Intestinal irrigation : $b why, how and when to flush the colonJamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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Intestinal irrigation : $b why, how and when to flush the colon
Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
Enema; Intestines -- Diseases
The author and inventor naturally enjoys not a little satisfaction in
being able to present to sufferers as nearly perfect an instrument as
can be devised; one that, in conjunction with other aids, meets all
requirements involved in the proper treatment of proctitis and colitis.
Lavage or irrigation of the large intestine with water at a temperature
at from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty or one
hundred and fifty degrees, not only accomplishes rapid and wonderful
cleaning and curative results, but overcomes, when properly applied,
contracted, congested, engorged, and inflamed tissues of the bowels.
Therapeutically, it has a marked effect on the whole system, being
beneficial beyond words to describe; it relaxes nervous and muscular
tension of the body, producing restfulness and sleep; it stimulates
and equalizes the circulation, promotes perspiration, absorption, and
active elimination of all deleterious substances from all the organs
of the body. Medicinally, it is really a combined internal Russian
and Turkish bath, removing abdominal corpulency and gaseous obesity,
resulting from chronic auto-intoxication. The external Russian and
Turkish baths afford a satisfaction skin deep to the bather, but the
combined internal Russian and Turkish bath is most agreeably relaxing
and restful to mind and body, bringing peace, since all the organs of
the system are performing their functions. Some of my patients resort
to internal hot-water lavage for all aches and ills that mar their
happiness. After an external bath the bather may desire an application
of oil, alcohol, or cocoanut butter rubbed on the skin, and in the
same way the bather’s internal mucous membrane is not neglected; for,
with the author’s appliance, medicated and perfumed oils, extracts,
and powders for remedial purposes are carried to every part of the
intestines that the water reaches, thus exerting a cleansing, healing,
and soothing effect where most needed.
A few sufferers will object to the time required for an enema twice a
day, although they find time to eat three, or even four times a day,
without any objection whatever; there is plenty of time for filling
up the digestive apparatus, but no time for its normal elimination.
And these miserable, go-lucky, haphazard people are always sick and
unfortunate. The internal Russian and Turkish bath is demanded only by
those who truly desire to be free from their bowel troubles, and from
the numerous symptoms resulting from mucus absorption, constipation,
and auto-intoxication.
A sufferer’s efforts to be well depend largely on how much he or she
estimates the worth or value of mind and body. A noble purpose in life
is priceless; are not one’s spirit and body worth the time required
for two enemata each day and an hour for the internal bath, if needed?
I think so, and you should likewise.
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