Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Water, a Healing Tool

glass-of-waterSimply stated Hydrotherapy is using water in a therapeutic way.  The power of any healing remedy is enhanced with the use of hydrotherapy.

It is important to flush the body internally with plenty of clear fresh water.  Drinking the nutritionally rich juices aid in rebuilding a sick body but they do not do the work of flushing waste from the system.  Drinking a good amount of water each day is as important to the health of the body as breathing clean air or eating healthy nourishing foods.

Using water externally to cleanse and open our skin is also an important part of healing.  Taking a detoxing herbal bath can revitalize the entire system simulating the removal of waste through the skin as well as the liver and kidneys.

Anytime there is disease or injury there is blockage.  A strong therapeutic form of hydrotherapy is commonly called doing “Hot’s and Cold’s”.  Alternating the hot and cold water over an affected area will effectively blast through blockage, allowing the body to flood the diseased or injured part with fresh nutrient rich blood.  It does no good taking in all the great healing herbs and juices if the nutrition is blocked form the injured or diseased areas of the body.

Consider you want to fire a blood bullet through to blockage around a diseased or injured area.  The Hot water loads the gun.  Use water as hot as can be tolerated.  Do not scald your skin.  Turn the water as hot as you can tolerate without injury.  With your hand wand concentrate the heat over the affected area until the skin is pink with fresh blood.  When heat is applied to the body the blood in pushed to the surface to cool the area. Fresh cooling blood in brought to the area.

NeckPainNow it is time to fire the blood bullet as deeply as possible through the blockage and into the affected area. The more dramatic the change between hot and cold the more power behind the blood forcing it deeper into the blocked up areas. This can be done in one of two ways.

1) Turn the flow of water away from the body.  Now make the water completely cold.  IT will take a few seconds for the flow to change to cold.  As soon as the water is good and cold apply the flow back over the affected area.  Allow the flow to remain for a good 60 seconds before changing back to the hot.  Do at least seven “hots” and seven “colds”.

2) Before beginning fill a bucket or tub with ice and water.   After the affected area is well heated and filled with blood plunge the area into the ice water for a good 60 seconds. Do at least seven “hots” and seven “colds”.

When healing any major disease or injury the “Hots &Colds” should be done three times a day.  Failing to do the hydrotherapy often means the body does not have the ability to heal properly or clear the disease.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Bad Food = Clogged Lymphatic System

junk-food_0Maintaining a healthy body does not happen by accident.  The choices we make today will determine our quality of life tomorrow.  Continuing to fuel your body with cheap unhealthy food may not seem like a big deal when the body is young and full of vitality.   Consuming this type of food on into middle age will cause the body’s systems to weaken from malnutrition.   Early signs of aging begin to appear alongside any number of serious chronic conditions.    The body is starving for food with a stomach full of empty calories.

One of the issues that can appear is swollen enlarged lymph glands.   The more toxic the poisons and mucus materials taken into the system, the more often the glands accumulate this bad waste from the lymph system and we have glandular swellings over various parts of the body.

An impure blood stream, constipation and a generally toxic body condition cause the glands to swell up and become painful. These may be on the neck, under the armpits, groin, etc.

The first step in clearing the lymph system is to CLEAN UP THE FOOD PROGRAM.  Consume only the highest quality food from the best sources.

80-20mealNext, GET THE ELIMINATION ORGANS OPEN and working well.  Bowel Cleansing, Liver Flushing, Kidney Flushing.

Use the best Herbal Supports and healing programs for clearing the Lymphatic System.

Bowel Cleansing, Liver Flushing, Kidney flushing, The Best Herbs for the lymph are: Poke Root, Parsley Leaves, Mullein leaves.

