Re: coffee enema

Dr. Sutter,

I've been perusing your forum since it opened, and I CERTAINLY appreciate your diligent works of healing (and the experiences you've lived through successfully and drawn upon to assist others in their quest for natural healing).

After originally reading your life stories & snippets, I felt confidently refreshed that you seem to be a sincere seeker of the truth (with as minimal egoic involvement as humanly possible - something we all strive to attain, eh?)...with a goal to help others. Knowing that no one human being can possibly know everything (especially when so much vital information has been deceptively hidden or adversely portrayed), I hope my response below isn't taken as disrespectful to your knowledge or beliefs. Since there is so much solid research and experience by successful healers throughout this century utilizing coffee enemas, I'd be amiss if I didn't respond fully.

>>A coffee enema cannot get to the liver to decongest it. That HAS to be done via flushes.<<

This is incorrect. The Merck Manual included coffee enemas as a method for decongesting, cleansing and detoxifying the liver up until the 1970's (the entry was taken out for 'space consideration'). Dr. Max Gerson & William Donald Kelley (amidst a myriad of others, most recently a Dr. Gonzalez) successfully utilized CE's to cleanse, detoxify and decongest the liver as part of their cancer/incurable disease protocols. I personally (as well as my husband, and mother-in-law --who was cured of Stage IV metastatic terminal liver cancer by attending Dr. Kelley's underground clinics) have all experienced coffee enemas that yielded as much or MORE liver debris than an olive oil flush. (This is the exception, and is more likely to occur if one "preps" for a CE as they would a liver flush, adds Epsom Salts to the coffee solution, and/or drinks parsley/ginger/garlic juice before the CE).
I've compared liver sounds (via stethoscope) during a strong solution CE w/Epsom Salts and a typical olive oil flush. The sounds are virtually identical (it's INCREDIBLE to hear it all through a stethoscope!). I also utilize the stethoscope during all my CE's - it's a fantastic tool that assists me in positioning myself so the solution remains in close proximity to the ductwork leading to the liver. (It's incredibly clear when you've found 'the sweet spot', lol).
(most all evidence & documentation of what I'm posting can be partially found in the article and more fully in link I've posted below my sign off).

>>The coffee enema does stimulate the large intestine to move but it can't get to the small intestine. The small intestine is between the large intestine and the liver. The ileocecal valve is a one way valve emptying into the large intestine. You wouldn't want anything to get past that point anyway going the other way.<<

Of course I agree, ANY solution in an enema stimulates the large/lower intestine...and one would never want to push anything past that point...especially not to the ileocecal. I don't understand what you mean "the small intestine is between the large intestine and the liver"...as that statement taken at it's face value is anatomically incorrect. The liver is outside both the small and large intestine...connected to the intestines only by the hepatic arteries/portals and where it releases bile into the digestive tract through the gallbladder (close to the duodenum, I believe (?). I must be misunderstanding your comment. Here's a diagram for those that don't have a clear picture of the anatomy.






>>The large intestine is where the water gets reabsorbed from the feces. Thus, the coffee does indeed stimulate the entire body. Plus, coffee is loaded with antioxidents which cleans you out on a cellular basis. Which can also lead to problems if the liver isn't on line to eliminate those toxins.<<

Coffee enemas cannot lead to problems with the liver (any more than liver flushing can...of course, either can create clogs from the loosening debris in the biliary network). CE's assist the liver to eliminate the same toxins of which you're speaking. Although the lower colon IS where water is absorbed from fecal matter, very little coffee solution is absorbed during a properly utilized CE. The fecal matter remains in the lower colon for hours, whereas the coffee solution is only retained for 10-20 minutes...and of course, virtually all of the solution is expelled.

>>I personally don't believe in putting anything into the body except via the oral cavity. Except in emergency (crisis therapy).<<

Lol, we all have our own beliefs, likes/dislikes and opinions (and we're all certainly entitled to them!). The works of Gerson & Kelley (and many others) document & validate the usefulness and safety of CE's...and enemas have been utilized for centuries for healing. Jesus Christ himself recommended them as part of cleansing and fasting in The Essene Gospels. Since those are my beliefs, this seemed to be the appropriate place to insert them.

