The colon cleanse practice has become an alternative medicine staple that has spawned hundreds of products for sale online and over the counter meant to provide a healthier you through the process of cleaning your large intestine. With a mixture of herbs and laxatives colon cleanse supplements put your body through a self-cleansing process via bowel movements that remove all bacteria in your colon as well as any impacted waste material that may be stuck there.
There is also the alternative of a colonic, a procedure that flushes the colon with water and draws the water out through the same hose, making for a sanitary operation with none of the unpleasantness of an enema. This process may be repeated two or three times in a session, leaving you with a completely flushed system.
Alternative medicine practitioners and traditional physicians differ emphatically on the health value of this procedure. Medical science says that there is no impacted waste in the colon and that some of the bacteria flushed in a colon cleanse are meant to be in the intestine to contribute to the digestive process. In fact, colon cleanse advocates also promote the use of a probiotic to replace the lost “good bacteria” that are flushed out with everything else.
The point here is that while traditional medicine and alternative medicine often differ, seldom is there a clash of opinion as dramatic as that over the colon cleanse. With regard to cancer, advocates of colon cleanse treatment maintain that “all disease begins in the colon” and that cleansing the colon will help prevent cancer. Some homeopaths maintain that colon cleansing will cure cancer, not only of the colon but also of the prostate and perhaps other organs.
It’s a personal decision to opt for natural colon cleansing as a preventive measure for the development of malignant cells. It would seem to be a broader decision making process if you are opting for colon cleanse treatment to cure an existing cancer. It’s possible that disrupting the natural function of the intestinal system by flushing it of all functioning flora may be something that an oncologist would find to be harmful. It surely isn’t something you want to try after surgery. Even for believers, treating an active malignancy with an herbal bath can’t hold out much hope as a curative measure