Can coffee cure diseases? Coffee enema can lead to death

Enema, you must know something, insert the catheter from the anus and inject the solution into the body through the rectum to achieve the therapeutic effect of defecation and exhaust, which is a method for hospitals to treat patients.

However, if you replace the solution with coffee and make your own enema at home, do you dare to try?

These days, some readers reported to the Chongqing Evening News 24-hour news hotline 966988 that a friend recommended a coffee enema to him, which is said to be able to lose weight, clear stools and treat cancer.

Is coffee enema really such a magical effect? A reporter from Chongqing Evening News conducted an investigation.

Can you go to bed and lose weight and cure cancer?

According to the information reflected by this reader, a reporter from Chongqing Evening News found this online store called Chongqing Coffee Enema weight loss and constipation treatment Center. For the role of coffee enema, the business wrote: to help more people lose weight, remove freckles, beauty, and treat constipation (especially marked with the word "radical cure").

Chongqing Evening News reporter contacted the seller by phone. He, surnamed Yang, sells organic coffee and related equipment for coffee enemas, and buyers need to make their own home enemas.

On September 7, a reporter from Chongqing Evening News came to Mr. Yang's physical store on the second Yangtze River Road in Yuzhong District. Mr. Yang took out the product, which is a bag of 454 grams of organic enema coffee, as well as a defecator and a special intestinal flushing head.

There is no production date, production address and production license on the outer package of coffee, and the manufacturer and certificate are pasted on it. Mr. Yang said it was made in Yunnan. He went on to say that coffee enema is different from ordinary enema in that it can clear the stool and lose weight.

Chongqing Evening News reporter found in some forums, QQ groups, web pages, many sellers also said that coffee enema can treat cancer.

Is coffee enema safe? Mr. Yang patted his chest to guarantee that there would be no problem. Is it suitable for everyone? Mr. Yang said that except for children under 11 and pregnant women, everyone else is suitable.

There are thousands of people using coffee enema in Chongqing.

Mr. Yang said he had been acting as a coffee enema for several months and had sold thousands of products, many of them new buyers. In other words, it is conservatively estimated that thousands of people in Chongqing are using coffee enemas.

Mr. Yang took out a bag of unpacked coffee from his bedroom and said, "I've been using it myself for months."

How often is the intestine infused? Mr. Yang said that at the beginning of the enema, it can be infused every other day. When the body gets used to it, you can drink it every day, or even twice a day if you have more stools.

Coffee enema is very effective.

Experts debunked

Lose weight, clear stool, cure cancer, coffee enema really have wonderful effect? Yesterday, Chongqing Evening News reporter conducted an investigation.

There is a passage on the coffee bag: the beginning of coffee enema-Gesen therapy. Gesen therapy is a natural biological therapy, which has a history of more than 60 years.

Coffee enema is part of Ghosn's therapy. On the official website of the Ghosn Institute (gerson.org), Gesen therapy is defined as: "Gesen therapy is a powerful and natural treatment that boosts the body's own immune system to treat cancer, arthritis, heart disease, allergies and other degenerative diseases."

With regard to coffee enema, Gessen's official website said that "coffee enema only helps to eliminate toxins in the liver."

Although supporters claim that the cure rate is as high as 70% to 90%, both the National Cancer Institute and the New York Medical Association say there is no evidence that Gesen therapy is effective, according to Williston Park, an American scholar, in Gerson regimen, a paper published in the Swiss journal Oncology in 2010.

Dr. Wang Donglin, director of the department of oncology at Chongqing Cancer Hospital, said that the medical effect of coffee enema lacks objective basis, and claims that it is even more groundless to treat cancer in this way. Coffee as a drink can play a short-term exciting effect, in addition, there is not much medical value.

Doctor Wang Donglin believes that stool does not belong to the medical concept, but is a word coined by some businesses to promote health care and weight loss products. "it takes a certain amount of time to digest food in the human body. As long as it is not constipated, it should be said that there is no problem of stool and accumulation of toxins."

"the purpose of the enema is to clear the intestines." The coffee enema promoted by the merchant can clean up the intestines, and Dr. Feng Xiaoxia of the Department of Gastroenterology of the second Hospital thinks it is a hype gimmick.

On the Gesen official website, the Chongqing Evening News reporter did not find any words that mentioned that coffee enema has the function of losing weight.

Doctor Feng Xiaoxia said that obesity in modern people is mainly caused by overnutrition and lack of exercise. Food enters the digestive system first through the stomach to digest, and the nutrition absorbed by the intestines is limited, so it is also very limited to clear nutrients through enema. It is not realistic to achieve weight loss.

Coffee enema caused many deaths

On Wikipedia, coffee enema can cause severe electrolyte disorders, hyponatremia, dehydration, pleural and pericardial effusion, which has led to many deaths. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ruled that in the experiment researchers must warn study participants about the risk of death from coffee enemas.

In fact, enema, as a medical method, is no longer advocated by many doctors.

"in general, only infants with rectal blockage or who are inconvenient to take oral medication are treated with enema." Dr. Feng said that while the enema cleans the intestines, it also removes a large number of beneficial bacteria from the intestines. "the imbalance of intestinal flora may lead to the loss of systemic immunity."

Dr. Feng said that the frequency of "at least twice a day" advertised by some coffee enemas can also make the intestines dependent on this stimulation. "serious conditions may lead to daily dependence on enema defecation."

Dr. Wang Donglin also warned that although the coffee itself may not be toxic, but operating at home, the condition of disinfection is worrying. If coffee enema is performed under the guidance of a non-professional, it may cause damage to the intestinal mucosa, lead to bacterial infection, and even the risk of intestinal perforation.

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