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Healing Crisis
At some
point during a natural, drug-free, disease reversal process a patient will
experience what is known as a Healing Crisis. This is the special
mechanism used by Nature to cure Arthritis, Cancer, Emphysema, Asthma and other degenerative diseases.
My years of
practice and research have taught me that few practitioners – traditional
or wholistic – truly understand the nature and significance of a Healing
Crisis. It’s an event that every healer should strive to produce in every
patient suffering from Arthritis or other wasting disease but it must be
carefully monitored to obtain the desired healthy outcome.
So, what exactly is a Healing Crisis?
Before I answer that question I’d like to give you a backdrop to this
concept of a healing crisis and where it began. During the 19th
century a brilliant European Homeopath by the name of
Constantine Hering discovered a law, a basic unerring principle of
nature.
This immutable principle revealed
that:
- all cure comes from
within out
- from the head down, and
- in reverse order as the
symptoms originally appeared in the body.
The Path to Disease
Most diseases such as Arthritis follow
a certain path or stages of deterioration and degradation and a
predictable path to recovery. Doctor Hering observed that when patients
engaged in some manner of systemic waste removal one of the first
manifestations exhibited was a revisitation of the same symptoms
formerly present when a patient had a specific ailment in the past.
Since the time of Doctor Hering many
Practitioners have embraced and furthered his research in this area.
Doctor Jensen developed a four-stage system of disease degradation
and recovery that was quite successful with patients during 60 years of
clinical practice.
The four stages of disease as taught
by Doctor Jensen are known as:
Acute:
Inflammation, pain, sensitivity, fever, discharge, high acidity are
usually present. Poor living and dietary habits can contribute to the
buildup of catarrh and this can lead to the beginning of toxic settlements
throughout the body. Using common respiratory complications as an example
of how disease can progress through the four stages of increasing
degeneration the following observations and assumptions can be made:
- Disease manifestations:
Colds, coughing, bronchitis, influenza, allergies.
- Traditional modes of suppression:
Coal tar or sulfur based drugs, nostrums, and aspirin.
- Necessary waste elimination:
Loose catarrhal settlements in the lungs and sinuses.
Subacute:
Absorption of systemic toxins, dull aching pain, low
metabolism, weakness, lassitude. Devitalized foods and beverages, poor
living habits, polluted environment, all lead to general buildup of
excessive accumulations of toxic matter throughout the body.
- Disease manifestations:
Sinus troubles, hay fever, toxic acidic discharges from skin, nose,
eyes, mouth, genital area.
- Traditional modes of suppression:
Nasal sprays, vapors, synthetic chemicals, drugs, aspirin, etc.
- Necessary waste elimination:
Prolonged loose catarrhal elimination.
Chronic:
Low metabolic activity, increasing toxic buildup throughout system, lack
of vitality. Heavy accumulations of toxic waste interfere with vital
cellular activity. (Doctor Jensen found that at least 80% of all
recognized disease in the U.S. could be classified as chronic).
- Disease manifestations:
Pneumonia, asthma.
- Traditional modes of suppression:
Penicillin, antibiotics, antihistamines, sulfa drugs, tranquilizers.
- Necessary waste elimination:
Large accumulations of hardened catarrh throughout body and solid waste
matter from colon.
Degenerative:
No perceptible sensations in affected tissue, extremely low blood
circulation, low nerve force, tissue decay. General breakdown of life
supporting activity in affected area and often throughout entire system.
Vital force at low ebb.
- Disease manifestations:
Malignancies, tumors, cancer, Arthritis, gangrene,
emphysema, hardening of arteries.
- Traditional modes of suppression:
Heavy drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, cortisone, gold injections.
- Necessary waste elimination:
Thorough systemic cleansing of toxic accumulations from the entire body
through skin, bowel, kidneys, lungs, eyes and mouth. This often
indicates the necessity to flush the large colon with water, a change in
lifestyle to something more in tune with nature and eating wholesome
foods.
We can determine from the above
example that if we do not properly and effectively address disease in its
infancy the long term prognosis - the inevitable deterioration to a
disease state such as Arthritis - is not encouraging.
However, the Healing Crisis is
Nature’s surefire way of arresting any disease at whatever point it is to
be found. If we allow the Healing Crisis to proceed unobstructed,
Nature can reverse the direction of the disease condition.
