There is no such thing as censure anymore. Television and radio talk shows now freely and openly discuss sex, pornography, homosexuality, profanity, and even the most sordid perversions - anything goes! Boundaries and limitations no longer seem to exist.

Surprisingly there remains one subject that is still a taboo. This subject has not yet been featured on any of our television freak shows, or written up in any of our national scandal sheets. Your closest friend won’t talk about it. Stand up comedian won’t joke about it. Most families won’t discuss it even in the privacy of their own homes. Most people won’t even bring the subject up to their family doctor.

Because this subject really should be discussed openly and freely, it may well go down in history as the most mindless taboo that ever existed in our country.

Last year tens of thousands of Americans died needlessly because of this taboo and millions have been hospitalized. If this subject was openly discussed, instead of foolishly tabooed, we would be a lot healthier as individuals and as a nation.

I want to introduce you to this taboo because it’s one of the most important organs in your body. It is your primary organ of elimination. When it is working efficiently all other organs are able to work efficiently.

The name of this organ is the “colon.” In naturopathic medicine we believe both health and disease, life and death, all begin in the colon.

Because colon health and bowel management is such a taboo in America, ignorance rules this subject. Last year 250,000 Americans had their filthy, rotten, diseased colons surgically removed. These people will walk around with a dirty, stinking, messy bag tied to their side for the rest of their lives.

At the age of 115, Dr. Norman Walker said, “There is no such condition as extreme when it comes to preventing the surgical amputation (colostomy) of one’s colon.”

This book is written with the purpose of putting this mindless taboo to rest and to help prevent constipation and other conditions of the bowel that eventually lead to rectal/colon cancer and the preventable tragedy of a colostomy.

A few years ago I had an actress come to me who lives in New York City. She had gained over 25 pounds in less than a month. She was having a problem with her producer because her body changed during her latest movie production.

She told me that she hadn’t had a bowel movement in three weeks. I asked her if she told this to her primary care physician and she said that her doctor told her, “This is perfectly normal. There is nothing wrong with your bowel, and you are perfectly healthy as this is your normal cycle.”

Her laboratory tests confirmed what appeared obvious, her colon was backed up like a Chinese fire drum. This condition was due to faulty eating habits, junk food, devitalized food, fast food, lack of distilled water, lack of fiber, lack of enzymes, lack of minerals, lack of vitamins, and tremendous stress working as an actress.

Our age prides itself on its openness. Subjects that used to be discussed only in private have become part of the public

We put her on a series of colonics., one a day for three days. Then one a week for twelve weeks. This was followed by a maintenance program of one colonic treatment a month. We put her on a diet and natural food supplement program based on her individual biochemistry.

She lost 29 pounds, and her physical and mental energy increased dramatically. She completed her assignment and has since gone on to a successful career. She has three bowel movements a day and has never gained as much as a pound of weight back.

At the time I felt like calling this woman’s doctor and asking him, “What cycle are you referring to doctor?.” But since that time I’ve had hundreds of patients tell me similar stories. Last week a concerned mother of an eleven year old boy came in after $5000 in cat scans, upper G.I. tests, lower G.I. tests, x-rays, sigmoidoscopies, colonoscopies, drug medicines, and specialists. The boy was in constant abdominal pain. He couldn’t go to school for three months. The doctors said, “We can’t find anything wrong with him.” He didn’t have a bowel movement for three months. A few colonic treatments later the boy was back in school.

It seems that we have been inflicted with a generation of medical doctor who are suffering from bowel ignorance. This ignorance has trickled down into all segments of our society. Most grandmothers of two short generations ago were more bowel conscious and made more common sense than most of today’s physicians.

Grandmother knew that the bowel was the key to most illnesses. If the bowel is blocked no system of the body can be expected to function optimally. When the body is sick the bowel is the safest and surest place to start. Grandmother instinctively knew this.

Today’s physicians treat the colon as if it was not an integral part of the body. Our doctors have become so specialized that they have forgotten that our Creator made the body as a whole entity, not a mixture of independent parts.

The mainstream medical profession for the last fifty years has treated the colon as if it were an old cesspool disconnected from the human body located in the backyard. This was not always the case. Up until about 1950 osteopaths were naturopathic doctors and most medical doctors had at least some training in naturopathic principles. Back then many family doctors administered colon hydrotherapy treatments right in their offices. Today we would be hard pressed to find one doctor in twenty that could give a satisfactory explanation of what colon hydrotherapy is and its medical benefits.

Back then doctors weren’t so quick to give shots and write prescriptions. They stood fast to their oath of Hippocrates, “Do the patient no harm.” They understood that all drugs are toxic and carry with them the potential for long term harm.

Doctors then looked to the bowel first, if something was bothering the patient. Drugs were usually last. If a patient came in with a stomach ache they would administer a good colonic. If the patient had a headache they would start with a colonic. The same would apply if they had PMS symptoms, backache, knee ache, skin condition, bloating, indigestion, gas, constipation, colitis, cold, cough, sore throat, sinus problems, nervousness, fatigue, confusion, hypoglycemia, and many other everyday symptoms. The medical doctor of the past started with a good cleaning out. The colon was the starting point.

Why did doctors do this? Because with the great majority of patients that usually was all that was necessary. The symptoms disappeared or were greatly relieved with the reduction of stress due to toxicity.

Both doctors and grandmothers understood that a faulty colon, just like a faulty cesspool when it gets backed up, can affect the entire house. A backed up colon can affect every gland, organ, system, nerve, and cell of your body.

Every body part is dependent on proper and efficient irrigation of its waste by-product. The colon is responsible for eliminating the largest volume of waste in the entire body. It only makes sense if the colon is not functioning properly that no other organ of the body can function properly.

Today’s doctors are trained so well in drug medicine that they have forgotten the bowel. Physicians used to be the ones who gave “physics.” They have forsaken their moorings. No longer do doctors relate the colon to any other system of the body. They see no connection between the colon and the whole.

The fact remains, the health of every system of the body is directly related to the colon. The colon should be the first organ of the body that is addressed in any healing program. Unfortunately most doctors don’t talk to their patients about their colons until it’s time to cut their colons out.

