Why I do daily coffee enemas -- Some perspectives
My family and myself have a history of gastrointestinal (GI) problems as well as ME/CFS/FM. A major chemical injury at age 32 greatly exacerbated my GI problems as well as my Environmental Illness (EI). It got to the point where even relatively light toxic exposures would make me extremely ill and literally paralyze my peristalsis for weeks on end. So I was dealing with a very difficult and serious situation. My underlying genetics, combined with the chemical injury forced me to look for solutions that I knew very few if any doctors would be able to help me with.
I tried many things over the ensuing years, but nothing helped on a consistent basis. I eventually ran across literature on coffee enemas (CEs) but was very hesitant to pursue them. Eventually I did try one using Folgers coffee. It was horrible! I’ve since learned that non-organic coffee is sprayed with more pesticides than almost any other product. (I now use ONLY ORGANIC caffeinated coffee). But not knowing this at the time, I checked CEs off of my treatment options for several more years. I continued to browse the literature on CEs and eventually came across Sherry Rogers’ book “Tired or Toxic”. In it, she laid out coffee enema information in a way I could understand and appreciate. So I went online and did even more research. The more I read, the more my intuition was telling me this was the right thing to pursue for myself.
I have been using them on a daily basis now for several years (first thing in the morning). I have come to view them as providing at least 25% of the functionality I now enjoy. I estimate low-dose hydrocortisone (Cortef) provides me with about 50%, and the rest of the things I’m doing provides the other 25%. The biggest benefit of all has been the sense of regaining a much greater semblance of control of my everyday life. Prior to CEs, my CFS was so severe that I would normally wake up in the morning with a terrible headache, and begin to wonder how I was ever going to sit up in bed and then make it all the way to the bathroom. I would sometimes have to crawl and break half way there and rest for a while before continuing on. And I could stay in a stupor for hours.
After getting started on Cortef and then combining it with CEs, my mornings are dramatically different. I’ve been able to transform them from being the absolute worst time of the day for me into probably the most healing time of the day. During and after doing a CE, my sinuses begin to clear, the pressure and pain in my head (and other generalized pain areas) start to dissipate, my whole nervous system begins to relax and calm down, and more. I feel I’m also getting the following benefits: 1) My colon stays clean, which includes the benefit of inhibiting the chances of parasites or candida to take hold; 2) My liver and gall bladder stay clean, which means better detoxification, digestion, avoidance of gall bladder sludge and stones, and much more; Both of these benefits have significantly improved my skin health; 3) Any tendencies toward depression are minimized. I think when so many of us go into our down cycles, there is a natural inclination to become depressed about it. I really believe my regimen has helped me from developing a prolonged clinical depression.
There may be those who may think I’m advocating that everybody do this. Not at all. I do this because I was literally forced to by my circumstances. My perspective is that for most people, doing daily CEs are unnecessary. Doing them at various select times however could be very beneficial. Sherry Rogers emphasizes their importance when we go through various herxing reactions. For those who might think that something so unnatural might possibly do harm, I will just mention that my doctor who is familiar with CFS/FM was highly supportive of my doing this regimen. He was the one who advised I supplement it by taking a couple capsules of charcoal to help absorb released liver and gall bladder toxicity. The good news is that my colon and entire GI tract are doing better now than they have in decades. It’s simply something that works well for me. When approaching any new kind of therapy, I always encourage people to do fairly extensive research. Research on CEs will provide you with various instructions on how to do them, as well as precautions that you should be aware of. For me, they have been very safe and effective.
Regards,
Wayne