Healing Crisis

Healing Crisis

Most people start going through a healing crisis and immediately stop what they are doing because they think that it is making them worst. During healing your body cleans and regenerates itself to become healthy and disease free. Our society has relied so much on fixing the symptom that we do not know or understand what the root of the problem is. When you go through a cleanse your body can have a healing crisis and the symptoms that you start to experience are worst than before you started. There is also a chance that your body starts to dig up old symptoms from your childhood.
Going Back to Child Hood

We learn from an early age that symptoms are bad and should be stopped or suppressed. We take all kinds of drugs to stop our bodies from eliminating catarrah and waste. This is very confusing to the body because mucus production is the body's perfect mechanism for taking out the garbage. If that process is suppressed, the immune system is compromised and the next time it won't work quite as well.
Your body has it's own memory and it remembers all the injuries and all of the times your immune system suppressed. In the reversal process these memories are brought to light in reverse order from which they happened and people re-experience illnesses and traumas in a phenomenon known as retracing. The difference this time is that the symptoms come and go quickly and there is an underlying sense that the whole process is not threatening, that it is natural and health promoting. The healthy changes that you feel after a healing crises remain as long as a healthy supportive lifestyle is embraced, as long as you continue to honor the remarkable and extraordinary intelligence of the body.
The body naturally moves through a process of rebalancing, regenerating and cleansing during healing. This can create uncomfortable sensations and bodily responses that can be rather hard to accept when you've been trying so hard to take good care of yourself. Understanding the process is crucial so that you won't be inclined to abandon your program when you find that you feel a little bit worse before you feel better.
The Chemistry Behind Healing
To a lesser extent, the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality foods and replace them with better foods. Lower quality foods have undergone more preparation.
Spices, salt and other ingredients have been added, and they tend to be more stimulating than less prepared and more natural foods. Animal food, such as meat, fowl, fish etc, is more stimulating than cheeses, nuts and vegetable proteins. Consequently the withdrawal of stimulation, which follows the abandonment of animal food produces a slower heart action, a resting phase that registers to the mind as relaxation or a decrease in energy.
This initial letdown (healing crisis) lasts about three to ten days or slightly longer (depending on the disease), and is followed by an increase of strength, a feeling of diminishing stress and great well-being.
During this initial phase (lasting about ten days on the average, to several weeks in others), the vital energies that are usually in the periphery or external parts of the body, such as the muscles and skin, begin to move to the vital internal organs and start reconstruction. This shunting of much of the power to the internal region produces a feeling of less energy in the muscles, which the mind interprets as some weakness
Now, let us return to the symptoms that occur in the process of regeneration.
The person who starts a better diet, stays on it for three days to a week and then quits, will say, "Oh, I felt better on the old diet - the new one makes me feel weak". He failed because he did not give his body a chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action, recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he would have begun to feel better than before he started.


The differences between a “healing crisis” and a “disease Crisis”.

A healing crisis and a disease crisis may look alike by their outward manifestations, but they are taking place under different conditions.
A disease crisis is when the body is loaded to its toleration point with toxins and waste products. The body arouses itself in self-defense and brings forth acute elimination of toxins in the form of a cold, fever, inflammations, etc. The body is on the defense and produces a disease crisis. If poisons are not eliminated, the body, until it becomes sick, adapts itself to them functioning at a lower energy level. These foreign wastes accumulate and inhibit the organs from performing their normal functions until finally a chronic disease manifests.
On the other hand, a “healing crisis” develops because the healing forces are in the ascending. Through natural living and a frugal diet, the body gets stronger and digs into the tissues and eliminates old chronic waste causing symptoms, which are the healing crisis. During a healing crisis, therapy can be used to a much greater extent because the patient already has endurance and can tolerate cleansing herbs, fasting, and advanced water treatments. When people are weaker, building foods, short fasts and tonic herbs are used. Then once the energy returns, more vigorous cleansing methods can be used.
A healing crisis shows that there is enough energy in the body to eliminate unwanted materials. It can take the form of fevers, excessive menstrual discharge, diarrhea, itching, boils, ulcers, hemorrhages, swollen limbs/face, headaches, mobilization of mucous, weakness, weight-loss,nausea, vomiting and other digestive disorders, pains resurfacing, worsening of existing symptoms, rapid pulse, skin eruptions, and some say they feel like their world is "collapsing" etc. Reactions will vary according to how seriously ill the person has been, how much he got abused by the environment he lives and works in.