Understanding Detoxification

This month I want to discuss detoxification, and how there are many things working together creating your symptoms.

In allopathic medicine when you have an infection you are given an antibiotic and within a day you start feeling better.  If you have a headache you take a pain reliever, can’t sleep you take a sleeping pill, if depressed you take an antidepressant. You learn over your lifetime that when you have a symptom you take medicine and feel better soon.  But think about that, if it’s something more severe, lets say hypertension and you can take a pill to relieve your symptom. But you have to keep taking the prescription to manage the symptoms.  So you are not clearing the underlying cause…  You are reducing your symptom just like the headache with aspirin but without determining the underlying cause. How long do you think it will be before you have another symptom of the underlying cause pop out and you need to increase your dosage or worse add another medication?

Imagine how the average person, that doesn’t know much about alternative medicine, and they decide they are tired of the three medications they have been taking and want to “give this holistic thing a try”.  Their past medical experience says you have a symptom, the doctor prescribes a medicine and you feel better soon.

An alternative practitioner will begin by making sure the organs of elimination are clear enough to begin a detoxification (imagine a clogged pipe) and if not, start the client clearing the congestion from “the pipes”.  Key detoxification organs are the kidneys, liver and intestines but the lymphatic system is also key as it is responsible for moving the toxins through the body and  to the elimination organs.  Many people new to alternative medicine are very congested due to a lifetime of poor food choices, medication residues, environmental toxins, poor digestion creating rotting and fermenting in the gut, lack of adequate hydration, lack of quality sleep, lack of exercise, and massive stress.  Now…imagine what happens when folks with all this congestion starts taking an herbal cleanser to clear the congestion from “the pipes”? Here comes a lifetime of sludge, they feel their energy drop a bit, maybe a low grade headache, some diarrhea, low grade nausea, and it lasts for a little bit. But unlike traditional medicine you don’t feel better right away – you have to ride through the toxins clearing your body.  Many people are quite confused that they don’t start seeing the symptom going away immediately.

Once the organs of elimination are open, then you start digging for the underlying cause.  Are your symptoms caused by an underlying infection?  What allowed that infection to take hold in your body? That question MUST be answered for you to gain resolution of your symptoms.  This is the question that can take some serious time to answer.  If it’s a mechanical problem you are having once again all weakened areas must be located and treated for complete resolution of the symptom.  The underlying cause, or causes, can be a tooth infection or multiple tooth infections, physical interference fields (a huge cause of symptoms), food intolerance, nutritional deficit or emotional interference fields.  Interference fields are a topic in and of themselves, and for more in-depth information please read my blog “What may be the most overlooked cause of symptoms in the body?” Emotional interference fields have probably the most potent cause behind major symptoms, and many clients are quite shocked at how much impact suppressed anger, trauma, and suffering has on their symptoms.

So we start out thinking the alternative practitioner will simply give you a pill and soon the symptom will be clear… Yet to dig through layers of injury in many different forms and to finally allow the body to come back into balance and resolve symptoms takes time.

I hope this helps people understand the answers they are seeking may have complex underlying causes and all of those levels need to be addressed.  All of us here at The Reference Point are honored to help you successfully navigate your healing.  Please consider a free consultation with us for yourself or a loved one.  Join us for our free monthly lectures and learn how to regain your health and vitality…and make new friends!!!