Colonic Plaque

I was watching a show on Zone Reality TV here the other day called The Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses. It is about a bunch of Pommies taken to a really exclusive resort in Spain’s Andulsian mountains for a holistic detox to fix their bad skin, weight, smoking, emotional and other issues.

I won’t go into too many details (or even mention soft parts of the male anatomy) in reference to this other than to point out that one of the treatments was to remove colonic plaque – also called mucoid plaque. Now I don’t want to talk about the plaque itself – that is best covered by medicos (who presumably know a little about what they talk about) and naturopaths and such (who presumably know how to sell the product that they want you to buy).

I will say that if you are interested, the Wikipedia has a balanced discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucoid_plaque and, er, my favourite debunking site Snopes has a piece discussing colonic plague with reference to John Wayne and Elvis Presley (something has left the building).

No. What tickled my curiosity was the treatment. To clear this crap the treatment was to take about a litre of coffee in a container with a tube out of it and to insert said tube into the rectum whilst laying on your right hand side. Leave the coffee to empty into the bowel and intestine, leave it there for 30 minutes or so and then pass it out. I think they had to do the treatment over a couple of days.

What I want to know is who was it that thought of shoving a cup of coffee up your jacksie as a treatment for emotional issues?