Interested in getting a colonic? Experts advise that you flush the idea. Colon cleansing, also known as colonic hydrotherapy or colonic irrigation, is not an effective way to “cleanse” the body of ...

How clean is your colon? If you’re tempted to find out by getting a colon cleanse, don’t bother. You’re quite likely to develop complications from the procedure and there’s no evidence that flushing ...

Colon cleansing -- it's been described as a natural way to enhance well-being, but doctors say there's no evidence to back that claim. In fact, their review of scientific literature demonstrates that ...

Before I start, let me just get this out of the way: It's not as bad as you think. A colonic is a procedure where water is infused into the colon to flush out all of the toxins and collected plaque.

Some of the body’s most important work takes place in one of the least talked-about locations: the colon. A healthy colon helps the body absorb nutrients from the foods we eat. It also helps eliminate ...

Doctors have long argued that colon cleansing is money down the proverbial toilet, utterly useless for good health and a huge waste of time and money. A new study, however, finds that this is only ...

Cleaning out the colon is sometimes deemed necessary — for example, before a medical procedure, such as a colonoscopy. But Killeen resident Maj. Yasmin Francis believes colon cleansing can help remove ...

Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia, is an umbrella term for issues in the upper gut – the oesophagus, the stomach and the small intestine – where digestion takes place. It is associated with ...

It's a treatment that can be traced back to ancient times and has celebrity fans including Jennifer Aniston and Elle Macpherson. But the term colonic irrigation - not the mention what the procedure ...

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