1. Drink only pure, alkaline water.
   First, you have to clean up the water you drink. Tap water is full of toxins. The chlorine kills the good bacteria. Drugs, hormones, chemical wastes are all found in tap water at increasing levels. Inorganic minerals are present, but not absorbable by the body. The fewer particles in the water you drink, the easier it is for the body to remove toxins from your cells. Distilled water is dead instead of living because of the heating process. Many bottled waters are simply someone else’s tap water. Also, drinking out of plastic bottles should be avoided because of the toxins from the plastic.
   
   The best water is produced by reverse osmosis by your own home system. The toxins in tap water are also damaging to your skin, one of the majr organs of toxin absorption. A total home reverse osmosis system is the healthiest for you, but we must also be considerate of the planet as a whole. It takes 3 gallons of regular water to produce 1 gallon of pure water. So that is a lot of water “down the drain”. If economically feasible, a person could put a small unit on showers and sinks, thus protecting the body, but allow toilets to run regular water.
   
   If your shower/tub is not reverse osmosis, be sure to limit your showers. One to two times per week, less than 5 minutes, and using soap only where absolutely necessary will reduce exposure to toxins and prevent the killing of the good bacteria on your skin.
   
2. Eliminate use of antiperspirants. 
   Antiperspirants contain aluminum. Aluminum is a heavy metal that is associated with neurological disorders and dementia. If you have body odor, it is evidence of the bad bacteria, yeasts living in and on the body, and an acidic environment. Use HMF and proper nutrition instead of masking the symptom.
   
3. Eliminate plastic utensils from your kitchen. 
   Do not store food in plastic. Do not buy meats wrapped in plastic. Do not drink from Styrofoam cups. Especially do not microwave in plastic. Eliminate microwaving all together because the food’s molecular structure is changed.
   
4. Avoid all conventional skin products and household cleansers. 
   Fibromyalgia, the marker disease of toxicity, is often characterized by certain behaviors. In the majority of cases, a lady with fibromyalgia has every skin product possible on her bathroom counter and is a “clean freak”, always scrubbing everything in the house with some type of cleaner. Avoid the room deodorizers that vaporize. The olfactory (smelling) nerves are a straight link to the brain.

The most common blockage to healing is scars. Scars can be visible or invisible. The only way to eliminate scars is by energetic medicine such as auricular or acupuncture. If you do everything possible to heal through the other steps and find yourself not healing, there is probably a scar-causing blockage.

Conventional medicine will often perform surgeries that are really unnecessary for problems that can be fixed using alternative methods. All surgeries can create a scar that will block healing. Therefore, the person concerned with maintaining optimal health should examine the reasons and need for surgery.

An emunctory is an organ that removes toxins. 

Primary emunctories:

1. Liver (most important)
2. Kidneys (second most important)
3. Intestines
4. Lungs

Secondary emunctories:

1. Skin
2. Mucous membranes

Cleansing is the removal of toxins naturally, using the body’s only cleansing mechanisms to remove the toxins. Detoxification is a term frequently used, but is different from cleansing. Detoxification forces the body to remove substances. Often more is removed than the body can tolerate. Often substances are removed in the process that the body needs. With detoxification there is often a “healing crisis” where the person feels tired or has other side effects to the detoxification process. Cleansing is a slower, almost unnoticeable process where healing crises are usually avoided. There can, however, be side effects to cleansing. However, if any of the side effects are processes of elimination such as skin rash, diarrhea, or phlegm production, do not suppress the elimination. It was probably a suppression of elimination that set up the chronic disease you are now trying to treat. To heal, the body must work backwards in time, and recreate the problems that were first experienced in the formation of the disease. 

Toxins are best removed by homeopathic remedies specific for the condition or person and are identified by the miasm, constitutional type, and temperament. This requires a practitioner with knowledge of terrain homeopathy.   In the US however, we have become so toxic that it might help to start with select herbals such as Ichol or Ichol Plus and Saw Palmetto Plus to effect a change before beginning homeopathics.

Restoring the enzyme systems requires good nutrition. However, with the commercial farming and poor eating practices of most Americans, there is a lot missing from our diet. To replace nutrients lacking in the standard diet, the concerned person can do the following:

