colonics

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I just had my first colonic last week, and thought I'd share a few thoughts.

After doing as much research about what the benefits/risks involved are, and

researching the best person to go to, I decided to give it a try. It was

definitely not what I expected. After doing so much bowel cleansing and liver

cleansing, I kind of expected it to be a breaze. I experienced several episodes

of breaking out in a cold sweat, and dizziness. I'm guessing this was an

autonomic nervous system response, not necessarily indicative of anything wrong,

but it was not pleasant. The " results " were good, and I'm scheduled for a

couple more.

The practitioner performing the colonic basically said that the liver cleansing

would not be as effective without doing a colonic first. I'd not heard that

before, and am wondering if anyone has any light to shed on the subject. He

said the herbal bowel cleansings I've done were not sufficient to clean the

bowel, and the toxins released during the liver cleanse basically would get

recycled in the body if the bowel is not " clean. "

Sometimes it's hard to determine fact from fiction when researching the benefits

of alternative health methods. The medical community turns their nose up at the

mention of colonics, and I did read a report by a watchdog group that said

colonics have no benefit whatsoever. But, when you look at the pictures of

diseased bowels, and realize that most Americans, with their processed diets,

have bowel problems, and high rates of colon cancer, well.....let's just say

that I don't trust the medical ideas of health care.

Adrienne

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