Poke Root is a powerful lymph cleansing herb and must be used in small doses only.  10 drops is a large dose.  When using start with 1 or 2 drops of the extract in an 8 ounce glass of water.   Poke Root can cause uncontrolled vomiting when over used.  Poke is a powerful herb and should be used with respect.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, Infection, Colds & Flu

E.L.F. Support Clears Infection

My Brother, Fenton Mason

This week I had another chance to see first-hand the power of liver flushing.  My brother, in California, had become seriously ill with an infection.  He had failed to take care of an issue when it was small then an untimely accident escalated his condition to a serious level.  He was making no headway even while doing the infection formulas every hour.

Thursday night we spoke by phone while he drank his first liver flush.  He had never flushed his liver before and could not understand my insistence.  Spasms were ripping up his legs, while we were on the phone together.  These were controlled quickly with Lobelia and our M&L Salve.

Friday morning after his bowels moved his symptoms were 70% better.  He has continued liver flushing one ELF (Emergency Liver Flush) each night while using the herbal infection program every hour. Today is day 4 of his 5 day intensive program; he appears to be symptom free.

The herbals are able to do a powerful work in any uncongested body.  Remember; Flushing the liver often and well when clearing any serious issue is not an option.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Detoxing your life

barefeetSomeone once asked me what do I mean when I say “deal with the past”? What does it look like to process a painful childhood or history of abuse?  Choosing to deal with painful past abuses is doubtless one of the most heart rending experiences life has to offer.   That said, there is no greater reward than that of owning your whole story, wrapping your emotional arms around the brokenness that was your life, knowing you are more for having passed that way.

For me the process was accomplished while writing my story.  Emotionally combing through my past with the mind and maturity of a loving adult enabled me to see the truth of my childhood.  Retracing my past one memory at a time, viewing each player in this production that is my life I am now able to discern where my responsibility ends and the culpability of others begins.

Emotional damage occurs when lies believed break the cycle of love and trust growing in the heart. A child with no life history will accept as truth the lies about life and living embedded within the abuse they daily experience.   For this child evil is a daily companion; healing, loving truth does not exist.

How do we discover what has never been known?  Where to begin?  No one looks for emotional healing until they realize the brokenness within themselves.  The questions arise when they find themselves living a life filled with emotional pain, failed relationships, ect…  They meet happy people who seem to have it all together.  The questions begin to form; Why not me too?

This is where a good counselor can be very helpful.  They will provide a safe caring environment where you can get the answer to the questions you are just now ready to ask.  An emotionally healthy friend or counselor will also be a living example for the observant.

The time has come to question everything. Start anywhere you like, with whatever is on your heart.  Open the emotional closet, pull all the memories out into the light of day and take a good look.  What beliefs about yourself, life, or others have been accepted as truth?   Are these accepted beliefs accurate?  Don’t try to justify the past or rewrite it for the benefit of your listener.  Let it be just what it was, trust me, it will be okay.  The absolute worst episode you are holding in the very deepest, darkest, part of you, when brought to the light will lose its sting.

Truth & Trust are key to healing.  Where lies break the circle of love and trust, truth restores this circle.  Truth Restored brings love and trust in its wake.  Be a follower of the truth regardless where it may lead.  From a distance this road may look dark and uninviting.   Don’t’ be deceived; throw open the door of your soul allowing God’s healing light to flood your entire being.  His desire is to transform your biggest hurt into your greatest blessings.

Cleansing & Flushing, Food & Nutrition, Herbal Healing

Cleansing Food Programs

30 Day

Last week we began a discussion on Food.  Let’s dig a bit deeper by addressing the various food programs combined with good detoxing routines. There is no magic here; the various ways available for detoxing the liver are all aimed at supporting the liver in the function of clearing waste from the body. We can all understand the value of emptying the vacuum cleaner’s bag when full, if left unemptied the machine becomes useless.  Opening the channels so waste can flow from the body’s vacuum cleaner enables better function of the liver which includes better utilization of all the good nutrients taken in.

With this understanding in place establishing an acceptable detoxing program is vital.  A beginner at detoxing the body will do well to begin slowly.  Coming at a body that has never experienced the “joys” of a good detox can create a degree of discomfort.  The preparation before and during the detox will make all the difference in how well the procedure is tolerated.

