As we study and\u00a0learn, it is often humbling to have to admit that we have discarded an idea that we were certain could not be true – only to later come to believe that it might be possible.<\/p>\n
This is the case for the possibility that coffee enemas might be useful in cancer treatment regimens.<\/p>\n
I know… you’re now convinced that I’ve lost all my marbles.<\/p>\n
I assure you, I have not.<\/p>\n
A year and a half\u00a0ago a friend gave me a book that was written by a woman who had achieved breast cancer remission, and who believed with all her heart and soul that coffee enemas were important to her therapy.<\/p>\n
I thanked her with a smile, briefly thumbed through its pages,\u00a0and took it home.<\/p>\n
When my wife asked me what I thought of it I told her I thought it was one of the craziest things I’d heard in a long time – a crazy alternative medicine waste of time and energy that had no chance of helping cancer patients.<\/p>\n
I was, you see, a very well ‘trained’ pharmacist who quickly rejected ideas that were not in synchronization with the medical status quo.<\/p>\n
Anyway, she read the book – and I didn’t read any more than I already had.<\/p>\n
But I’ve become a more thoughtful person\u00a0as time has passed and as I’ve studied the writings of numerous persons who have been famous for non-traditional,\u00a0non-allopathic or alternative medicine\u00a0cancer treatments.<\/p>\n
So, let’s assume for a minute that we are trying to deliver a medicine instead of an anti-cancer regimen targeted at irritating the gastrointestinal tract or simply delivering caffeine to stimulate bile duct opening or liver immune response.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it’s unfair to exclude caffeine\u00a0from the classification of a medication. So, we’ll include it.<\/p>\n
Anyway, let’s also assume that this medication that we’re going to try to deliver is\u00a0damaged by the acidity that it would encounter as it passed through the stomach – or that it gets destroyed by the\u00a0liver when it’s absorbed from the intestines and moved through the liver to ultimately reach circulation in the blood system.<\/p>\n
If you were to ask a pharmacist how to deliver this medication he would tell you you could deliver it rectally in an enema.\u00a0In fact,\u00a0if you weren’t certain what chemical you were trying to deliver – and therefore had to deliver large volumes of the solution to ensure the drug got to the patient’s system in large enough quantites – she\/he would undoubtedly tell you that the rectal route would be the preferred route.<\/p>\n
The intestines present a huge surface area through which medications can be absorbed.<\/p>\n
Add irritation that causes the intestinal tissues to be inflammed and you will often achieve absorbtion of medicinal agents that aren’t normally absorbed very well.<\/p>\n
This gets us around the stomach acid problem, but what about liver matabolism issues.<\/p>\n
Well, there is only one GI tract location where you can deliver medications without their being immediately metabolized by the liver. That spot is\u00a0where we place rectal suppositories.<\/p>\n
So, I’m going on record as believing that it is possible that coffee enemas may be delivering substances that are found in coffee beans to a cancer patient’s systemic circulation in the most efficient manner. This is not what the folk who recommend them usually claim, but it is my belief.<\/p>\n
Or, it could be that the various explanations proposed by Dr Max Gerson and others are correct.<\/p>\n
Regardless, the bottom line remains the same. You simply cannot discount the possibility that Coffee Enemas may have positive effects in cancer patients’ treatment regimens.<\/p>\n
I know, this is an absolutely crazy statement… but I believe it most accurately reflects the facts as they are known at this time.<\/p>\n
Now, don’t go out there and start blindly pumping your intestines full of coffee! Seriously, you could hurt yourself or a loved one.<\/p>\n
I propose you should check out the advice of the experts in this area.<\/p>\n
I’d take a look at the book titled ‘The Gerson Therapy: The Proven Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses’ <\/span>and the series of videos that start with this one\u00a0http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8384134159042346609<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 to get info relative to how the enemas are supposed to be given to keep the patient safe.<\/p>\n I have no connection with the Gerson program. I make no money if you buy the book or look at the video. I’ve provided this information because I believe it might be useful for you or a loved one.<\/p>\n Remember, talk to your physician before you try coffee enemas or any other ‘medication’ regimen. I’m a Pharmacist – not a Physician, and obviously looney as can be. I’m just telling you what I’ve come to believe, not recommending the use of coffee enemas… But, I will point out that this therapy seems to be integrated into an awful lot of the non-traditional protocols that people swear saved their lives….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we study and\u00a0learn, it is often humbling to have to admit that we have discarded an idea that we were certain could not be true – only to later come to believe that it might be possible. This is the case for the possibility that coffee enemas might be useful in cancer treatment regimens. … Continue reading Coffee Enemas…. Crazy? Maybe Not.<\/span>