History of Colon Hydrotherapy |
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- The practice has been dated back to ancient times in Egypt, as early as 1500 BC. Medical documents known as the “Eber Papyrus” reference enemas and colon hydrotherapy being used by physicians to treat fever and remove feces and mucus.
- The ancient Greeks also used colonic irrigation to remove toxins, undigested food, bile, and blood for those with disease.
- In the 19th century it was considered that the bacteria associated with the colon could be cleansed and toxins eliminated from the body by creating a flushing system that worked with gravity.
- In 1908, Russian scientist Elie Metchnikoff received the Nobel Prize for research on immunity, and found that disease occurs due to the buildup of toxins in the body, finding that intestinal toxins actually shorten a person’s life. Through colon cleansing, colon hydrotherapy, the positive bacterium are balanced and a sense of well-being is achieved.
- Soon, Sir. W Arbuthnot Lane found that the bowel was the source of many health problems and that toxins within the colon are the cause of many diseases. Lane went on to author the book, The Prevention of The Diseases Peculiar to Civilization, in 1929. Another interesting fact is that Lane noted he was never aware of a single case of cancer that was not preceded by prolonged intestinal stasis.
In modern days, Dr. John H. Kellogg (inventor of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Rice Crispies) was a big proponent of colon hydrotherapy and eating lots of fiber, especially contained in fruits and vegetables. He used colon hydrotherapy in his practice on thousands of patients in the place of gastrointestinal surgery.
Kellogg initiated the popularity of colon hydrotherapy as a means to clean the internal body naturally, while eating a high fiber diet and many fresh vegetables. He was the foremost contributor of preventative therapy to create an overall sense of well-being. Colon hydrotherapy reached the United States in the 1920s and ‘30s. During that time colonic irrigation machines were used in hospitals and doctors’ offices.
“Colon hydrotherapy eliminates from the bowel the accumulated waste material which may 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, as noted in the Medical Journalist Report.
Remember, pharmaceutical companies are providing drugs that over-stimulate the bowel and force elimination – but this is not natural. By putting any drug or herbal remedy in the body and colon, we’re giving it something different; a foreign chemical that the body is forced to react to, but not it a positive way. By using water, the colon is gently able to flush out any unwanted matter that clings on to the colon – like cement.
As Dr. J.H. Kellogg said, “We are literally poisoning ourselves into illness when the bowel evacuation is deficient,” as reported in Journal of the American Medical Association, 1917.
In the Medical Journalist Report by Morton Walker, he claims that doctors like James P. Carter, Professor and Head of the Nutrition Section at Tulane University School of Medicine, use colon hydrotherapy as part of an overall detoxification program, and that it promotes the second stage of liver detoxification to cause dissolved poisons to come out in the bile as a solvent.
Kellogg initiated the popularity of colon hydrotherapy as a means to clean the internal body naturally, while eating a high fiber diet and many fresh vegetables. He was the foremost contributor of preventative therapy to create an overall sense of well-being. Colon hydrotherapy reached the United States in the 1920s and ‘30s. During that time colonic irrigation machines were used in hospitals and doctors’ offices.
“Colon hydrotherapy eliminates from the bowel the accumulated waste material which may 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, as noted in the Medical Journalist Report.
Remember, pharmaceutical companies are providing drugs that over-stimulate the bowel and force elimination – but this is not natural. By putting any drug or herbal remedy in the body and colon, we’re giving it something different; a foreign chemical that the body is forced to react to, but not it a positive way. By using water, the colon is gently able to flush out any unwanted matter that clings on to the colon – like cement.
As Dr. J.H. Kellogg said, “We are literally poisoning ourselves into illness when the bowel evacuation is deficient,” as reported in Journal of the American Medical Association, 1917.
In the Medical Journalist Report by Morton Walker, he claims that doctors like James P. Carter, Professor and Head of the Nutrition Section at Tulane University School of Medicine, use colon hydrotherapy as part of an overall detoxification program, and that it promotes the second stage of liver detoxification to cause dissolved poisons to come out in the bile as a solvent.