Once the bowels are opened and the Foundational Programs have been established a good first time Liver Detox could go like this:

  • Do one Mild Liver Flush each morning for five days while consuming a Raw Food Program.
  • Follow with a Five Day Kidney Flush while continuing a Raw Food Program.
  • Drink one or two glasses of Fresh Juice each day.

The above program is a mild way to begin any cleansing journey.  Anyone fearing the discomfort often associated with a good detox would do well to begin here.

Stepping up to a deeper level of cleansing during the second week of liver flushing might look like this:

  • Do Two to Three Mild Liver Flushes each day while consuming a Raw Food Program
  • Follow with a Five Day Kidney Flush while Continuing a Raw Food Program
  • Drink Three or Four glasses of Fresh Juice each Day.

The amount of food desired during the day often decreases with the increase of juices and flushes.  If desired replace the meal with Superfood mixed in Fresh Juice.

The body is now ready to really get down to the business of clearing out the old while rebuilding for a better tomorrow.  After following the above suggestions a body can step securely into a strong liver detox program.  Here is what a strong week of detoxing might look like.

  • Three Liver Flushes each day while enjoying a revitalizing week of Juice Fasting.
  • On day five replace the three daily flushes with an L.F. in the evening.
  • Follow with a Five Day Kidney Flush while eating a Raw Food Program

For those who want to increase their detoxing experience beyond even this intense program, The E.L.F. can replace the daily liver flush drinks for one, two or for the entire Five Days during the liver flushing program.

Cleansing & Flushing, Getting Started, Herbal Healing

Healing Basics: The Cleansing Crisis

treat-cancer240x240Most Natural Practitioners warn their patients that it is normal to feel a bit under the weather during the first few days of any good detox program.  Detoxing the body does not have to be problematic if handled correctly.  A basic understanding of the cleansing process will prevent or quickly end any toxic issues.

What is a Cleansing Crisis?

A cleansing crisis will occur anytime the immune system is unable to properly deal with the toxins ready for elimination.  A Cleansing Crisis can leave you feeling like you have been run over by a Mac Truck.  The body can feel achy from head to toe, congested, nauseated, very much like the flu.

These symptoms let us know the immune system needs some support. Internally the body has been using the alkaline foods and herbs consumed to clear waste from the tissues and organs.  This waste must now be moved up and out, where it will need to be neutralized by the immune cells.  Once the immune system has done its job the liver and kidneys can filter the waste for elimination from the body.

Toxins the immune cells are unable to neutralize will not be released into the blood.  This waste will be reabsorbed back into the tissue or organ.  Our internal body chemistry functions in an alkaline environment. Our blood must maintain a pH of 7.4. If it drops below that to 7.2 we die.

The cells of the body in health are alkaline. In disease the cell pH is below 7.0. The more acid the cells become, the sicker we are and feel.  Reabsorbing of the toxic “die-off” created during the cleansing process causes the body to feel toxic.

Prevention is the answer: Before beginning any cleansing program make it a habit to boost your immune system.  Echinacea is the most effective immune stimulator in nature.  Echinacea works by sending a chemical command to the immune system to produce more immune cells.  With ample immune cells to deal with the detoxing waste the body will not feel any effects from the cleansing process.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Incurables FAQ

questions

What is the Incurables Program? When should someone do this intense cleansing program?

The level and intensity of cleansing will be determined by the work you need to do.  It is important when possible to build up to the intense flushing programs.  Begin with the basic bowel cleanse for a week followed by two weeks of raw food while doing your first liver and kidney flushes.  The next step might be a five day juice fast and liver flush.  This powerful week of cleansing can clear many of those “knock’s and pings” accepted as a part of aging.

