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A personal account of colon therapy 18 August 2000 Well, I'm back at home after having my colonic. And my bum isn't sore ;-) I didn't take any pictures as there wasn't a great deal to see. I envisioned a see-through waste tank where you could watch it all bobbing about! I'd done 2 poos this morning before I even got there! I told her that I'd been visualising my colonics to save me money and she laughed. First we had a chat about food, about my tummy area and other stuff. She told me she was going to get into metabolic typing -- working out the foods people need based on a metabolic analysis. We got a bit deeper into that one and I eventually said we'd have to agree to disagree on it! She then gave me two pieces of advice, the first: I might need warm food in the winter as I'd get cold. Told her that I went raw in January so knew all about being cold as it was a detox symptom as well. Said that I only gently warmed a raw soup up once as I didn't feel I needed it any other time. I also said that now I've detoxed, my forthcoming winter will be easy as I'm hard now and temperature tolerant. The other thing she said was not to go onto purely living foods. I probably visibly gasped at this as that is what I eat -- food that's alive. But it was just the terminology she used for sproutarians. She had one client who used to go for regular colonics, and one day he turned up after being a sproutarian for a year and he looked so gaunt and ill she refused to colonicise him! She told him to get his diet straight before she would do any further treatment. So I said that I had no plans to eat like that, we're frugivores after all. Shouldn't have said that because she said, that not all of us are, some people need to eat meat, it's their metabolic type. We threw a few words back and forth about it for a while and then we decided to get on with the colonic. She showed me the equipment. There's a small tube with a rounded end that gets covered in green chickweed grease, and a length of pipe (about the width of a poo) that connects to about a foot of see-through pipe -- that's the exciting bit. Then there's a water attachment. She does a herbal thing at the same time, which I didn't know about. So most of the treatment is with water but when she thinks she's really digging out the dirt she'll put a herbal solution up there, leave it for a couple of minutes and then let it come out. I thought that was a good idea. I asked her if she had to be on a water meter and she did. Bless her! I was given a gown with a big slit up the back and went into the loo room to get undressed from the waist (I had a dress on so I got totally naked -- for a change!) and put the gown on. I then put my cardigan on as she said you can get cold during treatment. I was also told to do a wee as the full colon will press on my bladder. So I did a wee. I came on yesterday (that's another story!) so I thought "Oh bugger, a colonic with a period." Wondered if there'd be a problem but didn't bother saying anything. So I came out of the loo room and got on the treatment table. I laid on my back and she felt my tummy. She told me that it was really hard and was probably full of poo or trapped gas. I was surprised at that, as I don't get wind, not like everyone else I know who are trumping all the time. Oh, it made me laugh because the clinic (house) was in a section of Cambridge called Trumpington. I think trump is only a Hull word for letting Polly out of prison coz when I told Stevie it was in Trumpington he didn't laugh. She pressed my tummy and asked if it hurt anywhere and I told her that it always hurts at the bottom right (well, I pointed). She said that's where big intestine meets small intestine -- and suggested that my valve might not be closing properly or something. So, I turned on my side and brought my knees up to my tummy (not touching it). Lying on my side like this, my tummy felt really big and bloated. I'd done 2 poos and hadn't even eaten anything yet and it was sticking out as if a balloon was trapped in there. She told me that she just had to check for internal piles so she'd have to stick her finger up my bum. Lovely. And I was saving myself, too. She put a load of grease on her (gloved) finger and said that if I gently breathe in and then out, as I breathe out my sphincter will relax. So I breathed as was instructed and she stuck her finger up there and had a bit of a feel. "That's great", she said. "I'm sure it was", I thought. Then she covered the round-tipped tube thing with grease and stuck that up my bum while I used the same breathing techniques. She said that if I get a cramp like a period pain, it will be the mucoid plaque coming away from my colon -- I told her I hoped that happens. So the next bit was the watery thing. Warm water goes in and then she lets it out. A load of gas came out. "Oh" I exclaimed. I was quite excited about the whole thing now the arse bit was over and done with. She did this a few more times, sometimes holding the water for a couple of seconds and then releasing it. After about 5 goes, some poo came out. Tomato skins and bits of leaf were visible. She said that you always see tomato skins. Then she increased the pressure, she'd fill it for as long as I could take the water, and when I gave the OK, she'd release it. Every time she released it, more