Medical Mineral Colonic Instructions
By Daniel Cagua-Koo, M.D.
Editor’s Note: The information in this article is being provided for informational purposes only. Please consult with your own medical provider prior to pursuing any kind of medical treatment, including this one.
Goal
Reduce the toxic load gently by removing toxins in Phase IV detox.
Introduction
Medical colonics are the most powerful but gentle detoxification therapy, especially if you are exposed to toxicity and have detoxification impairment.
Most other adjunct therapies often paradoxically cause worsening symptoms if one is still exposed to toxicity resulting in detox impairment.
This is the reason why most of my patients become worse with heavy metal chelation therapy while exposed to biological toxins in the environment. Heavy metals will be chelated out of the cells, but cannot be eliminated from the blood stream and tissues because the liver detox is impaired due to mold/biotoxin exposure.
The same is true with sauna intolerance. Warming your body/cells up in any sauna will cause a release of toxins into the blood stream, but the toxins will build up in the blood stream and tissues because it cannot be eliminated by the impaired liver detoxification system.
Please be careful how you detoxify. Some detox therapies cannot be done until the cause of the detoxification impairment is eliminated/modified.
In the setting of detox impairments, I recommend MEDICAL colonics. All my patients who have moderate to severe illness as well as all my cancer patients are prescribed medical colonics.
Most detoxification therapies are too aggressive and will cause more harm initially, if the patient is still inflamed and exposed to environmental toxicity.
However, the “medical colonic”, is one of the few detoxification therapies that that is safe and gentle.
Many patients have had negative experiences with standard hydrocolonics. Medical mineral colonics are different and can be a highly helpful foundation as part of the healing journey.
Background
Phase IV detoxification is impaired in patients with toxicity and inflammation.
Impacted stools are a common finding in those who are severely debilitated. Even with daily bowel movements, I have found significant fecal impactions in the majority of my imbalanced patients.
Stool/feces is not simply remnant of the food that has been digested and processed, but the route in which 85% of your body’s toxins are eliminated.
Conjugated toxins from the liver are eliminated through the bile and excreted through your intestines.
Toxins are inflammatory and irritating, and bile full of toxins will cause inflammation in the lining of the intestines, thereby causing an inhibition of the migratory motor complex (MMC) leading to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and to “constipation” and impacted stools.
The impacted stool and constipation leads to continual enterohepatic recirculation (intestinal absorption of toxins back into the stagnant stressed liver) of toxins, leading to a “vicious cycle” of toxicity.
Medical Mineral Colonics
Hydrocolonics (hydro=water colonics) unfortunately depletes the mineral status/electrolyte status of an already depleted patient.
It therefore is much better to use a mineral colonic with magnesium chloride and Celtic sea salt added to the colonic, in order to replete the patient of necessary trace minerals, magnesium, and electrolytes.
By giving the patient the electrolytes with the water in the colonic, the depleting nature of “hydrocolonic’ is neutralized.
Mineral colonics thus become a gentle healing modality to replete the patient of needed essential nutrients as it removes the waves of toxins/bile/stool from the body.
The intestine has natural undulating wave like motions that propel the stool forward and out of the intestines. The mineral colonic works to help stimulate the smooth muscles of the intestines as well as physically remove the toxins with the mineral water flushing the system.
It usually is the case that about 4-5 waves of toxic bile/stool are needed for the first mineral colonic.
Each wave of bile/stool come 10-20 minute apart.
Initially, what is expelled will be the standard brown color of stool. Starting with the 3rd or 4th flush, what is expelled will be the color of bile (yellowish green).
About 20 gallons of water are recommended for the first flush. This is equivalent to about 2 hours on a standard hydrocolonic machine.
The amount of water used means that the colonic will take some time to complete.
General Principles behind the Mineral Colonic
1. Mineralize the water, so that electrolytes/trace minerals are replaced during a colonic.
Use high-quality sea salt and magnesium chloride in the colonic fluids to gently remineralize the depleted patient.
