"Please, don't squeeze the tube..."
the client exclaimed. Everywhere I go for colon hydrotherapy, from New York to (Los Angeles, CA) Boulder, CO everyone squeezes the tube, except you. It's so annoying, and it hurts; why do they do that?
I don't know, what did they tell you?
One therapist told me "that's how I stimulate the peristalsis of the colon, and then another therapist said "it strengthens the muscles of the colon".
I thought, wow, after all these years, I'm doing colon hydrotherapy wrong. Both statements by those therapists are false!
Where did such a myth and practice originate?
I have asked many colon hydrotherapists and other experts to explain how squeezing the tube stimulates peristalsis. No-one has credibly provided physiological evidence or written documentation. I assume this as conjecture.
Let's review basic principles of physiology:
1) Mechanics - full inspirations with movement of the diaphragm towards the perineum has a direct mechanical affect on the large intestine.
2) Function - the Enteric nervous system (ENS) is a subdivision of the Peripheral Nervous System which directly controls the gastrointestinal system and peristalsis. The Myenteric plexus is embedded between the longitudinal and circular layers of muscularis externa and provides motor innervations to both layers and secretomotor innervations to the mucosa, having both parasympathetic and sympathetic input.
3) Gastrocolic reflexes - increase the motility of small and large intestines in response to stomach distension from food, whereas increased rectal pressures induce defecation.
Reference - Colon Hygiene by John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. page 115
Remaining accurate to my ground breaking colon hydrotherapy work of 1977~1982, now and perpetually identified as the original Body Work for Colon Hydrotherapy, I focus on Mechanics and Function of our Soma.
