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What is a Healing Crisis?
A healing crisis is also known as the Herxheimer Reaction, which
occurs when the body is detoxifying too rapidly and toxins are being
released faster than the body can eliminate them. A healing crisis is in
effect when the body is in the process of elimination. Reactions may be
mild or they may be severe. One should expect this and work through it.
The body's inherent
desire is for perfect health. We have the ability to earn our way back to
that state.
The body must go
through an elimination process to achieve good health. There will be ups
and downs. One does not go immediately into good health. This elimination
process we call the "healing crisis."
A healing crisis is the
result of every body-system working in concert to eliminate waste products
and set the stage for regeneration. Old tissues are replaced with new. A
disease crisis, on the other hand, is not a natural one and works against
the body's natural processes.
A Disease
Crisis occurs:
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When the body is too full of mucus and clogged to the limit.
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When the immune system is stressed and enough germs are
multiplying.
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When body strength and vitality is lowest.
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In order to save the life. If clogging continues at the
rate it is going, the person would die because of injury to body
organs, poisons in the blood, pumped through the heart, crowding
vital organs, as in cancer, etc.
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May last several weeks.
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Sometimes when the body becomes extremely cold, causing the body
to squeeze like a sponge, starting an elimination process.
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Symptoms are identical
to the disease, because the names for diseases are simply groups of
symptoms listed under a common name. But there is an important
difference -- elimination. A cleansing, purifying process is underway and
stored wastes are in a free-flowing state. Sometimes discomfort during the
healing crisis is of greater intensity than when building the chronic
disease. This may explain why there may be a brief flare-up in one's
condition.
The crisis will usually
bring about past conditions in whatever order the body is capable of
handling at that time. People often forget the diseases or injuries they
have had in the past, but are usually reminded during the crisis.
A Healing
Crisis:
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Happens only as the body is naturally restored to normal
structure and function.
- Happens only
when the body has enough vitality to stand the shock.
- Happens when
a person feels the best.
- Usually takes
about three months of correct eating to bring about a healing
crisis.
- Only lasts
two or three days at most. No need to take
over-the-counter medications or help in any way
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Sometimes can be
lessened by correct eating, semi-fasting, etc., during which the body
picks off the waste a little at a time. Each time this occurs, the
body has more capacity to heal further, a kind of never-ending upward
spiral.
Herxheimer Reaction:
The Herxheimer Reaction
occurs when the body is detoxifying too rapidly and toxins are being
released faster than the body can eliminate them. When this occurs, one
will suffer from headaches, nausea, vomiting, and malaise. Even though
this is but a short period of the health program, it can be severe and
deter one from reaching their intended goals. Also, the person may not
know what they are experiencing and think that they are regressing.
To minimize the
Herxheimer Reaction:
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Drink lots of water, preferably filtered and/or reverse osmosis.
- Get minimal
exercise daily.
- Get lots of
sunshine.
- Take
detoxification slowly ... one step at a time.
- Don't
increase the dose of herbals.
- Keep the
organs of elimination (bowels, lungs, skin, kidneys) open.
- Take detox
baths.
- Use
aromatherapy oils for aches - like peppermint, birch and
wintergreen.
- Sweat by
using exercise, saunas, baths and herbs.
- Avoid foreign
chemical and refined processed foods.
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If the Herxheimer
reaction occurs, cut back on your health detoxification program. Reduce
the dose of herbs and follow the above outline to reduce the symptoms of
toxin elimination. The more toxins there are to eliminate, the sicker one
is when they come out. Generally, one will feel better when all is over
and health is restored again. Just remember, don’t give up.
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