Reflexology up your arse.

An unruly colon can cause poor eyesight, hearing loss, acne, and asthma, among other symptoms. Did you know that? No? Well, don't feel bad. It's not true. However, in a flyer I just recieved from the "Shoppes of Peterborough", there was a newsletter from "Alternative Health Care", an alternative medicine (a bogus term) outfit in Lindsay. Here's what they say about the colon:

What is Colon Therapy?

Colon Therapy (colonics) is a holistic approach to restoration of abundant health. It combines colon irrigation, natural supplements, counscelling and proper diet.


What is The Colon?

The Colon is the large intestine. It measures approximately five feet in length and two and one half inches in diameter. It ascends from the secum on the right side of the body where it joins the small intestine, then travels across the abdominal cavity and descends down the left side of the rectum.

What is the Colon's Function?

The Colon is more than the body's sewer system. It is one of the most neglected organs in the body. It completes the digestive process by absorbing water from the digested residue of food we have eaten and discharge toxins and waste material from the body.

Symptoms of a Poor Colon


Fatigue • Chronic Diarrhea • Gas • Chronic Constipation
Headaches • Skin Problems • Irritability • Negative Attitudes

What do These Symptoms Indicate?

If allowed to continue, these symptoms manifest themselves into more serious health problems such as colitis, diverticulitis, polyps, arthritis, diminished eyesight, behavioural problems and cancer.

What is Autointoxication?

It is the absorption of toxins into the blood stream and lymph system from an unhealthy colon. It is the poisoning of our internal "eco-system".

What are the Health Risks?

The buildup of putrefaction and fermentation in the colon is one of the most pernicious health hazards facing Western humanity. This corruption, if allowed to remain in the body, prevents any possibility of attaining any degree of vibrant health. Because of the danger of toxemia present in corrupt matter, failure to expel fecal waste probably ranks as our most serious health risk.

Why Don't People Know the Dangers?

Since the build-up of toxins is gradual, most people fail to realize the peril colon neglects causes. Furthermore, modern medicine tends to treat sypmptoms of disease, not the root cause. Drugs and surgery have become the norn, instead of promotion of preventative health.

What is Colon Irrigation?

A gradual irrigation flushing of the large intestine with filtered water. A machine that uses gravity fed water pressure allows water to flow into and out of the colon via an applicator. The treatement is safe, painless and far more effective and comfortable than an enema.

Can I be Constipated and Still Have Daily Bowel Movements?

YES! A constipated colon is much like a water pipe that is partly obstructed by mineral deposits and corrosion. Some water may flow through, but it does not mean that it is clean. Eventually the opening becomes narrower and narrower as waste builds up to the point where it closes - implaction. This condition often results in unnecessary colostomy surgery.

Who Administers Colon Therapy?

Professionally trained certified colon technicians, who are competent in a wide range of natural health techniques that emphasize a drug free, non-surgical alternative way to better health.

Is Colon Irrigation Habit Forming?

NO! The purpose of cleasing the bowel is to allow it to relax and rejuvenate itself.

Colon Therapy Helps

Colon therapy emphasizes prevention, but also promises relief from these afflications and more.

• Constipation • Arthritis
• Fatigue • Colitis
• Poor Eyesight • Diabetes
• Hearing Loss • Colds
• Prostate Trouble • Asthma
• Indigestion • Allergies
• Diverticulitis • Acne



Will Colonics Help Prevent Cancer?

A clean, healthy colon tract naturally detoxifies the body allowing the lymph system and deep tissues to properly drain. We are marvellously designed. Our bodies can heal themselves if given the proper chance.

Cancer of the colon ranks next to heart disease as the most frequent cause of death in our country!!

A health colon tract is a major step towards good health. Cancer cannot attack a healthy organ!

Why Can't I Just Take Laxatives?

Instead of encouraging normal peristalisis, a laxative acts as an irritant to the muscle lining of the colon, causing convulsive action that overpowers and exhaust the colon muscle. LAXATIVES ARE HABIT FORMING AND DANGEROUS. A $400+ billion a year laxative industry in North America significally constributes to our general state of poor health.

Colon Therapy is not covered by OHIP. Preventative health care assumes a low priority for conventional medicine.

Summary

The colon is where all your waste goes. It's your very own sewage system. Without the colon, waste material and toxic substances would circulate throughout the system and poison you. If your colon is toxic, where else can the poisons go but back into the system? But when the colon is clean, the liver and kidney's can detoxify, the lymph system drains, the lungs can breathe, the skin clears up, and the rest of the body responds positively.

The fastest and easiest way to clean the colon is to gently flush out toxic waste with water. This is commonly know as a colonic. The process helps to break up and release weeks, months and sometimes years of hard encrustment that has adhered to the inside of the colon walls. And it's a simple procedure.

A sterilized devise called a "speculum", is lubricated and inserted into the rectrum (in a safe, easy and painless, five second maneuver). Attached to the speculum is an intake hose and an exit tube. A colon therapist gently fills your colon with tepid water and once full they gently massage the colon to release waste through the exit tube. A colon therapist should be able to tell you if your chewing your food properly, if there are any blockages, and whether the colon is sluggish. Peristalsis is the urge you feel when its time to have a bowel movement. Peristalsis action is essential, as the colon must contract and push the stool throughout its length to help you eliminate.

If a person has traditionally eaten foods that are bottle, boxed, packaged, processed or refined, these foods become "sticky" and build up over time in the colon. The build up inhibits nutrient absorption from the colon to the bloodstream. If you don't chew your food properly and big pieces of food get into your system, you won't absorb your nutrients properly and you will simply eliminate whole pieces of food. Improper chewing is the major cause of poor digestion.

Increasing fibre intake can help scrape out sticky foods. The more animal products take into the body, the more thought should be given to intestinal cleansing. For a generally healthy person, a series of six colonics (one a week for six weeks) is suggested. For optimum results an oral cleanse using fibre and/or herbs should be taken during the six weeks. And during any cleansing program, be sure to replace the bad bacteria in the colon with good bacteria by taking an acidophilus/bifidus combination. A common myth is that your colon can become lazy after colonics. But the exact opposite happens. Your persistalsis muscle is activated and pushes waste out - thereby exercising it and restoring the peristaltic action. It's like suing a free weight to strengthen your arm - sooner or later your going to build up your biceps!

If you think you smell shyte, that's your bs detector going off. This is nothing more than reflexology of the ass. It doesn't work with feet, it ain't working with the colon. Notice they dance around the "cancer' issue. They don't actually say anything tangible about a connection, other than saying "cancer cannot attack a healthy organ", which is a bold-faced lie.

I've emailed this group, asking 1)what, exactly, are these "toxins" and 2) why these mysterious "sticky" turds don't show up on a colonoscopy. We'll see what response I get.

I suggest that if your colon is causing you to have poor vision and hearing loss, maybe you should pull your head out of there.