The Healing Crisis

Treatment with herbs or other natural medicines is sometimes accompanied by a deterioration in the condition before improvement takes place. Usually known as a healing crisis, this can happen also as a result of taking nutritional supplements or undergoing therapeutic programmes such as are involved in nature cure, massage and magnetic therapy.

Often these reactions represent a resurgence of old symptoms, anything form headache and nausea to skin eruptions, chest colds or unusual fatigue, which were experienced during the disease process. They recur as the body’s elimination of unwanted materials accelerates, making the system temporarily more toxic: no longer stuck in the tissues, these substances can circulate freely, e.g. in the blood and lymph, and become much more disruptive. Until they are fully excreted, physiological imbalances remain and the body cannot establish harmony.

It is important, therefore, to support this cleansing with healthy lifestyle – diet, rest and exercise and clean water to flush out completely.

Your practioner will offer therapeutic support if neccesary, when the effects of toxics are on their way out of the system until health and well being are restored.