Cleansing Reactions
What to expect during dietary
cleansing
by Dr. Stanley S. Bass, ND.
DC. PHC
Page 5 of 5 < Back The symptoms will vary according to the materials being discarded, the condition of the organs involved in the elimination, and the amount of energy you have available. The more you rest and sleep when the symptoms are present, the milder they are and the more quickly they are terminated. Be happy you are having symptoms. REALIZE DEEPLY that your body is becoming younger and healthier every day, because you are throwing off more and more wastes that would eventually have brought pain, disease, and much suffering. Those who have the worst symptoms or reactions, and follow through to their successful termination, are thus avoiding some of the worst diseases that would eventually have developed had they continued their careless eating habits. Don’t expect to go on an ascending scale of quality; that improving your diet will make you feel better and better each day until you reach perfection. The body is cyclical in nature, and health returns in a series of gradually diminishing cycles. For example, you start a better diet, and for a while you feel much better. After some time, a symptom occurs—you may feel nauseous for a day and have diarrhea with a foul smelling stool. After a day, you feel better than ever before, and all goes fine for awhile. Then you suddenly develop a cold, feel chills, and lose your appetite. After about two or three days (assuming you don’t take drugs or do anything else about it), you suddenly recover and feel better than you did for years. Let us say this well-being continues for two months when you suddenly develop an itch or rash. You still don’t take anything special for it. This rash flares up, gets worse, and continues for ten days, and immediately subsides. Immediately after this, you find your hepatitis is gone and your energy has increased more than ever before. The rash became an outlet for the poisons in the liver, which produced the hepatitis. This is how recovery occurs. You recover and go even higher. And so it goes, each reaction milder than the last as the body becomes purer, each becoming shorter in duration and being followed by a longer and longer period of feeling better than ever before, until you reach a level plateau of vibrant health. Let us give ourselves a chance to experience what it means to be really healthy and fully alive! |