MORE LOSS OF TIME FROM WORK THAN ANY OTHER CAUSE

The colon is the direct and indirect cause of more disability and loss of time from work than any other cause. Your intestinal tract begins at your lips and ends at your anus. When the colon is not functioning properly, the entire intestinal tract is affected.

Hiatal hernias, peptic ulcers, gastric ulcers, gastritis, stomach cancer, hepatitis, Chrohn’s disease, gallstones, tumors, hemorrhoids, appendicitis, colitis, diverticulitis, pancreatitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, pancreas cancer, diarrhea, and constipation are some of the many diseases directly related to the colon. Digestive disorders associated with the colon comprise one sixth of all hospital admissions. Over 50% of all cancer originate from a toxic colon. There is no condition that can disassociate itself from the colon. The healthier the colon the healthier all other organs of the body will be.

Many naturopathic doctors believe that death begins in the colon. The colon is considered the sewage system of the body. A lifetime of eating junk food and fast foods, inactivity, mineral depletion, enzyme deficiency, insufficient water drinking, coffee consumption, alcohol consumption, taking laxatives, overstuffing, and other abuses and neglect can cause this perfect sewage system to back up. Everything else then will back up and soon one discovers that he has a named disease or several diseases. Many degenerative types of diseases can result from a clogged colon. On his 115th birthday Doctor Norman Walker gave us some advice on how to prevent disease. “Trust God, avoid junk foods, eat natural raw foods, exercise, and keep your colon clean.”

At age 50 Dr. Norman Walker was told to get his affairs in order because he had three months to live. Dr. Walker went on a juice fast, changed his lifestyle, and began taking colonics. He took a colonic a week for sixty five years. He out lived all his medical doctors. At age one hundred and fifteen he wrote a book
named “Health Is In The Colon.” He lived in Arizona until he was almost one hundred and twenty years of age. He attributed his health, energy, and longevity to colonics and a healthy lifestyle.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY CORRECTS SLUGGISHNESS OF THE LIVER, GALL BLADDER, PANCREAS, AND SPLEEN

The liver is the main filtration organ of the body. The hepatic (liver) portal vein drains the gastrointestinal tract, gall bladder, pancreas, and spleen.

The liver is a powerful organ designed to detoxify any poisons present and remove then from the system. The problem arises when toxins are present in too great a quantity to adequately be handled by the liver. Phenol, indican, skatol escape the liver’s detoxifying action and back up into the lymph and circulatory systems affecting every organ, gland, and system of your body. Most lymph, gall bladder, pancreas, and spleen problems can be traced to an inefficient colon.

When an unusual burden is placed on the liver, as with any other organ of the body, a breakdown occurs that affects the body as a whole. When the liver is overwhelmed this type of breakdown results in an increased absorption of toxic substances. Should this condition remain uncorrected the body slowly begins to poison itself. In naturopathic medicine we call this condition autointoxication.

The orthodox medical profession doesn’t recognize such a condition as autointoxication. They prefer to use 26,000 names for 26,000 different medical conditions that all result from autointoxication.

With the typical American junk food, devitalized food, processed food, foodless food diet, overmedication, overeating, and stress the majority of Americans suffer from some degree of autointoxication.

Colon hydrotherapy (colonics) is the only therapeutic measure that effectively addresses the source of the problem. All other measures, fiber, laxatives, naturopathic detoxification, enemas, acidophilus, raw juices, and dietary change are all important and must be included in a total bowel management program, but do not get down at the cause of the problem. Orthodox medical measures only treat symptoms and provide only temporary relief of bowel related problems at best.

In colon stasis, the putrefactive toxins may saturate tissue fluids causing structural and functional changes as a result. When the secondary detoxification powers of the liver and kidneys are overwhelmed by an impacted bowel, the lymph and other tissue fluids become even more saturated, resulting in a lowering of the body’s resistance and overall immune response.

Colon hydrotherapy cleanses and dilutes the toxic load in the colon resulting in a reduced burden on the liver, pancreas, gall bladder, and spleen. As a result of lowering the body’s total levels of toxicity, all other eliminative organs of the body experience a rejuvenating effect. This detoxifying effect allows the immunological system to restore internal balance. Bio-energy required to neutralize toxins becomes freed up and redirects to the healing and restoration process. The end result is improved health, energy, and vitality is experienced by the individual. All this as a result of cleaning the colon!

 

The lymphatic system is the body’s front line defense system against foreign invaders. Like a sponge it absorbs fluid toxins and potentially harmful bacteria and removes them from the body.

Lymph nodes, like terminal stations, are distributed throughout the body Most people don’t think too much about their lymph system until the lymph nodes in the neck, breast, groin, and arm pits swell up or the doctor says that you have lymphoma, Hodgkins, or some other disease of the lymph system.

What few orthodox drug, radiation, and surgery doctors even talk about is the relationship between the lymphatic system and the colon. What seems so easily forgotten in our world of wonder drugs, special procedures, and cut, cut, cut , drug, drug, drug society is that both the colon and the lymphatic systems serve as elimination organs.

Why do you think the lymph receptor points swell up? It is because your body is overwhelmed with garbage! The lymph nodes are telling you that you are loaded to the hilt. So loaded that your body is backed up to the point that it is dumping into receptor sites.

Now where do you think this garbage is coming from? Is it because you lack radiation? Is your body deficient in some drug? Did your Creator make a mistake that requires that your lymph nodes be cut out?

The garbage is coming from your colon and liver, it’s are backing up, the lymph is doing its job, it’s absorbing toxins like a sponge, but even the best sponge in the world can only sop up so much.

We hear a lot today in the alternative health field about lymphatic drainage, lymphatic massage, herbs for the lymphatic system, and rebound exercise for moving the lymph. We believe and employ all these modalities in our naturopathic medical practice as an adjutant to colon hydrotherapy, but not a substitute.

The fastest way to drain the lymph is to clean your colon. A dirty colon will find its way into the lymphatic system. When the lymphatic system is backed up the colon is really backed up. Lymphatic congestion is a sign of toxicity. Colonics are the best preventive medicine known for maintaining a healthy lymph system.

