The Healing Crisis

Symptoms which are often mistaken for diseases, but which actually are the body’s attempts to restore itself, is the “healing crisis.” Many times, healing crises are mis-diagnosed as the action of a foreign agent on the body. The common cold is one of the best examples of this mechanism. When the system becomes full of waste, a cleansing mechanism stimulates the organs of elimination to clean house. The urine becomes cloudy or dark; the bowels move loosely; there is nausea; the lungs and sinuses excrete mucus; and the skin emits an offensive odor, along with rashes pimples; a fever might occur; there may be muscle spasms, headaches, flu-like symptoms or even nightmares. This is the healing crisis. The body is trying to eliminate some of the morbid matter that has accumulated over the years.

Why, then, do we frequently get colds after being exposed to severe weather or a stressful situation? This is because cleansing is a “reactive” mechanism, like adrenaline, which responds to danger by producing an instantaneous “flight or fight” response. Germs can be likened to maggots: both are parasites and both live in waste matter. Flies are around us all the time, just like germs, but they lay eggs only in decaying organic matter. An encumbered, overloaded body won’t work efficiently until the trash is removed. When the floodgates open, the “stuff” comes pouring out.

During the healing crisis, toxins are eliminated more rapidly than they can accumulate. This is true regardless of the source of the toxins, whether they are normal metabolic by-products, wastes from bacteria or parasites, or elements derived from food and the environment.

Where do herbs and minerals fit into all this? The body will always try to heal itself, but it occasionally encounters obstacles to that process. These obstacles may be a lowering of the vital energies. For example, a physical obstruction such as bowel impaction (constipation), cardiovascular plague, fatty liver and pancreas, mucus overload in the lung and sinuses, gingivitis in the mouth, plague beta amyloid deposits in the brain, mucucs and cataracts in the eyes, fungus in the womb, prostate hyperplasia, osteoclast of the bones, electromagnetic smog (cell phones, computers, light, etc), or a general burdening of the system.

We do not claim that herbs and minerals heal. Herbs and minerals can assist the body in overcoming these obstacles, so that the vital force of the body itself may support its own natural processes.