The Body’s Reactions to Healing

Opening the Organs of Elimination to Clean the Body’s Systems

A Systemic Approach to Health Problems

Below is the chapter on Healing Reactions, taken from Dr. Sean Woods’ book, “The Healing Vibe.”  

 When you introduce alkalinity to an acidic environment the results are often profound. These reactions are sometimes called healing reactions and they come in several forms. Some common ones can be GI stress, weakness, diarrhea, fevers, flus, skin reactions, headaches, and joint pain. The body will push out things through the easiest means possible during the process of detoxification. If the bowels are moving and the kidneys are filtering well then there is rarely a healing reaction even when alkalinity is introduced. When you are congested in the lymph system with acidic waste, the very thing you need to improve the situation is alkalizing fruit and herbs, and when these two chemistries collide you can sometimes feel the reactions. If these negative reactions occur, then you may need to change the types of fruit you are eating and instead ingest more vegetables to slow down the reactions. Healing reactions have scared several of my patients into quitting this nutritional plan while others see it as progress and forge ahead. My recommendation is usually to slow down the reactions by slowing the pace at which they are going. This can be done by eating less fruit and more vegetables, decrease the supplement schedule, and practicing intermittent fasting so little or no reaction is felt or seen. In almost all the cases of unwanted reactions, the kidneys and/or the bowels were not healthy enough to handle the removal of toxicity.

For example, I can muscle test a patient and discover heavy metals and yeast in the stomach. Further testing will indicate the patient’s need for a couple of products that strengthen the stomach to handle the toxins and the yeast. The recommended supplementation will start to move these unwanted byproducts out of the body. When there has been chronic glandular and organ congestion, the associated meridians fill up with all kinds of toxic waste. Simultaneously, the lymphatic system is trying to do its own job of waste removal and soon begins backing up too. If the normal avenues of elimination are not working well, especially the kidneys, the toxins can come right out of the skin in the form of a rash, acne, blisters, and sweats when these supplements are added into the diet. In this specific case of the stomach, the skin reaction can show anywhere along the stomach meridian, including the inside of the leg, abdomen, chest, or face.

I have current patients with whom I’m working who have severe eczema and psoriasis. If I start with the bowels and kidney first and get them working, their skin never flares up as it heals. People will blame many unwanted reactions on the herbs I recommend, thinking they are allergic and stop taking them. What they fail to realize is that the herbs were simply cleaning and pushing toxins out. In some cases the skin was the fastest way out. It’s understandable that it can scare people a bit to see reactions develop and symptoms worsen, especially when the patient has already been programmed to fear their body and their disease.

Getting both the kidneys and the bowels eliminating well can be a tough task. The kidneys are major filtration portals that contain over a million little filters in each one. They get clogged with all types of waste and when they back up you feel it. Some common manifestations include low back pain and stiffness, plantar fasciitis, knee/hip pain, and gouty arthritis. If you keep beating up on the kidneys with poor food choices and overeating, they can quit filtering all together. When you start taking an active role in cleaning up the kidney’s filtration, it can take a while to get one million filters back on track. The approach I am laying out in this book is not a treatment for these toxins, the microbes, or the diseases they create. It is becoming aware that they exist and that they are inside of the body creating problems. The job of getting healthy is opening the organs of elimination and cleaning up the systems of the body. This is a very important distinction because it is the difference between treatment and correction. This systemic approach provides sound, practical action steps to create abundant health.