Introduction to Cleansing Therapy

A Body Built for a World That No Longer Exists

Today, we live in a world that surrounds us with pollutants day in and day out. There is pollution in the air we breathe and food we eat. We live in cramped houses, rush to do several jobs that hardly leave any time for proper rest, causing tremendous stress on our body. And yet, we expect our body to chug along like a Formula 1 race car. All these factors, over a period of time, lead to accumulation of toxins in the blood, kidneys, liver, intestines, joints and other parts of the body.

Our body naturally tries to cleanse these toxins every day. Detoxification is the body's normal process of eliminating or neutralising toxins through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph and skin. In fact, internal detoxification is one of our body's most basic autonomic function.

In the present day scenario, body systems and organs that were once capable of removing unwanted substances are now completely overloaded. Many of these toxic substances stay in our tissues. Our bodies try to protect us by setting them aside, surrounding them with mucus or fat so that they don't cause an imbalance or trigger an immune reaction. Over a period of time, these toxins start affecting the functioning of our body, making us sick, fatigued and exhausted.

Who Is Sick? Who Is Healthy?

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Just because you are not sick, doesn't mean you are healthy.

If you ask me, "Who is sick, who is healthy?", I will ask you, "Do you experience the same energy levels as you did five years ago?". If your answer is yes, then you can stop reading this book as you do not need to do any cleansing. Your body parts and waste removal system are performing their duties perfectly. However, if your answer is no, then I would suggest that you try our Cleansing Therapy, especially the Liver Cleanse, at the earliest, to begin the cleansing process and remove harmful toxins from your body.

Poor Assimilation, Poor Elimination

Nature has designed us to live in green forests with high oxygen levels and eat raw food. If you watch National Geographic, History, Discovery, Animal Planet or similar TV channels, you will observe that no animal (except a pet) eats cooked food. Cooking food is the first step in polluting the body, but today we do not have a choice. In addition, our modern day food habits have led to the following consequences of bad health:

Poor assimilation: Proper assimilation provides a constant supply of building materials and energy needed for continual construction of new cells and tissues. Poor assimilation occurs when even one element needed for rebuilding is not sufficiently supplied to the body through diet and digestion, or is unable to convert it into specific nutrients necessary for building cells. Diseases attributed to poor assimilation involve nutritive deficiency resulting in cellular degeneration.

Poor elimination: The excretory system consists of the intestinal tract, kidneys, pores of the skin, liver and lungs. When an imbalance occurs in any of these organs, the excretory processes slow down and the result is a build up of toxins. These toxins can endanger any of the components and systems of the body, down to the cellular level, by impeding the rebuilding process, and result in numerous disease symptoms, such as bad breath, body odour, pale skin and tiredness. For example, you must have noticed that a small baby smells lovely. The smell continues as long as the baby is breast fed. On the other hand, a baby fed on milk formula does not smell so lovely. When the baby starts eating cooked food, the body odour starts changing and the urine and stool start giving off a bad odour. Similarly, carnivorous animals, e.g., tigers and leopards have a very pungent body odour, as opposed to herbivorous animals, such as cow and buffalo. A visit to the zoo can confirm the stinking smell near all carnivorous animals!

History of cooking: The origins of cooking are obscure. Primitive humans may have savoured roasted meat by chance, when the flesh of a beast killed in a forest fire was more palatable and easier to chew and digest than raw meat. However, they probably did not deliberately cook food, until long after they had learned to use fire for light and warmth. When humans began roasting meats over fire, it remained virtually the sole culinary technique until the Palaeolithic period (32,000 BC – 26,000 BC), when the Aurignacian people of southern France began to steam their food over hot embers by wrapping it in wet leaves.

Aside from crude procedures, such as toasting wild grains on flat rocks and using shells, skulls or hollowed stones to heat liquids, probably no further culinary advances were made until the introduction of pottery during the Neolithic period. Later, it was found that cooked food is softer than uncooked food and easier for young children and the elderly to chew. The powerful jaws of our ancestors were no longer needed and the result - evolution of our present day face and cranial structure. The number of teeth in an adult jaw gradually reduced from 44 to 32.

Is cooked food truly easy to digest? Try eating a raw carrot by chewing it well. Next, try eating any deep fried food. Compare and observe the ease with which the carrot was digested by the body as compared to the long process for digesting fried food. In another example, try eating a raw egg (though it is difficult to do so). The white protein part is easily digested. Now, try eating an egg in a fried form. This will be a lot more difficult to digest, especially if it is not chewed well.

Nowadays, cooking has evolved from simple recipes to the elaborate, heavily processed variety we see today. The menu has progressed from organically grown, alkaline, raw green vegetables in their natural form to acidic, cooked food, such as baked or fried pizzas, chapatis, burgers, chicken, aerated soft drinks, alcohol (beer, rum and whisky) and others.

