The History of Colon Cleansing
Monday, May 31st, 2010Believe it or not, therapies involving the colon accept been about for hundreds of years. Dating as far aback as 1500 B.C. and continuing on through the centuries, colon cleansing has been acclimated to amusement a ambit of ailments from fevers to diseases. While the exact methods and theories accept assorted through the years, the aforementioned basal attempt still apply. Let’s booty a attending at aback colon cleansing aboriginal began.
The history of colon cleansing can be traced aback to the Egyptian Civilization. As aboriginal as 1500 B.C., an Egyptian medical document, the “Ebers Papyrus”, describes the action of colon cleansing. Egyptians believed that the basis to all affliction resided with the adulteration aliment in their colons. Some affirmation suggests there were “bowel specialists” in age-old Egypt to abetment bodies with elimination.
The Greek physicians Hippocrates (4th and 5th aeon B.C.) and after Galen (2nd aeon A.D.) were advocates for enemas as a analysis for fevers. In 196 A.D., China’s abundant physician, Chang Chung Chin, recommended colon cleansing to advance health. And Angelo Catho, a French physician, acclimated colon cleansing to save King Louis XI’s activity in 1480. King Louis XIV, some say, had over 2,000 colon cleanses in his lifetime, usually performed above-mentioned to authoritative important decisions.
Dr. John H. Kellogg, in the aboriginal 1900’s, reportedly acclimated colon analysis on forty thousand of his patients. He appear a absolute access to colon hydrotherapy for the analysis of several illnesses. In 1917, The Journal of the American Medical Association states that in all but 20 cases, Dr. Kellogg abhorred anaplasty in the analysis of his patients with gastrointestinal disease. Kellogg, forth with his brother Will, additionally went on to accomplish accomplished atom cereals for the purpose of announcement approved bowel movements.