We all have issues in our bodies that bother us from time to time.  That dull ache on the right side just under the rib cage.  It comes and goes never too much of a bother.  Nightly leg cramps… just stuff we have come to accept as a part of life.  Everyone has headaches, right? Take a couple of aspirin to dull the pain.  These discomforts all occur because of blockage, a buildup of toxic waste in the body creating blockage.  Cleansing the body will clear out the cause for these little discomforts before they become something serious.

Full Strength Program

When you know there is a serious condition in your body it is time to do the full incurables program. The time has come to get those bowels opened, pull out that juicer and begin rebuilding your body with nutrient rich Juices.  While building with nutrition it is important to begin cleansing the bowels, liver, and kidneys.  Cleanse & Feed, this is how we assist the body in regaining a healthy state.

Keeping your liver actively pulling and dumping waste is key to removing any major disease.  This is done by flushing the liver repeatedly.  The intense program looks like this, castor Oil Packs over the liver every night, liver flushing every other week in addition to doing an ELF three nights a week during both the liver and kidney flushing schedules.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing

Clearing Out the Junk

Copy of CarrotJuiceToday is day four of my juice fast.  Yes, I decided to do it again this week.  I always feel so much better after a few days off food.  It is lunch time here at HEAL and Connie has cooked up a great smelling meal.  I enjoy the smell while reminding myself that food will still be there when I am ready to eat again. Last night I did an ELF (Big Liver Flush) instead of going to prayer meeting.  I am thinking of doing another one tonight.

One of the first questions I am asked when anyone finds out I have gone four days without eating food is: “How can you do that, I would be starving?”  The hunger is never an issue.  I know I am getting a huge amount of nutrition in the fresh juices.  I do get a desire to chew and swallow at times.  I choose not to dwell on this and it goes away quickly.

The serious hunger issues some people experience when not chewing and swallowing is emotional.  You are not starving; your body is being nourished by the juices.  The emotional need to chew something can be overpowering for those who have never done a fast of any kind.  I would suggest starting with a one day juice fast.

The quickest way off a fast of any kind is to allow yourself to get too hungry.  First timers might want to keep a juice in hand constantly to sip on.  Stay hydrated.  Drink 32 ounces of water first thing in the morning and again in the early afternoon.  This will flush the waste your system is dumping from your body.  Add a little lemon juice or apple cider vinegar to the water for an even better result.

Do not gulp anything.  Drink every glass of liquid slowly, swishing each mouth full around before swallowing. This allows the digestive juices in your mouth to mix with the nutrition.  The juices & water will be better utilized when ingested this way.

The benefits of juice fasting out weight by far the discomfort associated with not eating.  The mind becomes clearer.  The backed up congestion in the system is cleared. This alone would be worth the trouble as it eliminates many little nagging issues around the body.

No I don’t know how long I will continue.  I do plan to eat raw over the weekend.  Come Monday morning I’ll decide if I want to juice fast for another week.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Hydro-therapy / Castor Oil Packs

coldsheet garlic injectionThe Water Therapy Programs

High Enemas:

You must use a high enema every other day with an implant afterwards. Use only distilled water for the high enema.

A soothing Implant can be eight ounces of Aloe Vera gel and 8 oz of distilled water.

A good detoxifying Implant can be two ounces of wheat grass juice with 16 ounces of water.

An Implant that is anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal is: 1-2 cloves of garlic blended into eight ounces of raw apple cider vinegar and eight ounces of distilled water.  The garlic implant is an excellent healing aid but it can be very intense.

Any of the healing herbs and foods available can be used as implants, use your imagination: An excellent blood-cleansing tea implant is red clover, or use Echinacea root tea for its immune-enhancing abilities

H&C 2smHot and Cold Showers:

This is the most effective way to move the blood and create circulation.  This should be done at least twice daily, and for some people, up to four times a day.  Do the complete hot and cold shower. Start with hot water for one minute, then cold for one minute. Repeat this seven times, so the shower should last about fifteen minutes.

Apply the hot and cold changes directly to the affected area, such as the breast, or the head, or the genitals.  Massage the area vigorously while you do the hot and cold showers.

