Health question... fasting

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Hi Erinn,

Fasting allows the body to direct energy to healing rather than digestion. It

is particularly

helpful with skin issues because it opens up the primary channels of elimination

so the body doesn't

have to enlist the skin for that purpose. Skin eruptions of all kinds are a form

of elimination and

are very common during dietary transition. Most often they manifest as symptoms

the person has

experienced before (I had cold sores) but sometimes not because there are new

chemical unions being

formed as wastes that have been stored in various parts of the body converge in

the bloodstream on

their way out. Symptoms that have never been experienced before seem to cause

people more concern

but there is no cause for alarm either way. In people who are making

improvements to their diets,

they are not signs of anything bad. My father started making pretty significant

changes to his diet

about 6 months ago and he is currently complaining of exactly the same symptom

you mentioned.

 

To make a fully informed decision about whether to treat symptoms, one must

realize that doing so

will slow down healing. If skin symptoms are treated in any way that brings

quick relief, for

example, the body has only been forced to retain the toxins and wastes it was

trying to get rid of.

In situations where a remedy is deemed worth the sacrifice, the least toxic ones

should be explored

first. I got so tired of getting cold sores during my transition that

occasionally I would ice them

to keep them from fully developing. I put up with them as often as I could,

though, and I would not

have chosen to treat them with anything that would further toxify my body, like

herbs or

pharmaceuticals.

 

Best wishes,

Nora

www.RawSchool.com

 

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That's best for healing pretty much anything, right?