Coffee Enema

Detoxifying Coffee Enema

Coffee enemas have become a popular and effective means of liver detoxification.

Use coffee in an enema to clean the colon and detoxify the liver. This enema helps to detoxify the liver, as well as stimulates the colon to produce a bowel movement. Coffee stimulates the liver and gallbladder to produce more bile. Bile, from the gallbladder draws out environmental and metabolic toxins, as well as the very irritating toxins from Candida and other parasite-like organisms. These toxins and waste are then dumped into the large intestine where they are eliminated during a bowel movement. The faster you can move these toxins out of your body the better off you will be.

Following a coffee enema, you can expect to feel relaxed and rejuvenated, not “buzzed”.

Its not advisable to have a coffee enema in the evening as it could affect your sleep.

The coffee must be regular organic, non-instant, non-decaffeinated coffee.

Use 2 to 3 tablespoons of ground coffee to 1 litre of Filtered water, boil and allow to cool to body temperature.

The high, retention coffee enema should consist of at least 500mls to 750mls of coffee, held for 15 minutes. Some people can take and retain only half of this enema solution at a time. If this is the case, then you could take 2 enemas each time, one right after the other, and hold each for 15 minutes.

Prince Charles backs coffee enemas

June 2004

In 2004, Prince Charles addressed 200 healthcare professionals at a conference. He said:

“I know of one patient who turned to Gerson Therapy having been told she was suffering from terminal illness and would not survive another course of chemotherapy. Happily, seven years later, she is alive and well. So it is vital that, rather than dismissing such experiences, we should further investigate the beneficial nature of these treatments.”

Biological Basis for Coffee Enemas

In the 1920s, German scientists found that a caffeine solution could open the bile ducts and stimulate the production of bile in the liver of experimental animals.

Dr. Max Gerson used this clinically as part of a general detoxification regimen, first for tuberculosis, then cancer. Caffeine, he postulated, will travel up the hemorrhoidal to the portal vein and thence to the liver itself. Gerson noted some remarkable effects of this procedure. For instance, patients could dispense with all pain-killers once on the enemas. Many people have noted the paradoxical calming effect of coffee enemas.

And while coffee enemas can relieve constipation, Gerson cautioned: “Patients have to know that the coffee enemas are not given for the function of the intestines but for the stimulation of the liver.”

Coffee enemas were an established part of medical practice when Dr. Max Gerson introduced them into cancer therapy in the 1930s. Basing himself on German laboratory work, Gerson believed that caffeine could stimulate the liver and gall bladder to discharge bile. He felt this process could contribute to the health of the cancer patient.

Although the coffee enema has been heaped with scorn, there has been some independent scientific work that gives credence to this concept. In 1981, for instance, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and his colleagues were able to show that substances found in coffee – kahweol and cafestol palmitate – promote the activity of a key enzyme system, glutathione S-transferase, above the norm. This system detoxifies a vast array of electrophiles from the bloodstream and, according to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute, “must be regarded as an important mechanism for carcinogen detoxification.” This enzyme group is responsible for neutralizing free radicals, the harmful chemicals now commonly implicated in the initiation of cancer. In mice, for example, these systems are enhanced 600% in the liver and 700% in the bowel when coffee beans are added to the mice’s diet.

Dr. Peter Lechner, who is investigating the Gerson method at the Landeskrankenhaus of Graz, Austria, has reported that “coffee enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with an endoscope.” F.W. Cope (1977) has postulated the existence of a “tissue damage syndrome.” When cells are challenged by poison, oxygen deprivation, malnutrition or a physical trauma they lose potassium, take on sodium and chloride, and swell up with excess water.

Another scientist (Ling) has suggested that water in a normal cell is contained in an “ice-like” structure. Being alive requires not just the right chemicals but the right chemical structure. Cells normally have a preference for potassium over sodium but when a cell is damaged it begins to prefer sodium. This craving results in a damaged ability of cells to repair themselves and to utilize energy. Further, damaged cells produce toxins; around tumors are zones of “wounded” but still non-malignant tissue, swollen with salt and water.