Biotoxin patients are electrolyte depleted. Using water will further aggravate and worsen the electrolyte depletion. Plain water will not hydrate a person with electrolyte deficiency.
2. Enough bile/stool waves need to be completed to remove the biliary/liver/gallbladder toxins.
If an sufficient number of bile/stool waves are not completed, toxicity will remain in the intestines. This will result in enterohepatic recirculation, especially once the toxic stool descends down to the rectum, and cause worsening in the patient.
Typically, removing all the bile and stool will take at least four flushes. However, the goal is not to get to a certain number of flushes, but instead needs to be individualized to the patient’s response.
3. Ozonated magnesium should be used prior to the colonic to break fecal impactions.
Some popular versions of this type of product include Mag 07 and Oxy Powder.
4. After removal of toxins and biles, many rectal therapies can be introduced.
Rectal cholestyramine and rectal intestinal metals detox (IMD) may be helpful. (IMD is a proprietary silica product asserted to help to remove mercury from the system and sold by Quicksilver Scientific. BioPure also sells the product under the name MicroSilica.)
Patients’ responses to these rectal enemas are diagnostic of their toxic condition.
Improved energy after CSM is indicative of biotoxin-induced fatigue.
Improvement after rectal IMD is indicative of heavy metal toxicity.
5. Repopulate/Restore/Reinoculate.
Healing enemas after the colonics are important.
These may include Vitamin E, mixed tocopherols, phosphatidyl choline, ghee (or CLA or butyrate), Restore4Life or probiotics.
A fecal transplant also could be considered.
Supplies Needed
Colema Board with enema supplies
Magnesium chloride
High-quality mineral sea salt (Celtic sea salt, Himalayan pink salt or Redmond Real Salt)
Mag O7 (or other ozonated magnesium)
Recipe
Make an electrolyte mix for the colonic using a high-quality sea salt with trace minerals (Celtic sea salt, Himalayan pink salt or Redmond Real Salt) and magnesium chloride flakes.
Epsom salts may be used instead of the magnesium chloride flakes by those who do not have histamine or sulfur intolerance.
About 300 mg of magnesium should be used for each 250 ml of water. This is about 4-5 grams of magnesium per gallon. It is not important to be exact, since the colon will take what it needs and flush out the rest.
About 1-2 teaspoons of high-quality sea salt should be used per gallon of water. It is a good idea to taste the water to make sure that it doesn’t taste too salty.
I would caution against doing potassium initially due to potential cardiovascular effects.
Instructions
The night before the mineral colonic, take two or more capsules of Mag O7 (ozonated magnesium).
An alternative is to take one tablespoon of Epsom salts mixed in a glass of water two times (separated by 30 minutes). However, avoid the Epsom salts if you have histamine/sulfur/sulfite issues.
Schedule about two hours for your initial medical colonic.
The end point of the procedure is about 4-5 waves of toxic bile release.
Also, deeply palpate your intestines. You should have total gut comfort after the colonics. If you feel some discomfort with deep palpation, you likely still have some more toxic stool/bile descending down your intestines.
Schedule
Daily colonics are suggested for the first week.
For the 2nd through 5th weeks, colonics are typically done every other day.
From the 5th week to 3 months, colonics may be done twice a week or as needed.
About the Author
Dr. Daniel Cagua-Koo is a physician incorporating integrative, functional and environmental medicine approaches into his practice.
He has experienced severe mold hyperreactivity himself and spent most of 2015 seeking out pristine locations in the western half of the United States while living in a converted cargo trailer.
His experience was that many treatments work much better when patients are clear of exposures (including from small amounts of toxins from cross-contamination and the outdoor air), and he encourages his patients to attend especially diligently to avoidance issues.
Although he treats a variety of biotoxin illness patients, a particular focus is on more severe patients.
He graduated in 2007 from the Tufts University School of Medicine, where he received the Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service.
He is located in Massachusetts and consults with patients through his medical practice, River of Life.
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