>Yes, it could. But that raises another question, which is the one >regarding the contention that hardened mucous and ancient undigested >toxic stuff stick to the walls of the intestines, and must be >dislodged through special efforts. I have read all the books (in >fact I have them in my lending library), as well as the convincing >and realistic-looking pictures of gruesomely fascinating, blackest >black, 50-pound sculptured lumpy snakes of ancient intestinal >encrustations; and I've heard many discussions of this phenomenon. >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 happen to be a clean freak (kind of like Howard Hughes. or the >Church Lady), so I'd just love it if I could do a cleanse thing on >myself and get all those nasty dirty things out. And I'd be the >first to start espousing this widely as a new cult. But so far I >can't seem to be able to find any trustworthy evidence to support >this theory. Sell me on it, please! :D What has convinced you? About this issue . i heard about an experiment done on a dog : they cut part of the intestine made a closed loop with it saw everything back inside the abdomen. After a while they open again and found the loop full of fecal matter despite they were no connection with the rest of the intestine. jean-claude