Now, for the glues…
When food is ingested in excess or when it is poorly metabolized, waste is produced and is eliminated or stored by the body. These eliminations or accumulations are often confused with disease. Colloidal overload is caused by poor metabolism of sugars (floury substances, starchy foods, refined sugars…) and fats. These “flocculates” or “viscosities”, which are not very soluble, are usually properly filtered and drained by the liver, gall bladder, and the intestine, but sometimes are eliminated by other “emergency emunctories” mistakenly considered to be disease: acne, discharge, rhinitis, sinusitis, phlegm, bronchitis and other centrifugal catarrhs. If the vital force dwindles, these substances are deposited in gallstones, vessels (atheroma) or tissues (lipomas, cysts, adipose, adherences…).
Waste grouped under the category of “glues” is not soluble in liquids. Glair and the viscous mucous eliminated through the nose are glues and do not dissolve in water.
Glue that accumulates in the blood is called hypercoagulability, and glue that accumulates in the lymph is called lymphogliase.
Glues are eliminated through the liver, the intestines and the sebaceous glands. Bile, stools and sebum help eliminate glues. If these emunctories do not succeed in eliminating a sufficient amount of glues, the respiratory tract can be used as an emergency emunctory: mucous, glair, spit, etc. The uterus also contributes to this through vaginal secretions. What we are seeing more and more is elimination of the organs that seem to be malfunctioning instead of finding the root of the problem. Unfortunately, by eliminating the organs doesn’t get rid of the flowing toxins in the body. So, the body tries to find another way to eliminate the toxins, and sometimes it creates way more health issues that are not understood and are masked with prescription of way too many medication.
Glue-related illnesses are generally not as painful as crystal-related illnesses. However, they cause leakage. All catarrhs are glue-related: respiratory catarrhs such as asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, etc.; catarrhs of the skin such as seborrheic eczema, acne, etc.; catarrhs of the uterus; catarrhs of the digestive tract, etc.
Glues come from a carbohydrate-rich diet of food grains, bread, pasta, as well as from excessive lipid consumption such as fats used for cooking. Long and poorly degraded starch molecule chains create glues.
The therapy used to treat glue-related diseases consists in drying out the source of glue through an adequate dietary reform:
- Reduction or suppression of the incriminated foods
- Draining excess glue through the appropriate emunctory
- “Drying out” the organism
P.S: Just by not drinking water will not take care of the main problem which is the absorption of incriminating food. Most people will want to take the easy way out. However, all three therapies should be considered at the same time. No cutting corners is the solution.
Crystals prove to be more easily eliminated by drinking a lot of water, but the contrary is true for glues, which are more effectively eliminated by drinking less. Being non-soluble, glues tend to accumulate in lymph. By drinking less for a few days, the body is forced to find liquid in lymph in order to maintain a normal blood level. Thus, glues will penetrate more easily into the bloodstream.
How Waste Makes Us ill
One of the body’s most important tasks is to maintain the purity of its fluids (blood, lymph and cellular serum which make up the terrain). To maintain the purity of its interior environment, the body has different emunctories (filters) at its disposal. The liver, intestines, sudoriferous and sebaceous glands (the skin), kidneys and respiratory tracts all filter waste (dead cells, heavy metals, toxins mentioned above) in their own particular way, and then eliminate it. When the amount of waste is not too high, the body remains clean and the cells can function properly. However, when waste levels are high and the emunctories are slow or deficient, the body progressively accumulates waste and the organic situation worsens. Blood thickens and does not circulate as easily in the vessels. Waste transported in the blood ends up in lymph and cellular serum. The longer this lasts, the more waste accumulates. Over time, cells may end up in an environment whose heavy waste mass may paralyze all exchanges. The supply of oxygen and nutritional substances does not reach the cells, causing huge deficiencies. In these conditions, the cells cannot accomplish their tasks, and consequently, neither can the organs. Their activities slow down and are interrupted, more or less leading to imbalance and eventually illness.
