Coffee Enemas are very easy to do in the convenience and privacy of your own bathroom. They are an excellent addition to an at-home personal wellness tool kit. Get your materials together, and follow this step-by-step guide with ease. Many people are administering coffee enemas at home, on the bathroom floor, with these instructions. You are not alone!
“The purpose of coffee enemas is to stimulate the liver to increase it’s detoxification” ~ The Gerson Institute
Disclaimer: The step-by-step instructions provided in this guide are intended strictly for educational, informational, and personal lifestyle-support purposes. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This protocol is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition, nor is it a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare professional or licensed practitioner before beginning any new at-home cleansing routine to determine if it is appropriate for your unique biological terrain.
*These instructions are not meant to replace medical advice. Please consult with a licensed medical professional to determine if coffee enemas would be a good fit for you.
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Enemas are one of the oldest therapeutic treatments known to man. The oldest known medical text, the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus (1,500 B.C.), records the use of enemas. Enemas were in use throughout the ancient world in Samaria, Babylonia, India, Greece, Africa and China. Greek literature is filled with references of the therapeutic use of enemas. American Indians, as well as pre-Columbian South Americans crafted enema bags from animal bladders, latex and bones.
The purpose of the coffee enema is to support the liver in eliminating toxins and to cleanse the blood. In 1984 Dr. Peter Lechner from Graz, Austria stated, “Coffee enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with an endoscope. Wattenberg and co-workers were able to provide in 1981 that the palmitic acid found in coffee promotes the activity of glutathione S- transferase and other ligands by manifold times above the norm. It is this enzyme group which is responsible primarily for the conjugation of free electrophile radicals which the gall bladder will then release.”
Coffee enemas appeared in the medical literature at least as early as 1917 and remained in the Merck Manual until 1972. German scientists discovered that coffee was able to open the bile ducts and increase the production of bile by the liver. Max Gerson, M.D. began using coffee enemas with his patients suffering from tuberculosis and then later, with his cancer patients.
Dr. Gerson found that the physical root cause of his cancer patients was toxicity and nutritional deficiency. He used raw fresh juices and raw liver to address nutritional deficiencies as well as assist in cleansing the kidneys. As toxins were forced out of the tissues, it became necessary to support the liver in its ability to adequately eliminate toxins. Dr. Gerson understood that the liver becomes overburdened by the continuous release of toxins and that it was necessary to find proper support for detoxification. He found that detoxification could best facilitated through the caffeine in coffee, absorbed from the descending colon via the hemorrhoidal vein, which carries the caffeine to the portal vein and the liver. The caffeine stimulates the liver and biliary ducts to open for release of waste products and toxins into the intestinal tract for excretion.
Later, Dr. William Kelley, learning from Dr. Gerson, implemented the use of coffee enemas first with himself during his two year battle with pancreatic cancer starting in 1969, and then with his cancer patients until his passing in 2006. Both doctors noted remarkable healing in those patients using coffee enemas.
Keep in mind that coffee enemas are given for the purpose of detoxification of the liver and blood, not for elimination of the bowels. The 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. It is believed that kahweol and cafestol palmitate increase the liver’s production of glutathione by as much as 700%.
“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.” (Ralph Moss, The Royal Enema)
The coffee enema works by dilating the bile ducts. As stated by the editors of Physiological Chemistry and Physics, “Caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products from blood across the colonic wall.” Coffee travels through the left hemorrhoidal vein to the portal vein, which delivers the coffee to the liver.
The coffee enema is typically held for 15 minutes and then again for 15 more minutes. Each molecule of blood in the body passes through the liver every three minutes. During a coffee enema session all the blood cells of the body experience detoxification. (Healing Newsletter, #13, May-June, 1986).
Coffee enemas have been used for over one hundred years as a generalized detoxification procedure. Coffee enemas are perfectly safe when taken as directed. They stimulate the liver and gallbladder to release stored toxins, as well as enhance liver function.
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2.Ralph, M. (1993). The Royal Enema: A Historical and Physiological Analysis of Transcolonic Detoxification Pathways. Medical Gas Research, 4(2), 89-94.
3.Teague, R. S. (1940). The effect of coffee enemas on the excretion of bile in the dog. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 69(3), 241-247.
4.Wattenberg, L. W., & Coccia, J. B. (1981). Inhibition of 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide-induced pulmonary and stomach neoplasia by palmitic acid derivatives. Cancer Research, 41(11 Pt 1), 4323-4326.
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Clear out impacted waste and trapped gas prior to your coffee enema, and help to flush out all the sludge and bile that was purged by the process.
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