MEDICAL JOURNALIST REPORT OF INNOVATIVE BIOLOGICS VALUE OF COLON HYDROTHERAPY VERIFIED BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS PRESCRIBING IT

MEDICAL JOURNALIST REPORT OF INNOVATIVE BIOLOGICS VALUE OF COLON HYDROTHERAPY VERIFIED BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS PRESCRIBING IT

by Morton Walker, DPM

© Copyright 2000 by Dr. Morton Walker



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 modern 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 ecognition 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.

“l 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 may 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.”

Reprinted with Permission from the Townsend Letter for Doctors

August / September 2000 (#205/206)

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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 Sharma, 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 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 temperaturecontrolled

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.”

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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

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 nonexistant. To

confront the problem, the CEO finally consulted a 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).

“So the silicone molecules become stuck in the

body’s glue, and they cannot be removed by use of

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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 foodcaked

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, 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 diarrheaboth

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,

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

Memory Lapses Hypertension Body Odor

Brittle Hair Brittle Nails Chronic Fatigue

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 Toxic Environmental Exposure

Pigmentation Toxic Occupational Exposure

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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 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 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 fortysix

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

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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-sixyear-

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.”

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.

Resource

Colon hydrotherapy is taught at eighteen schools

located in various regions worldwide. Instructors and Schools

are certified by the International Association for Colon

Hydrotherapy (I-ACT), located at Post Office Box 461285,

MIND BODY an I-ACT Certified School and

Instructors would be happy to send you information on next

class schedule and a I-ACT membership application.

MIND BODY Naturopthic Institute

10911 West Avenue

San Antonio, Texas 78213



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