benefits and harm to the intestines, contraindications, reviews

As early as 2000 years ago, people already resorted to such a method of treatment as colon hydrotherapy. Time transformed the method itself, it was abandoned, but in the 80s of the last century they turned to it again. Read on about whether intestinal lavage can be really useful, what is the potential harm of this method, about the features of the procedure, its effectiveness and contraindications.

What is colon hydrotherapy?

This is often called the method of cleansing the large intestine, which completely removes toxins from the digestive organs. But with the word “slags”, so often used in folk medicine, you should be careful. Note that there is no such term officially: the word “slags” is a pseudoscientific term. Therefore, colon hydrotherapy of the intestine can be conditionally applied, but not with the aim of eliminating non-existent toxins.

Initially, the technique was used by physicians who served the astronauts. The NASA space program assumed the release of the intestines of astronauts from feces on the eve of the most serious overloads in zero gravity. It was a necessary procedure, the use of which had nothing to do with recovery.

Then Western medicine made bowel irrigation a procedure that detoxifies the body. I must say that in Eastern Europe, the method has not become so popular, although some cosmetology centers actively offer patients this procedure as a means of losing weight, rejuvenating and even cleansing the skin.

And yet it is worthwhile to understand that it makes sense to do the procedure only according to indications, if the doctor explains to you the possible benefits. Alas, today is the time of pseudo-healers who collect hundreds of thousands of subscribers on social networks, promoting regular coffee enemas and other dubious treatment measures. And subscribers do not look for evidence, reasonable arguments in the recommendations of commercially interested pseudo-medical experts, and agree to go through strange procedures. Often at the risk of health.

Benefit and harm

In advertising articles describing colonotherapy with water, it is indicated that this is an absolutely comfortable procedure for the client. Do not believe such statements: a strong pressure of water flowing into the anus, swells the abdomen, causes sudden impulses to empty the intestines, absolutely cannot be considered a natural action. Both the person physically and psychologically feels insecure and uncomfortable. This is a certain stress for the body.

To do or not to do colonotherapy?

There are only facts about the benefits and harms of the method:

a healthy body cleans itself on its own in 1-2 days, and some old deposits (and the adherents of methods also write about this) simply cannot be on the intestinal walls;
the probe cannot go further than the sigmoid colon, and it actually acts like a regular enema;
colon hydrotherapy cannot cope with parasites, fecal stones are a delusion on which commercial centers make money, but it is quite possible to wash the beneficial microorganisms of colonohydrotherapy (another name of the method);
during the procedure, minerals, vitamins, nutrients can be washed out of the body;
after the procedure, you will probably be prescribed a course of medications to restore microflora, but the set of beneficial microorganisms is purely individual, because the chances that the new microflora will successfully take root in your intestinal tract are very small.