Much of our bloating, puffiness, red streaks on the surface of the skin, ankle, leg and arm swelling, sudden weight gain, and fluid retention is a toxic condition being neutralized and absorbed by the lymph system. When the bowel is not working efficiently and in a timely fashion, the lymphatic system is forced to work overtime.

Hormones, enzymes, and other essential nutrients are transported through the lymph. When the lymphatic system becomes congested due to a toxic overload from the bowel, hormones, enzymes, and other systems are also affected. It is for that reason we believe in naturopathic medicine that health and disease, life and death, all begin in the colon.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COLON HYDROTHERAPY

 

Colon hydrotherapy or colonics. Colon Lavage was first recorded 1500 B.C. in the ancient Egyptian document, Ebers Papyrus, which dealt with the practice of medicine.

Unfortunately most medical schools have forgotten their own history and have long forsaken the natural treatments that have withstood the test of time. If it’s not drugs, drugs, and more drugs, it’s not modern day medicine according to orthodoxy. However, thinking people are causing the tide to change.

Hippocrates, the father of modern day medicine, in the fourth century B.C., recorded using colonics for correcting fevers and hundreds of other medical conditions. Colon hydrotherapy was taught in all the ancient Greek medical schools. How silly it is for medical doctors not to understand their own history. Galen in the second century A.D. was a proponent of colonics for just about every known medical condition of that day. Pare, in 1600 A.D., offered the first medical distinction between colon hydrotherapy and enemas. A subject that most modern day medical doctors would have difficulty explaining.

Colon therapy since the turn of the century has experienced periods of popularity alternating with periods of reaction. At times everyone was doing colonics and at other times few people were doing them.

The factors that contributed mainly to this ambivalence primarily was due to the administration of colon hydrotherapy by untrained, unskilled, nonprofessionals. At one time anyone with a hose was doing colonics. This was very detrimental to its professional growth as a viable therapy, because it couldn’t be recommended by most medical doctors because they did not control the process.

This changed about 1910 when the therapy gained the attention of such physicians as James A. Wiltsie M.D., and Joseph E.G. Waddington M.D.. A great value was placed on the therapeutic benefits of this modality.

The philosophy attributed to colon hydrotherapy by tens of thousands of medical doctors of this era was depicted by Dr. Waddington: “Abnormal functioning of the intestinal canal is the precursor of much ill health, especially of chronic disease conditions. Restoration of physiologic intestinal elimination is often the first, but too often ignored, important preliminary to eventual restoration of health in general.”

Dr. Wilsie contended that: “Our knowledge of the normal and abnormal physiology of the colon, and of its pathology and management has not kept pace with that of many organs and systems of the body. As long as we continue to assume that the colon will take care of itself, just that long will we remain in complete ignorance of perhaps the most important source of ill health in the whole body.”

Oh, if only our medical profession of today have remembered what was taught by their profession in the medical schools of 1910. How much healthier our nation would be today. It seems that in our smugness we threw the baby out with the bath water. In Short: 3500 years of accumulative knowledge of naturopathic medicine was wisped away by one generation of so called medical science. How silly... How stupid... How dumb... How foolish...!

Even the Bible has something to say about this form of foolishness. “God has deliberately chosen to use ideas the world considers foolish and of little worth in order to shame those people considered by the world as wise and great. He has chosen a plan despised by the world, counted as nothing at all and used it to bring down to nothing those the world considered great” (1 Corinthians 1:27 L.B.).

Through misconception, misunderstanding, and preconceived emotionalism, on the part of those who control our medical profession, controversy over colon hydrotherapy has continued to prevail. History has proven that there is an incredible value to this modality or it would have been conclusively withdrawn from the medical market place like blood letting leeches, and quicksilver were. Intelligent people seek out colon hydrotherapy services because it makes a lot of sense. It helps hundreds of different conditions. It reduces toxicity and they feel better from the treatment.

With the modern technological advancement of manufacturers like Toxegen, Doltola Research, and others, colon hydrotherapy instrumentation has been made so safe that it is fair to state that it is “idiot proof.” Even safer than a home enema and almost impossible to do harm.

Sanitation is also now guaranteed with disposable hose, speculums, gloves, and sheets. Cross bacteria contamination is impossible with the modern equipment because it is designed with two separate lines. One brings the fresh filtered water in and the other line takes the waste product to the sewer. Everything has been thought through in advance.

Although osteopathic and medical schools do not teach colon hydrotherapy, chiropractic and naturopathic school still teach it. The education and skills learned in these two semester courses by naturopathic doctors is then transferred to the therapists administering the colon hydrotherapy.

In New Jersey colon hydrotherapy is considered a medical procedure and can only be performed legally under medical supervision of a licensed medical doctor.

Because medical schools do not teach colon hydrotherapy, few medical doctors believe in them. This has created an illegal underground marketplace for colonics. In New Jersey most colonics are performed illegally in the underground.

This fact has created an even bigger dilemma. How can the mainstream ever accept a modality performed in the underground?

People would like to get reimbursed by their insurance carrier for colonics. Some doctors may even see the need to recommend this service, but how can they make such a referral?

The underground administration of colonics created another problem. How can we ever get the scientific research necessary to have this therapy accepted?

How does the State Board of Health regulate or supervise the underground? Suppose someone in the underground couldn’t afford the proper equipment and decided to make their own machine like the so called “Woods system?” Or for the sake of saving $15 on each treatment, decided not to invest in disposable hoses, speculums, gloves, and sheets? Or maybe they decided to read a book on how to administer a colonic or take a weekend “Woods course in colonics,” rather than being trained by a doctor of naturopathic medicine who went to school for five years? Also just suppose an underground therapist didn’t know the counter indications for colon hydrotherapy and gave the treatment to a person they should not have? Can you see the problems? This has been an uphill battle that colon hydrotherapy has had over the last one hundred years. This therapy that goes back as far as the ancient Egyptians is still relatively unknown and misunderstood as we enter the twenty first century.

At Abunda Life colon hydrotherapy has always been an integral part of our total therapeutic program since 1964. We have seen people’s lives transform as a result of this treatment. We have been successful in having medical doctors on our staff who believe in the treatment and are willing to supervise its administration.

