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Coffee enemas during World War I. The following story is an emas actually opened the bile ducts of the rats.

appeared in excerpt from the Townsend Newsletter told by This enhances liver function.
Dr. Jerry Walters:

The purpose of the coffee enema is to sup-
the medical port the liver in eliminating toxins and to cleanse
literature as During World War I, Germany was the blood. In 1984 Dr. Peter Lechner from Graz,
early as 1917 surrounded by the allies’ military forces, Austria stated, “Coffee enemas have a definite
and many imported materials were short
effect on the colon which can be observed with
and remained or missing for the German citizens. an endoscope.” “Dr. Lee Wattenberg and co-
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in the Merck Among other things, morphine was workers were able to provide [evidence] in 1981
Manual until running very low in supply. Also there that the palmitic acid found in coffee promotes
was hardly any coffee available to drink.
the activity of glutathione S-transferase and other
1972. Moreover, painkillers, anesthetics, and ligands by manifold times above the norm. It is
other drugs were lacking too. When this enzyme group which is responsible primarily
soldiers were sent back from the front for the conjugation of free electrophile radicals
lines, severely wounded, and in need which the gall bladder will then release.” 13,14
of surgery, there usually was just a bit Coffee enemas appeared in the medical
of anesthesia available—perhaps only literature at least as early as 1917 and remained
enough to get them through the surgical in the Merck Manual until 1972. German scien-
operation. tists discovered that coffee was able to open the
Upon the anesthesia wearing off, bile ducts and increase the production of bile by
obviously the pain set in for the wounded the liver. Max Gerson, MD, began using coffee
soldier. In many cases, after the doctors enemas with his patients suffering from tuber-
finished operating, they ordered plain culosis and then later, with his cancer patients.
water enemas for the patients. But the Dr. Gerson found that the physical root cause
nurses were desperately looking for of cancer among his patients was toxicity and nu-
something more to help the soldiers deal tritional deficiency. He used raw fresh juices and
with their pain. It happened that there raw liver to address nutritional deficiencies as
was always coffee brewing, available well as assist in cleansing the kidneys. As toxins
only for the surgeons to drink. They were forced out of the tissues, it became neces-
often had to work around the clock, and sary to support the liver in its ability to eliminate
needed to keep awake by caffeine in the toxins adequately. Dr. Gerson understood that
beverage. Sometimes, a little of their the liver becomes overburdened by the continu-
black coffee was left over. Apparently, ous onslaught of toxins, as well as the release of
some nurse had the idea that, since the toxic metabolites as the liver breaks down toxins,
coffee was doing the surgeons good, and that it was necessary to find proper support
perhaps it would also help the soldiers. for detoxification. He found that detoxification
So, the nurses poured a quantity of the could best be facilitated through the caffeine in
leftover coffee into the soldier's enema coffee enemas, absorbed from the descending
buckets. The soldiers receiving coffee colon via the hemorrhoidal vein, which carries
enemas reported that such ablutions were the caffeine to the portal vein and the liver. The
doing them some good, and that their caffeine stimulates the liver and biliary ducts to
pain was much relieved. open for release of waste products and toxins into
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the intestinal tract for excretion.
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Upon hearing of the nurses’ observations, Later, Dr. William Kelley, learning from Dr.
two researchers at the German University of Gerson, implemented the use of coffee enemas
Göttingen College of Medicine, O.A. Meyer, first with himself during his two-year battle
MD, and Martin Heubner, MD, decided to study with pancreatic cancer starting in 1967, and then
the effects of caffeine administered rectally to with his cancer patients until his death in 2005.
rats. They published their findings in the German Both doctors noted remarkable healing in those
medical literature, explaining that the coffee en- patients using coffee enemas.
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