 
What is Drainage (Detoxification)? What is Drainage (Detoxification)? Drainage is a specific therapeutic tool used to reverse the disease state of a patient by removing accumulated toxins and restoring optimal organ function. Physicians who practice drainage believe that accumulation of physical or emotional waste products in the body is the true cause of disease. These waste products are the result of an accumulation of normal metabolic waste products, poor intestinal digestion, absorption, and elimination, unhealthy emotional expression, and the inability to eliminate environmental toxins (what you breath and contact with your skin). Many therapeutic approaches, even ‘natural’ ones, tend to only palliate or band-aid symptoms rather than treat the true cause. Drainage treats the true underlying cause of the disease. A drainage prescription takes into consideration all aspects of you, including any past or present nutritional deficiencies, chemical exposures, mental/emotional stressors, structural limitations, and significant illnesses in your family history. These remedies stimulate deep cleansing of congested organs, enhance of the immune system, and affect profound restoration of physiological function. As a result, you will feel stronger and more energetic while reducing your risk factors for developing a chronic disease in the future. The physicians at Natural Choice Health Care use a set of remedies called UNDA numbers to accomplish this task. The UNDA numbers are carefully constructed remedies prescribed according to an assessment of organ system function rather than specific signs and symptoms. For this reason, two women with menstrual cramps may be treated in two very different ways depending upon the true source of the symptoms.
Benefits of Detoxification with Drainage!
How is Drainage Different from Conventional and Other Alternative Therapies? Conventionally, physicians describe diseases by listing symptoms, identifying the physiological problems and creating a name for the abnormal findings. Then, doctors prescribe drugs that interfere with physiology in order to suppress the unwanted symptoms. The opposite principal applies when practicing drainage. Drainage remedies restore balance by allowing the body to fully perform its healing functions. Drainage remedies treat the underlying cause of the disease. As a result your symptoms disappear on their own and you are freed from a life long dependency on medication. Drainage remedies cleanse the inside of the cell and the external fluid that the cell bathes in. They promote proper enzymatic function, encourage normal function of the glandular systems, ensure optimal function of the body’s routes of elimination while moving free toxins to these exit points, and cause profound modification of the internal environment of the patient. True cure can be achieved only by this integrated approach. In addition to supporting normal physiology rather than suppressing it, drainage remedies are non-toxic. While toxic drug compounds stifle the immune system and cause abnormal, dangerous side effects, drainage remedies do not have any adverse reactions and do not interfere with prescription drugs. What Is a Toxin? A toxin (anything which the body cannot use for cellular metabolism) can be generated in several different ways. First, in the process of normal cellular functioning, each cell produces waste products including free radicals (particles that cause cell death), carbon dioxide, and byproducts of enzymatic reactions. All of these waste products must be removed from the cell and, ultimately, from the body. Second, we take in numerous toxins from our environment. There are toxic material in the air we breathe, the water we drink and bathe in, the products we use to clean and to care for ourselves, even the food we eat all contain impurities that the body absorbs and must subsequently excrete. Third, an improper balance of beneficial bacteria in our intestines allows other unwanted organisms to flourish. Their (parasites, bacteria, yeast) metabolic waste products are toxic and must be safely and effectively eliminated. When our own body’s environment is generating excessive toxins we call this autointoxication. Fourth, our emotional states can exert toxic influences upon body chemistry. Suppressed, ignored, or denied emotional experiences interfere with normal physiology by effecting hormonal output, changing nervous system dynamics, and manipulating heart rhythms. How Does Your Body Eliminate Toxins? The body uses four primary routes to eliminate wastes. The skin, the lungs, the gastrointestinal system and the kidneys routinely process toxins and healthfully excrete them from the body. Every time you sweat, the body is expelling toxins from the skin. Each exhalation is a chance for the body to remove carbon dioxide and other gaseous wastes from the blood. Bowel movements and ion offer daily opportunities to eliminate toxic accumulations. Of course, these routes of elimination can become overwhelmed. This happens when the amount of waste accumulating in the body exceeds its capacity to excrete it and symptoms such as rashes or acne (skin), asthma (lung), burning with ion or edema (kidney), and diarrhea, constipation or reflux (GI) appear. Each of these elimination organs must filter and process wastes before eliminating them. The liver is not directly responsible for elimination of wastes outside our body. However, it is crucial in the process of detoxification and elimination. All substances that you eat, rub on your skin or breathe will pass by the liver for inspection before being sent into the general circulation. The liver identifies harmful agents and packages them, using nutritional substances like glutathione, so they can be safely eliminated through the bowels and kidneys. If the liver becomes overwhelmed with an abundance of toxins, and is unable to safely package these toxins, then these dangerous compounds can cause symptoms as they circulate freely in your blood stream. People who have an overworked or sluggish liver can start to experience multiple chemical and environmental sensitivities or an increasing number of food sensitivities. An increased sensitivity to perfumes or scents may indicate the initial stages of this problem. Alternative Routes of Elimination: Why Does Your Body Use Them? When the primary organs of elimination begin to function abnormally due to an over-accumulation of toxic byproducts, the body will attempt to use secondary routes of elimination to cleanse