PRINCIPLES, PRACTICE, AND THEORY OF  COLON HYDROTHERAPY

 

Every medical procedure in history is backed by a theory. Most medical theories are never proven. Angeoplasty and bypass surgery are two modern day examples of medical procedures that have never been proven. Most medical procedures and theories are eventually replaced with new procedures and theories. We often look back and ask “How could we have been so foolish?” Proving again that hindsight is always clearer than foresight. Unlike most medical procedures, the theory of colon hydrotherapy has never been replaced. It has been time tested and proven over 3500 years of medical history. To date we have never asked ourselves “How could we have been with thousands and thousands of medical modalities?” In every generation colon hydrotherapy has always made sense.

Colon hydrotherapy is a greatly extended and much more complete type of enema. In water volume alone one colonic is equal to forty or fifty enemas. Whereas a pint to a quart is used in an enema, 8-10-12 or even 15 gallons of water is used in a modern day colonic.

Water is nature’s universal cleanser, softener, neutralizer, and purifier. The clonic moves out the sluggish feces, cleans out the impacted diverticular pockets and begins to soften months and years of hardened plaque. Water has been known to soften and break stone over a period of time. That’s exactly what it begins to do inside the walls of the colon. The treatment continually brings water safely up the entire length of the colon and brings it comfortably back down without the necessity of sitting on a toilet.

The warm water removes strata on strata, layer after layer of hardened fecal material from the walls of the colon, while it dilutes harmful bacteria and toxic concentrations in the large intestine. This cleansing effect reduces stagnation and subsequent bacterial proliferation and also maintains harmony of the intestinal flora while promoting optimal colon health.

The cleansing, purifying, and detoxifying aspect of colon hydrotherapy is widely understood by both health care practitioners and the lay public. What comes as a surprise to most people is the long term therapeutic effects of this form of treatment.

The great majority of American’s colons have become very flaccid over a lifetime. This lack of muscle tome is due to many contributing factors including; lack of fiber, lack of pure water, lack of enzymes, overeating, junk foods, devitalized foods, paste like foods, overmedication, alcohol, drugs, laxatives, antibiotics, lack of exercise, internalization of stress, and faulty living habits.

These contributing factors cause a glue like affect to take place on the walls of the colon and bowel pockets to get impacted. If this condition is not corrected the muscles in the colon lose their tone. Left uncorrected the colon’s natural peristalsis becomes increasingly diminished and eventually lost.

Colon hydrotherapy not only corrects this dilemma but reduces stagnation, exercises and strengthens the muscles of the colon. As months and years of this toxic glue like material is removed, the colon begins to restore its natural peristalsis.

This is good news for those who have suffered with chronic constipation because colon hydrotherapy is the only therapy that addresses the cause of this condition. The naturopathic medicine definition of constipation is less than three bowel movements per day - one for each meal.

The theory of colon hydrotherapy conforms to the ageless principles of detoxification. When we reduce the total level of toxicity, we are getting down to the rock bottom cause of most disease conditions. In naturopathic medicine we believe that toxicity is the common denominator of all disease. Colon hydrotherapy reduces the body’s total level of toxicity.

Although naturopathic detoxification goes way beyond colon hydrotherapy, involving the entire body, it is part of the total detoxification process. If you understand the principle of detoxification you understand colon hydrotherapy. In fact the science of naturopathy.

When the colon is working efficiently digestion is unincumbered and nutrition is able to work efficiently. In naturopathic medicine we believe that it is impossible for nutrition to work efficiently in a toxic body.

One of the primary differences between nutritional medicine is that we start with the detoxification process before nutritional therapy. Medical nutrition does not address the issue of detoxification.

Many nutritional doctors are prescribing tons of good natural vitamins that are simply not working because the body is toxic. The basic naturopathic principle is: nutrition can not work efficiently in a toxic body.

A toxic body is usually the result of a toxic colon. There’s no getting around the colon because it’s the main organ of elimination. Medical doctors have tried to do an end run for decades around the colon and they have failed. Now we have nutritional doctors trying to do the same thing. The colon must be addressed if it is not working efficiently, because nutrition will not work efficiently if it is not.

We must face the facts. If the colon is blocked, digestion will be blocked in direct proportion. If digestion is faulty even the best nutritional therapy in the world will be compromised.

If the cells of the body are toxic, the best therapy in the world will fail to achieve its potential. A dirty colon is responsible for more degenerative disease than any other single factor. All disease, remember, must have a host to exist. Disease can not exist in a healthy body. There is no better host in the world than a dirty, backed up, toxic colon.

Rectal/colon cancer is a leading cancer killer in America. It is the direct result of the typical American diet that is high in saturated fat, low in fiber, high in poisons, low in enzymes, high in sugar, and low in essential nutrients.

Rectal/colon cancer is 100% preventable. In some countries of the world this disease is nonexistent. I America we are overstuffed and undernourished. The average American eats four times what they are able to assimilate and utilize and its deficient in fiber and essential nutrients.

When morbific material sits in the colon it begins to putrefy and rot. Over a lifetime it begins to eat away at the colon.

Periodic cleansing of the colon would minimize the exposure of potential carcinogens to the delicate colon tissue. Colon hydrotherapy will dilute the toxin concentration in the colon and facilitate the removal of encrusted toxic material. The result is a reduced load on the portal (liver) and lymphatic system, allowing all the body’s elimination channels to open up its full detoxification potentials.

When the bowel is blocked, even partially, it slows down the body’s entire detoxification process. Other eliminative organs are capable of working overtime for a while, but no matter how strong these other organs of the body may be, the kidneys, lungs, lymph, liver, and skin were not designed to do what only the colon is able to do.

Most skin conditions, kidney disorders, lymphatic congestion, liver sluggishness, and blood disorders are the direct result of a toxic colon.

Colon hydrotherapy is the most direct approach to correcting most kidney disorders because the kidneys, like the colon, is an eliminative organ. Reduce the body’s total level of toxicity and you reduce the stress placed on the kidneys.

