Colon Hydrotherapy

Mae West said her beauty secret was a clean colon; she took one colonic weekly. Other celebrities took their cue from her including Paris Hilton, who speaks on behalf of the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy.

HOW DO YOU DO THIS?

"The night before one session, I had eaten zucchini. I sliced it like silver dollars and sautéed it in butter and parmesan cheese. The next afternoon, I'm on the table. I like to watch what comes out as it goes through the glass tube in the machine during a session. It's kind of like watching an aquarium; you just never know what will go swimming by. Well, after about the second fill, out came those zucchinis. They marched across the tube as perfect circular discs. The therapist asked me if I had ever heard of the word "mastication" or the concept of chewing food. I just about rolled off the table I was laughing so hard! I know I chewed them. But obviously not enough. That's when I got it about eating more slowly so the digestive enzymes in the mouth can do their job, and so food is broken down enough that the gut can access the nutrition in it. It was an eye-opening experience. I never would have believed it."

HOW ARE COLONICS USED?

• Colon hydrotherapy is excellent as a treatment for yeast syndrome. It can literally wash out a significant amount of the pathogenic load in the colon. When we see candida exit, it looks like beer foam. A yeast overgrowth can trigger a variety of symptoms including extreme fatigue, migraine headaches, irregular menses, chronic constipation, and abdominal pain.
  
  
• People with weak immune systems benefit a lot when Nature gets a helping hand to keep the colon's toxic burden at a minimum while their bodies are trying to heal.
  
  
• Colon hydrotherapy increases the good intestinal flora. We live in a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria in our body. We need lots of "good bacteria" to digest food and give us the ability to get at all the nutrition that comes in food.
  
  
• Teachers, airline pilots, stock brokers, and others often don't have time during the day to go to the bathroom. They feel brain fogged, fatigued, bloated and abdominally cramped. Their colon loses the ability to act. Constipation or other bowel problems set in. Colonics can remove impacted and dehydrated fecal matter and restore muscle tone.
  
  
• Some people have experienced traumas around going to the bathroom and the resulting mental state has caused the colon to not want to release. Colonics can improve normal functioning.
  
  
• Men with weak abdominal muscles can experience significant and constant pressure on the bladder. The supportive muscles and other erectile tissues surrounding the bladder fail. The pressure of the recto-sigmoid colon on the bladder 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 to void becomes overwhelming. Colon hydrotherapy assists the functioning of the male bladder and prostate organs.
  
  
• Both men and women partake of colonics, although men sometimes balk more at the idea initially. We tell them it is like going to get your teeth cleaned - you get back in your car and go home. Simple as that. We find that once men get to the table, they tend to release more readily because, unlike many women, they have not been trained to hold in their emotions which makes the colon also tend to hold things in. Men don't have as much of an issue with that. One man who resisted colonics appeared to be developing Parkinson's disease type symptoms. His wife talked him into colonics. By the 4th session, he was feeling better than he had in years and the symptoms were gone. He's a fan.
  
  
• Women who have developed symptoms after silicon breast implants use colon hydrotherapy to help to remove silicone from the body. It is thought that because the pore size of the envelope enclosing the implant is larger than most of the silicone molecules contained inside, molecules of silicone migrate beyond the membrane and become microdispersed throughout the body by the lymphatic system. The theory is that the body stores excess silicone in connective tissue giving rise to joint pains, dry eyes, fatigue, memory lapses, skin rashes and pigmentations, chest pain, muscle aches, drug intolerance, and chemical sensitivities.[1]
  
  
• We see a lot of constipation in Western civilization. We don't drink enough fluids. We are too sedentary, we have weakened abdominal muscles, and we don't take enough fiber in our diets. Overuse of some bowel stimulants can damage the nerves and walls of the colon and prevent it from functioning properly. Seriously ill patients tend to be chronically constipated which results in generalized toxemia. Pregnant women sometimes experience bouts of constipation. Colon hydrotherapy is the gentlest and most effective treatment to take care of a constipation problem.
  
