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 sooner you take your dog to its veterinarian, the greater the chance of removing the toxin from its body through methods such as inducing vomiting or administering an enema.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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
Called fleets because they were fleeting, the word is also a brand name for an enema — something many people pointed out on Twitter when the feature launched.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
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
On social media, she uses the words "cancer-free" rather than "cured" - and says how she used juices and coffee enemas.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
What if an incurable condition could be managed with fresh juice and coffee enemas?
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
We wrapped her wrists with beaded bracelets, gave her castor-oil enemas, packed hot cactus compresses on her brow.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
He has been too weak to take enemata, so we cannot say if motions would still have been offensive.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel
Pliny recorded the fact that "the use of clysters or enemata was first taught by the stork, which may be observed to inject water into its bowels by means of its long beak."
From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison
Food given by enemata should be very nourishing and concentrated.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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
The hippopotamus introduced the practice of bleeding, and it is affirmed that the employment of enemata was shown by the ibis.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
