Questions & Answers

1. What is Colon Hydrotherapy?

It is the gently infusion of filtered, temperature-contolled water, into the colon, by the way of a sterile-disposable rectal tube or speculum. Water goes in, and fecal matter is flushed out.

Colon Hydrotherapy is referred to as colon irrigation, colonics, colon therapy, or high enemas. All these are names for Colon Hydrotherapy.

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2. What is the colon?

The colon is the last five feet of the digestive tract. It is a hollow, tube like organ made up of a muscle structure that moves digested food along by a wavelike motion known as peristaltic action.

The colon is the living area for a host of bacteria that produce vitamins such as K and some B vitamins.

The colon also absorbs water, nutrients, proteins and cell salts back into the blood stream.

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3. Is Colon Hydrotherapy painful?

An impacted colon can cause discomfort, and cramping may occur as the colon contracts to expel waste. Once the major impaction is removed, many actually find a session pleasant.

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4. Is it embarrassing?

NO. Your dignity is completely maintained with proper draping in a private room.

The odor from regular bowel movements does not exist with Colon Hydrotherapy.

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5. What should I do before a session?

It may be more comfortable to refrain from eating at least two hours before your scheduled appointment. For best results, prepare a diet of vegetables and grains.

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6. Will laxatives or enemas accomplish the same results?

To clean out the lower part of the colon, enemas are fine. But you are missing about four feet of the colon.

Laxatives are an irritant to the body. In response, the body produces a thin, watery substance that goes through the colon and leaves behind impacted toxins and waste.

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07. How many sessions are recommended?

I believe that a series of twelve sessions is best.

• Two the first week (one today, one tomorrow),
• two the second week,
• and one a week for the next eight weeks.

The reason for that is the body is exceptionallly smart. When we clean out the colon, the body starts pulling waste out of the tissue and putting it into the blood stream. The waste heads for the liver, then back to the colon.

Therefore, the second Colon Hydrotherapy session is necessary so that the digested waste is eliminated rather than reabsorbed.

The same reason applies to the following two the second week. After the first four, I recommend one a week for the next eight weeks. This slows down the detoxification to a gentler and more tolerable rate.

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8. How can I cleanse my colon?

One of the safest ways is a combination of diet, exercise and Colon Hydrotherapy.

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9. Why is this important?

The colon is a reflex organ, meaning there are electrical connections to other parts and systems of the body.

When waste material has accumulated over a long period of time it breaks down and becomes toxic. The body responds by slowing down other functions. This causes constipation and sluggish bowel movements, which affect all other systems of the body.

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10. What signs show inefficient elimination?

The most miserable people on the earth are people with inefficient elimination.

Some of the signs of a toxic colon are: coated tongue, fetid breath, shallow complexion, abnormal body odor, dark circles under the eyes, cold hands and feet, brittle nails and hair, sagging posture (pot belly), tension, fatigue, allergies, indigestion, chronic headaches, irritability, nervousness, nausea, depression, asthma and backaches.

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11. What about water dehydration?

In addition to the normal amount of absorption taking place in the colon, the body absorbs extra water as needed at a rate the body sets.

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12. How is Colon Hydrotherapy different?

A safe Colon Hydrotherapy session provides the gentle infusion of filtered, temperature-controlled water into the colon, which fills the colon, allowing impacted toxins and waste to be removed.

With an experienced, Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, more toxins and waste can be eliminated by working the different meridians and pressure points, and by instructing you on breathing techniques.

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13. What can I expect from Colon Hydrotherapy?

Colon Hydrotherapy is not a cure, but a valuable procedure used to assist the body for a wide variety of different colon-related conditions.

By retoning the bowel, this may improve colon functions, so the entire body should be able to function more efficiently.

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14. What other benefits may I expect from Colon Hydrotherapy

Common effects are: sinus drainage, a loosening of mucus in the lungs, improved range of motion, as well as skin-tightening, feeling younger, posture automatically improving, abdomen softening and getting smaller, a relief from headaches, less fatigue and improving bowel function.

The main benefit received is that we remove the number one source of disease in the body.

The bowel works more efficiently in the elimination of waste, and nutrient absorption is improved.

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15. Why is my medical doctor unaware?

Few medical doctors treat the whole person, they are specialists in a particular field. Their training is treating symptoms of disease.

Up until about 1920, doctors and chiropractors had Colonic equipment in their offices. Then along came antibiotics, from then on it was easier for them to prescribe.

Recently, there has been revived interest in using natural methods for healing the body. Colon Hydrotherapy is regaining respectability and popularity.

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16. What if I'm having my period?

Colon Hydrotherapy is perfectly safe during this time, and will probably decrease the cramps which accompany a period.

