How do you use a colon board?

Colon boards hold 4 to 5 gallons of water and are used to cleanse the colon over a toilet.

Instructions:

• First, fill the bucket with room-temperature, reverse-osmosis water. The bucket must be positioned one to two feet above your body.


• Next, add to your water ¼ cup of lemon juice, one tablespoon of Epsom salts, one cup of garlic water, blended and strained garlic cloves, one to two cups of coffee, or one cup of bentonite clay. (All of these products will have different results, so know what you are doing!)


• You will have to initiate suction in the hose before the water will flow down. To do this, fill the plastic hose up with water and let some of it out. This will create suction. Clamp the tube and put one end in the bucket.


• Next, position one end of the colon board (also known as a colema board) over the toilet bowel and the other end on a chair. You may want to put an old kitchen colander (strainer) in the toilet to catch any hardened mucus or fecal matter. Some people are astounded by what comes out. Seeing is believing.


• Finally, lubricate the plastic tubing which goes into the rectum. Towels on the board help for comfort. Lie down and insert the tube into the rectum. Do not try to hold too much water in the beginning. If you feel any pressure, then simply "let go" and the water will come pouring out into the toilet. The more you get used to taking home colonics, the more you will know exactly how much you can hold.

Some people feel much more at ease having a trained professional assisting them to clean their colon. Other people can get their brains around an enema but feel too shy to let a stranger do this to them. Either way, I believe that colon cleansing is a very important tool in health maintenance and I recommend that you start whatever you are comfortable with as soon as possible. I think that you will be pleased!

References:

• Lipski, Elizabeth. Digestive Wellness, Keats Publishing, 1996, 2000.
• Watson, Brenda. Notes from a lecture at an International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy Convention, 1999.
• Jensen, Bernard, D.C. Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, Bernard Jensen International, 1981.
• Weil, Andrew. Health and Healing, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

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