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
In addition to using coffee enemas to treat cancer, the majority of users online report turning to them for constipation.
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
Gerson therapy involves a strict plant-based diet, along with juices, supplements 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
Fifty years from now that diet might seem as crazy as Kellogg’s enemas.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
If marked distress is present, morphin is given and where there is much rise of temperature, cold drinking water is offered in abundance and catharsis is enhanced by enemata.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Another is that they will form the dreadful habit of using the enemata.
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
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
Of course, where the former are affected it is necessary to nourish the patient artificially, partly perhaps by nutrient enemata, but principally by means of the stomach-tube.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Rectal injections, or enemata, are used in the treatment of constipation.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