Castor oil packs nightly are critical. There’s no excuse for skipping them.

castroil-itemsEvery evening, do a castor oil pack over the affected area and leave on all night long. You can do multiple castor oil packs over different parts of the body. They can be kept warm with a hot water bottle. Soak a minimum one-foot square piece of flannel. Heat the castor oil pack before you put it on.

Don’t be stingy with the size of the castor oil pack, or with the amount of oil you put on it. It is better to cover more of the area of your body than less. If you use more, you’re cleansing the nearby areas which are probably infected or congested also.

Go to your local fabric store and get some cotton muslin that’s used for making baby diapers. Buy a good amount and cut it up as needed.”

Here are a few suggestions for making thicker pads.

If you want a thicker pad buy heavier weight cotton and put it on, and kind of sandwich itCastor OIl pack in-between two pieces of the cotton muslin. This makes a really nice, thick pack.  If you have the time you can sew multiple layers of Cotton Muslin together with cotton batting inside.  Buy some good cotton batting or cotton felt, and put it inside, one layer of cotton batting and one of muslin on each side and stitch together around the edges.  This will hold a lot of castor oil.  Using more castor oil available over the affected area will allow the effect to go deeper and be more effective.

Cover the pack with plastic to keep it from soaking into your blankets and sheets–which may get stained anyway.  Cover the castor oil pack with plastic wrap, and then put on a thick, terry cloth robe.  To protect your sheets and mattress use the blue bed liners.

Baking soda, in addition to soap, is helpful in getting the oil off the skin in the morning. The baking soda seems to soak up the oil.

When the pack becomes stained with colors from drawing out toxins it is time to throw it away and replace it with a fresh pack.  It is not necessary to refrigerate the castor oil pack during the day.

A full body pack can be done by soaking a sleeping bag in castor oil and sleeping in it. If you plan to do this you will need to purchase a large amount of plastic sheeting to lay the bag on.

Be careful with castor oil, because it can spoil all your bedding and furniture. Use huge plastic garbage bags laid out flat underneath the the sheets. When I do a castor oil compress on my head, I cover the whole pillow, and the headboard of the bed, with plastic. When doing castor oil packs, use underwear and T-shirts that you keep separate from your regular underwear. Castor oil can leak into your undergarments, and you will never really get all of it out.

The Cold Sheet Routine Must Be Done if you want to get well.

The cold sheet treatment, also known as the artificial fever routine must be a part of any healing program. Do the cold sheet treatment once or twice a week.  You will become more comfortable with this procedure by the second or third time around.  Complete detailed instructions are available on-line in our Hydrotherapy E-book.

Do NOT skip the cold sheet routine and do everything else.

There is NO herb or physical exercise that substitutes for this treatment. If you wimp out, your body loses.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

The Importance of Bowel Cleansing

The Importance of bowel cleansing can never be over stated.  Sadly we humans like to believe we are just about normal.  Many have no idea how sluggish their bowels actually are.  It is impossible to live the experience of another.  We can observe from inches away.  Support them with loads of heart felt compassion and physical care, but at the end of the day that is not our life.  The pain or joy we have been privy to belongs to someone else.

Bowel Cleansing Program
Bowel Cleansing
Bowel Issues

One of the most personal functions in life is the elimination of waste from our bodies.  This is something we seldom share with anyone.  The isolation alone precludes the ability of judging how the body is functioning.    The best information I’ve read on the subject of what normal bowel function looks like is: The Bowels are functioning normally when there is a large bowel movement shortly after rising in the morning, and an addition movement after each major meal.  This would be an average of 3 to 5 movement a day depending on how many meals you eat.  The texture of the movement should be slightly formed and the consistence of peanut butter.

Preventing hard fecal matter from forming in the bowel is the first step in preventing hemorrhoids. Pushing hard fecal matter through the soft tissue of the rectum is what causes hemorrhoids.  The hard material breaks down the tissue until the veins begin floating to the surface causing much discomfort.