History of Cleansing
Various forms of colonic therapy have been practiced since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Advances in both technology and our understanding of anatomy and physiology have provided improvement in both the techniques and the apparatus employed in colon hydrotherapy. Water therapies to cleanse the colon have been around for thousands of years. The earliest recorded versions have been traced to the physicians of ancient Egypt (1500 B.C.)
A most interesting document translated from a third century Aramaic manuscript delves deeply into the natural laws of eating and the sinfulness of uncleanness. The Essene Gospel of Peace quotes Jesus:
Seek, therefore, a large traveling gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon a branch of a tree, and knell upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through your bowels.
The Greek historian Herodotus commenting in 440 B.C. on the health of his contemporaries, wrote:
For three consecutive days in every month they purge themselves, pursuing after health by means of emetics and drenches; for they think that it is from the food they eat that all sicknesses come to men.
Leading up to the modern era we have two individuals from different parts of the world, whose ideas on toxins and intestinal health has contributed to our knowledge.
During 19th century Russian microbiologist Ilya Ilich Machnikov, first described the concept of “autointoxication.” He argued that the body could actually poison itself as the toxins from fecal matter were absorbed through the lining of the large intestine into the bloodstream.
In an article entitled “Should the Colon Be Sacrificed or May it Be Reformed?” which appeared in the 1917 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg reported his success in using colon hydrotherapy (along with diet and exercise) to prevent surgery in all but 20 of the 40,000 gastrointestinal patients he had treated at his sanitarium.
Various forms of colonic therapy have been practiced since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Advances in both technology and our understanding of anatomy and physiology have provided improvement in both the techniques and the apparatus employed in colon hydrotherapy. Water therapies to cleanse the colon have been around for thousands of years. The earliest recorded versions have been traced to the physicians of ancient Egypt (1500 B.C.)
A most interesting document translated from a third century Aramaic manuscript delves deeply into the natural laws of eating and the sinfulness of uncleanness. The Essene Gospel of Peace quotes Jesus:
Seek, therefore, a large traveling gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon a branch of a tree, and knell upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, that the water may flow through your bowels.
The Greek historian Herodotus commenting in 440 B.C. on the health of his contemporaries, wrote:
For three consecutive days in every month they purge themselves, pursuing after health by means of emetics and drenches; for they think that it is from the food they eat that all sicknesses come to men.
Leading up to the modern era we have two individuals from different parts of the world, whose ideas on toxins and intestinal health has contributed to our knowledge.
During 19th century Russian microbiologist Ilya Ilich Machnikov, first described the concept of “autointoxication.” He argued that the body could actually poison itself as the toxins from fecal matter were absorbed through the lining of the large intestine into the bloodstream.
In an article entitled “Should the Colon Be Sacrificed or May it Be Reformed?” which appeared in the 1917 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg reported his success in using colon hydrotherapy (along with diet and exercise) to prevent surgery in all but 20 of the 40,000 gastrointestinal patients he had treated at his sanitarium.