I would like to describe my childhood experiences of
enemas, which led to my enjoyment of full enemas as an adult. I was
given small enemas of soapy water by my mother, at infrequent intervals
as a child. She used a bulb syringe and injected about a pint (500ml) of
solution. I did not enjoy them, but I realised that I needed them on the
rare occasions when I became constipated. My interest in enemas was
really awakened from the age of 12 years, by my vivid memories of large
full saline enemas given to me at the age of 5 years, to treat 'thread'
or 'pin' worms.
I can remember being ordered to undress and to lie face down on the bed. My mother came into the room holding a glass enema container filled with two pints (one liter) of saline solution.
After all the water had been run in, I had to remain lying down for ten minutes, before being allowed to go to the bathroom to release the water. These enemas were not too bad and were repeated everyday for a week.
The following week I was in for a real surprise! Evidently the previous enemas had not been effective in ridding my intestines of the worms. The same procedure was repeated, as before, except that to my great surprise, without any warning, when the enema container was almost empty, my mother filled it up once more from a jug of solution.
It wasn't very long before I started to feel uncomfortably full, but when I complained I was told that I had to take all the water that was left in the container. I could feel the distention slowly spreading up and across my upper abdomen. By the time the container was again empty, I was feeling desperately full, but I was warned to hold all the solution in for the full ten minutes. This period of retention seemed like forever, and when the cramps got really bad, I pleaded once or twice to be allowed to release all the water. Mother was resolute, as the doctor had impressed on her the importance of retaining all two liters for the full ten minutes. She warned me that she would have start all over again, if I didn't co-operate. Remember I was only 5 years old. What a relief when the time was up, and I could rush to the bathroom to let it all out!
The same procedure was repeated every day for another week, and each time my discomfort was equally as oppressive, but my pleas were to no avail. Effective drug treatment was not available at that time (1947), but fortunately this thorough cleansing procedure did the trick, by releasing and killing all the worms along the full length of my colon.
If it hadn't been for my mother's strict supervision and 'no-nonsense attitude', I probably would have suffered from this very irritating condition for much longer than I did. I have since read that enemas are notoriously ineffective in ridding a child of threadworms, unless the fullest enemas are retained and repeated for at least three days. Some therapists, who are opposed to all forms of drug therapy, still recommend this course of action.
I continued to be given small enemas of soapy water occasionally by my mother, and as I got older I eventually learned to enjoy the experience. Although I still had vivid memories of the large full saline enemas I had been given years earlier, I had long forgotten just how much water had been used to fill me up.
During my adolescence, I started to experiment with soap enemas using a rubber bulb syringe. I started to inject about two pints (1 liter) of solution, and although I found them to be quite stimulating, the experience didn't ever quite match that of the full saline enemas that I had been subjected to years earlier.
I felt quite brave when I eventually increased the amount of soapy water to three pints (1.5 liters), and I experienced the most intense orgasmic discharges after I had expelled these enemas. I continued to use these enemas about twice a month for the next ten years, until the age of 25.
During this time I pursued an interest in Naturopathy, and I learned to use two liter enemas of plain water. These were recommended as being less irritating and safer than soapsuds. For a long time I assumed that this was the maximum amount that could be taken by an adult for an effective enema.
One day my mother reminded me of the full saline enemas that she had been instructed to give me as a child. She admitted to me that she had felt very sorry for me, when she had to fill me up with so much water and then make me hold it all in for so long. Although she had been very familiar with enemas herself, she had only ever taken up to a maximum of four pints at a time for her own constipation. She had never thought at the time, that a five year old child could be given this amount to hold in. She had taken a lot of convincing by the doctor concerned, before she was persuaded to give me, a five year old child, as much as four pints (two liters) at a time.
