Hydrotherapy Colon Cleanse

Your colon helps rid your body of toxins and helps your digestive system function properly. Sometimes waste materials form on your colon's walls, and the colon cannot properly process fatty and sugary foods. If you're looking for a method to clean out your whole colon and not just your rectum and lower colon (the extent of an enema's reach), try a hydrotherapy colon cleanse.

Basics and Preparation

• Hydrotherapy colon cleansing strengthens your colon, removing toxic waste materials and restoring your digestive system to proper functioning. Before having this procedure, consult your personal doctor to ensure that it's a good idea. Do not have the procedure if you have Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, rectal or intestinal tumors, severe hemorrhoids or ulcerative colitis. Your physician should refer you to a certified or licensed colon therapist.

  Find out if your health-insurance provider covers colon cleansing; many do not, as it's considered an "alternative treatment." (If it's not covered, you may pay anywhere from $70 to $100 for one session.) When making an appointment for your hydrotherapy colon cleanse, make sure the hydrotherapist uses Food and Drug Administration-approved instruments, that she uses disposable tools (rather than sterilized) and that she will be present for the whole procedure.

  Do not eat for two hours prior to your procedure, and do not eat fatty, packaged or processed foods in the hours leading up to the procedure. Stop drinking liquids one hour before your procedure and do not drink carbonated beverages for two days before your appointment.

The Procedure

• When you are ready to begin the procedure, lie down on a massage table (on your back, side or stomach, depending on the colon therapist's preference). Relax and remain calm as the professional inserts a small, hard tube (a speculum) through your rectum into the anus. You may feel awkward at first, but you should experience little to no pain. The therapist then connects a plastic evacuation tube equipped with a colon-irrigation mechanism to the speculum.

  Your colon receives purified warm water from the irrigation mechanism, which helps flush out waste materials from your colon walls. During the procedure, your colon muscles expand as the water pushes unwanted toxic materials out, and the evacuation tube helps flush fecal waste materials out of your system.

  To make the hydrotherapy process more effective in removing fecal materials, have the professional massage your abdomen during the procedure. Depending on your condition, the therapist also may use chemical components such as enzymes or herbs to increase the therapy's effectiveness.

  Your session should last between 40 minutes and one hour. Depending on the treatment's effectiveness, you can have a hydrotherapy colon cleansing monthly for six months.

After the Procedure

• Following your hydrotherapy cleanse, you must eat light foods such as fruits and vegetables, green tea, light vegetable soup, wheat grass juice and a probiotic supplement. This diet will replace the good bacteria that the colon cleanse washed away.

  After the procedure, take a detoxification bath. Eat at least three hours prior to bedtime, so your body has time to digest solid foods and can detoxify as you sleep.

  While a hydrotherapy colon cleanse removes toxins from your body, you should use a colonic or enema to ensure that the toxins will not return to your system. Speak to the therapist about the recommended frequency with which you should take a colonic or enema, which may depend on the time frame for your next hydrotherapy colon cleanse. Use a colon cleanser such as Dr. Natura's Colonix while having hydrotherapy colon cleanses. Visit drnatura.com for more information.