How Colon Hydrotherapy Can Benefit Your Health

Colon hydrotherapy is not a new idea, but it is a sometimes controversial, often misunderstood one. It is known by many different names: colonic irrigation and high colonic are the most common terms. No matter what you call it, it is an alternative therapy, designed to cleanse your colon, maintain it, and restore it to the optimize level of health. It usually involves low pressure water, which can either be created manually or with gravity. Colonic therapists are necessary to apply whatever apparatus is being used. Conversely, you can administer enemas, colon lavages, and clysters yourself. However, they do not provide a comprehensive cleaning. This type of irrigation is beneficial, but it does not cleanse or evacuate the lower sigmoid colon and the rectum as thoroughly as a full fledged irrigation. Many people believe that this alternative therapy does not have any benefits whatsoever. Others do not understand why or how it is so helpful or why it improves your health. Understanding all that it can do may actually change your mind about this practice. It may even pique your interest.

First of all, we should discuss some of the reasons people are interested in doing colonic hydrotherapy in the first place. Athletes routinely receive this kind of therapy, because it is said to improve the efficiency of your metabolism. A lot of people choose to do this during lifestyle changes. For example, women may turn to this therapy when they are going through menopause. Men and women both use it as a preventative measure when they reach the age frame when colon cancer becomes a significant risk.

It can be extremely helpful to people who have a number of stomach or bowel problems – or even skin problems. For instance, it can help if you have: constipation (either chronically or because of certain prescription medications); trouble digesting carbohydrates; diarrhea; gas; bloating; hemorrhoids; Irritable Bowel Syndrome with or without constipation; Crohn's disease; diverticulitis; colitis; stomach or intestinal parasites; psoriasis; shingles; eczema; problems losing weight; or scar tissue and adhesions derived from surgery.

Certain pain causing problems can also be helped from colonic irrigation. A few issues include abdominal pain, migraines or chronic headaches, pain in the back or shoulders, achy joints, and gout. As well, people who are immuno-suppressed or immune-compromised can benefit from it. That includes people with lupus, multiple sclerosis, arthritis (rheumatoid or otherwise), cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Epstein-Barre, candida, and other infections, cold, and even the flu. It is often used before medical procedures as well, especially when barium x-rays, stool samples, and certain geriatric practices are necessary.

So, colon therapy is beneficial in many cases – but why is it so helpful? Actually, there are a variety of reasons, as far reaching as the conditions and problems the procedure itself can aid. For starters, the irrigation hydrotherapy cleanses your colon. It breaks down fecal matter which is in some way toxic. That way, the excrement is no longer able to hurt your body, or to bar assimilation and elimination. You see, when toxins are allowed to build up over an extended period of time, they can cause a lot of health problems. When this does happen, the therapy can be used to remove the build up, through a series of treatments designed to be both gentle and effective. Once the toxins are eliminated, the behavior and cooperation of your colon will be much improved. This may sound funny, but it is a great way to "rejuvenate" your colon, the same way you can rejuvenate your skin with a facial treatment.

Colonic irrigation can actually exercise the muscles of your colon as well. When those toxins are allowed to build up, they weaken your colon's muscles. This can in turn damage the way it functions. The process of the irrigation very gently causes your colon to fill up and then empty out again. This improves your colon's peristalsis – the ways its muscles contract, in other words. Since that is the way your colon is naturally designed to move material, improving and strengthening its muscles is very beneficial for the way works. In a very real way, getting a colonic is rather like taking yourself to the gym for a work out!

This process can actually change the shape – or, rather, reshape – your colon as well. When you have colon related problems, like the aforementioned conditions, they tend to make your colon change shape. You see, your colon is actually a muscle, and problems like that will make it enlarge and get bigger, in order to accommodate the gathering of toxins, which it cannot eliminate. Of course, in a vicious cycle, that simply creates additional problems. The combination of the actual hydrotherapy and certain massage techniques can get rid of those toxic areas and the narrow constrictions they cause. This thereby allows your colon to reassume its original, intended shape.

Now, let's discuss some of the ways colon hydrotherapy benefits the rest of your body. For one thing, it reduces the compressions of the other organs surrounding your colon. This includes relaxing your liver, heart, and lungs, which just makes you feel better all around. It also gets rid of any pressure felt by your intra-abdominal region. This can lead to relaxation in your hips, lumbar column, lower extremities, pelvic region, and abdominal muscles.

It can eliminate the problems of constipation and diarrhea, both of which can be extremely painful. Either problem can lead to extremely uncomfortable stomach aches. For that matter, stomach and intestinal parasites can do the same. Colonic irrigation expels them as well.

Women with gynecological problems like cystitis and dysmenorrhea can be significantly relieved through hydrotherapy. It can also reduce a lot of post surgery risks. It can even improve the way your large intestines, lymph nodes, and nervous system function, due to the think between those systems and gastrointestinal tract.

Finally, colonic irrigation can even help you lose weight, through the process of elimination – literally! Some even say that the fact that it removes toxins can even be used as an anti aging remedy. It can make you feel rejuvenated and reduce the whole degenerative process.