Homeopathic Detoxification

 

 

 

In our world today, we are faced with many health challenges, not only with diseases - acute and chronic but with a slow intoxification of our bodies with internally and externally produced harmful chemicals, including bacterial toxins.  A slow, almost unavoidable poisoning of our food, water, the air we breath, EMF from computers, T.V., phones, power lines and medications...

What Are Toxins?

Toxins are a general term given to accumulated waste products. These can generally be divided into three distinct groups:

1. Exogenous wastes: such as those ingested (chemical wastes derived from foods or drug therapy etc) or inhaled.

2. Endogenous wastes:  such as those produced by bacteria, viruses or the body’s reaction to them (pus, etc) or those produced by normal metabolism.

3. Autogenous wastes: these relate to an individual’s genetic potential for generating particular kinds of wastes that have an affinity for particular varieties of tissue, such as can be seen in situations like arthritis.

 

Many if not most disease processes occur either as a direct result of, or are aggravated by accumulated wastes, which may have been processed by the body in an inappropriate manner. Commonly accepted examples of gross toxicity can be found in the liver in persons suffering from jaundice, and in the gastrointestinal tract with constipation. More subtle toxin accumulation can reduce the efficiency of a vast array of physiological activities by altering intracellular and extracellular pH and disturbing the functions of numerous enzymatic and other reactions. Acute symptoms such as fevers and inflammation may be seen as attempts to rid the body of toxic materials. Chronic diseases such as the arthritis and many skin conditions, may reflect a self-generated or inherited inability to remove wastes from the affected area, and often the autogenous wastes that these processes create can contribute to and prolong the disease.

Why Should Homeopathy Be Considered?

Carefully selected homeopathic medicines are particularly useful in cases where a blockage exists to the normal detoxification processes, or there appears to be an impediment to the normal flow of energy through the area in question. Homeopathy has distinct advantages over some other methods of detoxification:

• Homeopathic medicines contain only minute amounts of physical material, therefore do not constitute a metabolic load, and hence do not slow down detoxification by further congestion of the detoxification organs

 

• Homeopathic medicines, because they work on energetic rather than biochemical principles, are able to detoxify specific body systems without affecting unrelated physiological systems, resulting in reduced energy expenditure

 

• Specific organs, groups of toxins and specific toxins are able to be targeted with homeopathic medicines.

 

When Is Detoxification Necessary?

Any condition which is either chronic in its nature, or fails to respond to treatment within a reasonable period of time, should be subject to detoxification. A detoxification medicine would be wasted for example on an acute inflammatory process. But if that inflammatory process became entrenched and failed to respond to remedial measures which would normally be expected to correct the problem, then there is a definite case for the use of a detoxification medicine.

Detoxification should also be considered (once the possibility for any serious pathology has been excluded) in cases where there is a chronic lack of energy, the person in question suffers from continual infections and is susceptible to almost every common disease trigger, multiple allergies, continual headaches or digestive disorders, or chronic skin or respiratory disorders.

Removing the toxins, or at least lowering their level and influence will assist the body to go back to a more far more healthy terrain which can be treated more easily with natural medicine.  

Modern Day Examples Of Toxins Found In Our Bodies

When looked for, all of these toxins can be found in our bodies:

Dioxin: cancers, brain damage, endometriosis

PCB: leukaemia and other cancers, heart problems

Pesticides and Insecticides: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Parkinson's Disease, bladder and colon cancer, other cancers, heart pathology

Phtalates (leaching form plastics): hormonal modifications

Styrene and Benzene: hepatitis, leukaemia, encephalopathy, paralysis, convulsions, arrhythmias, cancers, CFS

Toulene: nail deformity, menstrual disturbances, liver destruction, heamatological problems, heart attacks, depression, paraesthesia, neuropathis, CFS

Vinyl: cancer, birth defects, genetic damage, auto-immune diseases

Xenoestrogens (mainly phtalates): mimics oestrogens and causes early puberty, endometriosis and gynaecological cancers

Fluoride: behavioural changes, arthritis, bone cancers, heart, brain, kidney injuries and hormonal changes, thyroid dysfunction

Chlorine: increases cholesterol levels because of direct damage to vascular endothelium (cholesterol is used to patch the damaged wall); transformed into chloramines and chloroform when it comes into contact with proteins, becoming a carcinogen; tyhroid dysfunction

All The Heavy Metals: aluminium, arsenic, cadminum, lead, mercury and many others are often the 'undetected' and the cause of multiple diseases in each and every organ and function of the body