The Process of Colonics

I hope you're sitting down, because most people are shocked to find out that the average individual should have at least one to two bowel movements each day, depending on the amount and frequency of food taken in.  Many people rarely experience that because their diet and lifestyle challenge their digestion every day sometimes reducing their bowel function to once or twice a week.  Bowel movements should be within 15 to 30 minutes after eating and should be easy, relatively quick and substantial.  Material should not look excessively dry or be too loose and you should not have to strain.  

When you experience sluggish bowel function, it creates a condition of poor colon hygiene where a stagnant lining of waste material forms along the walls of your intestinal tract, just like the pipes under your kitchen sink. This organic residue can remain for years unless removed, cutting back elimination of waste so that poisons remain in the blood stream. When sufficient protein and sugar are present, fermentation occurs. This produces even more toxins from which the body must defend itself. This condition can be worse if animal or dairy products, refined flour, sugar or alcohol are, or have been, habitually eaten.  These conditions strain your immune system and many believe may lead to autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis and even colon cancer.  

Colon Dysfunction is usually first recognized by an individual as constipation or diarrhea, although there may have been signs for years. These signs may be accompanied by foul-smelling stool or gas, indicating a severe decaying of the material in the intestinal tract.  These conditions are often diagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome and treated with laxatives or harsh fibers.  

Colonic hydrotherapy not only can remove all of these toxic materials and restore normal cellular balance, but it can also provide resistance exercise of the muscles of the colonic wall, enhancing peristalsis and making bowel movements easier, more complete and more frequent. If our body muscles are weak, we strengthen them with exercise. Colon hydrotherapy does the same thing for your large intestine.

In colonic hydrotherapy we use a sterile disposable two inch plastic scope that is inserted into the rectum. A small tube is attached to the outside of the scope and double-filtered water is introduced at body temperature into the large intestines gradually, while at the same time washing out loosened toxic material through a second larger waste tube into the septic system. This gentle washing cleanses the intestines of both old and new material, peeling layers of mucoid plaque and residue from the walls of the intestinal tract. The session lasts approximately 40 minutes, during which time, the client is reclined on a comfortable padded table, while the therapist skillfully massages the abdominal area to aid in the softening of impactions.

We are one of the few clinics in the United States that uses a natural gravity flow colonic system, which makes water available to the body as the body needs it throughout the session. It produces no external pressure, allowing for your body's natural rhythm to be used and strengthened while providing maximum comfort. So your colonic feels more natural because water is flowing into the body at the speed the colon allows. For this reason, many of our clients have said they strongly preferred the gravity-flow method to machine-administered colonics.  

We also offer sessions of Lymphatic Drainage of the abdomen with your colonic session to enhance the effectiveness of your session and to reduce the strain on the immune system that chronic digestive problems have created over time.  

In autopsies on colons 70% of people had encrustation within their colon, 50% of those had parasitic infestation and 25% had up to eight pounds of undigested matter lining their colon (this was one of the most talked about facts in the death of John Wayne).  This may be a major reason why colon cancer ranks next to heart disease as the most frequent cause of death in the U.S. today.