Laws of nature: Nature intended everything to grow by itself, at its own pace, without the use of any external chemicals, such as fertilisers, pesticides or hormonal injections. The organic manure that nature provides is designed to assist in the growth of vegetation, just as our bodies have hormones designed to aid the process of growth. However, we abuse this system through unbridled use of chemicals and growth hormones. Not only are the resulting crops and vegetables toxic, but their nutritious properties are also changed. Genetically modified crops are specially designed in a way that several vital components are removed. For example, seedless grapes.

Thus, toxic chemicals accumulate in our bodies when we eat such food. We further worsen the situation by eating polluted food without even being aware of it. It is remarkable that our body is able to adapt to this constant influx of chemicals and still keep on working. It is so strong and adaptive that it takes 30-35 years for the first signs of the accumulated toxins to appear.

A Body No Engineer Could Build

Our bodies have been designed by the best engineer ever - Mother Nature. She not only designed us to be 'obsolescence proof', but also provided our body with an incomparable quality to heal itself, something that no engineer has been able to replicate so far. Consider the following facts:

The latest model of Mercedes Maybach S-600 Saloon, arguably the best model in automotive engineering, costs a whopping Rs 2.60 crores and has a 4.6 litres, V8 engine that produces 455 bhp and develops 700 Nm torque from as low as 1800 rpm. The engine is mated to a nine speed 9G-Tronic automatic transmission and has advanced electronic brake and traction control systems, individual wheel control to monitor vehicle yaw, airmatic suspension, distronic radar cruise control and parktronic systems, infra red night vision system and automatic crash deployment systems. However, as advanced as this latest model might be, it will still become obsolete in five years, after which it will be superseded by newer technological inventions.

Windows 95 was considered a cutting edge software 20 years ago, but has been superseded by newer versions today. These too will be obsolete in just a few years.

The various health problems outlined above suffice to keep the pharmaceutical industry robust and generate a huge turnover. If people start practicing Cleansing Therapy and even half of the sufferers are cured through use of inexpensive and easy to follow procedures, the medical establishment stands to lose a substantial amount. The problems with the acceptance of this therapy in mainstream healthcare are greed and money.

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An inexpensive process, Cleansing Therapy does not serve their money making purpose. Hence, it will never be promoted by moneybags of mainstream pharma companies. A healthy population means a dead pharmaceutical industry, but the million dollar question is - Do you want to remain sick to keep the pharmaceutical industry healthy?

The Kerosene We'd Never Put in a Car

We abuse our bodies constantly without even being aware of the tremendous harm we are doing to ourselves. Let me illustrate with an example: Most of us have owned a scooter, motorcycle or car at some point in our lives. I am going to ask you to fill kerosene in your prized possession just once. Oh yes! I do know that your vehicle is meant to run on petrol. So are you ready? No? I can imagine cries of horror about how such pollutants will foul up the engine.

Yet, we think nothing of consuming the so called 'food' in different forms (junk or otherwise), which is often a pollutant for our bodies, just as kerosene is for our vehicles. Instead of eating raw green vegetables and fruits, which are like 97 Super Octane that Mother Nature provided so that our bodies run smoothly, we resort to the quick fix. Does this not imply that we love our vehicles more than our bodies?

When our prized possession is in need of attention or repair, due to foul spark plugs for instance, we normally go to the roadside mechanic as our first choice, instead of qualified automotive engineers. Qualified engineers are highly skilled and can design a good scooter and supervise the mechanical assembly process of the vehicle at the plant but they are not the best option for minor repairs. Similarly, in our bodies, 90% of ailments can be cured at home through the simple process of Cleansing Therapy, for which we need not consult highly skilled specialists.

The requirement of specialist doctors has emanated due to vast progress in transportation facilities. Until 150 years ago, before the advent of railways, buses and cars, every village in the country was a complete self-sustained unit of habitation. It comprised of 200 to 500 families. It had people with different skills, such as cobblers, tailors, iron smiths and vaidya, and everyone had a role to perform in the society. If anyone had a health problem, they would visit their local vaidya. Nobody travelled to other places to look for a specialist just to get a label to his ailment. People were cured through indigenous therapies by their local vaidya.

Just like automotive engineers, specialists are familiar with the minutiae of medical problems, but often address the specifics while ignoring the overall condition. Seeking the opinion of specialists will definitely make you familiar with difficult medical terms, but will make you none the wiser about the cure for your ailment. More often than not, you will come back with a number of pills and a battery of tests that will relieve you off your hard earned money, but not your sufferings.

What Fixed Dosages Get Wrong

However, when a doctor prescribes three tablets to be taken on an eight hourly basis, it is probably not the most suitable dose for you (as is in most cases). The metabolic cycle of each person is different throughout the day. The rate is faster at noon and slower at night. Similarly, a tablet of uniform net weight or potency is not the right quantity for two patients, one weighing 45 kgs and the other 90 kgs. These fixed dosages are prescribed based on the convenience of the doctor. Your present ailment may be alleviated, but several new ones may take its place. Excessive medication has a number of side-effects, such as:

Why Most Therapies Don't Last

Is there a way to enjoy good health without constantly popping expensive pills? In the following pages, you will first learn about the basics of problems followed by solutions - or you can how cleanse your body through Cleansing Therapy and keep ailments away.