gas came out. So all my tummy ache was down to gas? Tsk! After about 5 or 10 minutes, she rested it, with water inside and asked me to massage my tummy. She told me that she used to do this for her clients but she wanted to get them used to massaging their tummy. I've been doing this at home for the past week, for about 20 minutes morning and night. She said I need only do it for about a minute. Cor, an extra 19 minutes in my days, how ever will I fill them? When I did this massage for a bit and she released the water, extra stuff came out. More gas, more poo. So I massaged every time she stopped. About half an hour into the treatment, my colon starts joining in. It comes to life, expelling whenever it gets full. She says that's good. As time goes on, I can take more water (coz there's less poo and gas there) for longer. Then she gives the herbs a go. It's just more liquid, so doesn't look any different (she tells me later that she'd like to get olive oil and washing up liquid in to some people -- joking!). I keep the herb liquid inside for 2 minutes while I massage and she then releases it. Cor -- the amount of gunk that came out! She called it silt, said it was like a sandy type thing. She said that's old stuff. It wasn't the mucoid plaque that I want to get rid of, but it's a good start. She did say though, that my poo looks very well digested and I've done a really good job of cleaning myself out on raw food. About three-quarters of the way in I got a cramp that she described earlier. I was hoping this would be the mucoid plaque coming away from my colon, so she did another herbal flush and loads of silty stuff came out, but no plaquey bits. Maybe next time. This whole procedure lasted over an hour. We did 3 herbal rinses and they all brought out old silt. As she tried to finish with a clean rinse, more stuff came out. Twice, she tried to finish, and twice I carried on expelling silt and stuff. She asked me if I had hollow legs! Finally she managed to finish and told me to go to the loo, where I'd get the last bit of the water out. So I went to the loo (rested my feet on the loo rolls) and a load more gas came out -- I've never known anything like it. Then I massaged my tummy while on the loo and felt a really hard lump in the left side -- something had moved. I massaged it for a while and then needed to go, so I did a good poo. There was lots of it, but it was quite thin. I still needed to go, so I massaged for a bit more and then went again. The hard lump went from my tummy. I felt much better after that. My lower tummy felt quite strange, but I wouldn't say delicate, and there was definitely no pain. I got dressed and sat with her chatting for a while. She said I couldn't just drive home because if I needed to go again in the next 10 minutes I'd not be able to hold it. I decided to buy some colon/digestion herbs from her, once I'd read the write up. They're organic and come in vegan capsules. Hmm - although they're raw, it's not like I want to take supplements, but I must be sensible here. They're not like vitamins, they serve to cleanse and strengthen the system and will complement the probiotics that I bought the other day. Once I've completed both courses, I don't intend to take anything else ever -- but who can tell? We discussed diet. She was sure that all that trapped gas was down to fermentation from a food that doesn't entirely agree with me. We guessed it might be tomatoes as they're about the only thing I eat that's causes common reactions. I knew the fermentation wasn't down to the way I eat fruit as I mainly just eat fruit as mono. It's only my salads that have more than one ingredient in, but even they are very simple. And I chew so well! So I'll go without tomatoes for two weeks to see if my tummy's any better. But not yet, I've just bought about 10lb of them. So I asked her when she thought I should have another colonic and she told me to leave it a few weeks to see how I feel. She said that my colon's done a lot of work so I might feel tired today. I went away feeling light and happy. I drove home wondering what, in my house, could I clean first. If housework was my only reason for doing this, I'm sure it would be cheaper and easier to get a maid than to keep purging myself! Update Looking back on this, I shouldn't have bought the herbs as I didn't use them. I think I succumbed to her authoritarian manner! I'm glad I had the experience of a colonic, and would recommend them to anyone who thinks they might have some old rubbish in their colon which isn't coming out -- especially if they are on a good diet now. I've had a few colonics since this, and now prefer to do enemas. They're easier (no travelling) and much cheaper. When you get the hang of them, you can get them very high up into your colon. I've been using wheatgrass and chlorella as well as *very very very diluted* hydrogen peroxide (Don't try this at home, folks!!) I now like to do enemas when I fast, and other than that I do them about once every other month, so I haven't become addicted to them! Contact Inge Lill Dip.ION RCT MCIA Nutritional Therapist and Colonic Hydrotherapist The Cambridge Colonic and Nutrition Centre 155 Shelford Road Cambridge CB2 2ND 01223 564580 ingelill_uk@yahoo.co.uk More colonic documentation J Peter Owen's Colonics Adventures Page

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