Liza, >My problem is that every colon hydrotherapist that I have ever >talked to (and I know an awful lot of these personally, across the >U.S.) tells me that he or she (they're almost all female it seems) >has never PERSONALLY seen anyone eliminate this kind of thing >(although they all seem to have all those same pictures and books >and charts, too). Adding to my confusion is that what I learned in >college anatomy & physiology is that the colon sheds and eliminates >it's lining every day, which would preclude it from accumulating the >kind of black stuff that adherents of this theory speak about. I personally have seen lots of stringy black tar stuff come out in the early days of hydro-therapy. Then the combination of increased raw food and hydro-therapy seemed to have done as much as needed, no more stringy tar stuff. Then my hydro-therapist encouraged me to do a 10 day cleanse and combine it with three hydro-therapy treatments. Nothing unusual the first two treatments, but on the third there was another round of stringy black tar, some of which was in rather big chunks. Micaela