Can Enemas help with cold/flu or other illness?

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http://www.florahealth.com/flora/home/Canada/HealthInformation/Encyclopedias/IcelandicMoss.htm#TraditionalUsage

A warm catnip tea enema is great when you don't feel good or have a cold. Very relaxing.

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Thanks for the update on Icelandic Moss. The lead problem is probably why I can't find it at the health food store anymore. (Another victim of the Lets All Ruin the World program.) This may also explain my lack of positive brain function and why I can spell moss right.

Being that I was looking for an enema, late Christmas night, I was looking for something, we already had in the house, I could use. I settled on a cayenne pepper enema. It seemed help with my congestion. Because I also have a pretty bad sore throat, I probably have not been drinking enough fluids. I think the enema helped rehydrate me. Somebody mentioned catnip, think there is any problem with catnip? Also I think I have hear there are different kinds of catnip?

I hope you're joking about putting Vicks on that nozzle. Dont do that! It can damage the mucous membranes in your rectum. As for the enema, theres not much good one can do for the common cold. Have your girlfriend to give you a warm saline enema just before bedtime and that will empty you out so you can relax and sleep better.

Feel like I am coming down with a cold so am going to try this.

I get fewer colds and flus; part of that is lots of hand washing around people in the season, the other is having an enema when I feel the symptoms come on. And everyone wonders how I do it.

I always get terrible sinus infections during the winter. I've never noticed that enemas did anything for the symptoms, but cold medicine constipates me badly, so I definetly need the red bag when I'm sick.

Yesterday, one of my friends and I were having a discussion about colds. She said she was never sick, which seems to be true. She leaned over and whispered that she did regular "colon cleanses", and then she recommended that I do the same! I laughed and told her I would give it a shot!

LOL Anne. You should have told her that you may try an enema just in case...

When I have a cold I always feel much better after a very warm enema.

It clears my head and seems to always help decongest me.

Also feel much more relaxed afterwards so able to get more rest.

I must say that I believe a good enema helps keep colds at bay.

badger

I have dissolved cold meds in a warm saline enema and taken it and held it for 30 minutes or so. i don't know if it speeded up the meds into my system but i sure did enjoy it.

A good warm enema is always my first reaction to feeling like a cold or flu may be coming on. I rarely develop a cold/flu so I think the enema is very effective at keeping them away!

Are there any enemas that are good for cold prevention/health during cold season?

^^^^ Maybe in folklore.

I don't think they do much for cold prevention in real life.

Hmmm...

They help hydra you which could help your immune system I would think. But that just a guess I am not a doctor. I just play one in my bathroom occasionally. LOL

I think it was more common for an enema to be given at the first sign of a cold/flu rather than as a preventive step. In my experience it was even more likely if constipation accompanied the sniffles. I don't think there are scientific studies, but maybe a good cleaning out helped to shorten the illness. In any case, enemas were a "cure all" for a lot of ailments.

Like other posters, I have no scientific or medical statistics that say whether enemas can help with a cold or flu.

I take an enema at the first sign of a cold and I think it at least lessens the severity of the cold and maybe shortens how long it lasts.

My "cold" enemas are nothing special, just plain warm water or baking soda taken slowly and retained for as long as I can. I do feel better afterward, and may take another a day later if I think I need it.

It's great to think that taking enemas might have some affect on our ability to fight off viruses that enter our nose, eyes or mouth, but I don't think they do. However, I still enjoy taking enemas.

I could be deluding myself, but I've found that a plain warm water enema seems to help with sinus congestion, both from allergies and cold-related.

You might want to try 1qt of orange juice warmed for the vitamin C and potassium. I've done a few before. All I know is since I've been taking enemas on a weekly basis, I seldom get the flu anymore, and colds seem to come and go quickly.

Isn't an orange juice enema somewhat painful?

No Anne, I've taken several and they don't bother me. Might be different on another person though.

The enema was a frequent topic of conversation among parents when I was growing up. I was surprised when an older cousin mentioned giving an enema to a kid with diarrhea. That seemed counter productive and irrational. Twice now I have been in a situation where Immodium AD was ineffective in controlling a rampant case of the above. I was clearly becoming dehydrated. I felt awful and was in no mood to endure an enema, but I decided to try it. After two hefty injections with warm Ivory soap solution the symptoms totally disappeared and I felt much better. Sometimes microbes set up toxins in the bowel that just need to be washed out. I can still hear Mom saying.

"We gotta wash the poison out."

I wasn't happy then either, but it worked like a charm for a tummy ache and such. The sight of the white Jones Irrigator hanging on the bathroom wall, loaded with soapsuds was a dreaded sight, but it never failed to do the job.

Well, in our family we've always used suppositories as part of a general clean out whenever someone was ill for a few days - and my mum almost always gave me one when I had a tummyache.

I don't know if an enema was a cure-all, either, but mom always gave me and my sister an enema at the first sign of a cold or other ailment. She said the one with the sneezes needed it to prevent the cold from getting worse, the other got one to prevent a cold. As you can tell, we got a lot of enemas during the late summer when our allergies kicked in (we didn't know anything about pollin counts, etc).

Mom just made us undress, she prepared the enema and we took it "like good little girls".

When we got older, we got to enjoy enemas and gave them too each other often during our high school days ... mom knew we supposedly self-administered, but she didn't know we gave each other enemas frequently.

And because we lived in the country, no neighbors near us, she gave us permission to sunbathe in the nude ... no tan lines and another opportunity for enema sessions outdoors.

We really had the good life when we were kids ... and my good life has continued because my hubby also loves enemas ... regardless of the reason ... and we live in a secluded rural area. Life is good.

I"m not sure about the cure of all ills but I battle chancre sores and keeping a regular enema schedule has stopped all outbreaks!

I will definitely keep up the good (water)works, hehe.

When I was young it was enemas for sniffles and enemas for tummy aches.

what ever ailed you the enemas was sure to help and then a trip to the doctor to get a shot and here him say give another enema or two tomorrow we didn't really care that much but we asked that we not get them I really could not wait for some reason

I attended a boys school and the male nurse used suppositories as a "magic bullet". We made jokes about it and found it amusing that he would give suppositories for anything and everything. Enemas were his back up solution, the "heavy artillery". It was such a nuisance going back to class after a visit to the infirmary. I'd have this slippery feeling in my ass.

In addition, my aunt used suppositories for everything as well. Oh, and one was never enough: she would slip in two deep and one "shallow". She had a "one size fits all" mentality and she never bothered with child suppositories: she used adult suppos on us all.

I remember having a crush on a girl in the neighborhood. I wanted to feel macho but I couldn't because my ass felt like a magnet for suppositories.

There seemed to be a penchant for using soapy water enemas and suppositories in the generation before mine.

My mom only gave enemas for constipation. I have only recently tried them for sinus congestion, headaches,fatigue, and diarrhea, and I have been pleasantly surprised that they seem to work.

As a kid I got them if I were sick, sometimes even if I just had sniffels. When constipated I got a liquid lax first and if that had no effect then an enema followed.