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enema

[en-uh-muh] / ˈɛn ə mə /
NOUN
injection
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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

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

Unsurprisingly, given that most people tend to find coffee enemas after reports of being failed by Western medicine, mainstream gastroenterology is not on board with this practice.

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

The doctors resorted to giving him nourishment with enemas several times a day.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Turpentine enemata for distention may be given according to the following formula:     Mucilage of Acacia 1/2 ounce     Spirits of Turpentine 10 drops This should be administered high up in the bowel.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

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

The patient should be allowed to suck a little ice to allay thirst, and opiate and nutritive enemata will be found quite sufficient to keep up the strength in ordinary cases.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

The bowels should be freely moved by purgatives or enemata.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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


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