Is the practice of colon hydrotherapy new?
The practice of colon hydrotherapy in its most basic form, the enema, was first recorded in 1500 B.C. in ancient Egyptian document called the “Eber Papyrus.” Galen, the greatest physician since Hippocrates, advanced the use of enema therapy. In earlier times, people implemented enema treatments in a river by using a hollow reed to induce water to flow into the rectum. It is recorded that before the departure of Lewis and Clarke expedition, a physician instructed them in the http://videobox-lb.sourceforge.net/appropriateness of using enemas in cases of fever and illness. Dr. John Kellogg brought Colon Hydrotherapy to prominence in the United States during the early 1900’s. He reported in the 1917 Journal of American Medical Association that in over 40,000 cases, as a result of diet, exercise and colon hydrotherapy, “in all but twenty cases,” he had used no surgery for the treatment of gastrointestinal disease in his patients. By the early 1950’s colon hydrotherapy was flourishing in the
