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The Hindu-Yogi System of Practical Water Cure2124
foulness that its exhalations permeate your entire system, rendering your
perspiration and breath so foul that it is plainly perceptible to others—how
would you proceed to clean it out?” “Why, flush it out, of course, you
stupid!” is your reply. Yes, that is the answer—flush it out! And that is just
the process that is accomplished by the Internal Bath, of which we shall now
proceed to tell you.
The principle of the “Internal Bath,” or “Colon-Flushing,” has received
much attention from the Western writers and teachers upon the subject
of Hygiene, and from the general public, during the last twenty years, and
many had received wonderful benefits from an observance of its principles.
Several persons, in different parts of America, have claimed to have made
the discovery, but the chances are that they all worked out the problem
independently of the others; and consequently all are entitled to the same
degree of credit. As a matter of fact though, these “discoveries” were rediscoveries
of an old principle well known to the ancient Hindus, and other
Oriental peoples who practiced it centuries ago. Nay, more, it is believed
that primitive Aryans received their first lessons on the subject from some
of the long-billed birds of Oriental countries who are said to have practiced
this method in order to relieve themselves of constipation consequent
upon the eating of certain berries growing in those countries. One of the
old writers insists that the method was learned from an observation of the
habits of a long-billed bird dwelling on the banks of the Ganges, which was
noticed to insert its bill in the water, and after filling the bill with a quantity
of the fluid was seen to inject it into the anus for the purpose of bringing
about an action of the bowels. Various species of the Snipe family are
said to have similar customs. Pliny has written that this habit of the birds
suggested the use of clysters to the ancient Egyptian doctors, and certain
Chinese historians have claimed the same thing in their own country. So the
practice seems to be universal, and having its origin away back in the early
days of man’s sojourn on this planet.