Colonic treatment.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)

Editor:

I was overjoyed to read Dr. Thomas Dorman's article entitled "Colonics" in your July issue. It is a healing modality that is becoming very popular for good reason: the bowel is the main organ of elimination and the first line of defense in the body against sickness and disease.

Reference is made to consecrations or, more commonly called, mucoid plaque, that can accumulate over years, blocking the walls of the intestinal tract. According to several pioneers in this field, such as Bernard Jenson DC, PhD, Norman Walker DSc, PhD, Max Gerson MD, Leon Chaitow ND, Richard Anderson ND and others, the intestinal tract reflects every organ of the body. Actually, every one of our organs reflects every part of the body. But it is most obvious and very much accessible to us to alter the health of our organs through the colonic procedure.

From children age 11 up to the elderly in their 80s, the self-administered, safe method of colonic irrigation stimulates the built up layers of mucoid plaque to exit the colon. With the increasing interest in self-healing methods that empower the individual, periodic administration of colonics with fasting and later a raw foods diet, while taking a daily dose of psyllium husk (and sometimes cleansing herbs), can enhance the process of cleansing a thousand-fold!

Old mucoid plaque built up throughout the intestinal tract can cause just about every type of health condition, such as: arthritis from…