Most skin conditions are directly or indirectly related to the colon. Both are elimination organs. If toxins aren’t being eliminated in a timely fashion, by way of the colon, the body will automatically seek out an alternative eliminative channel. Most skin conditions that have a medical name attached to then are basically toxins backed up from the colon attempting to eliminate through the skin.

The primary function of the metabolism is to eliminate toxins. This requires a tremendous amount of bio-energy. A tired body is a toxic body. Most undue fatigue is associated with faulty elimination and a toxic overload. When the body’s precious bio-energy must be spent to neutralize toxins, to prevent the body from poisoning itself, there’s little physical or mental energy leftover for anything else. The body is very conservative. It is not going to spend its vital resources needed for survival.

The lungs are connected to the colon. If the colon is not eliminating efficiently the lungs will attempt to pick up the slack. Most respiratory problems can be traced back to a faulty colon. That’s the root source of most nonsmoking respiratory problems. Clean the colon and you reduced the body’s total level of toxicity, thereby reducing the stress on the lungs, bronchials, and respiratory system.

Like the kidneys the liver is the body’s filtration system. It is responsible for keeping the blood clean. When the colon becomes backed up it becomes impossible for the liver to filter properly. It becomes overwhelmed. Toxins back up into the blood stream affecting every organ, gland, system, and cell of the body and the brain.

The chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If the colon is toxic, the blood will eventually become toxic. If the blood is toxic every organ, gland, and system of your body is affected.

In naturopathic medicine we believe the strong organs of the body will take care of themselves. It is the inherently weak systems of the body that we are concerned about because toxins will gravitate to the weakest tissue.

If you have a weak heart toxins will gravitate to it. If you have a weak immune system, toxins will gravitate to that area. If you have a weak nervous system, toxins will affect your behavior and/or your neurology and/or your brain.

There is no system of the body that is not affected by toxins. We believe most disease is the result of toxic overwhelm.

We believe in naturopathic medicine that the first place to begin treating and preventing disease is by reducing toxicity. When we reduce toxicity we free up the bio-energy that is required to fight toxins. When bio-energy is released the body has the vitality it requires to heal it self.

There is no condition known to medical science that can not be helped with a colonic, because colonics reduce toxicity. We believe the place to start fighting disease is with a colonic. The first place to start preventing disease is with a colonic.

Everyone can benefit from a good colon cleansing. It can do no harm to wash out the colon. The benefits of a series of colonics can be life transforming.

Dr. Harvey Kellogg operated on 25,000 colons. He said he never saw a healthy colon and that everyone would benefit greatly by going through a series of colonics followed by a lifetime maintenance program of one colonic a month.

95 year old Dr. Bernard Jensen said, “Everything is connected to the colon.” Just the opposite of our modern day drug doctors who seem to be telling us that nothing is connected to the colon. Dr. Jensen overcame cancer recently for the third time in his life without chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or drugs. He did it 100% natural. He always starts with the colon.

Dr. Norman Walker was supposed to die at age 50. His doctors told him to get his affairs in order because he only had three months to live. He went on a naturopathic detoxification program accompanied by colon hydrotherapy. Part of his changed lifestyle was taking a colonic every week. He took colonics for 68 years, and outlived all those who pronounced his death in three months. He died in Arizona at the age of 118.

Dr. Walker taught that the place to start any health improvement program was by taking a series of colonics. A clean colon will manifest itself in a clean blood stream.

Colon hydrotherapy not only removes impactions, parasites, intestinal fatuous, and cellular debris, but cleanses and rejuvenates the portion of the immune system that resides in the intestinal tract.

The fastest way to improve the body’s immune system is to clean the colon. The best way to depress the immune system is by ignoring the importance of a clean colon to the immune system and the rest of the body, and attempting to do an end run around the colon, like the orthodox drug doctors have been trying to do for two generations by substituting drugs, drugs, and more drugs for a clean colon.

The therapy of colon hydrotherapy is based on the ageless principle of naturopathic medicine known as detoxification. For the last 120 years this principle has been in direct opposition of the germ theory of disease expostulated by Louis Pasteur. What is not taught in medical schools or to the general public is that Pasture later completely renounced his theory. Even on his death bed he said, “The germ is nothing the terrain is everything.”

A disease germ must have a host to exist. Germs thrive in a toxic body. The orthodox medical profession’s solution for the last 120 years has been to drug the germs. As the drugs mutate and grow more resistant, stronger and stronger drugs must be used. Every drug is an immune suppressant. This means that the stronger the drug the weaker the immune system becomes. As our immune systems become more and more irreparably suppressed, we become totally dependant on so called medical science for survival.

We believe that our Creator designed our immune systems for a preordained purpose. We do not believe they should be drugged into suppression. We believe any medical or any science that does not conform to God’s natural and revealed laws, is not a true science. We believe much of what we call medical science is a false science based on false principles.

The naturopathic medicine solution to germs is to simply clean up the internal environment and give the germs no host. Keep the body free form toxins and germs will have no host.

This is what colon hydrotherapy is all about! The therapy is at direct odds with modern day orthodox drug therapy. We respectfully submit that for the past 120 years they have been wrong!

Drugs are toxic. They are foreign substances that do not belong in the human body. All drugs are harmful. Some drugs have long term deleterious effects causing other disease and complications including death. A recent article in the new England Journal of Medicine admits that “Practicing medicine correctly kills 100,000 innocent people every year.” 

Hippocrates’s first law of medicine is “Do the patient no harm.”

Colon hydrotherapy, administered properly under medical/naturopathic supervision, does no harm. Colonics are 100% safe. The principle of colon hydrotherapy is over 3500 years old. It’s simple, it’s practical, it makes sense, and it works!

WHAT IS TOXEMIA?

The term intestinal toxemia is a form of blood poisoning emanating from the bowel. Absorption of toxic or microorganisms begin to cause damage to the cells of the intestinal mucosa.

Putrefying bowel toxins cause destruction of the mucus membrane. Bacteria then enters the lymphatic system and then the blood. In short: Bowel toxins that find their way into the circulatory and lymphatic system is toxemia, or toxicosis or autointoxication. In naturopathic medicine we believe this condition is the common denominator of all disease.

