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10 April 2009

 

How To Treat Healing Crisis During Detox

 

Detox healing crisis is something you must know before deciding to have a detox. Detox is a process of removing toxins from your body, and this process will also cause a discomfort feeling inside your body, that we often call withdrawal symptoms or healing crisis. What are the symptoms? And how to reduce it? Continue on reading...
Healing crisis occurs when toxins stored inside your body are being released at a faster rate than what your body can eliminate it. Some of the symptoms are similar with the symptoms drug user used to have during the ‘cleaning process’, which include,
  1. Fever or cold symptoms
  2. Diarrhea or constipation
  3. Muscles cramp or joint pain
  4. Headache or migraine (usually on smokers or alcohol consumer)
  5. Nausea
  6. Extreme fatigue
  7. Sinus congestion
  8. Hives and rashes
  9. Strong emotional changes or mood swings
  10. Hunger
 
Those symptoms usually appear on the third day after you start your detox, and will normally last for 1-3 days. After several days you won’t feel the hunger anymore, although sometimes you might think about certain food.
During detoxification, your body metabolism rate will be decreasing, as well your body temperature, blood pressure, and airways. This is a natural process as a result of energy efficiency, as during detox your body will concentrate energy for toxins removal. This is the condition that cause healing crisis during detox.
 

How to treat healing crisis during detox

To reduce or avoid the discomforts of healing crisis period, you may have to change your lifestyle several weeks prior to the detox. These are several natural methods that you can try:
Drink plenty of fresh or distilled water (2-4 quarts per day) to flush toxins from your body and speed up the detox process. Alkaline water can also help your body to start releasing toxins.
For constipation, sprinkle organic flaxseed on top of a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
If you feel the healing crisis sumptoms during the detox, you can try these,
For emotional changes and mood swings, try to do meditation or EFT.
For extreme fatigue or sleepy, get what your body needs: some rest.
Flu-like symptoms are caused by congested lymph flow. Dry skin brushing and rebounding (on mini-trampoline) can help to stimulate blood and lymph flow and reduce the symptoms.
Remember, it is recommended to always consult a doctor before you have any detox program.
 
 
 

 

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