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
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 was introduced to the practice of enemas with coffee by someone he describes as a Brazilian grandmother or elder.
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
He followed the enemas with doses of yogurt, applied to the digestive tract from both ends.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Bouvard, physician to Louis XIII, applied two hundred and twenty enemata to this monarch in the course of six months.
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 Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton)
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
If these enemata fail it will be necessary to use purgative enemata.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
When this is impracticable, nutrient enemata are called for.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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 Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
