TOXAEMIA

We are aware of the fact that the main cause of any disease is lowered vitality or it’s enervation. Now let’s see what is the main cause of lowered vitality.

In Naturopathy we say that the deposition or retention of metabolic waste products (which are toxic to the body), creates a condition called toxaemia, which is the main cause of lowered vitality. Let’s take an example to learn about what are toxins and toxaemia. Suppose you are going out of station for a week, and you forgot to empty your garbage tin, which was fully loaded by your meals leftovers. Now, what do you think about what will happen in that garbage tin when you return back after a week? The garbage will start decaying, realizing toxic vapors in a form of horrible odour, providing an environment conducive for parasites to grow and by all this, it will eventually destroy the surrounding environment of the house within a week. The same thing happens in our body, if the metabolic waste products are improperly eliminated, they will start to deposit and will affect the internal environment of the body by making it more conducive for any disease to grow.

All toxins come from two sources: internal and external. Our internal sources account over 80% of the body’s toxins with the rest coming from external factors. As you know, our body continuously experiences wear and tear due to all our daily activities. Because of this, the old cells are degenerative while new cells are being produced. Ideally, the garbage our body produces should be excreted regularly to make room for the new. And for the excretion of this garbage, we need help of our vitality. But what we see, is that we tend to keep our body too busy with activities which wastefully use up our dynamic life force, such as anxiety, over-indulgence in sex, stress-filled lifestyle, etc. This deficiencies of life force leads to improper elimination of toxin from our body. Therefore, the excess becomes deposited in body systems thus disturbing its normal functioning. This is the reason why constipation is called the mother of all diseases.

Likewise, external factors, such as faulty diets, lack of exercise or over exercise, unhealthy environment filled with pollution, over consumptions of medications, negative emotions, etc lead to an abnormally high amount of toxins deposition. This excess causes the body to work harder, thus depleting our dynamic life force once again. The end result of both causes is the creation of an environment conducive for disease to cultivate, grow, and multiply. This is what we define as toxaemia. If you are aware of Naturopathy treatments, you would know that the main aim of all treatments is same, “Removal of toxins”, ones the deposited toxins are removed from the body our vital energy or dynamic life force will no longer be wasted, so it will automatically start working towards the healing process. It is said that the deposition of any substance in the body which is no longer useful or not going to be used in the near future, is considered as toxins, it also includes an excess amount of fat cell too.

One important point to note is that toxaemia does not appear in any pathological test or investigation unless there is some change in the structure and fluids of the body. The real disease is the cause of symptoms, not the symptoms themselves.

This explanation is not done in the air, there is a whole theory called “Toxaemia Theory” given by Dr. J H Tilden, in his book “Toxaemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease.”

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