  
• Colon hydrotherapy has a long history of being used in conjunction with traditional medical treatments to cleanse and detoxify colon, liver, kidney and lymphatic systems. We find that as patients repair and rebuild, large amounts of metabolic wastes and stored toxins are released.
  
  
• Colon hydrotherapy is a safe non-chemical alternative to the "clean out" preparations used prior to a colonoscopy exam. The FDA now requires "black box" warnings on many of the oral sodium phosphate medications because they are known to cause a severe form of injury to the kidneys called acute phosphate nephropathy. The FDA required stricter warnings even on non-prescription Fleet Phospho-soda, saying it should not be used to cleanse the bowel before a colonoscopy or other medical procedures.
  
  
• Colon hydrotherapy can be a safe alternative to surgery for bowel obstruction, if there is no sign of perforation of the bowel.

INFUSIONS

• We infuse probiotics – good flora – into the colon to rebalance the population of bacteria there. This is helpful to people whose diets have contributed to chronic illness, and it is particularly helpful to people with a yeast overgrowth.
  
  
• Glutamine – Edgar Casey fathered the idea of using the amino acid glutamine to heal the gut. Administering it directly into the colon heals symptoms of leaky gut.

ENEMAS

• Ayurvedic Basti herbal infusions are an integral part of Ayurvedic "Science of Life" from India. Herbs such as Ashwaghandha root and Slippery Elm are used to condition and soften while stimulating peristaltic action. Fusing this herbal concoction with the Colon Hydrotherapy is our unique method.
• We also use a Basti Enema containing a specific blend of sesame, castor and olive oils, to coat and soothe the intestinal wall, enhance the natural peristaltic action, and soften the stool, for easier passage. This formula is particularly good for constipation. People with IBS issues find it calms things down. Oil coats and soothes to texture and ease of passing.
• Coffee enemas are perhaps the most common because they are so useful. The Merck Manual advocated coffee enemas in all editions from 1898 through 1977, and many nursing texts routinely recommended coffee enemas.[3] Dr. Max Gerson famously introduced them into cancer therapy in the 1930s because they enhance liver function and in turn, eliminate toxic residues from environmental, chemotherapeutic, and other sources. Cancer patients often have a very large tumor burden, and as the body repairs and rebuilds and tumors break down, enormous amounts of toxic debris can be produced, much of which must be processed in the liver. Coffee enemas seem to enhance this processing of toxic metabolic waste.
  
  The caffeine does not enter the body's general circulation system as it does when you drink coffee so you do not get the jitters. In fact, many people notice a paradoxical calming effect. The caffeine goes straight to the liver where it generates a strong detoxifying agent called glutathione-S-transferase. Coffee also stimulates the liver to make more bile which draws out environmental and metabolic toxins, as well as the toxins from Candida albicans and other parasitic organisms. The liver is then stimulated to produce enzymes that clean the blood since it no longer needs to work as hard on the colon. The coffee in the enema never enters the bloodstream. We use only organic coffees, nothing containing herbicides and pesticides. We rinse with water after so as not to leave acidic residue in the colon.
• Castile soap is helpful for those who have severe constipation to irritate the colon walls and break things loose.
• We have a custom sterile lubricant formula that is soothing with almond oil, beeswax, and herbs that are particularly good for reduction of hemorrhoids on contact.

THE SKILLED THERAPIST

SERIES OF COLONICS

• Bio Impedance Analysis - measures the health of cells and the body composition of fat, muscle, and water
• NES Scan - assesses strengths and weaknesses of energy pathways that maintain homeostasis
• Evoked Photon Capture - a quantum physics measurement of the energy level at which the body is operating, both under stress and without stress
• Thermography - screening mechanism for breast cancer and painful inflammations that does not use unsafe radiation
• ALSO Includes one hour follow-up appointment with Dr Grout to go over Recommendations, as well as a 30-minute appointment with the nurses to talk about diet recommendations

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS