What is Colon Hydrotherapy?
Colon Hydrotherapy is the process of flushing the colon (also called the large intestine or the bowel) with purified water. The water is allowed to flow in and out of the colon, cleansing it of waste material (such as impacted feces, dead cellular tissue, accumulated mucous, parasites, etc.). This process is also known under other names, such as "colonic" or "colon irrigation".

What are some of the general benefits of colonics?
They help to eliminate toxic, putrified material from the colon, and allow healthy bacteria to flourish again.

They exercise the colon muscles. The gentle filling and emptying of the colon improves peristaltic (muscular contraction) action, and this is the way the colon naturally moves matter.

Why cleanse the colon?
In today's society, the refined foods we eat lack the bulk and fibre needed to create healthy, well-formed stools, which move properly through the colon as nature intended them to. So often we eat too many foods that are considered 'acid-forming'*. When we do this, the walls of our intestines (both large and small) secrete a mucous, which protects them from damage from toxic or acid substances.

If we went back to eating a predominantly 'alkaline'* diet, this mucous layer would simply come away from the walls of the small and large intestine, and wash away in a subsequent bowel movement. But so often we don't go back to predominantly 'alkaline' diet, and the walls of our intestines keep secreting this mucous until it eventually forms a hardened layer.

This hardened layer is known as "mucoid plaque", and unless we change our eating habits and lifestyles, mucoid plaque production will continue, without reprieve.

Mucoid plaque lining the walls of our intestines greatly inhibits our bodies' ability to absorb nutrients. Clinical studies have shown that 90% of adult North Americans absorb only 3-10% of the nutrients in the food they eat. When the gastro-intestinal tract is coated with mucoid plaque and not functioning optimally, all other elimination organs (the liver, kidneys, skin and bladder) are greatly stressed. Degeneration and disease are the end results.

While the lungs, skin, kidneys and liver also serve to eliminate toxins, people have experienced that when they ensure that the colon is cleansed and healed, the well-being of the whole body is greatly enhanced. Colonics have been found to be a very effective way to accomplish this quickly and easily (and safely).

With today's diets of refined foods, excesses of salt, caffeine, sugar, alcohol, tobacco, etc., we're not getting the bulk and fibre in our diets needed to properly create fecal matter in our large intestines. Stress and pharmaceutical drugs further aggravate this situation. Our colons become "caked" with toxic material that putrifies, and ultimately poisons the whole body through toxemia.


How do I know that I need a colonic?
Symptoms of a poor functioning colon can include: constipation (that is fewer than 2 bowel movements per day), diarrhea, gas, bloating, indigestion, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, parasites, diverticulosis, headaches, backaches, irritability, confusion, skin blemishes, bad breath, body odor, sciatic pain, and so on.

Colonics are also recommended for people before a barium enema and afterward.

They're also recommended as a complement to any intestinal cleansing or fasting program. The colonic helps to quickly remove the built-up mucoid plaque that has softened, and come away from the walls of the intestine during the cleanse. It also helps to alleviate unpleasant cleansing reactions.

Is changing my diet enough?
It's not enough to simply change your eating habits. The accumulated plaque will still inhibit your body's ability to absorb nutrients, even if the food you're eating is highly alkaline-forming.

Here are a few quotes:
"It's pointless to embark on a major new dietary program until you have first flushed all the accumulated, impacted debris and poisonous residues from your former dietary habits out of your digestive tract." - The Tao of Health

"The very best diets can be no better than the very worst if the sewage system of the colon is clogged with a collection of waste and corruption." - Dr. Walker, M.D.

"When you put new oil into your car engine, you don't just pour it on top of the old filthy oil, but first drain the old stuff out. The least you could do is treat your own body with the same respect and care you give your car." - The Tao of Health

Start by Cleansing the Colon:
Once the colon is cleansed of the mucoid plaque and other debris, all other organs will be better able to do their jobs. The body's ability to heal itself is re-established, and the cycle of degeneration is reversed.

Acid-forming foods and acid-forming substances are generally:

Processed foods with wheat or "white flour", breads, cereals, dairy, eggs, meat, fish, pasta, processed milks, salt, soft drinks, coffee, sugar, tofu, stress, alcohol, drugs, heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms and parasites, etc.

Alkaline-forming foods are generally:

All fresh fruits, all raw vegetables, all salad greens, all sprouts, dates, dried apricots, fresh raw juice, honey, maple syrup, lima beans, quinoa, millet, organic olive oil and flax seed oil.

The statements above are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any ailment or disease.