# high colonics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 25, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137 "2000-03-25T05:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eraymond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3d9bf3/32.png) [@eraymond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eraymond)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/1 "2000-03-25T05:50:00Z")
I have frequently wonder what, exactly, a high colonic is. Is there, for example, a low colonic. I know it has something to do with new age health and such, but exactly what it is remains a mystery to me. If anyone could enlighten me I would appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/2 "2000-03-25T14:58:00Z")
Are you referring about this column by Cecil Adams? [Does colonic irrigation do you any good?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a900525.html) ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/3 "2000-03-25T16:22:00Z")
Under the assumption that’s what’s meant, I am closing this here and moving this to the appropriate forum: Comments on Cecil’s columns. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/4 "2000-03-25T16:56:00Z")
If he doesn’t want to be a moderator, can we at least make Arnold the Chief Librarian of the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/5 "2000-03-25T19:54:00Z")
I already told Arnold that I wish I could at least make him an honorary moderator. His assistance in providing links is vastly appreciated. Thanks, Arnold. Jill ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/6 "2000-03-26T23:13:00Z")
You’re welcome folks, I like to do what little I can. Instead of honorary moderator, though, can I be known as “best poster named after a swiss independence hero with the initials AW” ? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/7 "2000-03-28T17:01:00Z")
For a high colonic, instead of just pumping water into the rectum like a plain enema, they run a hose up and pump the water all the way into the transverse colon, perhaps even ascending colon. Thus “high” means way up the colon. ---
**Author:** ![CreoSote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@CreoSote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CreoSote)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-colonics/1137/8 "2000-04-06T04:49:00Z")
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