How should a bathtub be properly used when taking an enema?

How should a bathtub be properly used when taking an enema?

As a frequent and satisfied purchaser of your quality products, I hope I may ask a question. In How To Take An Enema, in the first paragraph, "Enema Location," you give some suggestions, including taking an enema series "right in a hot bathtub," but provide no further details.

I know that my mom, an RN, a firm believer in the benefits of enemas, and a frequent taker herself, preferred to take them in a bathtub. She also gave us children regular enemas and they always made us feel better. Incidentally, mom is proof of the healthful and restorative power of this wondrous therapy, as she lived, virtually without illness, all her life, with perfect complexion, until she passed away with nary a wrinkle on her face at the age of 90. Enemas were an unfailing source of wellness, peace, and comfort to her, especially in her later years.

I would appreciate more information on how to use the bathtub method. I assume that the first enema is taken as a general cleanse that one should retain (if at all) for only a brief period and then one should leave the bathtub and release into the toilet, which should clear the colon of most waste. Then a second enema is taken and the resultant effluent (then consisting largely of water), may be sanitarily released directly into the tub water and drained away normally. And a third, if taken, may be treated the same way. Do I have this right, or is there more I should know? I would really appreciate some reliable information on this technique.

Thanks for contacting me and for sharing your family history of enema use. I have heard many stories where enemas have been used throughout one's lifetime to great benefit.

For all enemas in a series, the enema solution is to be administered in the bathtub, followed by any massage or retention of the enema solution in the bathtub. The release of the enema solution is always done on the toilet, never in the bathtub.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

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