Board Certified Gastrointestinal Surgeon Dr. Leonard Smith Endorses Colon Hydrotherapy
Colon Hydrotherapy Reduces Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Conditions for Which Colon Hydrotherapy is Effective
Dr. James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Colon Hyrotherapy is Used by James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Giving Colon Hydrotherapy is Standard Procedure for Sharda Sharma, M.D.
A Gastroenterologist Prescribes Colon Hydrotherapy
Dr. Michael Gerber Uses Colon Hydrotherapy Routinely
Cancer Patients Improve from Receiving Colon Treatment
Board Certified Gastrointestinal Surgeon Dr. Leonard Smith Endorses Colon Hydrotherapy
Thirty years ago, Leonard Smith, MD, of Gainesville, Florida graduated from medical school and eventually became board certified in general surgery by the American College of Surgery. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Smith has practiced as a specialist in gastrointestinal surgery. He has dealt with all types of colon difficulties, including operations for overcoming colon cancer, colon diverticulitis, appendicitis, hemorrhoids, and numbers of other internal organ health problems.
"I am very well acquainted with the colon's functions, and my true belief is that colon hydrotherapy is the perfect cleansing medium for preparing the patient for colonoscopy. It's a much better way of getting the human colon ready for an operation than having a patient swallow a gallon of that usual presurgery solution known as 'Colon-Go-Lytely.' Instead, colon hydrotherapy has the patient avoid this solution's noxious side effects of vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and other troubles," Dr. Smith says.
"Moreover, seriously ill patients tend to be chronically constipated which results in generalized toxemia. It turns out that colon hydrotherapy is the gentlest and most effective treatment to take care of a sick person's constipation problem. My recommendation for cancer patients is that they should undergo frequent colon hydrotherapy procedures to make sure a colon's toxic burden is being kept at a minimum while their bodies are trying to heal," affirms Dr. Smith. "While not a substitute for eating a high fiber diet, those cancer patients who take colon hydrotherapy often experience the elimination of their aches and pains, improvement of appetite, and they tolerate a tough healing process better."
"I also believe that normally healthy people will find it valuable to take colon hydrotherapy every couple of months in order to experience how well one feels when the colon is truly empty. It's a fact that most people fail to fully evacuate the colon, something they don't realize. People undergoing colon hydrotherapy on a prevention basis become quite surprised at how much waste is removed by the procedure," Dr. Smith says.
"Without any reservation, I declare that my wish is to see it become an established procedure for many kinds of gastrointestinal problems. If medical centers, hospitals, and clinics installed colon hydrotherapy departments, they would find such departments just as efficacious for patients as their present treatment areas which are devoted to physiotherapy," states Leonard Smith, M.D. "Such is my true belief, and I do endorse this therapeutic program."
Colon Hydrotherapy Reduces Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Joshua Heinermann, the sixty-six-year-old chief executive officer for Virginia Chemicals Corporation of Chesapeake, Virginia, had been suffering severely from prostate gland enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH). For four years, the man's symptoms had been building steadily, and now they were affecting his ability to manage in the administrative position he held. The executive's night-time urinary urgency (nocturia) came with such frequency, Mr. Heinermann found himself perpetually fatigued during daytime business meetings. His need to sleep lay on him like a blanket, and he felt as if his mind was encased in cotton batting. Any capability for him to make vital decisions on behalf of his corporation became almost nonexistent. To confront the problem, the CEO finally consulted a urologist located in his city.
In practice for over sixty years as a specialist in solving urological problems for both men and women, Emil S. Sayegh, MD, of Chesapeake, Virginia is eighty-years of age. Over the six decades of his medical practice, Dr. Sayegh has been consulted by a particularly large number of male clientele who have sought his help in correcting BPH and prostatitis.
"These two common medical difficulties are closely associated with having weak abdominal muscles," explains the board certified urologist. "Those men possessing flaccid and weak abdominal muscles experience enormous pressures on their bladders which never let up. The supportive muscles and other erectile tissues surrounding the bladder fail to do the jobs required. The pressure of the bladder's rectal sigmoid is so sever that any amount of stool in that area is going to make urine passage very difficult. Whether urine is present or not, the need for these men to void becomes overwhelming."
