natural and hence safe ‘appetite suppressor’. In this way, it has been advised by many naturopaths to the obese people who want to reduce their body weight.

Water has also been considered as neutralizer and hence can restore the pH levels in the intestines. The colon will be happy being in ‘healthy pH environment’. The colon, after hydrotherapy, will return to their normal function ability, natural shape and toned.

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I have been researching alternative medicine and nutrition for several years. Sometimes I forget that most people are not aware that there is an entire school of healing that believes that regardless of your health, there is always something that can be done about it and naturally! For example, Stanley Burroughs taught that health could be regained through the use of the Master Cleanse; VitaFlex, which shares similar principles with reflexology; and a vegetarian diet.

He has certainly not been alone in this belief. Henry Bieler, MD, practiced medicine for more than 50 years and summarized his approach in his book, Food is Your Best Medicine. Two of his most famous patients were Gloria Swanson and Great Garbo, the Paris Hilton and Madonna of his time.

Norman Walker, D.Sc. (an advanced science degree like Ph.D.) was the man who invented the therapeutic juicer to achieve his results and was internationally famous for using nutrition and cleanses. (He required colonics for his patients.) He wrote several books, including Become Younger, Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices: What’s Missing in Your Body?, and The Vegetarian Guide to Diet and Salad. His juicer, by the way, is one of only two that were approved by Max Gerson, MD, who treated cancer, tuberculosis, and other degenerative diseases by including juicing in his regimen as early as 1948!

Herbert M. Shelton, Ph.D., founder of the School of Natural Hygiene, cured tens of thousands of people using fasting and other natural means to restore health. His writings can be seen on the Internet.

Joel Fuhrman, MD, author of Eat to Live, Fasting-And Eating-For Health, and Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right, promotes a regimen of mostly raw food, vegetarian diet and occasionally fasting to cure patients of diabetes, heart disease and other degenerative diseases.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., reveals the importance of diet in increasing or decreasing the risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

The key concept here is that something can be done about your health naturally. Once you know that, it is just a matter of searching until you find a way that accomplishes that healing, but the idea that something can be done about it is what opens the door.

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Hippocrates (460 BC—370 BC) is known as the Father of Modern Medicine because he was the first to apply scientific observation and raise medicine into a profession. In fact, his influence is still so great that today, doctors pledge themselves to his oath–the Hippocratic Oath–before they begin to practice medicine.

Two of his most basic principles were “Nature heals–the doctor is only her assistant” and “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”

With his “simple and sane belief in the healing power of nature, assisted by good food, fresh air, rest, recreation, sleep, change of climate, and physiotherapy, he [began] the Golden Age of Greek medicine.” (Food is Your Best Medicine, Henry Bieler, MD.)

Perhaps this explains why Americans suffer from such high rates of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. We are not getting the nutrients we need to stay healthy from our mass produced, prepared, preserved, artificially colored, flavored, and sweetened “food”.

Such a deficient diet not only lacks proper nutrition for a long life, but pours toxins into the body as well. If these toxins are not then satisfactorily eliminated, health is further impaired.

Many, many people get a huge boost in health from doing the Master Cleanse because they have a backlog of toxins that need to be eliminated. However, merely eliminating toxins will not maintain vibrant good health over a long period. For that, we need a diet that is mainly fresh, raw vegetables and fruit…and that, in the opinion of the Father of Modern Medicine, is your best medicine.

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The No-Breakfast Plan and The Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey, M.D. was published in 1900, but it reads like it could have been written in the last 10 years. I excerpted the article below from the book and edited it slightly to make the text more modern. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Apparently, fasting was as misunderstood in those times as the Master Cleanse is in ours.

“The literature on what to eat and not to eat, what to do and not to do, on medicines that convert human stomachs into drug-stores, is simply boundless. If we believe all we read, we must not cool our parched throats without the certificate of the microscope. We must not eat without an ultimate analysis of each item. In short, there is death in the air we breathe, death in the food we eat, death in the water we drink, until we seem to walk in the valley and shadow of death, ever subject to the attack of disease.

“It appears many lives would be lost except for the miracles of cure promised in public magazines and newspapers, and even in our best medical journals.

“The methods in this book are so new, so revolutionary, that their first impression has never failed to excite every form of opposition known to language, and yet their practicality is so great that it is rarely questioned by those who test it fairly.

“My initial practice of medicine was during the civil war in a large hospital of 1000 beds. And I soon found that, no matter what the disease, every surgeon was different as to the quality, quantity, and times of his doses of medicine, and yet, the survival rate of the different doctors was apparently about the same.

“As for the medicinal treatment of my sick, it was unsatisfactory from first to last. After all these years I cannot believe that, except for the relief of pain, any patient was made better by my dosage of medicines.

“I began the general practice of medicine in Meadville, Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1866. Among the many physicians located in the city at that time were men of ability and large experience. There were those who administered with great faith doses too small for mathematical estimate; those with equal faith who administered huge amounts of substances limited only by the size of the patient’s throat; those who fully believed in whiskey as nourishment and those that believed that milk is liquid food. And yet death would still result from starvation aggravated by disease.
Most of the cases of disease that fall to the care of the physician are trivial, cure themselves, and rapidly recover under even the largest dosages; Nature really winning the victories, the physician getting the honors.

“People believe the disease is simply an attack, and not the sum of violated natural laws of health perhaps from birth. People believe symptoms are merely evidences of destruction, and not the visible efforts of Nature to restore the normal condition.

“The universal conception of disease as a foe to life, and not as a rational process of cure; the boundless faith in remedies as means to resist the attack, revealed by symptoms, makes the professional care of the sick the most difficult of all human occupations to both head and heart.

“For full ten years I visited the sick and dosed them according to the books, but with far less confidence and faith than any of my brother doctors, and all were required to take nourishment to keep up strength for the combat with disease.

“My doses were confined to only a few of the most potent medicines, and these were given while watching for favorable results and yet always with disappointment.

“As the years went on, my faith in remedies did not increase; but I had to dose to meet the superstitious needs of the people. I now see that Nature’s victories are often won against great odds of treatments that are simply barbarous; and yet Nature is so powerful, so persistent in the attempts to right all her wrongs, that she wins in the great majority of cases no matter how severely she may be opposed.

“I was called one day to one of the families of the poorest of the poor, where I found a sick case that for once in my life set me to thinking. The patient was a girl in early maturity, with a history of several months of digestive and other troubles. I found a very sick patient, so sick that for a period of three weeks not even one drink of water was retained, not one dose of medicine, and it was not until several more days that water could be drunk. When finally water could be retained my patient seemed brighter in mind, the complexion was clearer, and she seemed actually stronger. As for the tongue, which at first was heavily coated, the improvement was striking; while the breath, utterly foul at first, was strikingly less offensive. In every way the patient was very much better.

“I was so surprised at this that I decided to let Nature continue to take her course, and so it did until about the thirty-fifth day, when there was a call, not for the undertaker, but for food, a call that marked the end of the disease. The pulse and temperature had become normal, and there was a tongue as clean as the tongue of a nursing infant.

“Until this time this was the most severely sick case I ever had that recovered, and yet with apparently no more wasting of her body than with other cases of lengthy illness. And all this with only water for thirst until hunger came and a complete cure!”

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