enema
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If that means I have to get a coffee enema, I’m getting a coffee enema.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
There, they performed another enema that finally helped with the pain.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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
Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
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
She had been told conventional treatment would give her a high chance of survival, but rejected chemotherapy in favour of alternative methods, like juices and coffee enemas.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
What if an incurable condition could be managed with fresh juice and coffee enemas?
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
Fifty years from now that diet might seem as crazy as Kellogg’s enemas.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
In cases of intense local inflammation and in general peritonitis enemata should alone be employed for the removal of constipation.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The diary also notes that he felt weak, had a bath, or did not have a bath, notes the pulse-rate, etc., as also the effects of the daily enemata.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel
But if bleeding has recently taken place no food whatever should be allowed by the stomach, and the feeding should be by nutrient enemata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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
Purgatives and enemata used often and for a long time.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