During the past fifteen years Dr. Sayegh has made use of colon hydrotherapy which solves his patients' two particular prostate pathologies almost every time. "Cleaning the colon markedly assists the functioning of the pathological male bladder and prostate organs. Colon hydrotherapy given to involved men at two-week intervals for three times to start and then maintained every four weeks for an unlimited period does solve prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia," state Emil S. Sayegh, MD. "From my files, I can offer up several hundred case studies which testify to that fact."
Conditions for Which Colon Hydrotherapy is Effective
Maintaining a rheumatology practice for the past twenty-four years in Long Branch, New Jersey, Arthur E. Brawer, MD, is an enthusiastic exponent of colon hydrotherapy for a variety of health problems. He cites this treatment in his recently published consumer book, Holistic Harmony.
"Silicon breast implant exposure which results in disease symptoms responds very well to colon hydrotherapy. I am in the center of this silicone breast implant controversy by having consulted with over 500 women from around the world for the toxic environmental exposure caused by such implantation. I've given testimony as an expert witness before the United States Congress on this issue along with advising the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, and consultants to the President, the Vice-President, the Director of Women's Health at the White House, and the United Nations. I use colon hydrotherapy for the treatment of such silicone toxicity, since it does work to chelate silicone out of the body," states Dr. Brawer.
"Let me explain. From day one of implantation, silicone micromolecules disperse throughout the body because the pore size (the porosity) of the envelope or shell enclosing the implant is larger than most of the silicone molecules contained inside. Thus, the disease symptoms derived from silicone toxicity is not dependent on envelope rupture. Symptoms begin immediately! In other words, the molecules of silicone travel through the membrane osmotically and become microdispersed throughout the body by means of the lymphatic system," explains Dr. Brawer.
"Now realize that the connective tissue or collagen in each person's body requires silicone as an essential component in order to provide the body with proper architectural structure such as for tendons, ligaments, nerve sheathes, and everything else. Silicone makes up the glue which holds the skin together, gives substance to the organs, act as regulators, signal transmitters, and so forth. It functions as an integral part of metabolism and physiology. Thus, all tissues are dependent on silicone as an essential ingredient," Dr. Brawer says. "But given in excess as a leaking silicone breast implant, there is only one place the excess may be dumped or stored by the body - - into its connective tissue. When that happens a whole litany of complaints occur: joint pains, dry eyes, fatigue, memory lapses, skin rashes and pigmentations, chest pain, muscle aches, drug intolerance, odor and smell sensitivity to hair sprays, room fresheners, deodorants, and more (see sidebar).
"So the silicone molecules become stuck in the body's glue, and they cannot be removed by use of medications or supplemental nutrients or diet. Only certain techniques may be applied to detoxify the body: colon hydrotherapy is perhaps the best way and also working as detoxifiers are Ayurvedic medicine, hyperthermia, steam baths, saunas, oxygen therapy, and the energy-based therapies such as Reiki therapy and Quigong. Any dietary approach has to be more an exclusionary basis - take the patient off of processed foods and have them eat organic," confirms Dr. Brawer. "But of all the treatments for symptoms coming from silicone breast implants, colon hydrotherapy I find to be one of the mainstays that offer relief.
Conditions Responding to Colon Hydrotherapy
Cited by Rheumatologist Arthur E. Brawer
"Colon hydrotherapy eliminates from the bowel the repository of accumulated waste material which may disadvantageously get absorbed. If this absorption takes place, it overwhelms the other purification organs such as the liver, the kidneys, the skin, and the lungs. The toxin deposition which becomes lodged throughout the body's tissues and cells becomes capable of triggering a variety of illnesses," says rheumatologist Dr. Arthur E. Brawer. "There's lots of them. Some disease indications for colon hydrotherapy responding well are:
Allergies, Arthritis, Asthma, Acne, Memory Lapses, Attention Deficit Disorder, Hypertension, Body Odor, Brittle Hair, Brittle Nails, Chronic Fatigue, Cold Hands & Feet, Colitis, Spastic Colon, Constipation, Fibromyalgia, Headaches, Irritable Bowel, Mouth Sores, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Peripheral Neuropathies, Peptic Ulcer, Pot Belly, Poor Posture, Seizures, Muscle Pain, Joint Aches, Chest Pain, Skin Rashes, Pigmentation, Toxic Environmental Exposure, Toxic Occupational Exposure
Dr. James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Colon Hyrotherapy is Used by James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H.
