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The
Coffee Enema/Implant
Its Unique History & Amazing Detox Properties
The following information is quoted from "The Royal Enema" by Dr. Ralph
Moss
An enema
is "a fluid injected into the rectum for the purpose of clearing out
the bowel, of administering drugs or food". The word itself comes from
the Greek en-hienai, meaning to "send or inject into." The enema has
been called "one of the oldest medical procedures still in use today."
Tribal women in Africa , and elsewhere, routinely use it on their
children. The earliest medical text in existence, the Egyptian Ebers
Papyrus, (1,500 B.C.) mentions it. Millennia before, the Pharaoh had a
"guardian of the anus," a special doctor one of whose purposes was to
administer the royal enema.
The Greeks wrote of
the fabled cleanliness of the Egyptians ,
which included the internal cleansing
of their systems through enemas. They employed these on 3
consecutive days every month said Herodotus (II.7) or
at intervals of 3 or 4 days, according to the later historian,
Diodorus. The Egyptians explained to their visitors that they did this
because they "believed that diseases were engendered by
superfluities of the food" , a modern sounding theory!
Enemas were known in
ancient Sumeria, Babylonia , India , Greece and China . American
Indians independently invented it, using a syringe made of an animal
bladder and a hollow leg bone. Pre-Columbian South Americans fashioned
latex into the first rubber enema bags and tubes. In fact, there is hardly
a region of the world where people did not discover or adapt the enema.
It is more ubiquitous than the wheel.
Enemas are found in world literature from Aristophanes to Shakespeare,
Gulliver Travels to Peyton Place .
In pre-revolutionary
France , a daily enema after dinner was
de rigueur. It was not only considered indispensable for
health but practiced for good complexion as well.
Louis XIV is said to have taken over 2,000 in his lifetime. Could this
have been the source of the Sun King's sunny disposition? For
centuries, enemas were a routine home remedy . Then,
within living memory, the routine use of enemas died out. The main
times that doctors employ them nowadays is before or after surgery and
childbirth. Difficult and potentially dangerous barium enemas before
colonic X-rays are of course still a favorite of allopathic doctors.
But why
coffee? This bean has an interesting history. It was
imported in Arabia in the early 1500's by the Sufi religious mystics,
who used it to fight drowsiness while praying. It was especially prized
for its medicinal qualities, in both the Near East and Europe . No one
knows when the first daring soul filled the enema bag with a quart of
java. What is known is that the coffee enema appeared at least as early
as 1917 and was found in the prestigious Merck Manual
until 1972 . In the 1920's, German scientists found
that a caffeine solution could open the bile ducts and
stimulate the production of bile in the liver of
experimental animals.
Dr. Max Gerson used
this clinically as part of a general detoxification
regimen , first for tuberculosis, then cancer.
Caffeine, he postulated, will travel up the hemorrhoidal to the portal
vein and thence to the liver itself. Gerson noted some remarkable
effects of this procedure. For instance, patients
could dispense with all pain-killers once on the enemas. Many
people have noted the paradoxical calming effect of
coffee enemas.
And while coffee
enemas can relieve constipation, Gerson cautioned: "Patients have to
know that coffee enemas are not given for the function
of the intestines but for the stimulation of the liver."
Coffee
enemas were an established part of medical practice
when Dr. Max Gerson introduced them into cancer therapy in the 1930's.
Basing himself on German Laboratory work, Gerson believed that caffeine
could stimulate the liver and gallbladder to discharge bile. He felt
this process could contribute to the health of the cancer patient.
Although the coffee
enema has been heaped with scorn, there has been some independent
scientific work that gives credence to this concept. In 1981, for
instance, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and his colleagues were able to show that
substances found in coffee - kahweol and cafestol
palmitate - promote the activity of a key enzyme, glutathione
S-transferase, above the norm. This system detoxifies
a vast array of electrophiles from the bloodstream
and, according to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute, "must be
regarded as an important mechanism for carcinogen
detoxification. " This enzyme group is responsible for neutralizing
free radicals , harmful chemicals now commonly
implicated in the initiation of cancer. In mice, for example, these
systems are enhanced 600% in the liver and 700% in the bowel
when coffee beans are added to the mice's diet.
Dr. Peter Lechner, who
is investigating the Gerson method at the Landeskrankenhaus of Graz,
Austria, has reported that "coffee enemas have a definite effect on the
colon which can be observed with an endoscope." F.W. Cope (1977) has
postulated the existence of a "tissue damage syndrome." When cells are
challenged by poison, oxygen deprivation, malnutrition or a physical
trauma they lose potassium, take on sodium and chloride, and swell up
with excess water.
Another scientist
(Ling) has suggested that water in a normal cell is contained in an
"ice-like" structure. Being alive requires not just the right chemicals
but the right chemical structure. Cells normally have a preference for
potassium over sodium but when a cell is damaged it begins to prefer
sodium. This craving results in a damaged ability of cells to repair
themselves and to utilize energy. Further, damaged cells produce
toxins; around tumors are zones of "wounded" but still
non-malignant tissue, swollen with salt and water .
Gerson believed it
axiomatic that cancer could not exist in normal
metabolism. He pointed to the fact that scientist often
had to damage an animal's thyroid and adrenals just to get a
transplanted tumor to "take." He directed his efforts toward creating
normal metabolism in the tissue surrounding a tumor.
It is the liver
and small bowel which neutralize the
most common tissue toxins; polyamines, ammonia, toxic bound nitrogen
and electrophiles . These detoxification systems are
probably enhanced by the coffee enema. Physiological Chemistry and
Physics has stated that "caffeine enemas cause dilation
of bile ducts, which facilitates
excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis
of toxic products across the colonic wall."
In addition, theophylline
and theobromine (two other chemicals in coffee) dilate
blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut ; the
palmitates enhance the
enzyme system responsible for the removal of toxic free
radicals from the serum; and the fluid of the enema
then stimulates the visceral nervous system to promote
peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from
the duodenum and out the rectum.
Since the enema is
generally held for 15 minutes , and all
the blood in the body passes through the liver every three minutes, "these
enemas represent a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall"
(Healing Newsletter, #13, May-June, 1986).
Prejudice against
coffee enemas continues, however. Although this data was made available
to the Office of Technology Assessment it was largely ignored in their
box on the procedure. They dismissively state "there is no scientific
evidence to support the claim that coffee enemas detoxify the blood or
liver."
Doing enemas at home
is a wonderful thing. In addition to the freshly ground Organic
Coffee ( grind the beans at time of use) you can add
to the mixture 4 drops of Allicidin (the
purest form of the active ingredient in garlic on the planet-an
anti-infective that kills viruses, fungus, bacteria and parasites), 2
Vcaps of Infectostat (powerful for
killing bacteria, viruses, fungus and any other microorganisms that
don't belong in the gut) as well as 2 Vcaps of Parastat or
Paracidin (powerful
anti-parasitic formulas). And for the women you can also
add one of two formulas for amazing hormonal rebalancing.
Here
at Optimal Wellness we offer Coffee Implants at the conclusions of a
regular Colonic treatment. The special solution of Coffee with the
additives listed above are administered simply and easily at the
conclusion of the treatment and held in the colon for approximately
5-10 minutes while still on the table. Then the client finishes the
treatment in the bathroom as usual. Remember, the Coffee Implant is
primarily for liver detoxification and is a wonderful adjunct to the
colonic process. See Costs sheet for prices
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