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Chapter VI: The Internal Bath.2125
But there is a great difference between the ordinary Western methods
of giving injections of water by means of the syringe, and the Hindu-Yogi
methods. The ordinary Western methods consist of administering a small
amount of warm water into the rectum, or lower end of the Colon, thus
clearing away the debris from that region which had been clogging the
lower end of the colon. This was an excellent thing, and far preferable to
the practice of administering cathartics, etc., but the Hindu methods go
much further, and accomplish far greater results. The “Internal Bath,” which
is often styled “Flushing the Colon,” consists of the injection of from one
to two quarts of hot water into the colon, thereby removing the mass of
accumulated and dried faeces which have been poisoning the system, and
which also has a tendency to give a mild flushing to the kidneys, as we shall
see as we proceed.
Now all this seems so simple, that one who has not investigated the
matter may be apt to consider that so simple and plain a process could not
have been overlooked by Western physicians and hygienests for so many
years, and that therefore” there must be something wrong about the matter.”
But, alas! like many other things it was too simple to have been thought
of, particularly as the Western medical profession, up to twenty years ago,
had not informed themselves regarding the dangers and frequency of
the impacted colon. The few physicians and others who had acquainted
themselves with the subject, were hooted down as quacks, and ridicule
was meted out to them until a growing interest in the subject caused the
profession to “sit up and take notice,” and then investigation proved the
soundness of the idea and method.
Many of the plain people of America who followed the “Thompsonian
System” of medicine, about sixty years or more ago, and who obtained
splendid results by their system of “sweating and vomiting” the patient,
thus getting rid of the poisonous matter in the system which had not
been eliminated, and which caused the disease, also combined with their
other methods that of the “large enema,” or “injection” of hot water into