What is Colon Cleansing?

Colon cleansing has been a controversial topic nowadays. Health practitioners do not often agree with their thoughts regarding colon cleansing. Mostly believe the health benefits colon cleansing can give but others do not, but in any way it is their prerogative whether they will believe or not. What is Colon cleansing? Colon cleansing or colon therapy is used by alternative medical practitioners to remove all toxins from our body. It consists of using water or irrigation such as enema, colema and hydrogen base cleansing. These three uses water to flush out toxins and waste materials inside our colon. There are also oral colon cleansers such as laxatives or purgatives, teas and fiber supplements. No matter what type you use all are colon cleansers and therefore it takes away impacted feces and toxins from our colon.

Holistic practitioners, therapists and Naturopaths believe that through the years of fecal accumulation, these wastes harbor the increase in number of parasites because feces is the home of parasites, thus this causes ill-health. Another thing is that, impacted feces develop toxins and these toxins enters the bloodstreams that later causes acne and other diseases including colon cancer. This theoretical belief was handed down from the Egyptians and Greeks. Until today this theory is still being argued by health experts. Though conventional health practitioners strongly believe the used of colon cleansing is important for us to keep healthy, there is no scientific evidence that shows benefits of colon cleansing. Physicians believe that the bowel is not dirty since it does not harbor bacteria or pollution from the outside environment. The colon according to them has the ability to clean itself without the aid of colon cleansers as these cleansers may sometime is the key for inducing bacteria to our colon and is therefore harmful and worst it may alter the natural flora of our intestine thus becoming it dependent to cleansers instead of doing its duty.

The theory of colon cleansing is based on the notion of auto-intoxication. The food that we eat enters our intestine and from there essential nutrients are distributed to our body and those that are not needed are supposedly excreted to the rectum as feces. But not all these wastes are excreted outside the intestine. There is fecal debris left, that over the years this debris is impacted in the intestinal walls and causes toxins to build up. Toxins are the root of all diseases. The toxins enter our bloodstream and from there it targets our immune system making it weak and all kinds of diseases and illnesses attacks our body.  

Auto-intoxication was then proven by a microbiologist named Mechnikov who studied that this toxin can shorten our life span. Later on the idea of Mechnikov was said to be auto-intoxication. In which foods that are taking in, after essential nutrients are distributed to the body waste are not all excreted, that there are fecal debris left that in a longer period of time this feces becomes toxin in the intestine, and this toxins lead to many diseases and colon cancer. It was also proven in 20th century by the American Medical Association, but later on rejected as lack of evidence. Despite of rejection auto-intoxication still continue to the knowledge of the public, thus the practice of colon cleansing becomes popular even when there is rejection from the medical society. It was then supported by testimonials from those who uses the method and later on colon cleansing is widely used.