Before your Colon Hydrotherapy session

• Do not eat for 2 hours before your appointment.
• Drink 4-6 glasses of water with 1/2 fresh squeezed lemon juice if you have a morning appointment or 1-2 glasses if you have an afternoon appointment.
• Avoid gas-forming foods the previous day
  • beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, cucumbers, melons, raw apples, bananas, or anything else that gives you gas.
• Apply an abdominal castor pack for 1 hour 3 days in a row before your appointment. Pre-warm the pack but do not use a heating pad if you feel gaseous. Take one teaspoon of olive oil each evening of the pack.

After your Colon Hydrotherapy session

• Drink plenty of water to keep the toxins flushing from your body.
• Avoid gas-forming foods for 2 days.
• Eat yogurt with acidophilus/bifidus cultures or take acidophilus capsules or liquid for several days to maintain the balance of flora in the colon.
• Eat more laxative food such as salads, vegetables, fruit (no bananas), juices, soups, fish, chicken. Beet and carrot juices are very beneficial. Avoid eating raw vegetables 4-6 hours after a colonic.
• Avoid heavy meat consumption (beef and pork) for 8 to 12 hours. Chicken and fish is best.
• Eat low mucoid-forming foods.
• Follow the Basic Diet Plan.
• Avoid strenuous exercise that day.
• Your next normal bowel movement is usually 1 to 3 days after your colon  hydrotherapy session.