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Homeopathy - It has made a real comeback. Let's take a look at a business that nearly vanished and has come back to flourish. In the 1950's if you looked in the Boston Yellow Pages you would find about 8 Colonic Irrigation Clinics, by 1972 there was one, Mildred P. Burgess. About 1975 one of the newspapers did a big expose calling it quackery, one of the talk radio stations got onto the topic and the clinic was closed. By that time none existed in the NYC Yellow Pages, Colonic Irrigation was not allowed in the Pennsylvania Yellow pages well into the 1990's. The few places where it survived were on the west coast. I can even remember a building I saw in 1969 with a billboard size sign offering Colonic Irrigations and Enemas! Sometime in the 1990's interest in what is now called Colon Therapy resurfaced, and now there are hundreds or perhaps thousand of clinics nationwide and here in Australia as well. Go to YouTube and you can watch people getting a colonic, or learn how to give an enema, as coffee enemas are an in vogue therapy. The question has been asked is there any benefit, or is there a sexual side. There are several clinic scattered about that that offer "erotic enemas," so we know that interest exists. So, full desclosure here, my mom thought enemas were a cure for anything from a hangnail to bubonic plague, and in the polio days, before the Saulk Vaccine, frequent enemas were believed by my mother and her friends to help protect us. I will say none of us got polio! So these frequent enemas resulted in a person who enjoys them from an erotic side, and I'm not alone, go to zity.biz where there are hundreds of like minded people. So that raises the question, do Colonics have any health benefits? How much of it is "because it feels good," and how many are secretly their for the sexual side? As a side note, I was actually asked at one clinic in Los Alamitos, CA if I was into the sexual side... So here are my questions...

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Lincster45 6 Apr 6
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[vimeo.com] Episode of "Penn and Teller's Bullshit"

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Personally, I think it's quackery.

Coldo Level 8 Apr 6, 2018
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I don't know enough about it to put forward a vote sorry. I have had a couple of colonoscopies and they were very unpleasant. I don't like non-human foreign objects being inserted into orifices of my body. Too many medical procedures being a cancer survivor.

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First, understand that homeopathy is bullshit.

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No argument there. As bullshit as religion for many of the same reasons!

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