Healing Crisis: A crisis or a process towards healing?

When you become ill the treatment you seek and are prescribed sometimes lead to the symptoms getting worse before they get better. Why is this so?

When a bacterial infection occurs, the bad bacteria accumulate into colonies in your fat tissues. Treatment causes them to die and these toxins known as endotoxins are then released into the bloodstream to be subsequently filtered and flushed out from our body.

This detoxifying process is a necessary step towards healing that may cause additional symptoms creating temporary extra discomfort, stress and anxiety for the person.

How do you know it is a healing crisis?
When the expected healing doesn’t occur but instead you experience worsening symptoms is a good general indication you are experiencing a healing crisis. These reactions can take the following indications:

• Fatigue
• Diarrhea
• Aches and soreness
• Low-grade fever
• Anxiety
• Mood swings
• Nausea
• Skin irritations
• Stuffy nose
• Congestion
• Low blood pressure

Depending on the detoxifying reactions, they can run deep and bring out symptoms arising from long occurred and forgotten illnesses and not only from the immediate ailment. These symptoms can last a few days and can be severe depending on the level of toxicity needing to be flushed out.

Can healing crisis be prevented?
Our body is a dynamic structure that constantly adapts and changes according to circumstances and its own morphology for self-functioning balance. Toxins enter our body through breathing and diet and they accumulate in our body. This affects all our organs and its proper functioning or lack thereof.

Our digestive system and sweat glands perform the detoxifying process through our bowels and sweat. Sometimes due to lack of or insufficient exercise and inefficient and malfunctioning renal function these toxins do not get discharged and remain in our body. If they do the risk of a more serious disease or organ failure becomes higher.

Through eating detoxifying foods or massage that stimulate the central nervous systems, they stimulate our sensory glands that can trigger a detoxifying process resulting in a healing path.

Any healing process whether in a straight line or through a crisis will result in better health and a fitter body.

Good Health Regimen

When encountering a healing crisis, it is important to ensure adequate rest and good hydration as the body detoxifies to repair and rejuvenate itself.