Re: ii - options, tweaks or add-ons for enemas

 think when we are self-administering enemas, we need to know what our intentions are for doing them.

Glad you pointed this out. Even though I admit to some amount of experimentation here, this is not blind experimentation nor a matter that I'm playing around putting substances into my rectum for lack of things to do on a slow day. The first time I ever read of the notion of garlic to be included in an enema was when I first cracked open the Christopher SoNH book approximately 5 years ago. That remained just one among many thoughts in the back of my mind to perhaps one day look into further. That it took 5 years to act upon the thought should serve as notice to anyone who might misunderstand the definitoin of experimentation in this context, but to repeat, thank you for bringing this up.

As I had mentioned earlier in the Anja thread on ruptured appendix, at the end of summer I got hold of a decent batch of bulk Echinacea. Most of it got tinctured but I hung on to several ounces so I could try brewing into tea and then drinking this, both hot and cold, a few times a day for a few weeks. After a few weeks, one morning while standing at the urinal, a "thing" that I can best describe as a small bloodclot, popped out of my penis, after which the flow (of urine) was much better than it had been for a long while. Throughout that day I continued to get little bits of blood when urinating, but by the next day I no longer noticed any blood.

I think (not sure, but think) I've had some sort of UT / prostate infection for, possibly, a few years. During this time Ive been using the various herbs known to help the UT, to inlude the raw herbs (Uvi Ursi / Gravel Root / Marshmallow Root / Juniper Berries, Parsley, etc)  that I use to make my own teas, as well as MH's Kindey tincture formula. While this usually provides improvement for short terms, over the longer term this problem has persisited. For several years, there has been one telltale sign * that I'm having another bout of something going on down there; been waking up in the morning with severe ache on both sides of lower back near the kidneys,. Usually, this ache usually goes away within an hour or so as soon as I get up and moving around for the day. Some days it doesn't but most days it does. The weird thing (to me) is that some times this goes on for 3 days in a row, or 5, or 11, but then it goes away for days or weeks or months at a time, then it comes back and sort of repeats like this. Actually, this has been going on so long that I sort of got accustomed to it and was not really doing anything about it.

* during the past several months, a new telltale sign appeared. I needed to squeeze the bladder harder in order to urinate. The flow wasn't normal, at times it was barely a trickle after first waking in the morning. There were also some "things going on" with one testicles, and this is a bit more personal than what I care to type about publically. Nonetheless this helped lead me to suspect it was not soley a UT thing I was dealing with but a combo UT and prostate and parts of the sex organs..... but since these are all sort of located in near proximity, its been kinda difficult to poinpoint the problem to just UT or just UT/prostate.

 Anyway, the experiment with Echinacea tea was mostly a desire to improve immune system. However, among the other potential benefits (reading from SoNH book again), Echinacea is supposed to be good at helping to rid puss or other infected messes. Here is another thing that I don't know; the aforementioned release of urinary blood clot - was it coincidental or was it a byproduct of drinking Ech tea for a few weeks?.... I dunno. I really was not doing anything herb/regimen wise to address the UT situation, so other than the Ech, I can only guess that the clot popped out either due to random accident, or because the Ech helped it to come out. Either way, that  definitely got my attention enough for me to get back to focusing on cleasning / diet / health / good habits. It was only a week or so later after this bloodclot incident that I was preparing for a L-G flush for the first time in well over a year. So, I was C-E'ing on a once a week for a few weeks and taking a shot glass full of de-wormer each night.

After a few weeks of this, one day I was preparing for another CE and that garlic-enema line from the SoNH book came back to mind. Since this was sort of an impromptu moment, I had a little garlic oil handy and decided to pour a bit into the enema bucket when it got down near the end. It did not burn as I expected, it got a little warm after 5 mintues or so, and I did see experience some additional improvement in the UT/prostate area, particularly the latter. 

I finished the L-G flush this morning. Notes specific to that in a separate post.

Echinacea tea is also on the list of liquids I want to try in the enema solution. Catnip too. The way I look at it, yes, day in and day out, we are designed for the top end of our system to be the entry point for herb....seed....plant.... liquid ... "food" and the bottom end is generally to be an exit point. By the same token, using different subtances in enema solution is not all that different than using a Bolus or douche or suppository, so the practice seems to be ripe for careful experimentation.