Leelie, thank you so much for posting that link. The page on their site at Studies on the benefits of colonics and enemas is one of the best recent studies I have seen on the benefits of colonics and enemas, and the lack of negative or adverse effects.
I found the following to be an especially interesting finding:
Schmelzer et al. (2000) found that soapsuds enemas produced significantly greater output than tap water and were equally well tolerated. Most subjects who received tap water enemas retained more fluid than was eliminated. Based on these findings, they advised that nurses should use caution when giving repeated enemas to patients sensitive to large fluid loads. This is relevant to the question of the fluid load resulting from a colonic irrigation, in which a larger volume of water is used than in the typical enema.
Their negative findings on the Fleet type hypertonic phosphate disposable enemas only reinforced the conclusions I had already come to on my own.
How do you find the quality of your home unit? Do you feel that the board is wide enough to relax on it comfortably during colonics?