How to Do Enemas: Garlic and Ginger

It is a regular occurrence that I am explaining to my patients and students how to do an enema. The subject is discussed in several places but here we will only discuss how this is to be done using the herbs we most often use, which is to say garlic and ginger.

Normally, we use an enema bucket. We use a simple plastic "disposable" enema bucket which costs $10-20 or less on Amazon. We get maybe a year and a half of use out of one of these before the hose starts to crystalize and will not any longer stay connected without leaking.

While traveling, we do not necessarily have the enema bucket with us, so we have often purchased a simple fleet enema or generic equivalent and we unscrew or pop the top off and dump them out and fill them as we desire. This normally requires two of them to get the volume into the bowel.

In the bucket we will put 5 cups of warm water. This may vary a bit, but normally 5 cups is enough to do three (3) back to back enemas. This is important. We should plan to put the enema in (we always put people on their back), get the person (or ourselves) up and void the bowels into the toilet, clean up and lay right back down, immediately, and take the next one.

To the 5 cups of water, we will add 2-5 tablespoons of either granulated garlic or ginger powder. The question arises often about what is granulated garlic. Normally, if you get garlic powder from the spice rack at your local grocery store, it is not a powder at all, but grains of garlic about the size of grains of salt. Ginger powder is just dried, powdered ginger.

If it is the first time of doing such an enema, used 2 tablespoons as both ginger and garlic are quite stimulating.

If doing the modified cold sheet treatment (discussed elsewhere in this blog), use granulated garlic and use more of it.

If just treating a fever, use ginger powder. If treating dehydration, use ginger powder--normally 4-5 tablespoon range.

After stirring the powder or granules into the water, let the air out of the hose by running it into the sink. There is a clamp on the hose so you can let out the air and then clamp it off. A little air is not harmful, but a lot is uncomfortable and not helpful.

Use an herbal ointment or petroleum jelly to coat both the skin around the anus and the tip of the hose. This will allow it to slide in easily and will prevent discomfort when the ginger or garlic exits.

Put the bucket on the counter by the sink and lay on the floor on your back.

Insert the hose into the anus 2-3 inches or 5-8 cm.

Open the valve and let it flow in.

The first time, about 1.5-2 cups (1/4 to 1/3 liter) will flow in. Then the urgency to void will arrive and you or the person you are helping will clamp off the hose and get up and get onto the toilet and void the bowels.

Then immediately lay back down and put in the second round. As this one goes in, massage the ascending colon about even with the navel or a bit above that level. This will relax a common stricture and allow the enema in further so that it reaches the Cecum. This is vital as the cecum often houses abnormal bacteria and toxicity which is trapped in there and leaking into the body causing disease. Commonly, probably due to sitting rather than squatting to have bowel movements, about 2/3 of the way up the ascending colon (which is on the right side a couple centimeters above the level of the navel) we will find a stricture, or chronic spasm, which resists the flow of the enema into the cecum, which is below it. Massaging the structure while the enema goes in will relax it and allow the enema to flow easily to the cecum and the illeo-cecal valve.

Once the bowel fills, again the urgency to void will cause you to clamp off the enema and to get onto the toilet to void again. Once again, clean up and lay right back down for the third enema. Repeat the instructions from the second one.

Generally, this is enough to clear the bowels and result in rapid healing and drainage of lymph everywhere.

I strongly recommend to my students who are also practitioners that they do this procedure on themselves when they are well and it does not matter. Best to do the whole modified cold sheet treatment when you are well and healthy and it does not matter. Learn the procedure and how it works by doing it.

If treating an inflamed disc, massage the whole low back with cayenne heat ointment or equivalent before doing the modified cold sheet treatment.

The only issue we have had with the enemas is just twice in 25 years, we have had someone who could not retain the enema at all, it simply ran back out. These individuals are challenging, and if possible, I would recommend them for actual colonics, where the system evacuates the bowels and the apparatus is large enough to help retain the fluid as it goes in. This will not replace doing this with the herbs, unfortunately, but I have not found a good answer for these patients to do this on their own.