How to cleanse the body from the inside with a cleansing diet

Our body, like all houses, requires cleaning with some regularity. During a purifying cure we offer a physical rest, a kind of truce to our system digestive and cleaning has the opportunity to reach every corner of our tissues. It is an excellent way to start a new cycle that is beginning with a bit of order.

Carrying out a cleansing diet also has its cemotional, mental and even spiritual counterpart, because we get rid of the ballast that we do not need and that allows us to walk lighter and set ourselves higher goals. In a way, for a few days we are a little more angel and less human.

Why cleansing the body with a cleansing diet is healthy

The toxins we get rid of They can come from the food we eat, drugs, or stimulants. Who performs a cure can observe, for example, that bodily secretions give off a different, stronger odor.

However, other times they may even have a certain emotional originIn other words, an emotion that has worried us for a long time may have managed to tense, contract or inhibit some area of ​​our body, which in the long run has ended up causing it to malfunction.

That leads to the calls diseases or “functional” disordersin which cellularly everything seems correct but the body does not quite work perfectly.

When carrying out a cleansing diet, aspects of that emotional sphere can also be clarified. For this reason it is so reassuring to carry out a cleaning, because the body is renewed but so are the mind, emotions and spirit.

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Why clean the intestine with a cleansing diet

One of the keys to health is found in the small intestine.

According to classical naturism, our body is “intoxicated” by substances that come from the outside world, that is to say by food that is not always of good quality or that contains toxic residues -also present in tap water and especially as a result of the excesses of the diet.

However, lack of time or simple laziness prevent the intestine from being kept in adequate clean conditions, which is the cause of fermentation, accumulation of waste inside and slow digestionwhich can lead to a true state of autointoxication.

For naturopathic medicine, this state is not evidenced in the form of a specific disease but in a sum of possible symptoms, not especially serious but quite uncomfortable.

It can be about allergies, chronic fatigue, excessively dry or oily skin, insomnia, moodiness, etc And although the consequences of an inadequate diet are also reflected in the functioning of the large intestine, its capacity to process the material that reaches it is small compared to the great activity of the small intestine.

The anatomy of the small intestine already indicates the complexity of its function. First of all, its length presents a great variability between people, since it ranges between four and seven meters, and it is made up of different layers, full of cells of different lineages and highly specialized in their function.

The inner layer of the small intestine is foldedwhich in turn are made up of intestinal villi, with a texture similar to that of a towel.

Under a powerful microscope, each loop of that towel is seen to be made up of multitude of cells that contain microvilli, responsible for the absorption of the active principles of food.

The folds and folds ending in these intestinal microvilli (about 200,000/mm2!) make the theoretical dimension of the surface of our small intestine (barely 15 m2) go on to acquire a average real absorption area of ​​300 m2.

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What kind of cleansing diet to do

Traditionally, naturopathic medicine advises cleansing the body with a diet that contains plenty of fluids..

For example, based on fruit juices, plenty of water, herbal teas or some food with cleansing properties (strawberry, grape, cherry, lemon…). That means taking large salads and fruit salads.

However, This type of diet is not suitable for everyone.. It comes to be a kind of “coffee for everyone” that, although it is true that it has freed many people from problems that they had been dragging for years, others have not fared so well.

acupuncture provide more information about it considers that this type of cleansing diet is excessively “cold” or excessively yin. For this reason it is suitable for those people who present an imbalance of “excess fire” or “excess yang”, such as restless sleep, gastritis, acid reflux, gingivitis, dry skin, etc..

But it can be detrimental to people who suffer symptoms due to excessive “cold”, such as certain diarrhea, bradycardia, heavy head feeling, distension of the abdomen, edema on feet etc

So that the ideal would be to first obtain a correct diagnosis what is the real starting situation.

A good acupuncturist can guide you in this regard. He will ask us a few questions, it will observe our tongue, it will take our pulse, it will press certain points of our body surface and will establish an energy diagnosis.

If that’s not possible, you can also get certain clues yourself. For this there are some key points. For example, if we are cold (yin) or rather hot (yang). Observing our preferences we can reach the right conclusion.