"After conducting a comprehensive digestive stool analysis on any patient suspected of having dysbiosis (poor intestinal hygiene), I attempt to wipe the bowel clean by prescribing colon hydrotherapy once a week times three. In my medical practice, I employ a registered nurse on staff to administer this treatments," says James P. Cater, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.S., of Mandeville, Louisiana. Dr. Cater is Professor and Head of the Nutrition Section at Tulane University School of Medicine.
"Also I use colon hydrotherapy as part of an overall detoxification program, and it may be combined with treatment from above as with drinking epsom salts, but both are not taken on the same day," he advises. "It promotes the second stage of liver detoxification to cause dissolved poisons to come out in the bile as a solvent. The patient's washout at least once a week from below is adjunctive with the epsom salts."
"Colon hydrotherapy is an excellent detoxifier for the overindulgence of alcohol drinking and drug addictions of all kinds. Residues of drugs and other agents in the tissues are eliminated with colon hydrotherapy," states Dr. James P. Cater. "It takes away any desire to use drugs or imbibe in alcoholic beverages. Colon hydrotherapy should be part of nearly any addict's therapeutic regimen."
Giving Colon Hydrotherapy is Standard Procedure for Sharda Sharma, M.D.
Located in Millburn, New Jersey as a primary care physician for nearly twenty-six years, Sharda Sharma, M.D. dispenses medical care of a multi-disciplinary nature to her patients. Dr. Sharma employs colon hydrotherapy, chelation therapy, massage therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, Reiki manipulative therapy, and much more. She treats the body as a whole (holistically).
"I have trained and certified colon hydrotherapists working as part of my staff. Under my supervision for the past year-and-a-half they have been rendering care for constipation, abdominal cramps, allergies, and a variety of other conditions, including ten patients with hepatitis C. These hepatitis patients respond to colon hydrotherapy and do well," assures Dr. Sharma. "For instance, Mrs. Felicia, a forty-two-year-old high school teacher, had suffered with constipation - no bowel movements - for six days at a stretch. She was bloated, fatigued, lethargic, headachy, and crampy. My treatment choice for her was enzyme supplements and colon hydrotherapy twice weekly for thirteen weeks. These treatments solved the constipation problem for Mrs. Felicia. She goes to the toilet as desired without having to sit there for long periods waiting, reading, meditating, or undergoing other mental or physical diversions."
"Colon hydrotherapy is excellent as a treatment for the yeast syndrome. A very anxious fifty-year-old female, Mrs. Sara Audrey, consulted me because she was running to the toilet every two hours with either diarrhea or with attempting to find comfort from constipation. It turns out that she had irritable bowel syndrome complicated by candiasis. During the administration of colon hydrotherapy, I observed that Mrs. Audrey was loaded with Candida albicans. I recognized the white yeast organisms floating through the transparent tube of my colon flushing device," says Dr. Sharma. "But the patient is now in fine shape - much relived. She has good bowel movements twice daily with no gas. This is typical of almost all patients undergoing colon hydrotherapy."
A Gastroenterologist Prescribes Colon Hydrotherapy
Board certified as a gastroenterologist from 1972, Robert Charm, M.D., of Walnut Creek, California, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, combines conventional allopathic medicine with CAM in his practice. He also continues to make house calls.
"I prescribe colon hydrotherapy by calling upon a superbly trained practitioner of the art in the San Francisco Bay area. She is certified by the I-ACT. Also, I'm very impressed by the sophisticated technology as illustrated by the colon hydrotherapy equipment. From my observation, it's engineered quite well," affirms the gastroenterologist.
"Frequently while performing colonoscopy, I see that the patient is cleaned out from above but below the diverticular still contain fecaliths, those small turds remaining in pockets formed on the gut mucosa. They indicate the presence of an unhealthy colon, and over 50 percent of Americans possess diverticulosis colae. When inflamed, gastroenterologists called them diverticulitis colae, which can be serious by creating fistulas. Some people then will poop through their bladders. Some women actually poop throught their vagina," Dr. Charm says. "With patients for whom I perform colonoscopy, about one third of them over the age of fifty who are otherwise cleaned above, still show residual stools sitting in these gut mucosa pockets. Some have held onto the stool pockets for decades. A toxic dumpsite like this is dangerous for them by the elevated concentration of poisons stored in the dumpsite. Environmental cancer can develop!"
