enema
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“Everybody feels better after a bowel movement. So if you gave yourself an enema that really made you feel like you were emptied, you’ll feel good. It doesn’t mean your health is better.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The liquid nutritional supplement “would have acted just like an enema, and it would been expelled.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Lidl enema: You can find just about anything in that supermarket’s variety aisle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
The microbiome company Rebiotix Inc. last year announced positive results from a phase 3 trial of its recurrent C. difficile treatment, a filtered stool product delivered as an enema.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2022
Amid hot-water bottles and enema bags, he placed his bets.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
He also says that in rare cases that enemas — not with coffee — are appropriate for patients who are severely constipated to provide temporary relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the 19th century, an American doctor, Russell Thatcher Trall, did the same, adding cold-water enemas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ms Shemirani, 23, had declined chemotherapy in favour of juices and coffee enemas advocated for by her mother, Kate Shemirani, a former nurse who was struck off for her anti-vaccination views.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
What if an incurable condition could be managed with fresh juice and coffee enemas?
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
The doctors resorted to giving him nourishment with enemas several times a day.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
A regimen that is nutritive and at the same time laxative is essential and in some cases cathartics and enemata are necessary.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The patient must be encouraged to take plenty of easily digested fluid food, supplemented, if necessary, by nutrient enemata and saline infusions.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
When everything is rejected by the stomach, recourse must be had to nutritious enemata.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Antispasmodic enemata to relieve flatulence such as the turpentine enemata.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
He speaks more favourably of the introduction of food into the stomach by a silver tube; and he strongly recommends the use of nutritive enemata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