Intestinal putrefaction, left unchecked, leads to an overall lowering of an individual’s defense mechanism. Under stagnant and putrefactive conditions the colon’s healthy flora can become pathogenic toxins of bacterial metabolism and enter the circulatory system and affect other organs. No system of the body is safe if the colon is impacted and/or is not moving toxic waste by-products out of the body in a timely fashion.

In naturopathic medicine we believe that a healthy colon will be eliminating three times a day, once for every meal within twelve hours, and never more than eighteen hours. Toxic material not moved out of the body in a timely fashion will begin to seek alternative means of elimination. In so doing, these toxins will find their way into the fluid system of the body, and if left uncorrected eventually will affect every organ and system of the body.

Reabsorption of bowel toxins can set us up for every known disease. It is for this reason we conclude that health and disease, life and death, all begin in the colon!

CANDIDA ALBICANS THE QUIET EPIDEMIC

Candida albicans begins and ends in the colon. It is one of the indications for the need of colon hydrotherapy. If you have candida you are in desperate need of colonics.

What is candida? It is an integral part of the bowel flora. Candida is part of the bad flora that coexists with the healthy flora in the colon. A healthy immune system normally keeps candida under control.

When the immune system is compromised by antibiotics, prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, alcohol, sugar, junk foods, constipation, and stress, candida goes berserk. Candida is an opportunistic organism. When given the opportunity it will attempt to colonize all bodily tissue, especially the throat, mouth, nose, intestinal tract, skin, and vagina.

For years the medical profession has attempted to do an end run around the colon with candida, as they have with most other conditions. They have failed miserably with their orthodox drug treatments.

Most orthodox drugs at best do nothing but give temporary relief. At worse they make the condition worse. Weakening the immune system even more. Nystatin is another antibiotic that appears to work as does capryhic acid, because it kills yeast and again gives temporary relief, but its really more of the same tomfoolery medicine. Some patients have had candida for ten, twenty, and even thirty years taking these tomfoolery medicines.

To get candida permanently under control, you’ve got to get down at the cause. Candida starts in the colon. The colon must be addressed with a series of colon hydrotherapy treatments. If you attempt to do an end run around the colon in favor of more of the same tomfoolery drug medicine, the chances are you’ll have the same problem next year at this time in spite of some short lived temporary relief.

To overcome candida overgrowth you must completely cleanse the colon as part of a total naturopathic detoxification program and rebuild the immune system with a total naturopathic nutritional program based on your individual biochemistry.

Candida thrives in constipation because candida is fungi, it lives on morbific material. Often, the first signs of candida is vaginal discharge or itching, rectal burning or itching, painful intercourse, worsening symptoms of PMS, dry or sore throat, abdominal pain, belching, bloating, heartburn, prostatis, impotence, frequent urination, burning urination, bladder infection, frigidity, loss of libido, allergies, mental/emotional changes, mood swings, nasal congestion, mucus, nasal itching, blisters, mouth sores, fingernail/toenail infections, cravings for sweets, headache, joint pain, menstrual irregularity, respiratory problems, hives, rashes, eczema, athlete’s feet, ringworm, psoriasis, dry skin, anxiety, depression, and hyperirritability. Candida can not live in a clean colon.

THE PARASITE  MENACE

Parasites are the most under diagnosed condition in America. Most of us associate parasites with third world countries, not America and certainly not ourselves.

What exactly is a parasite? A parasite is an organism that lives off a host. In naturopathic school we learned that parasites have a purpose. We learned that parasites are nature’s undertakers.

If your body is not eliminating it’s toxic debris, in a timely and orderly fashion, nature’s undertakers will step in and do the job. Many types of parasites love a dirty, putrefying, impacted colon. The more toxic the better for some parasites and the longer the decaying host stays around, the more colonies of parasites will have a feast on.

Colon impaction encourages the parasite to reproduce quickly. These parasite then begin to secrete their own toxins, lubricants, waste by-product, and endogenous material that the body then has to deal with, which often neutralizes our immune system and depletes the body’s precious bio-energy.

THE EARLY SIGNS OF PARASITES ARE:

Itchy ears, nose or anus. Sexual dysfunction, forgetfulness, slow reflexes, gas, bloating, unclear thinking, loss of appetite, yellow eyes or face, heartburn, heart pain, pain in the navel, eating more than normal but still feeling hungry, blurry or unclear vision, lethargy, numbness in hands, burning sensation in the stomach, problems with menstrual cycle, drooling while sleeping, damp lips at night, dry lips during the day, grinding teeth while sleeping, and bed wetting.

The parasite can not exist without a host. If they have no host they can not reproduce and they will starve to death.

The place to start your parasite prevention program is by cleansing and purifying your colon with a series of colonics. If your colon is impacted the chances are parasites are reproducing themselves rapidly.

THE PRINCIPLE IS SIMPLE:  CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS

Most of us were taught in our upbringing to keep ourselves clean. That “Cleanliness was next to Godliness.” None of us were ever taught that there is value in filth.

But, how many of us were taught that is possible to appear clean on the outside while being very filthy on the inside? How many of us were told that a dirty, filthy colon makes us dirty and filthy all over?

I had to be near death to learn that. My medical doctors didn’t know that. They only contributed to my internal filth by pumping me full of more filth, until I was saturated with every known drug. Then they said, “We did everything medical science could do.”

It was my first encounter with naturopathy that I learned about internal cleanliness being next to Godliness and internal filth being next to the demons of hell!

After Dr. Bernard MacFadden ordered a series of colonics to bring my fever down, clean out the drugs along with a lifetime of filth, I began to understand the principle of internal cleanliness.

This principle was drilled deep into me in naturopathic school where we were taught some basic principles, often overlooked in medical schools, such as: The chain is as strong as it’s weakest link; Every organ, gland, and system of the body is interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent; The life is in the blood and the toxicity of any organ will be directly related to the toxicity of the blood, and the toxicity of the blood will be directly related to the toxicity of the colon.

In short: Dirty colon = dirty blood, dirty organs. Dirty organs are always sick organs.

