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Detoxification
Removal of internal toxins and metabolic waste material, all of which build up in the body over time, is a key concept to restoring health in any disease, and a cornerstone of alternative treatment centers. The body must constantly devote enormous energy and resources protecting itself against the effects of internal toxins and waste products - resources far better spent fighting cancer!
Pesticides sprayed on your food
Lead and chlorine in your drinking water
Hormones and antibiotics that get pumped in to the food you eat
Industrial and automobile pollution that fills the air you breathe
Supermarket processed foods that are very difficult for your body to break down and digest completely
Chemicals in the soaps, lotions, and other personal products you use daily
Alternative clinics and hospitals drain the lymph system using massage therapy and herbs. Chelation therapy (oral or intravenous) cleans out the arteries and blood and can remove toxic metals like mercury, cadmium and lead.
Patients are routinely urged to have all mercury amalgam dental fillings removed by a dentist trained in the special procedures for this, although this can be expensive. Mercury is a highly toxic substance. Its use in dentistry began in the mid 1800s when little was known about it's effects on the body. Hal Huggins DDS is a leading dentist in the USA today warning of the clear dangers of mercury amalgam dental fillings. See his excellent website at www.hugginsappliedhealing.com, and his book "It's all in your head". The removal of mercury fillings must also include chelation therapy for mercury accumulated in the body.
While on the subject of toxins, a small sample of hair from the head or pubic area can be tested to see if you have a concentration of certain toxic minerals in your body. This little-used diagnostic tool can also indicate a lack of important minerals like calcium, magnesium or copper. Or, toxic levels of minerals. See www.bodybalance.com for further information, or the website of Janet Hull PhD. http://www.hairanalysisprogram.com/
Finally, various preparations, mostly herbal, are used to clean out the major detoxifying organs, the liver, the lymph system and kidneys.
Triphala, If you have any digestive systems complaints or concerns, this is one product from India you must know about. In constant use for over 2,000 years, Triphala is one of the most revered products in the Eastern Ayurvedic system of health care. Besides managing, healing, cleaning and toning the entire digestive tract, this amazing product, a blend of three little known fruits now in capsule form, offers a host of other benefits for the body too numerous to mention here. And it's inexpensive. Thanks to the Internet, the world is now learning about this priceless gift to humanity.
Digestive system cleansing, through water therapy or other means, is essential. Coffee enemas were used by one of alternative cancer therapy's pioneers, Max Gerson, to clean the large intestine. He successfully treated cancer without drugs or surgery decades ago. Coffee enemas, although sounding bizarre, continue to increase in popularity today. In fact one website offers a special coffee suitable for this procedure, see www.sawilsons.com. Note that this type of coffee is not for drinking. Coffee encourages the lower bowel and the liver to expel toxins. So far as the small intestine, just as important as the large of course, here is a good write up on a special product called "Okra-Pepsin-E3" made by Standard Process, Inc. It can remove the mucus coating along the lining of the small intestine which develops in us over the years preventing the absorption of vital nutrients from food. This is a much overlooked point in health care in general.
The body must constantly devote precious energy and resources to protecting itself against the effects of internal toxins and waste products - resources far better spent avoiding and fighting cancer! (See the first chapter for more info.) Here's a good website with a ton of information on cleansing: http://curezone.com/
Consumption of plenty of water is also essential to flush out toxins. Chronic dehydration, many believe, is one of the most overlooked causes of disease today. Curiously, as we age the sensation of thirst lessens for many, despite an undersupply of water within.
Right along with colon and digestive system cleansing is parasite removal. More and more health practitioners are pointing to parasites in the body (in addition to lack of minerals) as a prime cause of most diseases today - not just cancer. Expect to hear a lot more about this 'uncomfortable' subject of parasites living in us as time goes by. Hulda Clark, in her many books, has much to say about this. (More on this remarkable woman, a true healing pioneer, later.) As disgusting an idea as it is, worms up to 20 feet long can live in our digestive systems without any symptoms being experienced. From that size parasites can vary down to microscopic, and be found anywhere in the body, even the eyes.
One of the best combination parasite removal and digestive systems cleansers today is offered by Natural Medicine Associates, 7375 Davie Road Extension, Hollywood, Florida. 33024 ph 800-408-1525. It is a result of years of experience with 20,000 patients.
Here's another excellent 30 day internal body cleansing system: Nature's Pure Body Program. ph 800-952-7873. Small microbial parasites can be removed with it but not the larger ones.
Although the above cleansing programs can of course be done at home on your own, working with an experienced professional is best. One source of holistic practitioners nationwide experienced in many of the above treatments is the American Holistic Health Association. You can usually find a practitioner near you from their website's database. www.AHHA.org. (To find additional detoxification specialists, see Chap. 6 below.)
Another source of finding alternative care practitioners is the print publication The Alternative Medicine Yellow Pages. It is a paper spin-off from the website www.alternativemedicine.com. Or, ph 800-435-1221 for more info. Also ph 206-952-1130.
An amazing amount of renewed energy, health and disease fighting power can be gained by detoxification procedures alone - including parasite removal.
There is no information in this entire publication more important than this.
In fact Sherry Rogers MD, author of ten books on the
importance of physical detoxification has this to say ...
"We are all a toxic cesspool of the lifetime accumulation of chemicals from our air, food, and water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency studies of chemicals stored in the fat of humans show that 100% of people had dioxins, PCBs, dichlorobenzene, and xylene while another analysis of the exhaled breath of humans showed carcinogenic benzene in 89% and perchloroethylene in 93%. And these chemicals are just the tip of the iceberg. For now we have the proof that it is the steady silent accumulation over a lifetime that produces most diseases, including cancer. But medicine merely sees every disease as a deficiency of some drug or surgery, or tells us there is no known cause or cure.
There is now no question that these accumulated toxins are behind nearly every disease, symptom, injury and malfunction of the body. But get ready for the greatest medical discovery of the decade. If we get these ubiquitously unavoidable toxic chemicals out of the body, we can reverse and even cure the most hopeless diseases."
(A description of her books can be found at www.prestigepublishing.com)