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17. Can Colon Hydrotherapy improve the bacteria balance in my body?

Perhaps in two ways:

1. One way is to remove the toxins so the beneficial bacteria may have a cleaner house to live in
2. The second way is to reintroduce the Bifidus Bacteria that normally populates the colon (Bifidus available at Health Food Stores).

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18. How can I improve my nutritional program?

One of the most important things you can do is to omit toxic substances such as coffee, tea, chocolate, salt, pepper, alcohol, over the counter drugs and synthetic vitamins.

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19. What are the signs or symptoms when we first begin to omit toxic substances and begin to clean out the colon?

When a regular diet of stimulates such as coffee, tea, chocolate, and others are eliminated from your diet, some clients comment about headaches, and let down and sometimes even mild depression.

This is usually when cleansing of the colon helps. That is why Colon Hydrotherapy is recommended with back-to-back sessions the first two weeks.

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20. Why do the symptoms or signs happen?

This is due to the discard by the body of the toxins which are removed from the tissue and transported by the blood to the liver and then the colon for eliminations.

All the symptoms generally pass by the third or fourth session of Colon Hydrotherapy. Clients often tell me their energy level is very high after the second session.

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21. Is Colon Hydrotherapy habit-forming?

Colon Hydrotherapy retrains the muscle or the bowel to regain strength. After a series, most people regain the normal bowel function of one or more bowel movements per day.

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22. After a session, how might I expect to feel?

Most people remark on how clean and light they feel. "Like I just took a bath inside!"

Increased energy and feelings of well-being are the common responses.

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23. Will Colon Hydrotherapy help even though I have suffered from constipation for a long time?

According to Dr. John Kellog, M.D., Founder of Kellogg Cereals, "The cause of a disease so universal in civilized communities must be very numerous to produce this condition in so great a number of people living under many different conditions and with different habits of life. In general, it may be said that the cause of constipation are abnormal habits or conditions of life, the result of what we call civilization. Primitive man rarely suffered from constipation!" Dr. Kellogg said adults are more likely to suffer from constipation than children, although the malady begins early in life. He further states that women are more subject than men to intestinal activity. In fact, he said four-fifths of all women suffer from constipation from their youth, onward. Briefly summarizing the several acts by which the colon empties are:

1. Contraction of the diaphragm-occurs in deep breathing.
2. Contraction of the abdominal muscle.
3. Pressure of the thighs against the abdomen (As in squatting postition assumed by primitive man).
4. Reflex contraction of the abdominal muscles.
5. Contraction of the colon.
6. Relaxation of the anus.
7. Contraction of the levator-ani muscles.

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24. Will Colon Hydrotherapy affect the bacteria that resides in the colon?

In the early part of the century it was found that more than one hundred and sixty different species of bacteria have been found in the colon. Of these, more than one-third were found to possess pathogenic, or disease-producing, properties.

Dr. Kellogg, M.D. points out more than twenty species of putrefactive bacteria which are found in the stool of flesh-eaters, all of which produce very highly toxic products. One of the most common and abundant of these is the bacillus of Welch wich produces enormous quantities of offensive gas and highly active poison.

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25. How much time is required for a Colon Hydrotherapy session?

The first session may take longer than the follow up sessions. Plan about an hour and a half for the first session. The actual session time is usually between thirty and forty-five minutes.

After the first session, the body will know what to expect and become more relaxed.

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26. What about the water used for Colon Hydrotherapy?

Most Colon Hydrotherapists use city water that is filtered through a charcoal filter and ultraviolet water purification unit. FDA-cleared equiptment will provide the necessary filters and ultraviolet purification units for your safety. Distilled water can be used if the client prefers, at an additional cost, but is generally not recommended.

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27. Will one session of Colon Hydrotherapy do the job?

One session will empty part of the colon. As many doctors have written in health books, I also recommend two sessions the first week (back to back), two sessions the second week, and one a week for the next eight weeks. After the fifth session, I have found that the colon starts to release the old sludge. After twelve sessions, most clients return every couple of months for maintenance purposes. Each person will feel their own need to return.

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28. What effects will Colon Hydrotherapy have on my skin, allergies, etc.?

My clients report the Colon Hydrotherapy has cleared up acne, allergies, as well as asthma. They also tell me about the increase in energy, and how calm they feel.

Colon Hydrotherapy is not a cure, but a valuable procedure for a wide variety of health problems. By retoning and improving elimination, we remove the number one source of disease in the body.

In addition, we open up the bowel to a more effecient means of waste elimination and nutrient absorption, both of which are essential to any lasting healing process.

This is also the first step towards normalizing the bowel so that the friendly bacteria will return to keep the colon safe from putrifications and any further autointoxication.

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