Flushers might find this from pdrhealth.com interesting - again the traditional medical paradigm denies the low risk and high success rate of "alternative" remedies

"Cleansing Away Poor Health: As the medical representatives of the environmental movement, practitioners of these therapies blame most of our ills on the products (and by-products) of industrial society. Methods include fasting, detoxification therapies, colonic irrigation, biological dentistry, and chelation therapy, all frequently packaged together under the label "environmental medicine." Orthodox physicians regard these treatments as among the most disreputable in the entire field of health care." (reference: http://www.pdrhealth.com/content/natural_medicine/chapters/fgnm01.s...

I have to wonder why such venom is spewed toward such therapies.

This entire page reads like a quackbusters debunking page. I guess it's not surprising though. Their sponsors page reads like a who's who among pharmaceuticals.