Coffee Enema and Reaction to Strange Doctrine

When my friend told me that he used coffee for his enema, I chuckled and thought to myself, “What witchcraft and sorcery is this?” I was in disbelief because it was the first time I heard something like that, especially from an adult. I didn’t understand the purpose of Enema at the time, let alone filling your Colon with Coffee. My reaction to Flat Earth when I first heard it was the same: Disbelief and unkind.

You’re not alone if you’re guilty of this. Paul didn’t believe what Stephen was preaching, and this was his reaction to what he thought was strange at the time: “…when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and guarding the garments of those who were slaying him.” (Acts 22:20 LSB). Later Festus had his own reaction to what Paul was preaching, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Great learning is driving you out of your mind.” (Acts 26:24 LSB). Paul understood and wrote, “For we ourselves also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.” (Titus 3:3 LSB). Paul saw himself in Festus’ reaction. It’s only by the grace of God that a lot of us didn’t react with violence in the face of opposing view (cf. Luke 4:28-29).

To help us to avoid such a foolish, and possibly a fatal mistake, Scripture advises us: “He who responds with a word before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.” (Proverbs 18:3 LSB). We are often wise in our own eyes.

It’s after I read a bit on the history and rationale for Coffee that Coffee Enema makes perfect sense, and those advocating for it aren’t crazy after all.

The use of coffee as enema material began in Germany towards the end of World War I (1914-1918). The country was blockaded by the Allies and many essential goods—among them, morphine—were not available, yet trainloads of wounded soldiers kept arriving at field hospitals, needing surgery. The surgeons had barely enough morphine to dull the pain of the operations but none to help patients endure the postsurgical pain; all they could do was to use water enemas.

Although, owing to the blockade, coffee was in short supply, there was plenty of it around to help the surgeons stay awake during their long spells of duty. The nurses, desperate to ease their patients’ pain, began to pour some of the leftover coffee into the enema buckets. They figured that, since it helped the surgeons (who drank it), the soldiers (who didn’t) would also benefit from it. Indeed, the soldiers reported pain relief.

This accidental discovery came to the attention of two medical researchers—Professors Meyer and Huebner at the University of Goettingen in Germany—who went on to test the effects of rectally infused caffeine on rats. They found that the caffeine, traveling via the hemorrhoidal vein and the portal system to the liver, opened up the bile ducts, allowing the liver to release accumulated toxins. This observation was confirmed 70 years later, in 1990, by Peter Lechner, MD, oncologist surgeon at the District Hospital of Graz, Austria, after running a six-year controlled test on cancer patients following a slightly modified version of the Gerson Therapy. In his report, he quotes independent laboratory results, identifying the two components of coffee that play the major role in detoxifying the liver. —Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

Truth is stranger than fiction. Many Christians react negatively and strongly upon hearing that God does not love everyone the same, and that He only died for the Elect. To them, it’s strange doctrine that they will, like Paul, vehemently oppose. However, doing so when we don’t have all the information is not only foolish, but in some cases can lead to our destruction (cf. 2 Peter 3:16).