We have 28 cleanses in Cleansing Therapy. For complete details of the other cleanses, you can visit our websites www.drpiyushsaxena.com or www.thetempleofhealing.org.

Why do most therapies start out well and even provide good results in the short term, but eventually end up in failure? As soon as the practitioner takes a break from the therapy or stops it altogether, he, more often than not, reverts back to the original state of health. The answer is not that difficult to fathom.

Most of the conventional therapies require you to forego things that you like to eat or drink the most. Hence, their results tend to get reversed over time, as it is not humanly possible to give up favourite food/drinks forever.

The success of Cleansing Therapy and its enduring results lie in following its most important factors, which other therapies often ignore:

Two Causes, Not a Thousand

Cleansing Therapy adopts a holistic approach for curing illnesses. Rather than emphasising on alleviation of symptoms, the therapy focuses on treating their root causes. In order to address this issue, Cleansing Therapy makes some fundamental assumptions. The main causes of all medical problems are:

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There is no third cause. Remove pollutants and parasites from your body and it will attain good health on its own.

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse changes. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Key causes of land and water pollution include, urbanisation, improper waste disposal, industrial activities, nuclear research, chemicals released by heavy industries, coal fired power plants, metal production industries, agricultural runoff and improper agricultural practices, eroding water tables, and religious and social practices of dumping prayer material into rivers and lakes.

Humans possess property. They have a home to live. The home has a door. The door has a lock. This leads to a feeling of possession that everything inside the door is mine. The desire is natural. This feeling of attachment with belongings grows and leads to desire for growth in money, business, career, future of children and so on. More the desire, more the ailments. We have accepted this human desire of possession because a human being without dreams or desires is dead, though nature never intended this. No animal has a house or wealth. They don't have desires of material possessions. This is the reason that animals in forests do not suffer from diseases, such as diabetes, blood pressure, cancer, arthritis and acidity.

An organism that lives in our body (the host) and benefits by deriving nutrients from it, thereby harming it, is a parasite, such as a bacterium, protist, fungus, plant or animal, composed of a single cell or a complex structure of cells in which organelles or organs work together to carry out various processes of life. Some parasites live on the food we eat and exist mainly in our digestive tract. Others attach anywhere on the body, causing great harm.

Not all bacteria and fungi are bad. In fact, most bacteria are harmless and some are even beneficial, such as the gut bacteria that helps in digesting food. Likewise, there are certain fungi, particularly yeasts, that can help promote good health. Few others are used in food and medicine. In recent years, beneficial bacteria and fungi are being used as additives or supplements to promote healthy digestion.

Where Cleansing Therapy Fits

Cleansing Therapy is a part of non-conventional healing techniques that are often referred to as Complementary Medicine. This term is used for a group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that largely exist outside the realm of conventional or regular healthcare practice, i.e., allopathy. Complementary medicines that supplement the modern healthcare practice are currently gaining greater acceptance and popularity.

In Cleansing Therapy, the purpose is to restore balance and facilitate the body's own healing process rather than target any individual disease or alleviate troublesome symptoms. However, as propagators of Cleansing Therapy, we practice a holistic approach (treating the patient as a whole and not just a disease) to cure the patient. Cleansing Therapy seeks to promote overall well being, positive health, long-term relief and cure.

The book is written in a lucid and easy-to-understand language. The aim is to impart accessible and useful knowledge and experience to everyone from students, busy professionals, housewives and patients to their caring relatives.

Cost and Availability of Ingredients

Cleansing Therapy offers quite a few advantages over conventional therapies. It makes use of natural and easily available ingredients that do not have any adverse side-effects.

Cleansing Therapy uses relatively inexpensive products and easy to follow procedures. We have used commonly followed recipes popularly used all over the world before the advent of the pill popping culture. We have simplified certain processes and replaced some hard to find ingredients with alternatives to suit the present day Indian lifestyle without affecting the end result. We certainly do not expect a Hanuman-like effort of searching remote corners of the Himalayas to find the rare Sanjeevani herb to cure your ailments. We encourage you to find ingredients that are available in your local store or your kitchen.

Cleansing Therapy also recommends that you avoid using products containing artificial and scented chemicals as they do not offer any medical benefit and are added purely for aesthetic reasons, such as pleasant colour or smell. Their addition to commonly used products, such as hair oil, shampoo, soap, toothpaste and other toiletries, may build up toxins in our body when used over a long period of time, as they are often hard for the body to expel. During the cleansing process, you may substitute them with other safe and natural products from any homeopathic/herbal store.

Medical costs, including cost of medicines, doctor's fee, hospitalisation and other incidental costs, are an important factor for people selecting a treatment plan. Cleansing Therapy does not involve any hospitalisation, pathological tests or consultation fee. Here, you are your own doctor. The only expenses incurred are those on ingredients for the cleanses. Furthermore, this therapy uses materials available in the grocery section of most supermarkets in any city.

Cost effectiveness and wide availability of ingredients have always been on our mind in designing this Cleansing Therapy.

What Cleansing Aims to Change

Frequently Asked Questions