Nowadays, there are some misunderstanding and practicing mistake in coffee enema.

1.Misunderstand on the purpose of coffee enema It should be warned that coffee enema is not the way out to reduce weight or curing constipation. One who need to loss weight should control diet and work out and relieving constipation should take enough diet fiber. The main purpose of coffee enema is to encourage the liver to detoxify by its biochemical enzyme reaction.

Enema set The plastic bag for enema should be discarded once after used. Because the dampness inside may cause fungus infection if the bag was used repeatedly. The recommended set should be a pot which can be cleaned and dried up easily after used. The stainless enema pot is quite suitable.

Coffee Coffee used should not be overdose. Even though caffeine in the large bowel is absorbed via the portal hepatic vein, but overdose of coffee may cause overflow of caffeine through the liver into the systemic circulation and cause some discomfort like palpitation, nausea, light headedness and sleeplessness. Normally a man with average body built (50 Kg. body weight) can tolerant coffee not more than 1 tablespoon. (The regular coffee drink uses coffee not more than 2-3 teaspoon). But, nowadays, the enema coffee sold in most health shop in the ready use package has 2 tablespoon. This may cause adverse effect, besides palpitation and sleeplessness, one may be addicted to coffee and feel eagerness to take coffee enema which is the withdrawal effect of caffeine. One can use the instant coffee 1 tablespoon as the proper used for enema.

Temperature of coffee solution A too cool solution (37?c) may cause abdominal cramp. A too hot solution may injure the colon mucosa. The proper temperature should be the body temperature. One who boiled the ready packed coffee has high risk of taking too hot coffee enema. The chronic irritation of bowel mucosa may cause chronic diarrhea or mucus stool. The most easier way for preparing coffee solution is to use instant coffee and mix it up with the luke warm water used for bathing. By this way, one can adjust the temperature so easily.

Incomplete liver detoxification The detoxification process in coffee enema has 2 steps:

Step 1. The liver cell catch up toxin with some protein by the enhancement of enzymes Cytochrome P450. The complex molecules will become more toxic and are highly reactive free radicals potency. They should be neutralized at the second step

Step 2. The conjugation step enhanced by many antioxidants and the enzyme glutathione. Is there enough antioxidants and glutathione in the liver cells, the detoxification may be successful, if not there will be a stagnation of detox process. The side effects of ‘Incomplete liver detoxification’ may occur. One may feel fatigueness, dizziness, malaise and many other discomfort feeling. Chronic incomplete detox may get liver cell damage. The proper way to encourage complete detox process in the liver cell is to have enough antioxidants in the body. Regular health food diet ie. brown rice, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables may supply liver cells enough amout of essential antioxidants. This is the reason why do such ‘Detox fever’ – a fashionized coffee enama in some youngsters who just do coffee enema to immitate the pop star, may be harmful. For their habit of junk food eating may not supply enough antioxidants for the liver detox process. Such practice should be discourage.

In order to supply enough antioxidants one may take 5 pills of cumin with 1 tablet of ginseng at the moment before doing enema. This may help proper supply of antioxidants.