After investigating the recommendations of various American authors, I found that large-volume enemas were advocated by both medical practitioners and natural therapists. In the book 'The Royal Road' it was stated that Dr. A. Wilford Hall, Ph.D. and W.E. Forest, B.A., M.D., two world-famous authorities on internal bathing, were among thousands of physicians who had given their hearty and active endorsement and support to the principle of regular cleansing of the colon. They advocated the 'internal bath', which consisted of a full enema of at least three and up to four quarts, and this was considered to be the best way to obtain an effective cleansing of the colon at home. Readers were advised to use this procedure once or twice a week to improve and maintain their health. During the period 1900 to 1950 over one million grateful patients had testified to the benefits of the 'internal bath' and diet. Ref. The Royal Road - C.A. Tyrell M.D. - 395th Ed 1947.
After experimenting myself, I have found that after one or two one quart enemas, I am able to hold about three and a half quarts for five to ten minutes for a full cleansing. I sometimes have a spontaneous and explosive orgasmic discharge during this retention, but more often than not I masturbate soon after expelling my final enema. I do this about twice a week.
I have been fortunate enough to obtain two Medical Books published at the turn of the century. I quote the enema procedures from these two books below:-
The copious enema - The purpose of this mode of applying the enema is to introduce the largest quantity of water possible to fill the entire colon without overdistending it. Four to six quarts [3.8 to 5.5 liters] are often used. Frequently quantities of old putrefying faecal masses, semi-hardened by long retention, make their appearance after a copious enema has been thoroughly administered every day for a week or more, showing that a single flushing of the colon, no matter how thorough, is not sufficient to achieve effective cleansing. In this class of patients the copious enema should be administered daily for two or three weeks if necessary, while the patient complains of gaseous distention of the bowels and fetid flatulence. Ref. Home Handbook of Domestic Hygiene and Rational Medicine - J.H.Kellogg M.D. 1903
It must have been quite an ordeal for patients of Dr. J.H. Kellogg [of Cornflakes fame], to be given the fullest enemas possible, everyday for as long as two to three weeks.
Flushing the bowels is often necessary, although it is wellknown that habitual flushing causes a weakened condition of the large intestines. The person should lie down on the left side and allow from a gallon to a gallon and a half [3.8 to 5.5 liters] of moderately warm water to pass from the syringe into the bowels. While the bowels are heavily loaded in this manner, the body should not be constricted, nor should much exercise be taken until the water has passed off. To be effective the water should be retained in the bowel from 15 to 30 minutes, unless too much uneasiness is experienced, when it should be released. Once a week is sufficient for bowel flushing. Ref. Viavi Hygiene - Hartland Law MD and Herbert E. Law, FCS - 1910.
After my own experience with full enemas, and reading of the experiences of many enema enthusiasts on the INTERNET, I have come to the conclusion that most adults are able to hold from three to four quarts of solution for a large cleansing enema. I have therefore been most surprised that AT LEAST four quarts have been recommended by both of the Medical authors quoted above. I am convinced that most adults today, in this tension-ridden modern society, have abnormally contracted colons, which do not easily accomodate the large enemas of fifty to one hundred years ago.
I am ASTOUNDED by the fact that the two doctors who wrote Viavi Hygiene, could have expected constipated patients to take in and hold at least four quarts for fifteen to thirty minutes at a time. Surprisingly, both of the procedures quoted above, were intended by the authors to be used as home nursing procedures. Perhaps we just do not have the strict and thorough nurses, mothers, grandmothers and aunts that were around in the past, who were prepared to apply these procedures to the letter.
Some therapists have indicated that regular and moderate distention of the colon, rather than weakening the bowel, has the advantage of toning the muscles of the bowel, and preventing constrictions, adhesions and twisted loops from developing over time, as seen on X-rays in 70% of the adult population in Western countries. Those people who take full enemas regularly may be the sanest, if not the healthiest people alive. Ref. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor - Dr. Isabelle A. Moser - 1997.
Although the enhancement of the sexual function may be the main motivation for many regular enema users, it is probably a question of following the example of the herons in the Everglades and the ibises in Egypt and 'doing what comes naturally' to improve and maintain optimal health. Hopefully, these facts should allay the feelings of guilt of so many enema lovers.
