Colon Hydrotherapy Tips

Colon hydrotherapy entails getting colonics at a hospital or clinic where a licensed vocational nurse or colon hydrotherapist administers the procedure. Essentially, liquid is placed into the colon to remove waste.
If you have occasional irregularity or are want to cleanse before starting a weight loss diet, colon hydrotherapy may be appropriate for you.
Eat lightly a few days before your treatment and consider using coffee or aloe vera "implants" to receive additional benefits.

Benefits

• Colon hydrotherapy is designed to help relieve occasional constipation from stress, overeating or eating unfamiliar food that was hard to digest. Most colon hydrotherapy treatments involve lying on a treatment table and having a tube inserted into the anus. Water is released into the colon and the waste is removed by using a special machine that empties the waste. Several rounds are done in one session.
  Benefits include improved digestion, assimilation of food and, in some cases, weight loss.

Tips

• A typical colonic might cost $75 to $110 and last for an hour. Most colonics consist of filtered water to not introduce water-borne parasites into the body, such as giardia. Tap water often contains heavy metals such as methylmercury or fluoride. As a colonic is to encourage detoxification, request filtered water only.

Using Coffee or Aloe Vera

• To boost benefits, ask for the last round to include organic, diluted aloe vera juice. Aloe vera is known for healing tissues and can be consumed as a drink, too.
  Carrie L'Esperance, in her book "The Ancient Cookfire," discusses the use of different types of coffee in a colonic. Coffee generally helps the liver release more bile and is a way to cleanse it. When your liver is cleansed, it can more efficiently remove toxins from the bloodstream.
  Always use organic coffee for colonics so as to not introduce pesticides widely used in the harvest of commercial coffee beans.