Dr. Max Gerson of Germany and later New York used them as part of his diet therapy in the treatment of both tuberculosis and cancer patients beginning in the 1930's. Gerson found coffee enemas to be indispensable for assisting the body's own detoxification process, as well as for relieving the severe pain associated with advanced cancer.
Dr. William Donald Kelly of Texas used them to help heal his own pancreatic cancer and then went on to recommend them as part of his diet and enzyme therapy (based on Gerson's work) for his cancer patients. Kelly's work is now being carried on my Dr. Nicholas Gonzales of New York who continues to recommend coffee enemas to his cancer patients.
Gar Hildenbrand, Director of the Gerson Research Organization in San Diego, healed himself of Lupus Erythematosus, a deadly autoimmune illness, over 25 years ago using Gerson's diet therapy and coffee enemas. He later helped his future wife Christeene to do the same. Most recently, the gastroenterologist
Dr. Hiromi Shinya, the most sought after doctor in Japan and personal physician to the Royal Family as well as Chief of the Endoscopy Unit at Beth Israel Hospital and Clinical Professor of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has publicly stated his support for the use of coffee enemas for overall health in his book The Enzyme Factor. All of these doctors and researchers have personally used coffee enemas on a regular basis to help detoxify their bodies and enhance their overall quality of life.
How do coffee enemas work? Firstly, they increase the activity of the cytochrome P450 enzyme system. This is the enzyme system that helps to detoxify the liver. Secondly, they cause the liver to produce more bile and they cause the bile ducts to open and release this bile into the small intestine. Bile is the substance that carries toxins out of the body. Coffee enemas are traditionally retained in the colon for 15 minutes. All of the blood in the body passes through the liver every 3 minutes, so the blood makes 5 passes through the liver during each coffee enema.
Dr. Gerson prescribed 4 coffee enemas per day for the first year as his cancer patients carried out the therapy. If patients experienced a "healing crisis," they were encouraged to do a coffee enema every 2 hours as needed until the crisis was over. All of these coffee enemas have to be supported with fresh raw fruit and vegetable juices so the patient does not become depleted in electrolytes and other nutrients. Two 8 ounce juices are prescribed for every coffee enema.
On average, it took between 18 months and 3 years for cancer patients to fully recover using Gerson's therapy. If patients are too far advanced to recover from their illness, the therapy can still be used to lessen their pain and make their transition easier.
When the actor Michael Landon was suffering from late-stage pancreatic cancer, he called the Gerson Research Organization for help and Gar Hildenbrand explained to him how to do a coffee enema. After Landon's first coffee enema he never experienced any more pain; he was able to die in peace. For more detail please read this article on how coffee enemas work by Gar Hildenbrand.
Johanna Brandt of South Africa cured herself of late-stage stomach cancer using a combination of water fasting and a mono grape diet and wrote about the experience in her book The Grape Cure, as one of their shining stars. Brandt did enemas (not coffee) on a daily basis throughout her recovery period.
Essie Honiball also of South Africa healed herself of tuberculosis by adopting an all-fruit diet and wrote about it in her book I Live on Fruit. She, too, states that she used enemas (not coffee) regularly during her first year on the diet to help her body through the initial detoxification period.
Many people have healed themselves of cancer using the therapies practiced by Gerson, Kelly, and Gonzalez, which all include the daily use of coffee enemas. In 1958, Gerson published his book A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, in which he describes some of his best cases.
Gar Hildenbrand et al published a peer-reviewed retrospective study on the 5-year survival rates of patients doing Gerson's therapy for the treatment of malignant melanoma at a hospital in Mexico between 1975-1990 with very favorable results. Gonzalez has many of his successful cases published on his website here.
Gerson was continually evolving his therapy based on the latest research, and I suspect that if he were alive today he would likely prescribe an all-raw diet to his patients. But many of his patients got better inspite of the fact that they consumed mostly cooked foods as well as some dairy products along with the 13 fresh raw juices and four coffee enemas he prescribed every day. Through experience, Gerson found that tumor breakdown is extremely toxic and very difficult for the body to eliminate on its own and in some cases could actually kill the patient. The coffee enemas helped to significantly reduce the burden on the liver as the sick body worked to cleanse itself.
I have personally used coffee enemas off and on over the past 20 years to help my body detoxify, and I am so glad I know about them. I have never had a problem resuming normal bowel function when I discontinued using them after having used them for long periods of time. As a former research associate with the Gerson Research Organization, I can also report that this is true for everyone I ever interviewed who had done the therapy. Some patients opted to continue using the enemas on a long term basis, simply because they felt better doing so. Others would use them for a short period every year in order to give their body a chance to detox accumulated waste. And yet others never used them again once they were well.
In summary, former patients of the Gerson Therapy would continue to use them or not as they felt they needed or benefited from them. Dr. Gerson felt that people got cancer because the function of their liver is compromised in some way, and even after they have successfully healed themselves of cancer their liver may still not function optimally. Thus, coffee enemas can be a valuable aid in preventing a recurrence of the illness, as well as helping the recovered cancer patient maintain a greater sense of well-being.
How to do a Coffee Enema:
Bring 3 tbsp. of ground organic coffee to a boil in 1 quart of filtered water, boil for 5 minutes, reduce the flame, cover, and continue simmering for another 15 minutes, pour through a strainer, throw out coffee grounds, allow coffee to cool to body temperature before using. You should be able to comfortably stick your pinky finger in the coffee. Never put coffee that is too warm inside your rectum, as it may burn the delicate tissue.
Position your enema bag about two feet above the ground. Lay on your back on a towel on the floor. Insert the end of the enema tip into your rectum. Slowly allow as much of the coffee as is comfortable to enter your colon. Then lift your behind up and roll onto you right side, which helps the coffee to get over to your descending colon. Try to retain the coffee up to 15 minutes if possible, repeat procedure with any remaining coffee. When you do coffee enemas on a daily basis, your ability to retain them improves and you can usually do the whole quart at one time. A good way to pass the time is to have a good book to read!
Love & Joy, Esmée