The waste that enters our body is not deposited in any particular part of the body, but rather, it is the entire body that is invaded by the overload. This is why the profound nature of disease is general and unique, i.e. polluted conditions. Overloaded conditions will respond by local manifestations that are visible and painful, alarming the patient and the practitioner. Unfortunately, we often forget that the fluids of the body, which are overloaded with waste, are usually responsible for the appearance of these surface problems. The names we give diseases are nothing but the tip of the iceberg. The biggest part of the iceberg – the hidden part – is the overloaded conditions. The same applies to bacterial invasion. The harmfulness of bacteria varies greatly from one individual to another. It can be of little or of very great importance, mortal or nonexistent, depending on the body invaded. They survive, proliferate and cause harm, only when conditions allow them to do so. As Louis Pasteur said to his loved ones on his deathbed: “Bacteria are nothing, but conditions are everything.”
When conditions are overloaded, the body does not remain inactive. It reacts by trying to neutralize and eliminate toxins. This inner cleansing is done by the emunctories (filters) in different ways: through the bile and saliva hyper-secretion, vomiting, diarrhea, thick urine, burning and loaded acids, perspiration, oozing, and appearance of pimples, eczema, and rejection of colloidal wastes by bronchi, etc. These purification efforts are simply what we call “disease”. The purification effort is not a process of destruction, but on the contrary it is a cleaning and preventive effort made by the body to re-establish balance and health. Disease is what settles in if the balance and health is not restored. We must therefore help the body to evacuate toxic overloads by opening its waste evacuation systems – the emunctories – through drainage techniques.
The Route of Toxins
Liver
Everything that enters the body through the mouth and passes through the intestinal barrier goes automatically to the liver, which could be compared to a filter; the intestines are more like a sewer system; any stagnation within this organ could be considered the first step towards illness.
If the liver is up to the job, waste consisting of heavy acids (produced by the digestion of animal protein) is eliminated by the kidneys, carbon dioxide and light acids (derived from the digestion of plants) are eliminated through the lungs whereas water and heat are evacuated through the skin.
If the liver becomes overloaded, two emergency exits are used: mucous membranes for the excess starches (sugar) and fats (mucus), and the skin for defective acid metabolism.
Blood
Blood flows through the body, distributing bad substances as well as good ones. The more it becomes loaded with any sort of toxins, crystals, ferments and waste, the more its various functions are restricted.
As soon as a difficulty with blood or energy circulation occurs, a toxic mass forms, which could result in an abscess, a cyst, a calculus, eczema, or even cancer.
Fermentation, whether physical or psychological, causes heat to be released in the body; this is the sole cause of fever.
In the case of a particular illness such as rheumatism, people who suffer from it are not affected in the same part of their body. In certain people, the hips are affected, whereas for others the elbow, shoulder or toes become the chosen areas for toxic build-up.
Colon Fermentation
Fermentation is a manifestation of a living phenomenon. It is important for us to remain at a fermentation level that is compatible with human life. In order to do this, it is essential to be careful about the lifestyle we lead.
Ferments, which are produced by the fermentation of toxins, are otherwise known as microbes for small organisms, and viruses for invisible organisms. What humans call microbes or viruses are the product of fermentation, never the cause of disease.
Infection is only due to toxin fermentation and retention within the body:
- Toxins cannot circulate inside the body in their ingested form. The transformations that the body forces them to undergo aim at maintaining balance; fermentation is one of the most common means by which the body rids itself of waste.
- Depending on the individual, fermentation spreads as infection in limbs, organs, glands, etc., because it tries to find an exit that it has not found through the usual routes due to the colon’s state of overload.
A person cannot be healthy if the intestine is full of toxins; it is essential for the bodily fluids (blood, lymph, bile or cephalorachidian liquid) to remain free of impurities.
Let’s get back to the liver…
The liver constantly filters blood. It intervenes in more than 200 vital functions, such as the synthesis of vitamins, hormones, and proteins for example. It also has an anti-toxic function that is particularly interesting. Traditionally considered to be a crystalloid emunctory, it is in fact perfectly mixed and must be accompanied in its efforts in almost all pathologies (even psychosomatic, as the liver controls emotions, frustrations and anger). The liver also controls the filtration of one liter per minute of blood at rest, as well as the nutrients and wastes from the intestine. This rate is sufficient for the smooth running of each filtering cell (hepatocyte), but it may suffer from a slowing down, stasis, congestion due to mechanical causes (ptosis – prolapse or drooping of any organ, clothing), chemical causes (additives, medication, drugs), metabolic causes (constipation, sedentariness, blood viscosity), nervous causes (visceral spasms, stress), thermic causes (cold), psychological causes, etc. The pressure of blood arriving in the liver is therefore no longer sufficient for filtering to take place effectively. The liver becomes congested and unfiltered blood re-enters circulation co-laterally. Humoral pollution begins. The liver is the main filter of the body. When it becomes congested, other filters are to join in the filtering of the wastes.