1. Eat organic. 
   The best vegetables are grown on healthy soil without chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. Organic fruits and vegetables might not look as “pretty” as those commercially grown, but beauty is as beauty does. Organic fruits and vegetables might be exposed to insects and other threats. Threats cause them stress. Stress causes them to produce good eicosanoids. Good eicosanoids are needed in your body to fight stress. So eating fruits and vegetables with healthy signs of stress is actually more healthy for you than the bright, shiny, smooth-skined commercial foods that have never been stressed.
2. Eat home grown or small farm grown. 
   A lot of trace elements are missing from our diet. This is because commercial farms continue to use the same land over and over. Eventually the soil is depleted of trace elements usually found in the food.
3. Eat raw foods with every meal. 
   Raw foods contain enzymes to help with digestion. When all of your foods are cooked or processed, the pancreas must then make the enzymes necessary for digestion. Over the course of time, our pancreases have tripled in size to accommodate for the amounts of enzymes that have to be made to digest our food. If you eat raw foods, the enzymes are present in the food, and less enzymes have to be made. If you don’t eat something raw with a meal, then use Bioenzymes, Bromelain Papain+, or Digest Plus.
4. CHEW your food well and do not drink anything while eating. 
5. Eat fresh garlic as often as possible.  I
6. Include at least one serving of either steamed or raw greens a day.  This provides chlorophyll, a major heavy metal cleanser.  "A serving of greens per day keeps Alzheimer's
7. Add 1-2 tsp. of organic apple cider vinegar to 6-8 ounces of water and drink 15-30 minutes before each meal.
8. Daily bioavailable omega 3 fatty acids are available in flax, pumpkin, sesame and sunflower seeds.  Add one Tbsp of fresh ground organic flax, pumpkin, sesame or sunflower seeds to cereals, shakes, stir-fries, rice or anything else you are eating.  For men, pumpkin seeds add a second purpose in being natural cleansers of the prostate gland, and are highly recommended over the other seeds.     Or alternate with the seeds, as a supplement, using GLA 130 (evening primrose oil) or GLA 90 (black currant oil).  
9. PROBIOTICS – A strain of human acidophilus is an essential component to your regimen.  Use one of the HMF products daily, taken with meals after the apple cider vinegar coctail.  Store in the refrigerator or freezer.  Research is now suggesting that this should be continued for several years for best results.

Toxins in the body often block or damage the enzyme systems. Inadequate nutrition often causes deficiencies of trace elements needed for proper enzyme function. Based on the person’s constitutional type and disease process, specific trace elements or organ support formulas can repair the damage. This additional evaluation needs to be done by a trained homeopathic/naturopathic physician.

Dysbiosis is the presence in the body of the wrong parasites. This includes bacteria, yeasts and viruses. The real problem with dysbiosis is the environment that supports the parasites. That is why the environment must be corrected first. Then the correct organisms can live. The correct organisms are Lactobacillus acidophyllus and bifidus. The best replacement preparation is HMF, a human strain of these organisms, produced by Genestra. 

There are many products now being sold containing Lactobacillus. You can also buy Lactobacillus at many conventional stores. However, many of the products you might be buying are not very effective for the following reasons:

1. If you buy Lactobacillus off the shelf, it is probably dead. Lactobacilli are bacteria. At room temperature they will live their life span, and die. Generally sitting at room temperature will decrease the live bacteria in the product to a negligible amount by the time it is purchased. Solution: only buy refridgerated Lactobacillus.
2. Lactobacillus in yogurt is from cows. Cows produce lactobacillus in the milk for the calves. Veterinarians know that lactobacillus is species specific—that is, horse works in horse, dog works in dog, and cow works in cow. So why do we think cow will work in humans? Because this is alternative knowledge, and conventional doctors are not aware of the differences. Yes, there can be some benefit from the lactobacillus in yogurt if you eat it continuously. But it will not colonize in the humans to continue propagation on its own.
3. The amounts of lactobacillus in standard preparations are very small. Also, if produced in the USA, the claims on amounts do not have to be assayed and proven. Products made in Europe have to be tested, assayed, and true to their claims. HMF is measured in billions of organisms per dose, not the typical thousands.
4. To assist the HMF in colonizing the GI tract, you should also drink organic apple cider vinegar with each meal. Take 1 teaspoon in an 8 oz glass of reverse osmosis water and drink 15 minutes before each meal. This will also treat GERD. Patient experience has been generally the absence of GERD symptoms within the first month of treatment.
5. Remember that chlorine in tap water will kill the lactobacillus and other necessary good bacteria living in your GI tract.

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Qi is the vital energy which makes up the universe. Qi is also the vital energy in the body. When stress occurs, qi is expended. When the qi is not restored or when the stress is continuous, the person can become deficient. When there is a deficiency of qi, the immune system cannot be revitalized and disease is eminent. Regular qigong is essential to a healthy system. Energy, or qi, can flow from one person to another. Health professionals are often deficient in qi because their patients continuously rob them of their qi. If they do not actively do something to restore their qi, they can become more susceptible to disease processes such as fibromyalgia and other autoimmune disorders, as well as immune system disorders.

Different people restore their qi in different manners. For some, it is exercise. For others, sports. Or it could be reading, prayer, meditation, or simply rest. Actively opening your mind to the restoration of qi can speed healing.

Qigong, or the study of qi through mindful exercise, is a tremendous way to speed healing. Patients who have done daily qigong have healed from chronic diseases in one-third the time it would ordinarily take without doing qigong. Laying on of hands is a form of qigong where the energy from one person transfers to another, allowing that person’s immune system and healing processes to be buffered.

Principles of Healing

Stop contaminating the body,
Start eliminating the contamination
Go natural, not artificial

Antibiotic means “against life”—take it literally
Probiotic means “for life”

The body knows best—Listen to it

Restore your qi regularly

Get in touch with your spirit
Ego is the antithesis of spirit

Stress is the root of all disease
Treat disease at the first stage
--eliminate stress
--eliminate acid

Medical Disclaimer
The information presented here is not conventional thought. It is not meant to take the place of your regular physician. No experiments have been done to establish the validity of this treatment. Keep in mind, conventional treatment suppresses expression of toxicity. With the release of toxins, healing can produce some slightly undesirable reactions. Given the chance, the body will always work toward healing.