enema
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Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it’s common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The microbiome company Rebiotix Inc. last year announced positive results from a phase 3 trial of its recurrent C. difficile treatment, a filtered stool product delivered as an enema.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2022
Called fleets because they were fleeting, the word is also a brand name for an enema — something many people pointed out on Twitter when the feature launched.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
Maybe, when this is all over, we will be weirdly thankful for the cultural enema.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
Amid hot-water bottles and enema bags, he placed his bets.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The pro-enema Reddit user coping with Stage 4 cancer posted that they do three coffee enemas daily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the 19th century, an American doctor, Russell Thatcher Trall, did the same, adding cold-water enemas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Gerson therapy involves a strict plant-based diet, along with juices, supplements and coffee enemas.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
What if an incurable condition could be managed with fresh juice and coffee enemas?
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
Some of his advice included all-grape diets and almost hourly enemas.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Patient was treated with copious enemata and dismissed on the fifth day cured.
From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by C. Schweigger
Rectal injections, or enemata, are used in the treatment of constipation.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
If there is a tendency to constipation give rectal enemata.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
The patient must be encouraged to take plenty of easily digested fluid food, supplemented, if necessary, by nutrient enemata and saline infusions.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
From ten to thirty minims of turpentine, in an ounce of gum acacia or starch water, increased the efficiency of the enemata, and aided in expelling the gas and checking hemorrhage.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
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