Neighborhood spas throughout the city offer steam baths, saunas and scrubs that remain virtually unchanged after import. The photo was from Lulur, a spa on North Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles that offers massages, therapies and cosmetic services. Many spas function as social centers where customers can find a corporal connection to their cultural ideals of beauty and health. Even as an outsider, visiting a spa provides a kind of cultural immersion. Not until vast groups of immigrants imported their practices did Middle America embrace the sauna, therapeutic massage and circulation-enhancing scrubs.

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The Reader View of Wikipedia. An enema , also known as a clyster , is an injection of fluid into the lower bowel by way of the rectum. In standard medicine, the most frequent uses of enemas are to relieve constipation and for bowel cleansing before a medical examination or procedure; [5] also, they are employed as a lower gastrointestinal series also called a barium enema , [6] to treat traveler's diarrhea, [7] as a vehicle for the administration of food, water or medicine, as a stimulant to the general system, as a local application and, more rarely, as a means of reducing temperature, [1] as treatment for encopresis , and as a form of rehydration therapy proctoclysis in patients for whom intravenous therapy is not applicable.