Colonic Irrigation

Even on a visit to the GP, colonic irrigation is an uncomfortable topic. However, for those in the know, it is the secret to an excellent health and beauty regime. Seasoned dieters and gym bunnies may be interested to learn that they are missing out on a thirty minute therapy that could see them drop half a stone on the scales.

Jane Barber, Colon Hydrotherapist at Detox in Yeadon, Leeds, agrees that it is worth overcoming the embarrassment. ‘The benefits can be fantastic and worth overcoming any initial shyness’ she says. ‘Most clients comment that how they imagined the session would be was nothing like the reality and that they hadn’t expected to actually enjoy it.’

Jane believes that her motivation to set up the practise came from her own venture into colonic irrigation. ‘I established detox primarily because I was uncomfortable with the set up at the practice where I had my first colonic’ she says. ‘I did however get great benefit from my first session, so when I set up my practice, maintaining customers dignity and providing privacy and comfort was my primary concern. At Detox, you won’t be waiting with someone who is having their nails done.

To get down to basics, the process can best be described as an internal bath which helps to cleanse the colon of toxins, accumulated faecal matter, mucous deposits and gas and is central to the detox process.For no reason, other than for the sake of this article, let’s discuss intestinal wind. I am in no doubt that I have the typical student diet – nothing for breakfast, pesto pasta for lunch, frozen pizza for dinner (I may even choose to unfreeze the pizza on good days).

Add to that the need to eat quickly to enjoy my Müller crunch corner during Hollyoaks – I have a ready made Western-food bolus sticking to my gut. If this sounds like you, colonic irrigation is a cheap and mostly pleasant procedure to save you from many gastric ailments. However, this particular use of the word ‘wind’ has now been banished from my lexicon, for good.

However, I wouldn’t like those of you with no trapped wind to be put off from reading. It is important to understand your colon, if you can clear up a system that removes bodily waste and toxins, you can overcome more than just wind; all round good health is achievable. Readers may be surprised to learn that colonic irrigation clears up some skin problems including eczema, psoriasis, acne, some of which are associated with poor toxin elimination.

It can also help to reduce lethargy, regulate weight and boost immunity.Naturally, results are only relevant to the individual, and such issues as immunity and mental clarity are difficult to judge in terms of improvement. Therefore, I will present my own experience: I can confirm that my bloating has disappeared, and my skin feels pure and healthy. I would also like to think that my mind has settled down from its usual racy gallop.

And all of this coming from a medical student who wouldn’t normally believe in alternative therapies. In addition, considering the recent celebrity acclaim that the procedure has received, and that colon cancer is now the third most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world, why even both protesting to a tube up your back passage? And with the added benefit of 100°F, purified water circulating your gut, the experience is only enhanced.

The procedure consists of a one-inch tube (not five metres, as I once read), teased into your anus. Water is passed into your colon for half of the 35 minute procedure, with the remaining 50 per cent, a most pleasant feeling of release and detoxification.

This exercises the large bowel in order to aid elimination of waste, removing toxins until long after the treatment, and facilitating the gut to absorb vital nutrients.No wonder we concern ourselves with our bowel habits and remarks about flatulence, I pondered, as ten year-old black sludge meandered its way along from my caecum (near the appendix) to the clear plastic viewing gallery before my gaze.

Some pieces of excrement looked far too large, while I found others easier to identify; for example, the seeds I’d had three nights earlier.Admittedly, there was discomfort throughout the procedure, though this was only comparable to a small tube stuck up your ass, coincidentally.

At times, the urge to force it out was intense. However, I was treated with such respect and dignity; not to mention the enjoyable faecal banter, that my temptations passed. The procedure took place in a room not dissimilar to a modern GP’s quarters, and I was given as much time as I wanted to recover.

On leaving the charming anal treatment room, I felt shattered and a half stone lighter.That was a month ago. And the benefits are now more profound: I don’t care for my old diet any longer; cravings for chocolate and pesto have gone; my skin is clear at last; but above all I don’t even remember what it feels like to have wind. I’m now looking forward to another encounter with the one-inch wonder.

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