enema
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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
There, they performed another enema that finally helped with the pain.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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
Maybe, when this is all over, we will be weirdly thankful for the cultural enema.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
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
He followed the enemas with doses of yogurt, applied to the digestive tract from both ends.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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 Thomson, Alexis
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 Lacroix, John Victor
If the tympanites coexist with constipation, enemata, either with or without a small quantity of oil of turpentine, may often be used with advantage.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
When this is impracticable, nutrient enemata are called for.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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
