Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> I suppose that's also where the practice of
> high colonics comes from, too.

That's not where it came from. It came from
19th century medicine that was considered
respectable practice at that time -- John
Harvey Kellogg in particular popularized it
in the U.S.

But as it transitioned from conventional
medicine to quackery, it found refuge among
the ignorant, where it survives today.