According to our character or our preferences:

If we often fancy a broth hot vegetables, wrap up in bed and tend to drowsiness our situation is rather yin or “cold”. Instead, if we are restless and suffer from insomniahave high sensitivity to perceive odors, we are extroverts and we dislike heat, we tend to be in a yang or “hot” situation.

According to the typical complaints:

Watery runny nose (the typical runny nose), discomfort when swallowing, excessive clear urine, and pale skin are some of the typical yin or “cold” symptoms. brief episodes of epistaxis (nosebleeds), allergic rhinitis, asthma allergies (worse with rising yang in spring), dark, concentrated urine, dry skin, and hives are typically yang or “hot”.

Conventional medicine does not usually give too much importance to these differences and combat chronic rhinitis with cortisone nebulizers, whether it has one or the other characteristics. But neither is classic naturopathic medicine. Consider those differences. And in sight are the results.

A friend of mine, a consistent naturist, made a few years ago a cleansing diet based on fruit juices, which evolved into colitis with diarrhea and abdominal painwhich forced him to stay in bed (with several blankets) and remain off work for a couple of months.

As interpreted by acupuncture, my friend was in a yin situation and the cleansing diet that he should have followed was rather based on “hot” remedies (infusions, broths, soups, etc.). From this it follows that First of all, it is important to be clear about what situation we are starting from.

In addition, you have to be somewhat patient. That means we must train the body so that you are able to cope with cleaning comfortably.

The ideal is perform prior preparation before the dietFor example, having a very light dinner for a week, based on juices, broths, infusions, etc.

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How to do the cleansing diet to cleanse the body

The body’s healing power works from the inside outand not vice versa.

This is an important rule: all healing starts from the inside out. and the symptoms that bother us usually disappear in the reverse order of how they appeared.

In addition, so to speak, in the body there is a “department” in charge of give way to everything useless or toxic that has been introduced or produced in it.

A kind of drain that when we give it the opportunity is used thoroughly to eliminate everything that is left over. In this sense It is important, of course, the correct evacuation of the intestine. However, this is not the only detox channel.

It is very important but also the renal and lymphatic systems, as well as the skin and lungs must be kept in good conditionsince all these organs also participate in the elimination of toxins.

3 habits to make the cleansing diet more effective

These tips help make the cleansing diet to cleanse the body from within more effective:

1. Rest well

It is obvious that we need food to live. It is true that to keep the body in condition it is necessary to move it, stretch it and make it sweat.

But there is another aspect of life that we should not forget, and that is rest.. For most people, rest means sitting on the couch or stretching out in bed. Yes, indeed, this is how you rest a bit.

But this time we mean rest more deeply, especially when the body is obviously asking for it.

A cold in the making, a slight indigestion, the onset of a headache, etc. are situations that can be solved simply by getting into bed. That’s much healthier and smarter than trying to hide the symptoms with a pain reliever or coffee to keep fighting.

Let rest do the work for us.

2. Give each other massages

Massage is another deliciously exquisite way to relax. The state of the nervous system and the mind correlate with the state of the muscles, so the body massage is a path that leads us to the subconscious mind.

Some massages are preferable to others. A very effective one for this purpose is the trager methoda system that uses the swinging of the limbs and certain movements such as “throwing” of the limbs, which allow the person to enter a deep state of relaxation.

On the other hand, the oriental massages, Given by a good professional, they offer powerful tools for bodily and emotional rebalancing at deep levels. The massage ayurvedicIndian classic, the shiatsu (Japanese), the tuina (Chinese), traditional massage Thai and the massage tibetan They are very suitable in that sense.

The person usually leaves the massage more open, more flexible, more lucid, kinder and more serene.

3. Drink lots of water

Hydrotherapy is enormously beneficial for bowel diseases.

To stimulate a lazy intestine, it can be applied daily, in the morning or at night, before going to bed, a compress moistened with cold water on the abdomen (half to one hour long).

With the sauna you can eliminate toxic substances through the skin, provided the body is properly hydrated. The only precaution to be taken is to have a jug of water handy and drink while you sweat.

Depending on the temperature and training, you can stay there for ten to twenty minutes, or until you feel like you’ve sweated a lot.

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