Enemas?!?!!! an article -

SHOULD YOU TAKE ENEMAS?

There is a great deal of controversy on the advisability ofenemas during fasting. There are some practitioners in the UnitedStates who condemn the use of enemas or colonic irrigationscompletely. They claim that enemas are unnecessary, unnatural,harmful and habit-forming. In their writings, the "antienemists"love to retort with the argument, "Animals do not take enemaswhen they fast. Why should man?"How could one respond to the above fatuous reasoning except bysaying that animals do not write books, give health lectures orengage in medical research either! In all fairness, however, itmust be said that "anti-chemists" are right in saying that enemasare unnatural and habit-forming. As a rule, enemas should not beused regularly or for prolonged periods, as, for example, aregular routine to cope with chronic constipation. The emptyingof your bowel is accomplished "naturally" by regular musclecontractions in the intestines, called peristalsis. Thesecontractions are started in healthy individuals by the specialdefecationreflex which is triggered by pressure from the filledrectum. The enema fills the rectum with water, and causes theartificial, strong pressure that triggers the defecationmechanism. If used regularly, enemas, with their instant andpowerful pressure, will weaken the natural sensitivity of themechanism; after a while, it will not readily respond to the moresubtle, natural stimulus. Therefore, those who make a daily habitof using enemas will find that their bowels have lost the naturalability to empty the wastes. Thus, enemas used regularly can beconsidered habit forming. However, the above reasoning has nothing to do with the use ofenemas during fasting. While virtually all European fastingspecialists warn against the regular use of enemas and colonics,they all agree that there are some important exceptions to thisrule. The most notable of these is fasting. (The other conditionswhere an enema is advised are acute constipation and acuteinfectious diseases, and when the patient is bedridden forprolonged periods, which, because of total lack of motion, causessluggishness in normal bowel movements.) During fasting, the natural stimulation of the defecationreflexfrom food is missing and therefore all the impurities, wastes andtoxins will remain in the body and may cause autotoxemia, orself-poisoning. The main purpose of fasting is to help the bodyto cleanse itself from accumulated toxic wastes. By the processof autolysis, a huge amount of morbid matter, dead cells anddiseased tissues are burned; and the toxic wastes which haveaccumulated in the tissues for years, causing disease andpremature aging, are loosened and expelled from the system. Thealimentary canal, the digestive and eliminative system, is themain road by which these toxins are thrown out of the body.Since, during fasting, the natural bowel movements cease to takeplace, the toxic wastes would have no way of leaving the system,except with the help of enemas. This is why virtually all biological doctors in Europe administerenemas to all fasting patients - once, twice and some even threetimes a day. Enemas during fasting will assist the body in itscleansing and detoxifying effort by washing out all the toxicwastes from the alimentary canal. Constipation is one of the most common ailments of civilized man. As a consequence of long-standing constipation, the digestivetract, particularly in the lower bowels and colon, becomes slackand stagnant with hardened residues clinging to the walls of thecolon and filling its many pockets and folds. This results inputrefaction and gas, forming a source of slow poisoning of thewhole body. Diverticulitis, a chronic condition where smallpouches and pockets of the colon are packed with feces, is one ofthe most common complaints of most people over 50, particularlywomen. Often the whole length of the colon is completely packedwith old, hardened fecal matter, cemented to the walls andpockets, leaving only a thin, narrow channel which enables softfeces to pass through. To let the patients fast without making aneffort to wash out this constant source of auto-intoxication, isindeed unwise. During fasting, copious amounts of toxins arereleased from the tissues and thrown into the bloodstream forelimination. If these toxins can not come out through thealimentary canal, the body will try to get them out through othereliminative organs, particularly through the kidneys which, as aresult, will often be overloaded and even damaged. All our fasting patients are given daily enemas in addition tocolonic irrigations once a week. To further assist the body inits detoxification and elimination processes, fasting patientsare given dry brush massage twice a day to stimulate theeliminative capacity of the skin, the biggest eliminative organ.Patients are also advised to walk and exercise in fresh air asmuch as possible to help the lungs in their blood-purificationwork.