itself. Mucous membranes anywhere in the body can become a path by which the body eliminates waste material. Therefore, in chronic states of toxicity, patients experience symptoms such as l discharge, sinusitis, chronic post-nasal drip, acne and eczema. Eventually, as the body is unable to efficiently eliminate all toxic accumulations through its primary and secondary routes of elimination, the wastes build up. These poisons interfere with proper physiological function. As a result, patients report fatigue, decreased ability to cope with day-to-day stresses, impaired sleep, and changes in their mood. Eventually, degenerative diseases develop. How Does Drainage Work? Drainage remedies work by stimulating the body’s vitality or internal battery. A vital person is more able to maintain a healthy physiological balance and access the body’s self-healing capabilities. For instance, the body maintains balance by sweating to expel extra heat, by increasing our heart rates during exercise to provide more oxygen to our muscles, and by shivering to increase body heat when we are cold. Drainage remedies use this innate wisdom to their advantage by stimulating the body to regulate itself. How drainage stimulates this self-regulation is through the use of frequencies. Frequencies are found everywhere in nature. When you see the colorful display that emits from the suns reflection through a prism, you are witnessing the different frequencies or wave patterns associated with color. Similarly science has demonstrated that our healthy organs have resonating frequencies (or vibrations). But, if an organ is functioning poorly, its frequency is distorted. This distorted frequency disrupts the electrical flow that enables cell-to-cell communication and generates physical symptoms. For this reason, your physical symptoms are not the sole problem, but provide crucial clues regarding a deeper energetic imbalance in your body. And, eliminating your physical symptoms requires removing the primary problem, the disrupted frequency, and reestablishing the cellular or electrical communication within all of your organ systems. Treatments focused solely on the physical level, whether conventional or alternative, will inevitably fail, as they do not address the underlying energetic cause of disease. Cure, in this case, is not possible without the benefit of therapies that impact the energetic quality of the body. Therapies capable of addressing the energetic condition include drainage remedies like the UNDA numbers, NAET (Allergy Elimination Technique), EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), acupuncture, homeopathy, Bowen Therapy, and Craniosacral therapy. To find out more about these therapies call our office at 573-2273. Who Needs Drainage? Who Needs to Detoxify? Everyone needs drainage because everyone needs to detoxify. This world is full of toxic material. No matter how cleanly you live, you are bound to encounter numerous pesticides on food, electro-magnetic fields (computers, cell phone, televisions…), chemical additives, smog and smoke, gaseous hydrocarbons from car emissions, and environmental allergens, not to mention toxic people and poisonous emotional experiences. For this reason, drainage remedies are crucial to prevent accelerated cellular aging and to reverse the course of your deteriorating health. Drainage is a necessary part of any health preservation plan so you can live a long, joyous, high-quality life. What to Expect Patients on a drainage protocol typically experience one of four possible outcomes. When these remedies open the routes of elimination and the body is able to excrete accumulated toxins, many patients immediately feel better. This improvement may continue during the entire four weeks between visits or some of your symptoms may gradually reappear. This is a natural part of your healing process. Think of this healing process as similar to peeling the layers off of an onion. As your body responds to treatment and new layers are uncovered, new or old symptoms may return. In some patients the changes will be less apparent. But rest assured, even if you have no perceivable improvements in the beginning of your program, with the aid of the drainage remedies, your body has started to make permanent internal changes that are crucial for your healing process. Other patients may experience an aggravation of symptoms or a discharge through the bowels, sinus, bladder, or other excretory sites. This reaction indicates that the selected remedies are crucial to your healing process, and that the remedies may have acted too quickly or too strongly. This is a sign that your body is not able to efficiently eliminate the toxic materials. In this case, you should get in touch with your physician as soon as symptoms appear or worsen for specific instructions. Your physician will recommend appropriate treatments to assist the body in eliminating more appropriately or suggest decreasing the dose of the remedies to lessen their strength. How Can I Get Started? The first step in getting started on a healing detoxification program is to call the office (360-573-2273) and schedule an appointment with either Dr. Heather or Dr. Rebecca. The friendly person who answers the phone will gather your personal information and any necessary insurance information. Within a few days a packet of information will arrive in your mail. Please complete the packet with thoughtful consideration. The more detailed and accurate your intake form the more able the doctors are to determine the appropriate route for your care. We recommend you allow at least one hour to complete your paper work. When you arrive for your appointment with your paperwork, the doctor will carefully review your answers and your concerns. A significant portion of time will be spent answering your questions and educating you about your condition and what to expect from your care. The doctors will recommend any necessary testing. Blood work, thermography, food sensitivity testing, adrenal stress assessments, gastrointestinal health panels, body fat testing, and heart rate variability stress assessments are some of the possibilities. Once you have been educated and your program is fully implemented, the physicians typically want to see you once a month to note your progress and make any adjustments necessary to your protocol. Note that each person’s experience varies with how quickly the full program is implemented and how immediately benefits are noticed.
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