HERBS FOR DETOXIFICATION
How to Use Chinese Herbs for Detoxification, Cleansing, and Purging
Cautions About De-toxing
Signs of Toxicity
Herbs that Clean Toxins
Purgative Herbs
Cautions About De-Toxification
Detoxification is appropriate only when toxicity is confirmed and verified. Using these herbs for general cleansing, without symptomatic or other proof of toxicity is NOT recommended. Assumptions that we are toxic because we live in a toxic environment are generally incorrect. In modern Western countries such environmental poisonings are rare. Many ailments attributed to toxicity by holistic practitioners have other causes, more easily perceived through the eyes of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When the body is harmonious, it cleans itself remarkably well. Purgation therapies, though they may improve symptoms temporarily, rarely solve long term problems, because they do not address root causes. Even more dangerous is the fact that detoxification therapies are usually costly to the Qi, and that many complaints that motivate people to seek these therapies are actually caused by weak Qi.
Signs and Symptoms of Toxicity
Hot painful sores, red swellings, hard nodules
blotchiness or purpuric rash
carbuncles, abcesses, boils, erysipilas, and other skin eruptions,
fevers, swollen sore throat, tonsilitis, mumps and other infections and epidemic poisons
cancers, jaundice
Common Herbs that Clean Toxins
Single Herbs that Clear Heat and Clean Toxins
Honeysuckle - Jin Yin Hua
Forsythia - Lian Qiao
Isatis (indigo) - Ban Lan Gen
Dandelion - Pu Gong Yin
Violet - Zi Hua Di Ding
Purslane - Ma Chi Xian
Chinese Dittany Root - Bai Xian Pi
Puffball - Ma Bo
Silkworm - Jiang Can
Herbal Products to Clean Toxins
Chinese Bitters
Lian Qiao Cheh Tu Pian
Armadillo Counter Poison Pil
Yin Chiao Chieh Tu Pian l
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