Charlotte Gerson on Coffee Enema

As our friends and readers know, one important aspect of the Therapy (Gerson), the key to detoxification, is the coffee enema.

It works.

We have unending numbers of patients who have proven its effectiveness.

However, orthodox doctors do not understand the way the coffee enemas work. They ridicule or even frighten patients about their use.

In one case where a (famous) patient had already achieved freedom from severe pain, his doctor actually told him, “Don’t you know that coffee enemas cause brain abscesses?” and frightened him into taking chemotherapy.

More recently, we had a question about the coffee enema “stretching” the colon.

Another one was about coffee enemas causing addiction and whether stopping them could cause withdrawal symptoms.

And a third question came up: what is the difference between coffee enemas and drinking coffee?

The item below was sent out in response to these three questions:

It is impossible to stretch the colon by taking coffee enemas.

The only things that stretch a colon are:

• high colonics that are pushed into the colon under pressure and use up to 5 quarts of fluid
• hard stools that accumulate and are not excreted which stretches the colon, causing a condition known as “megacolon”. Coffee enemas are administered without pressure and are very easy for the colon muscles to expel.

We know of two different patients who had taken coffee enemas for many years who eventually had their large intestines checked by a colonoscopy. In both cases, a different proctologist stated that “this was the most beautiful colon he had ever seen”. There was certainly no damage done.

Jacquie Davison, a former melanoma patient, writes in her book about the hundreds, possibly thousands of coffee enemas she took in the course of recovery with the Gerson Therapy. At the end of her treatment after all those enemas, she reports that for the first time in her life she had normal bowel movements. She did not become addicted or dependent on the enemas.

Withdrawal hardly causes any problems, unless the patient takes 5 or more coffee enemas and stops cold turkey – but this is not the way coffee enemas are prescribed by Dr. Gerson (see page 235 in Dr. Gerson’s book: A Cancer Therapy, Results of 50 Cases).

If you are a heavy coffee drinker and stop suddenly, you will experience withdrawal symptoms – but these can be immediately relieved with ONE coffee enema.

Coffee enemas are completely different from drinking coffee. The effects of coffee enemas have been thoroughly researched by physicians. The caffeine and other chemicals from the coffee enema open the bile ducts and allow the liver to release toxins. Drinking coffee is damaging to the stomach due to the aromatic fatty acids (which are not absorbed through the colon). Drinking coffee causes capillary and bile duct spasming and constricting – in other words, the opposite of what rectal coffee does.