The Enema Diaries...

Many of these posts will be made while I'm doing my daily coffee enemas, as I have about 15 minutes to burn while I retain the coffee in the colon. Here I am, on all fours in the tub, trying to overcome the peristaltic shudders that want to get that coffee and other accumulated waste out. The story behind how the coffee enema started is a fascinating one. I guess during WWII, German nurses were forced to improvise when they completely ran out of morphine but were still faced with screaming patients in need of some sedative. Noticing that the doctors who were working round the clock seemed to get a real lift from the coffee they were drinking, the nurses began filling the enema bags with coffee in place of the morphine solution they were normally injecting (*Check on this, it may have been some other solution that they ran out of). Not truly knowing how it worked, but recognizing that it was having an effect on the pain and well-being of the patients, the nurses were responsible for introducing to the world the practice I now partake in at least two times a day(I wish I was getting in the 5 recommended...I'm lucky if I get three to four). The blood in the body circulates through the liver every three minutes, getting a quick cleansing of any foreign or harmful products before being sent on its merry way. During a coffee enema, the caffeine in the coffee is absorbed by a special vein that runs directly to the liver...and boy does the liver lover this little boost. Caffeine absorbed through this vein has the opposite effect of caffeine taken orally; it causes the bile ducts to open up and empty into the small intestine for elimination, greatly reducing the toxic load on the liver. In healing cancer patients, this is especially needed because of the massive amount of toxins involved in the breakdown and elimination of necrotic or diseased tissue. Not only that, but because of the general cleansing effects of the Gerson Therapy, there are stored toxins and chemicals and waste products that are finally ushered to elimination by the body...as you might imagine, this elimination is not always easy to handle (picture kicking up clouds of dirty dust that had settled down - as you're getting that dust out, it might irritate the eyes a bit :) but is always necessary if the body is to attain a higher state of health (we don't want to just sweep the dust under the proverbial rug). The coffee enema, a pleasant smelling morning/evening ritual, is a powerful aid in getting the liver and gall bladder cleaned out to get after more cleansing (we're emptying the dust pan here people!)! Thank God for German Nurses!