"A good cleanout by use of colon hydrotherapy is excellent treatment. Surely I recommend that people undertake colon hydrotherapy for themselves. Clean out the body's pipes," Dr. Robert Charm suggests. "And by all means, I prefer my patients to undergo colon hydrotherapy the morning of a colonoscopy. It's a safe way to cleanse the gut. It's a healing technique for the relief of irritable bowel syndrome with gas and bloating, chronic constipation, abdominal discomfort, and many other GI tract problems."
"My patient, Fran Wilson, a former model, now age forty-one, the mother of two, was just too busy to go to the bathroom. She didn't celebrate having a good bowel movement, which is the thinking in our society. For her, defecation was an annoyance. Fran labored under the mistaken illusion that pooping every three days was normal, and she came to me complaining of feeling logy, fatigued, bloated and abdominally cramped. None of the various drug laxatives had been doing the job for her," explains Dr. Charm. "Rather, these drug-like laxatives were depleting Fran of her potassium. The psyllium seed, fiber, and other natural agents did not work either. Therefore, I recommended that she undertake a series of colon hydrotherapies and the drinking of more water. This cleared up her discomforts remarkably fast despite her lifetime of bad habits."
"The lesson to learn is that when one gets the urge to move, you must do so. Being too busy in our society to give in to the need to defecate is wrong. Find a way," advises Dr. Robert Charm. "Some people don't poop enough! Let's get people thinking about eating and pooping. If these don't occur together, colon hydrotherapy should be employed."
Dr. Michael Gerber Uses Colon Hydrotherapy Routinely
"I've had a colon hydrotherapy device in my office for twenty-five years," states Michael Gerber, MD, of Reno, Nevada. "My present staff person who dispenses colon hydrotherapy under my jurisdiction uses it for all types of patient difficulties. The basic concepts of the science have not changed much in the last twenty-five years; however, the colon hydrotherapy equipment has improved immensely. How the equipment works so effectively is nothing short of astounding. Registered with the FDA, current colon hydrotherapy equipment is safe. It contains temperature-controlled water mixing and back flow prevention valves, plus pressure and temperature sensors, and built-in chemical sanitizing units. Water purification units frequently are installed as well. Disposable single-use rectal tubes, and/or speculae are employed routinely for sterility."
"Undergoing a session of colon hydrotherapy has you experiencing comfort and cleansing with no toxicity. Techniques utilized allow a small amount of water to flow into the colon gently stimulating the colon's natural peristaltic action to release softened waste," Dr. Gerber advises. "The inflow of a small amount of water and the release of waste may be repeated again and again. The removal of such waste encourages better colon function and elimination."
"During the treatment, most clothing can continue to be worn. In addition, the patient is draped, or a gown is worn to ensure modesty. The patient's dignity is always maintained," Dr. Michael Gerber affirms. "The benefits of colon hydrotherapy extend all the way from psychiatric improvement to constipation elimination."
Cancer Patients Improve from Receiving Colon Treatment
"I have found over the years that cancer patients who are not doing well usually are toxic and not being cleansed. They certainly are in need of colon hydrotherapy," advises oncologist and homeopath Douglas Brodie, MD, of Reno, Nevada. Dr. Brodie has developed CAM methods for treating cancer and other degenerative diseases aimed at strengthening the immune system. He emphasizes natural and humane approaches to these conditions with colon hydrotherapy being among them.
"I do recommend that most of my cancer patients take colon hydrotherapy or 'colonic irrigations' because they often improve by having such treatment. Liver cancer in particular shows benefit from colon hydrotherapy, but any internal tumors show effectual change, too," Dr. Brodie says. "It's better than an enema, which is merely a lower bowel cleanse, as opposed to a colonic which is a thorough cleanse of the entire bowel. It's similar to comparing the diagnostic efficacy of a sigmoidoscopy of the short end of the bowel to a colonoscopy which takes in the whole bowel. An enema only goes so far. Colon hydrotherapy is the best cleansing and detoxifier for the gastrointestinal tract that anybody would want. I do promote its use."
*All statements taken from: "Value of Colon Hydrotherapy Verified by
Medial Professionals Prescribing It" by Morton Walker, DPM, Townsend Letter
for Doctors & Patients (August/September 2000 (#205 / 206))(Copyright 2000
by Dr. Morton Walker).
They have been reprinted here with permission from Dr.
Morton Walker.
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