If your colon is dirty, eventually you’re dirty all over. Sickness starts in the colon. Degeneration starts in the colon. Fatigue starts in the colon, along with 26,000 other named medical diseases.

With so much of health and disease, life and death emanating from the colon, how is it possible for the vast majority of the orthodox medical community to miss the forest for the trees?

Three generations back, the medical profession was as bowel conscience as any naturopathic doctor on the planet. All the manuals, books, and training materials were written by medical doctors who preserved this important knowledge.

What happened in the medical profession to change bowel consciousness? The advent of drugs, new drugs, wonder drugs, and more drugs!

When the pharmaceutical trust took charge of the nations medical schools they soon discovered that it was easier to teach about magic drugs than to teach about the bowel. Thousands of years of accumulative knowledge was wiped away in one big swoop. Drugs became supreme and everything else became unproven, unscientific, quackery, etc.

But, truth always remains truth. Cleanliness is always next to Godliness. Filthiness is always next to the demons of hell which include all 26,000 names for as many medical conditions that exist. Internal filthiness is what breeds every disease known to man. Clean the colon and you reduce the breeding ground necessary for those diseases to exist.

What was so shocking to me was that earlier in my career was that with all the thousands of potentially harmful drugs and medical procedures that exist, why would a medical doctor in America oppose such a perfectly safe, sanitary, comfortable, and harmless procedure that has so many incredible benefits?

Let’s let time, common sense, and most importantly God’s word prevail. “Having therefore all these promises dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1).

External and internal cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness. For some this may mean spending a fraction of the time we spend cleaning the outside - cleaning the inside.

CONSIDER THESE TEN MEDICAL FACTS BEFORE PUTTING OFF COLON HYDROTHERAPY

1- Over one billion dollars a year is spent on so called laxatives in America a year.

2- Try to find a doctor in a thousand that will talk to you about your bowel or bowel management.

3- Over 100 million Americans suffer from bowel problems.

4- Orthodox doctors are experts at cutting out the colon. Try to find one in a thousand that will tell you how to prevent getting your colon cut out.

5- Parasites reside in every dirty colon in America. Try to get one orthodox doctor in a thousand to tell you how to prevent these parasites from living inside you.

6- Rectal/colon cancer is the second leading cancer killer in America. Try to find one orthodox doctor in a thousand who will recommend a colonic or even understands the principle, theory, and practice of colon hydrotherapy in preventing colon cancer.

7- Last year 250,000 Americans had colostomies. Most of them are now walking around with a bag strapped to their sides. The operation could easily cost $50,000 and as much as $100,000. The bags about $70 a week. How many of those people do you think were instructed on how to prevent the need for this procedure?

8- Individuals getting colonics and following a naturopathic lifestyle program do not get colostomies. This condition can be prevented.

9- Six hundred [people die each day in America from rotting colons and no one ever told them about colon hydrotherapy. That’s more deaths than in Vietnam, Korea, and all our wars in the past fifty years. Imagine an airplane crashing every day of the year killing six hundred people and no one saying a word about how to prevent it or asking why is this happening?

10- More absenteeism from school and work is due to disturbances of the digestive tract than any other cause.

INDICATIONS FOR COLON HYDROTHERAPY (MEDICAL REASONS FOR REMOVING THEM) According to Joseph E.G. Waddington, M.D. Medical Manual on Colon Hydrotherapy •Constipation •Diarrhea •Intestinal Toxemia •Candida Albicans •Parasites •High Urine Indican •High Urine Conductivity •High Urine Sugar •High Urine Nitrogen •High Urine Ammoniacal Nitrogen •High Blood Serum Bon/Creatine Ratio •High Blood Serum Chloride •High or Low Blood Serum Calcium •High or Low Blood Serum Phosphorus •High or Low Blood Serum Protein •High or Low Blood Serum Albumin •High or Low Blood Serum Globulin •High or Low Blood Serum SGOT/SGPT/GGTP •High or Low Blood Serum Cholesterol •High or Low Blood Serum Triglycerides •High Blood Serum LDL •High Blood Serum Lymphoyta •High Blood Serum Basophils •Low Blood Serum Alkaline •Low Blood Serum Phosphatase •Low Blood Serum Hemoglobin •Low Blood Serum MEV •Low Blood Serum Platelets •Preparation for diagnostic study of the large intestine •Barium enema before and after surgery, pre and post operative •Following pregnancy •Change of seasons (Toxicity at its highest) •Gas, flatulence •Indigestion •Fluid retention •Headaches •Premenstrual syndrome •Malabsorption syndrome •Hypoglycemia syndrome •Excess body fat weight •Liver sluggishness •Swollen lymph •Sluggish lymphatic system •Puffy eyes •Bloodshot eyes •Brown, milky or yellow sclera (whites of eyes) •Constricted 1st and 2nd zone in the iris •Discoloration 1st and 2nd zone in the iris •Stomach plaque detected in iridology •Highly acid condition detected in iridology •Scouf Rim iradology evaluation •Radi Solorus iradology evaluation •Hemorrhoids, mild to moderate •Loss of muscle tone in the colon •Loss of natural peristalsis in the colon •Use of antibiotics •Use of recreational drugs •Use of prescription drugs •Early signs of sore throat •Early signs of cold or flu •Low grade intermitted fever •Inability to think clearly •Thyroid deficiency •Immune system overwhelmed •Allergy syndrome

CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR COLON HYDROTHERAPY (MEDICAL REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN) •Severe cardiac disease (uncontrolled) •Uncontrolled hypertension •Congestive heart failure •Sever anemia •G.I. hemorrhage (within the last year) •Perforation of the colon (ever) •Perforation of the G.I. tract (within the last year) •Cirrhosis •Carcinoma of the colon •Carcinoma of the rectum •Fissures/fistulas •Advanced pregnancy (last trimester) •Abdominal hernia (within the last year) •Recent colon/rectal or abdominal surgery (within the last year) •Renal insufficiency •Severe abdominal pain •General debilitating or extreme fatigue •History of seizures or epilepsy •Vascular aneurysm •Recent significant change in bowel activity •Colitis •Mucous colitis •Diverticulosis •Diverticulitis •Ulcerative colitis •Chrohn’s disease •Hyper/hypothermia •Recently diagnosed psychosis or severe anxiety disorder

 

 

COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON COLON HYDROTHERAPY

Question: I understand what an enema is, but what is the difference between an enema and a colonic?