It is at this particular point that
Nature can walk a patient back through the degenerative, chronic, subacute
and acute stages of a particular disease path until the original condition
of acute irritation is attained.
From there it is simply a matter of a
patient following a sensible maintenance program for continued tissue
cleansing, cellular rejuvenation and system-wide homeostasis.
How the
Healing Crisis Works
Hering’s law of cure tells us that in
order to get a handle on any given disease or affliction that’s in, let’s
say, the degenerative stage we must somehow reverse the entire process of
degeneration through a series of Healing Crises. With each
successive crisis the body can begin the long but sure pathway back to the
stage of initial acute but manageable inflammation.
This reversal process usually takes a
patient back through all of the bodily sensations, pains, aches, nervous
tension, thought patterns and emotions associated with each level
of disease manifestation in the previous stages of disease development.
Over the years I have spoken with many
people who told me they literally panicked when confronted with these old
disease symptoms again. This usually occurred when people were not
educated about Healing Crises. Their initial reactions, when experiencing
the old symptoms, were of shock and disappointment.
Just before a Healing Crisis began
these people were feeling so good - right up until the old disease
symptoms started reappearing. They were completely at a loss as to what
steps to take to deal with the symptoms.
This is why it is so important
that a person going through a self administered body cleanse or who is
under the care of a practitioner be aware of how and why the disease
reversal process will usually result in at least one major Healing Crisis.
The feeling of optimum health
and well-being you experience immediately prior to a Healing Crisis
is Nature’s warning she’s about to begin the great event. You have
cleaned your body and strengthened it to the point where a Healing Crisis
can and must take place. This is the one and only path you can take
to a complete and natural cure of Arthritis or whatever
disorder you may have.
The Healing
Crisis as it Can Apply to You
As your body is fasted, cleaned of
accumulated toxic matter, fed wholesome nourishment, exercised and rested
properly, it can experience this great event at different times and in
various ways along the reversal path to good health.
If you have recently been taking
cortisone or gold injections or chemically based drugs to ease your
arthritic pains, during the first few months of a thorough systemic
cleansing program your body will try very hard to rid itself of
much of the accumulated toxic chemicals that were used to deaden your
nerves. While this is happening you will probably feel much if not all of
the pain you would have felt had you not taken the cortisone, gold or
drugs for the pain.
Most Healing Crises will tend
to develop along the path back to good health at just about the same
point the original ailment became manifest. In other words, as your
condition originally worsened from a cold, to influenza, to bronchitis, to
hay fever, to pneumonia, to asthma and finally to Arthritis or a
malignancy, when you begin the road back to good health your body will
experience the same major disease manifestations it once exhibited while
you had each of the abovementioned ailments.
Make no mistake about this, your body
MUST go through this disease reversal process in order to
cleanse itself of all toxic drugs and accumulated waste material
that contributed to the development of each ailment in the past.
The route the body chooses to travel
on the road back to good health is a rocky, one lane mountain pass wrought
with EVERY SINGLE MAJOR AILMENT you ever encountered during your
life. You can’t avoid re-experiencing each of these afflictions if
you truly desire to reach the summit and be well again. This is Nature’s
way of cleaning house and setting up shop again the right way.
While you are engaged in the reversal
process the body senses you’re giving it a chance to correct past
ills. Perhaps it further senses this may be the last or best chance it has
to do as such. All at once it proceeds with a Herculean effort to clean up
as much of the mess you’ve made of your body as possible in the shortest
expenditure of time.
How Long Does a
Healing Crisis Last?
Although there appear to be no sure
fire laws written in stone, a good rule of thumb is that for every major
ailment you had along the road to degeneration a true healing crisis can
last for one to five days, with a common average of three days.
If, for example, you reach the point
in your reversal process where you’re beginning to experience symptoms of
bronchitis, you may have the same sensations, feelings, mental state,
emotions, catarrhal discharge that you once experienced when you actually
had bronchitis. This may go on for one to five days as the body quickly
and thoroughly rids itself of every trace of bronchitis and the drugs once
used to suppress it.
After the healing crisis is finished
it’s a good bet your body is done with whatever residue of
bronchitis there may have been in your system. Your body may do this with
every major ailment it comes across on the reversal path to
recovery.
