re info colonics and purification in article cup portal com mmm cup portal com mark robert thorson writes not everything that goes in comes out and personaly i don t mind giving my body a hand once in a while just my experience george paap i ve got a very nice collection of historical books on medical quackery and on the topic of massage this is a recurring theme ordinary massage is intended to make a person feel better especially if they have muscular or joint problems but like chiropracty there are some practitioners who take the technique to a far extreme invoking what seems to me to be quack science to justify their technique in the case of massage there is a technique called deep abdominal massage in which the masseur is literally attempting to massage the intestines the notion is that undigested food adheres to the inner surface of the intestines and putrifies releasing poisons which cause various disease syndromes by this vigorous and painful procedure it is alleged that these deposits can be loosened up and passed out i just can t believe this idea has any truth behind it the human intestine is not a new york city sewer pipe and even if it were you eat half of a small box of triscuits and there ain t gonna be nothin sticking to the inner surface of your intestine mark this is the most reasonable post that i ve seen in sci med on the topic of colonic flushing i m in a profession that uses manipulation a very refined form of massage to treat various human diseases proving that manipulation works has been extremely difficult as the md s delight in pointing out the osteopathic profession seems to be making better progress than the chiropractors in proving scientifically that their techingues work the jaoa recently had a study on the use of manipulation to relieve mensrual cramps in women with results that were as good or better than drug treatment using physiological measurements and not just the woman s preception of improvement this study was hailed by the jaoa editors as the turning point in the profession s long struggle to prove itself to the medical community i m currently trying to get the aoa american osteopathic association which has supported most of the osteopathic research in the u s to also support nutrition education and research i ve pointed out in a grant proposal that the founder of osteopathic medicine a t still embraced both diet and manipulation to set himself apart from the md s of his time who were pushing only drugs still was himself an md who got real dissillusioned with drugs during his service in the civil war he decided that there had to be a better way to treat human disease since he saw the cure drugs as being worse than the disease through his many years of study of the human body he developed his manipulation techniques that he then taught to his students in the u s s first osteopathic medical school we now have still used manipulation to treat and also diagnose human disease but he used diet to prevent human disease i m trying to get the osteopathic profession to return to it s roots and beat the md s to the punch so to speak both do s and md s in current medical practice have very little understanding of how diet affects human health this has to change martin banschbach ph d professor of biochemistry and chairman department of biochemistry and microbiology osu college of osteopathic medicine you are what you eat
