In our last article we began looking into the channels of elimination. There are seven channels- seven systems in your body that are responsible for making sure that your blood is clean. These channels have been equipped by nature to do perfect work but since we have the power of choice we often through ignorance or willful disobedience put burdens on these channels and make their work heavy till they can no longer do efficient work. In this article we are going to take a look at the other 4 channels of elimination. We want to help you understand that a little effort on your part based on intelligence of how these channels do their work can go a long way to enhance your health, restore back ill health and save a life.
We have talked about the lungs, the kidneys and the lymphatic system.
Which are the remaining ones?
The blood itself, the skin, the liver and the colon.
THE BLOOD
You may wonder how the blood is also a channel of elimination. It seems a paradox but it is the fact. The blood by virtue of the fact that it supplies every cell in your body with oxygen to some 60 trillion cells and nutrients is the carrier of the substances that cleans the blood. The blood not only transports nutrients but also carries away wastes and delivers messages via the hormones it carries from the endocrine glands. As a front line of defense, it destroys threatening invaders. Life ceases, or is supported, on a cellular level. Life processes proceed or fail on a cellular level and it is the blood that reaches every cell in your body. Be good to your blood. Tired blood results in a tired immune system, leading to increased risks, increased premature aging.
How can a person be good to his blood?
Through your daily choices of obedience to the laws of health you can be good to your blood. Keep in mind that you make good blood by choosing natural wholesome food. Eating the food at the right time and not eating between meals. Without good circulation good blood is worthless. Physical exercise helps good circulation. A sedentary lifestyle is unfriendly to your blood. Keep in mind blood supplies every cell in your body. Wherever blood doesn’t reach the first signal you get is pain. When you feel pain anywhere understand that the area is poorly oxygenated. Jamming your body with medications to stop pains does not solve the problem as this only quiets the signal. The secret is to find out the cause of the pain and make the necessary lifestyle changes to get rid of the problem.
THE SKIN
The skin has been referred to as the body’s frontier and its acid mantle, among other descriptive terms. From birth through life, this thin, sensitive, elastic covering is exposed to more disease and injury than any other tissue of the body, from the scalp to the soles of the feet. The skin is literally assaulted directly and indirectly, inside and outside, by countless traumas. There is an inter-relationship between the stomach and the skin. Unless glands in the walls of the stomach secret sufficient hydrochloric acid, the skin can lose its surface acidity, inviting infection. In addition, frequent washing with soaps, most of which are alkaline, removes all the protective oil as well as the acidity. You age more from loss of moisture than from loss of oil. It is the interrelating of the diet, digestion, assimilation and elimination of the skin’s health that promotes a healthy completion. Gentle friction, by the use of a skin brush, cleanses skin deep without removing the entire protective mantle. Use Epsom salt.
How about creams applied on skin to make it beautiful?
You need to exercise a lot of caution on what you apply to your skin. The absorptive ability is demonstrated when garlic is applied to the soles of the feet. Almost instantaneously the pungent odors are detectable on the breath. In demonstrated cases of external feeding of a mixture of vitamins, oils, enzymes and minerals has been applied to the skin and absorbed by the skin to keep comatose patients alive and well nourished, sometimes for as long a month or two, without loss of weight. So, whatever you apply on your skin goes into your cells all over you body. So avoid pollutants and carcinogens. Also water intake is very important to help your skin in its cleaning assignment. Exercising to the point of perspiration is crucial in the elimination of toxins. Eat plenty of fresh greens and other raw foods. Nutrition is of paramount importance to the skin.
Do deodorants help the skin in its work?
Deodorants usually contain a form of aluminum, which causes more problems to the body as it suppresses normal perspiration, which should have no odor unless there is a toxic condition. There are reliable deodorants, which contain no harmful substances. Sponging with a solution of baking soda or Epsom salt and water is effective for some. Others have found the use of lemon juice beneficial. The best deodorant is a clean intestine and bowel. A warm bath followed by a cool or cold splash would complete this beauty treatment.
THE LIVER
The most important organ in the human body is the liver. Lying mainly in the right side of the upper abdomen under the diaphragm and the ribs, the liver is the largest organ in the body and one of the most important for maintaining health. Without the liver there can be no life. The liver performs approximately 500 functions and still counting.
It acts as:
an incinerator in which wastes of the body are burned, providing warmth
as a vascular sponge which soaks up excess blood;
as a chemical processing plant for breaking down certain substances and manufacturing others;
as a reservoir of storage for different food elements for release as the body requires them.