RE: Cleansing: Retracing [Cleansing? DEFINITELY!!] [s]

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:08 AM [Raw Food] Cleansing?

I have been about 95% raw for the past 3 to 4 weeks and have been feeling

great

(more energy, better digestion, clearer skin, losing weight, etc.) However,

the past

few days I have been feeling a lot of cold/flu-like symptoms but not as

aggresive

(upper respiratory problems, coughing, sinusitis, sore throat, loss of

appetite, etc.) I

have been resisting the urge to medicate since medications usually make me

feel out

of it without reliveing symptoms. I have been using a neti pot, gargling

with apple

cider vineagar, resting, and taking some herbs from my acupuncturist. From

what

I've read, this may be my bodie's first " healing crisis " or " major

cleansing. " From you

veteran raw-foodist out there is this normal? I have been slowing getting

better. My

body doesn't want to eat, so I was just thinking of doing a fresh juice fast

for the next

day and half to move things along. Any advice would be great.

 

Thanks.

Kimberlie

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Hi Kimberlie,

You have hit the proverbial nail on the head.

 

It is my great pleasure, and without further adoo, to introduce to the group

the concept of retracing. I believe this concept first appears on the

earliest homeopathic literature, early 1700s. And it's very simply: during

cleansing, repair, and restoration activities, the body often needs to

recreate old symptoms in order to complete them. In the past, every time you

experienced such symptoms, you likely followed your present temptation --

you medicated. You shot the messenger!!! And you interrupted and destroyed

your body's own brilliant attempts at keeping you alive and healthy.

 

The symptoms are never the problem, they are always the solution!!! The

symptoms are a direct manifestation of your body's own, brilliant, natural

cleansing and self-healing activities in operation. The symptoms are the

messenger -- they announce to your conscious mind what the body needs now,

if you only you will listen, and allow your body to complete its work.

 

So if you feel tired, lie down. If you feel thirsty, drink WATER, in sips as

you feel thirsty. If you do not feel hungry, don't eat for a bit, your

hunger will return quite naturally when your body is ready to shift its

energy and resources back to processing food again. And STOP ALL MEDICATING,

including the vinegar, the herbs, etc. Just TRUST Nature's design, perhaps

for the first time you your life. Appreciate these symptoms and allow them

to run their course, and you will be forever free from whatever is presently

being cleaned up.

 

Vinegar is a polite marketing name for acetic acid, in a 5% solution. And in

that solution, the government allows companies to call it " food. " Never was,

never will be food. It's just acetic acid, plain and simple. And don't let

flavorings fool you (balsamic, cider, or whatever), a rose by any other name

is still a rose.

 

The human body is an acid-producing, alkaline-seeking machine. Virtually

EVERYTHING we do -- physical activity, heart pumping, thinking, processing

feelings, etc. produces acid byproducts. This is the nature of our

biochemistry. And cleansing is the body's action, in a sense, to eliminate

excess buildup of acidic toxins. So the LAST thing we need is to pour acid

into the body.

 

As for the herbs, ALL herbs are toxic, and this is well-known among those

who actually have studied the chemical composition of herbs. They are not

medicine, there is no medicine to be had. You cannot reduce the level of

toxicity in your body by adding toxins to your body. So again, lie down,

drink as you are thirsty, sleep, and just be bored for a bit. And these

symptoms WILL pass, only perhaps now for the last time.

 

Best,

Elchanan

 

 

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