What is a Healing Response?

The first thing you should know about changing your diet (which includes using dietary supplements) is that when the diet improves you may experience what is known as a “healing crisis”. When the quality of the food coming into a body is of higher quality than the tissues that make up the body, the body begins to discard the lower grade materials to make room for the superior materials which it uses to make new and healthier cells.
A healing crisis happens only as the body is naturally cleansed through the use of correct body-building foods. It can be accelerated by fasting or semi-fasting. It happens only when the body has enough vitality to stand the shock. It is not life-threatening. It happens when a person feels the best and has lots of vitality and energy. It usually takes about 3 months of correct eating to bring about a healing crisis and lasts about 3 days, but it can be 3 hours, or, if you are recovering from a debilitating disease, it could be 3 months or 3 years. Sometimes when you eat correctly, the body picks off wastes a little at a time and no crisis is necessary.
When toxins are being more rapidly dumped into the system than they can be accommodated, a person may experience a number of symptoms which range from cold and flu symptoms such as headache, fever, and achiness, to skin rashes, bowel sluggishness or diarrhea, feelings of tiredness and weakness, disinclination to exercise, nervousness, irritability, negativity, depression, frequent urination or food cravings. Symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the condition of the organs involved in the elimination and the amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when the symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they end. People who have eaten better foods and have abused their bodies less with overeating will have reactions ranging from almost none or very mild to symptoms which may be uncomfortable or acute. Those who have poisoned themselves, with their habits will experience more severe symptoms, especially if their liver, kidneys, or other important eliminative organs have been damaged.
Welcome a healing crisis. Realize that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day because you are throwing off wastes that eventually would have brought pain, disease and suffering. Those who have the worst symptoms and follow through to their successful completion are avoiding some of the worst diseases which eventually would have developed had they continued careless eating habits.
So when you call your health counselor about an uncomfortable symptom you are having, don’t be too surprised if we say “Wonderful, you are having a healing response. The herbs are working!” Resting, drinking plenty of fresh water to carry off toxins, eating less food or eating cleansing foods and continuing the herbs (perhaps in a lesser dosage) to keep momentum going is generally the best advice for riding out a healing crisis.

Many have also had great success in helping to avoid a healing crisis by combining their herbal program, healthy eating with detox foot spa treatments. For more information just contact me.

Till next time,

Diane L. Toombs, CNHC
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The information in this article is for educational purposes only and is not meant for diagnosing or prescribing.