The temperature of the liver is situated between 39 and 41°C. It is unclear whether it is the liver itself that generates this high temperature. But one thing is certain, it does function better when its temperature is elevated; this explains the effectiveness of hot-water bottles.
The gall bladder collects bile from the liver and pours it into the duodenum with the passing of food. In less than an hour, it can stock 20 times its volume in bile and mucus. Its contents are composed of mucus, pigments, cholesterol, bilirubin (from red blood cells in senescence – growing old), urobilin and stercobilin of intestinal origin, and toxic biliary salts and acids. The flow of bile is ineffective when:
- the liver works slowly (often following exhaustion due to over-eating)
- bile is too thick or loaded with waste
- the gall bladder has lost its tonicity
- the functioning of the vesicle sphincter is spasmodic (nervous tensions).
Thus, bile stagnates too long in the gall bladder, thickens, and the waste found in it starts to build up and form small calculi which can increase in size over time and block the flow of bile.
Signs of Proper and Poor Liver / Gall Bladder Functioning
When the liver and gall bladder function well, we feel no signs and digestion is carried out normally.
Functional disorders of the liver and gall bladder become manifest with the following symptoms:
- General digestive disorders
- Intolerance to certain foods, especially fatty foods such as eggs, cream, etc.
- Nausea, dizzy spells
- Migraine following meals
- Coated white tongue
- Bloating, accumulation of gas following meals
- Heaviness, pains and prickling sensation near the liver
- Yellowish complexion
Now, let’s investigate the other emunctories (filters)…
Kidneys = Renal Emunctory
Blood, loaded with waste, is driven to the kidneys by the two renal arteries. Once it is purified, it exits through the renal veins that flow into the inferior vena cava. The filtered waste is diluted in water and excreted as urine, which is then collected in the renal pelvis, then brought by the ureters to the bladder.
Thus, urine is the result of blood filtration by the kidneys.
“Intelligent” filtration collects useful elements (sugars, minerals, amino acids, etc.) and only eliminates waste and toxic elements: urea, uric acid, hippuric acid, crystalline sediments, organic acids, ammonia, hydrogen ions, drug molecules, various additives and inorganic pollutants, excess vitamins, gas, etc.
In order to guarantee good blood purification by the kidneys, six factors must be taken into account:
Blood Purification Factors
Quality of the filtering membrane: If it is damaged and irritated by waste, it will not function properly.
- Waste concentration in the blood: If it exceeds the functional capacities of the filter, waste will no longer be filtered and will remain in the blood, accumulate and eventually clog the renal filter.
- The nature of waste: Waste may consist of chemical or synthetic substances, which are incompatible with biological cycles and which the kidneys cannot filter properly. Tiny lesions may appear, or the filter may become clogged, which affects the elimination of toxins.
- Blood pressure: Blood filtration depends on blood pressure when passing through the renal filter. If pressure is normal, filtration is carried out properly. However, if a person suffers from low blood pressure, filtration may not be carried out effectively.
- Circulation rate: This represents the amount of blood that circulates at any given time. The more blood flows through the kidneys, the more it will be purified.
- Temperature: Like the liver, the kidneys seem to require a temperature that is close to 40 degrees in order to function well. Kidneys that are exposed to low temperatures do not function as well.
Signs of Good and Poor Renal Functioning
Renal function is often disrupted by drugs, insufficient (or excessive) ingestion of liquids, alcohol, sedentariness, cold, stress, etc.
Frequency
The number of daily urination is approximately five. The color of urine should normally be lemon yellow.
It is possible that the kidneys eliminate more than normal due to a vital defense mechanism. Urine flows abundantly and is mud-like, very dark and strong smelling. Burning sensations or pain may accompany urination. This excessive elimination is not bad as such, providing that its cause is discovered and suppressed before the filter sustains damage.
Coloration
Colorless or insufficiently colored urine often indicates that it is not eliminating enough waste.
Although this phenomenon is normal with people who drink a lot during the day since large quantities of liquids dilute urine.
Odor
Urine has a characteristic smell, which may be absent in cases of slow renal activity.
So, part 3 tomorrow….