Answer: As beneficial as an enema is, it is very limited in its effect because only a very small amount of water is able to be introduced into the anal canal and lower part of the sigmoid colon. Then it is necessary to sit on the toilet to evacuate after each infusion of water. This is accomplished with a simple home enema bag or Colema board.

With a colonic, scientifically engineered medical equipment, with sophisticated plumbing is used. Pure filtered water is brought safely, comfortably, and hygienically up the full length of your colon and brought back down. Large volumes of water are used over the course of your treatment totaling 8-10-12 and even as much as 15 gallons. It takes a lot of water to begin to soften, breakdown, and flush out years of hardened glue that has attached itself to the walls of the colon, and impacted in the diverticula pockets. It would take between 40 to 120 enemas to equal one colonic in water volume alone. But, the biggest benefit of all is the therapeutic strengthening effect of every muscle in the entire colon. The colonic is designed to restore the colon’s natural peristalsis, which is often lost after years of faulty diet, drugs, or constipation.

Question: Are colonics safe?

Answer: Colonic are basically bringing filtered water safely, comfortably, and hygienically up the entire length of the colon and back down again. It is among the safest of medical procedures known. With the new professional colon hydrotherapy equipment, colonics are actually safer than a home enema.

Question: Are colonics painful?

Answer: We’ve given colonics to our children since they were three years old. They felt so relaxed and comfortable during the treatment that they would fall sound asleep. Colonics are not colonscopies or sigmoidoscopies. A well lubricated speculum is inserted only a few inches into the rectum. No they are not painful, not even to children.

Question: I heard it was possible to catch someone else’s germs getting a colonic, is this true?

Answer: If disposable hoses, speculums, and sheets are used this is impossible. Using out dated or home made or nonprofessional equipment or so called colema boards, which is often the case in the underground can be very infectious. Those electing to seek colon hydrotherapy services from the underground are understandingly taking that risk. Let the buyer beware.

Professional medical clinics use modern colon hydrotherapy equipment, disposable, speculums, disposable hoses, and even disposable sheets. With the newly engineered equipment cross contamination is impossible. The designers have idiot proofed the equipment with separate inflow and outflow systems. Unlike the new age underground, professional medical clinics are also inspected by the State Board of Health and the State Board of Medical Examiners.

Question: What do you mean by the new age underground?

Answer: We mean clinics and individuals administering quasi medical treatments illegally. In New Jersey and New York colon hydrotherapy is considered a medical procedure and must be administered under the supervision of a licensed medical doctor. Anyone who is not working under medical supervision is practicing medicine without a license and is committing a crime. Anyone patronizing those who are breaking the law are aiding and abetting them, which is a punishable offense.

Although we do not agree with the law, it is the law. Those in the new age underground are practicing medicine without a licence and are engaged in criminal activity, ignoring the law and hoping they won’t get caught.

Question: Is it possible to wash health minerals and electrolytes out of the body doing colonics?

Answer: For years we were of the opinion that colonics could wash some good with the bad. We recommended Jug One and our Intestinal Powder in yogurt, which our patients still do, but in 1988 the national College of Naturopathic Medicine did an in-depth study of seventeen patients doing three colonics a week over an extended period of time. Their conclusion: Colonics produce no appreciable change in electrolytes.

Question: What is considered professional colon hydrotherapy equipment?

Answer: The state of the art professional colon hydrotherapy equipment is Doltola and Toxygen. Both are made in the U.S.A. Professional equipment, unlike what is used in the underground, it is F.D.A. approved. In short: It is a medical device approved by the Federal Government and inspected by the State Board of Health and the State Board of medical Examiners on a regular basis.

Question: What is a Colema board?

Answer: A Colema board is not a colonic, it is an enema. The Colema board was made popular by an ex-associate of mine, Dr. Bernard Jensen in his book entitled “Bowel Management.” I begged him to change the name to “enema board.” I told him it would confuse people and that some health hucksters would promote them as a colonic, or as good as a colonic, or almost as good as a colonic, etc. Worse of all some people who desperately needed a colonic would think that was what they were getting with a so called Colema board.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people frequent these new age underground clinics thinking they are getting high colonics, when in fact they are getting a low enema.

Question: Doesn’t high fiber, herbs, and acidophilus basically accomplish the same thing as a colonic?

Answer: A number of health hucksters, authors, and nutrition gurus have attempted to promote the idea that colonics are only an option, another way to clean the colon. They are all wrong! No disrespect to your favorite health guru, but if he’s of that mind set, he’s dead wrong! There is nothing like a colonic. Nothing can substitute for a colonic. There’s nothing almost as good as a colonic. Nothing cleans the entire colon like a colonic. Nothing regenerates a flaccid colon like a colonic. Nothing creates peristalsis like a colonic. Nothing takes encrusted feces off the colons reflex points like a colonic. Nothing takes putrefactive bacteria out of the body like a colonic. Nothing reduces the body’s total level of toxicity like a colonic.

Some of our modern day medical doctors and health gurus, who are ignorant on the benefits of colonics, need to read the old medical and naturopathic literature concerning colonics, which were around long before wonder drugs came into being.

Believe me, we at Abunda Life believe in high fiber, herbs, botanicals, homeopathy, acidophilus, etc. We use tons of them a year in our dispensary. We use them in conjunction with colonics - never as a substitute.

Question: How many colonics will I need?

Answer: The amount of colonics we recommend will vary greatly from person to person. The majority of our patents who have not suffered from a lifetime of constipation, bowel weakness, heavy medications, malabsorption, laxative abuse, recreational drugs, internalization of stress, and other gastrointestinal problems will usually accomplish good colon health, bowel cleansing, tissue detoxification, and normal peristalsis in a series of twelve colonics. We recommend, as does Dr. Norman Walker, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dr. Henry Lindlahr, Dr. Harvey Kellogg, Dr. Benedict Lust, and many of