>>That's with the olive oil, Coke and lemon flush.<< Oh MY! I am truly flabberghasted to hear a natural healer utilizing a known poison (Coca Cola) in order to flush their liver. (But hey, I guess any method that causes the liver to be in prime working order is better than doing nothing!). Please pardon my bluntness, but there are FAR safer ways to liver flush than ingesting poison chemicals and pure white sugar. (I know that flush recipe is posted on CZ, but it desperately needs to be removed).

I am always truly thrilled to read that you (and others) are able to overcome so many adverse health issues by liver-flushing & cleansing (no matter WHICH method/recipe is utilized to stimulate the liver to create amounts of cleansing bile). Cleansing the organs and eating correctly can cure virtually ANY dis-ease known to man (the human body IS a miracle). Of course ::::big grin::: a competent chiropracter is ALWAYS a welcome relief for our bodies (how I wished you practiced nearby -in Iowa-, I'm having a heck of a time finding a chiropractor that doesn't work "assembly line style" or insist on x-rays).

I pray that my post hasn't come across as insulting, negative or offensive. If I didn't perceive that you're a 'truth seeker', I wouldn't even have taken the chance on posting (I would have emailed or posted to the person asking). No matter what experience or credentials we possess, they can always be enhanced by additional learning & knowledge. 'Tis my sincerest of wishes that you feel the same :)

(Also, please don't feel it necessary to take the time to respond to me; I'm SURE you're a very busy man with many people that truly NEED your help. And I'm certainly not in any kind of a 'need' situation for a response or your valuable time).

Healthiest of blessings,

Unyquity



http://www.sawilsons.com/library.htm



Here's a GREAT article:

From The Cancer Chronicles #6 and #7

© Autumn 1990 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.

The most controversial alternative procedures has to be the coffee enema. Along with other detoxification routines, the coffee enema is a central part of both the Gerson and the Kelley programs. It is always good for a laugh: "with milk or sugar?" This bizarre-sounding treatment can also be used to scare people away from alternatives in general. No quackbusting article these days is complete without a reference to "enemas made from roasted coffee beans." So what's the story? Is the coffee enema crackpot faddism or is there some rationale behind this procedure?

An enema is "a fluid injected into the rectum for the purpose of clearing out the bowel, or of administering drugs or food." The word itself comes from the Greek en-hienai, meaning to "send or inject into." The enema has been called "one of the oldest medical procedures still in use today." Tribal women in Africa, and elsewhere, routinely use it on their children. The earliest medical text in existence, the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, (1,500 B.C.) mentions it. Millennia before, the Pharaoh had a "guardian of the anus," a special doctor one of whose purposes was to administer the royal enema.

The Greeks wrote of the fabled cleanliness of the Egyptians, which included the internal cleansing of their systems through emetics and enemas. They employed these on three consecutive days every month said Herodotus (II.77) or at intervals of three or four days, according to the later historian Diodorus. The Egyptians explained to their visitors that they did this because they "believed that diseases were engendered by superfluities of the food", a modern-sounding theory!

Enemas were known in ancient Sumeria, Babylonia, India, Greece and China. American Indians independently invented it, using a syringe made of an animal bladder and a hollow leg bone. Pre-Columbian South Americans fashioned latex into the first rubber enema bags and tubes. In fact, there is hardly a region of the world where people did not discover or adapt the enema. It is more ubiquitous than the wheel. Enemas are found in world literature from Aristophanes to Shakespeare, Gulliver Travels to Peyton Place.

In pre-revolutionary France a daily enema after dinner was de rigueur. It was not only considered indispensable for health but practiced for good complexion as well. Louis XIV is said to have taken over 2,000 in his lifetime. Could this have been the source of the Sun King's sunny disposition? For centuries, enemas were a routine home remedy. Then, within living memory, the routine use of enemas died out. The main times that doctors employ them nowadays is before or after surgery and childbirth. Difficult and potentially dangerous barium enemas before colonic X rays are of course still a favorite of allopathic doctors.

