Colonic irrigation: Who was the first person/people to think of it?

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Colonic irrigation: Who was the first person/people to think of it?

Answer 1

I think it started as a yoga thing. They also do this thing where they swallow a long piece of muslin fabric with a bit still sticking out of their mouths, give their stomach a churn and pull it back out. It's supposed to clean the acids out of your stomach, not for the faint hearted,

Answer 2

probably some drunk businessman trying to think of a funny product to market to the natural med folks and make a quick buck

Answer 3

I would guess...Pig farmers.

Answer 4

it was a medieval monk, Joseph of e***a who worked in the diocese of Constantipation

Jokes aside, it has been around since the time of the Greeks.  The Naturopathic movement (ok,,one more joke) in the late 19th century is responsible for making all sorts of outrageous claims as to its "detoxyfying" and health inducing properties.

It is also a sexual fetish....but we won't go there.

Answer 5

Wouldn't have a clue Elric.....someone with an unhealthy interest in Bowels I guess !!

Answer 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ZBJxdhL...

I can't find out who invented it but I have learned that they use up to 60 litres of fluid in short bursts and it can feel warm and/or erotic !

Some people (no ideas !) also squirt small amounts of alcohol 'up there' as the effect is quicker if it goes straight to the colon !

Blimey !- I don't even like drinking straight out of the bottle,I always ask for a glass - but shoving it up my ar5e will never be an option !

BTW Sometimes they mix the warm water with coffee grounds

I'll stick to a few prunes ,thanks !

Answer 7

Sounds like a form of torture to me, I'll guess the Romans, after all they did invent the aqueduct!

Answer 8

The yoga tradition in India is the earliest I've heard of.

Answer 9

Patricia bowelgusher,

she came across it when she had an accident while watering her garden, when she fell and impaled herself.

Answer 10

As a young nurse in the 70's working on bowel ward E if I had a pound for every bowel I had to wash out i would be a millionaire!!

I think it comes from way back but nurses have been doing it for years before a patient has had to have major bowel surgery called normal ENNEMA!!!!! Colonic irrigation is just posh word for ennema or as we nurses called it bowel wash out as that is what it is wash out the bowels E. lol