Posted by Quintal on June 21, 2007, at 10:28:45
In reply to Re: Colon cleanse quakery, posted by mattye on June 20, 2007, at 17:05:14
The author of that article seems very emotional on the subject (as warring tribes often are to there perceived enemies). I've never had colonic irrigation and have no intention of having one, but I recognize that constipation has an adverse effect on health and wellbeing.
A woman walked up to me in the bank last week to remind me I'd left my paying-in book on the counter-top, and as she opened her mouth to speak I was hit by a wall of stench, like walking into a toilet cubicle right after someone has used it. This was not ordinary stale breath - it smelt of pure sh*t, like someone f*rting in my face. We've all probably had a similar encounter, but scientist that I am, I wondered why the smell was so rich and overpowering. The most likely conclusion I came to was that she was severely constipated and that the 'fumes' from the decaying feces were somehow finding their way into her breath. I've read elsewhere (in articles by medical doctors) that constipation can cause bad breath, so there must be some medical explanation for it. I'm guessing that if the 'fumes' were so concentrated as to be overpowering to a person standing a meter a way, then it's plausible they would be having an adverse effect on the person who was inhaling that stench 24/7. Common sense tells me it simply cannot be healthy.
I certainly agree that many people who have these treatments are in good health and do so mainly out of hypochondria. It's always amused me the way people seem so astonished to find the water the shoved up their backside comes out dirty and sh*t-stained. But for all the hypochondria and pseudo-science some practitioners play on there may still be a grain of truth in it somewhere.
Q
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