I personally experienced multiple
healing crises related to a number of childhood and early adult
ailments the first time I went through Doctor Jensen’s elimination diet
and colon tissue cleansing program back in 1984. I have not had a
reoccurrence of ANY of those disorders since successfully passing through
each associated Healing Crisis.
Relief from Pain and Discomfort
During a
Healing Crisis
Depending on the severity of the
affliction, patients with advanced cases of Arthritis and other forms of
Rheumatism may experience short lived but rather acute pains in joints and
soft tissue while going through a Healing Crisis. Although I don’t
recommend any drugs or other symptomatically targeted remedial measures I
do have a few suggestions that have been quite helpful.
Most of the aches and pains the average
Arthritic patient will feel during a Healing Crisis is the result of
toxic, acidic waste material and inorganic substances being lifted out of joints and soft tissue
and being put back into the blood and lymph streams for removal.
Many patients are satisfied with our
recommended Hydrotherapy treatments, Shiatsu, Swedish Massage or Healing
Touch to relieve pain during a Healing Crisis. However, the best way we’ve
found to counteract much of the pain associated with a Healing Crisis is
to serve such patients a broth high in potassium which can help
alkalinize the patient’s system.
The broth we prepare for patients is
made from the jackets of 5 organically grown white russet potatoes
and two ripe stalks of celery. Barbara cuts up the celery and the
potato peelings and throws them in a pot with one quart of distilled
water. Next she brings it to a boil, covers the pot and simmers on low
heat for 20 minutes. Then Barbara allows the preparation to sit for a few
minutes - with the lid on the pot. After which Barbara strains the broth and
serves it to the patient.
If taken two or three times daily
during a difficult Healing Crisis it works quite well in alleviating many
of the sporadic aches and pains of a Healing Crisis.
I have another useful suggestion along
these lines. If you don’t have access to raw russet potatoes, soak two
tablespoons of raw, uncooked oats in a pint of distilled water and
let it stand in your refrigerator overnight. In the morning remove the
mixture from your refrigerator. Let it stand until it attains room
temperature. Then strain and drink the water.
This raw oat water will have a good
amount of potassium and other beneficial biochemical elements that can
help relieve the pain and discomfort of a Healing Crisis.
Although there are many advertised
topical applications available to somewhat reduce soft tissue and
joint-related arthritic pains, these remedies will invariably only
address the symptoms of the disease without correcting the cause
of your discomfort. I prefer to let Nature orchestrate any pain relief
measures naturally and within the confines of our recommended Nature Cure
program.
Respect the Healing Crisis and It Will Respect
You
Frankly, it’s not advisable for
someone with Rheumatoid or Osteoarthritis to purposely induce a
Healing Crisis without the supervision of a trained, knowledgeable
health care practitioner or a biological treatment center’s guidance. A
Healing Crisis should not be provoked unless you are under the care or
guidance of a person or organization experienced with patient care and
management during and after such an intense event.
The only other prerequisite to justify
self-inducement of a Healing Crisis is if the person has
successfully undergone this intense event previously.
The entire disease reversal process -
culminating in one or more Healing Crisis events - should never be taken
lightly. The revisitation of acute pain, anguish, emotional and mental
irregularities and other - often peculiar - psychological and
physiological disturbances can wreak havoc with someone unschooled about
such matters.
Perhaps the best way to sum up the
difference between a Disease Crisis and a Healing Crisis is as
follows:
- During a Disease Crisis the
body usually has great difficulty expelling toxic waste. The
accumulation of this morbid matter throughout the body leads from acute
to subacute tissue inflammation. If the condition is left unchecked the
subacute symptoms can deteriorate to chronic or degenerative disease.
- During the disease reversal
process, resulting in a Healing Crisis, the body
experiences many of the same symptoms present during a Disease Crisis.
The two exceptions are that the symptoms generally last no longer than a
few days and all of the body’s channels of waste elimination work very
hard to expel toxic waste - particularly fecal matter, urine and
catarrh.
When the Healing Crisis has run its
course whatever unpleasant physiological, emotional and mental
symptoms you may have experienced during that event will probably not
come back to trouble you again during your life if you learn to
care for your body properly.
The Healing Crisis is Nature’s way
of cleaning house. She does it thoroughly and certainly better than
any Doctor, drug or medical center could ever do.
Healing Crises are manageable
and should always be much preferred to a continuation of the
lifestyle that supports a painful and unpleasant degenerative disease
state such as Arthritis.
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