If you’ve ever had the pleasure of a “cleanse” you’ve probably had, at least in part, began a healing crisis, a hitting of the wall sort of speak. This is when the reversal process of cleansing and healthier food and lifestyle choices are put into motion and at first, there is the opposite effect than what would normally be expected.

As people build poor health and disease through the acute, subacute, chronic and degenerative stages, we reverse and correct these conditions as we go back over our past problems - as we detoxify the body. As you have build up conditions in the body through foods, pollution, overwork, lifestyle, etc., we have to learn our lesson and go back over them and relive them, so to speak. You can expect all these problems to return as you get well. If you truly want to get well, this process must be followed and not avoided.

Sometimes referred to as “Hering’s Law of Cure”, the body eliminates iatrogenic symptoms and disease, those things caused by treatments that were suppressing the health problems and usually involved a drug of some sort. Latent settlements of foreign accumulations leave the body mainly through the bowel as liquefied form of mucus or catarrh.

There have been many adherents to Dr. Jensen’s cleansing programs that found their bodies eliminating odd materials from every orifice since latent tumors or abscess were suppressed previously. Discharge from lungs, bronchials, head, ears and nose for years, and of course, always suppressed by some sort of drug or refined food.

It must be observed that if you suppress or do not allow a discharge to continue until you are clean inside, you will develop a growth in the forms of tumors, cysts, balloonings, etc.

In addition to internal tissue cleansing treatments, we could add skin brushing. Skin brushing with a natural bristle brush with a long handle is not expensive but can achieve what no soap and water bath can do. You make new skin every 24 hours on the body so the skin will be as clean as the blood is.

Skin brushing removes the top layer of epidermis, helping to eliminate uric acid crystals, catarrh, and various other acids in the body. The skin should eliminate two pounds of waste acids daily so keep the skin active.

Skin brushing is most beneficial first thing in the morning when you arise before putting clothes on and before any bath. Use it in any direction all over the whole body except the face. You can use a special face brush for that purpose if you choose to.