| The
following is an excerpt from Ran Knishinsky's book, The Clay Cure:
Health depends on three
factors:
- Eating good,
nourishing foods.
- Absorbing those
foods properly so your cells don't starve.
- Eliminating all
the waste matter from your system
First, to live
vibrantly, the foods that feed the body must be the right kind--that
is, they must contain the vitamins, minerals and enzymes necessary to
feed the cells. Hippocrates was correct when he said, "Your food
shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food."
Whatever we put into the body is automatically used for its growth,
maintenance, and repair. That is exactly how food acts as
medicine. A balanced diet provides the building blocks of a
healthy body.
Second, the body must
properly assimilate the foods to receive their vital nutrients.
When the food enters the small intestine, the pancreas and small bowel
wall must send juices and bile to individually digest the
carbohydrates, proteins, and fat. That's a lot of work for a
healthy system, much more so for one that is already sick. If
the body cannot perform this job, then the cells become weakened and
starve.
Third and last is the
importance of elimination. For many years people in the natural
health field have told us that poor bowel health causes and aggravates
disease conditions. Now, research is beginning to substantiate
these beliefs. John Tilden, M.D., author of Toxemia
(1974), states that the basic cause of disease is insufficient
drainage of waste matter: that toxins have accumulated in the blood
above the toleration point, and disease--call it a cold, a flu, a
headache--is the result of an accumulation of poisons in the system.
If the system fails
to get rid of poisons through the bowels, a constipated condition
arises in which the toxins never leave the body. They sit inside
and putrefy. What's worse, the body doesn't know the difference
between live food and dead food in the colon. It will still try
to get nourishment out of waste you would never want to set your eyes
upon. Naturally, this puts a strain on every functioning cell in
the body.
THE
CLAY AT WORK
The clay's immediate
action upon the body is directly on the digestive channel. This
involves the clay actually binding with the toxic substances and
removing them from the body with the stool. It performs this job
with every kind of toxin, including those from the environment, such
as heavy metals, and those that occur naturally as by-products of the
body's own health processes, such as metabolic toxins. It's hard
to believe that the body produces its own toxins, but that may happen
as a result of stress, inefficient metabolism, or the proliferation of
free radicals.
The body has no
problem ridding itself of the clay. Don't worry about a tiny
brick house being built in the middle of your colon. The clay
assists the body's eliminatory process by acting as a bulking agent,
similar to psyllium fiber, sweeping out the old matter that doesn't
need to be there. It is not digested in the same manner as food
as it passes through the alimentary canal. Instead, it
stimulates intestinal peristalsis, the muscular contractions that move
food and stool through the bowels. The clay and the adsorbed
toxins are both eliminated together; this keeps the toxins from being
reabsorbed into the bloodstream. |