But why coffee? This bean has an interesting history. It was imported in Arabia in the early 1500's by the Sufi religious mystics, who used it to fight drowsiness while praying. It was especially prized for its medicinal qualities, in both the Near East and Europe. No one knows when the first daring soul filled the enema bag with a quart of java. What is known is that the coffee enema appeared at least as early as 1917 and was found in the prestigious Merck Manual until 1972. In the 1920s German scientists found that a caffeine solution could open the bile ducts and stimulate the production of bile in the liver of experimental animals.

Dr. Max Gerson used this clinically as part of a general detoxification regimen, first for tuberculosis, then cancer. Caffeine, he postulated, will travel up the hemorrhoidal to the portal vein and thence to the liver itself. Gerson noted some remarkable effects of this procedure. For instance, patients could dispense with all pain-killers once on the enemas. Many people have noted the paradoxical calming effect of coffee enemas. And while coffee enemas can relieve constipation, Gerson cautioned:

"Patients have to know that the coffee enemas are not given for the function of the intestines but for the stimulation of the liver."

Coffee enemas were an established part of medical practice when Dr. Max Gerson introduced them into cancer therapy in the 1930s. Basing himself on German laboratory work, Gerson believed that caffeine could stimulate the liver and gall bladder to discharge bile. He felt this process could contribute to the health of the cancer patient.

Although the coffee enema has been heaped with scorn, there has been some independent scientific work that gives credence to this concept. In 1981, for instance, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and his colleagues were able to show that substances found in coffee—kahweol and cafestol palmitate—promote the activity of a key enzyme system, glutathione S-transferase, above the norm. This system detoxifies a vast array of electrophiles from the bloodstream and, according to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute, "must be regarded as an important mechanism for carcinogen detoxification." This enzyme group is responsible for neutralizing free radicals, harmful chemicals now commonly implicated in the initiation of cancer. In mice, for example, these systems are enhanced 600 percent in the liver and 700 percent in the bowel when coffee beans are added to the mice's diet.

Dr. Peter Lechner, who is investigating the Gerson method at the Landeskrankenhaus of Graz, Austria, has reported that "coffee enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with an endoscope." F.W. Cope (1977) has postulated the existence of a "tissue damage syndrome." When cells are challenged by poison, oxygen deprivation, malnutrition or a physical trauma they lose potassium, take on sodium and chloride, and swell up with excess water.

Another scientist (Ling) has suggested that water in a normal cell is contained in an "ice-like" structure. Being alive requires not just the right chemicals but the right chemical structure. Cells normally have a preference for potassium over sodium but when a cell is damaged it begins to prefer sodium. This craving results in a damaged ability of cells to repair themselves and to utilize energy. Further, damaged cells produce toxins; around tumors are zones of "wounded" but still non-malignant tissue, swollen with salt and water.

Gerson believed it axiomatic that cancer could not exist in normal metabolism. He pointed to the fact that scientists often had to damage an animal's thyroid and adrenals just to get a transplanted tumor to "take." He directed his efforts toward creating normal metabolism in the tissue surrounding a tumor.

It is the liver and small bowel which neutralize the most common tissue toxins: polyamines, ammonia, toxic-bound nitrogen, and electrophiles. These detoxification systems are probably enhanced by the coffee enema. Physiological Chemistry and Physics has stated that "caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products across the colonic wall."

In addition, theophylline and theobromine (two other chemicals in coffee) dilate blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut; the palmitates enhance the enzyme system responsible for the removal of toxic free radicals from the serum; and the fluid of the enema then stimulates the visceral nervous system to promote peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from the duodenum and out the rectum.

Since the enema is generally held for 15 minutes, and all the blood in the body passes through the liver every three minutes, "these enemas represent a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall" (Healing Newsletter, #13, May-June, 1986).

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