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NATURAL HEALING The belief is that all disease has the same underlying problem - toxicity. Whether you have arthritis or cancer, ME or heart disease, the root cause is the same but the resulting disease may differ according to each individual. When the body is experiencing an acute illness it is a warning sign, letting us know that it is overloaded with toxicity and is unable to clean itself through the normal routes of elimination. The resulting illness allows the body to discharge the waste through, for example; the skin as with eczema or the mucous membranes as with a cold. When the body is demonstrating symptoms that would imply a chronic illness, again, toxic overload will be the cause. However not only will the routes of elimination will be congested but the body no longer has the vitality to manifest an acute clearing. Consequently the toxicity is stored elsewhere and manifests as, for example, diabetes or high blood pressure The orthodox method of treating disease is to suppress it with drugs and or lifestyle. The Naturopathic approach is quite different. In an acute illness the body is encouraged to heal itself through rest, diet and naturopathic techniques. In a chronic illness, similarly, the illness is treated in a gentle way through diet and techniques that aim to bring the body's vitality up to a healthy enough state to enable it to manifest an acute clearing in the form of an acute illness. What is toxicity? So what do we mean by toxicity and where does it come from? Toxicity is a way of describing:- * Normal cellular and metabolic waste * Heavy metals and pollutants * Chemicals produced by the body under stress * The toxicity that arises from eating an acid forming diet |
