today the procedure is called colon hydrotherapy (CHT). So why has the medical community abandoned one of its most effective detoxification procedures? Certainly one of the problems is there isn't anyone left in hospitals and clinics to do it. The stature and social position of nurses and doctors has sky rocketed in the last 100 years. There really isn't anyone lowly enough in a hospital to do things like bedpans and colon hydrotherapy. Certainly they will, if they have to, but if a pill or suppository will do the job then that is what is done. The social pressure to avoid potentially messy jobs like enemas and bedpans has all but eliminated an excellent detoxification procedure. Another huge problem is the time and expense required to perform colon hydrotherapy. Modern CHT takes about an hour to properly perform, and the nurse has to be there the whole time. The equipment used is not expensive relative to other hospital equipment. But the hospital would have to charge the patient a hefty sum to dedicate one nurse for an entire hour for just one procedure. If you compare this to the time it takes to give the patient a detoxification pill or have the patient drink a laxative you can easily see why the pill wins every time.
