It appears after the end-of-year parties as a slight discomfort, a headache, a cold. Most people will say something like, "I think I'm getting the flu." The more informed ones will be able to look back, think about the excesses of the last weeks and understand: they are the first signs of an intoxication. Which, if it's handled right, will be nothing more than that. And if it is not, it can turn into anything - even a beautiful flu, one of those that leaves us in bed.
This is a key to understanding how the body works and avoiding illness: everything that is excessive produces toxins that can and should come out - via the intestines, bladder, lungs, respiratory mucosa, skin.
An intoxication can be scandalous, when it comes from spoiled food that soon produces vomiting and diarrhea. But it can be discreet. Slow and gradual. Just like we get at the end of the year if you don't pay attention. As my friend Susana Ayres, physiotherapist and acupuncturist from Brasilia says, the sum of factors changes the product a lot.
"What we consume most at Christmas and New Year's Eve are energetically warm foods, prepared in the oven, unsuitable for the summer - baked meats, cakes, pies, all delicious and irresistible. Accompanied by mayonnaise, chestnuts and fried food, which add some fatal fats. Plus the sweets that don't admit refusal. Plus wine, beer, soda and sparkling wine at toast time. Add to this the fact that everything has been prepared long before, expected outside the refrigerator for hours, which allows the proliferation of animals. And finally the fact that we are eating very late, at a time when the body usually does not process food well".
Well, so what? So you don't party? Of course we do, now. But knowing that for every poison there is an antidote.
Susana says we can think of three levels of intoxication: light, moderate and strong. The slightest gives symptoms such as irritability, drowsiness, a little thing on the skin, intestinal gases, constipation or diarrhea, colds and flu, mild menstruation disorders. "In this situation it is enough to make adjustments in the diet, eliminating dairy products, animal products and sugar for a few days and increasing the consumption of vegetables, fruits, juices, water and teas such as banchá, green tea, lemon grass, fennel, chamomile and mint," she says.
More consistent intoxication already produces repeated symptoms such as gastritis, migraine, labyrinthitis, dizziness and motion sickness, severe intestinal constipation, parasitosis, anaemia, high cholesterol, sinusitis, skin or respiratory allergies. This phase also includes joint pain without a defined cause, tendonitis, menstrual disorders, hormonal and premenstrual tension. There, Susana usually orients to a longer detoxification diet, of at least one month, to restore the body's defenses. And if there's parasitosis, you can treat it.
Severe intoxication is already the disease itself. Shoo, disease!
A detox bath, taken once a week, helps to eliminate the ills while cleansing the blood with holy foods. It is of bathtub and it is made like this: in very hot water, dissolve half a cup of baking soda, or fruit salt, or sea salt. Soak for 15 minutes and then rub the whole body with a loofah. The water may even become cloudy with so much toxin that it comes out.
"If you let out what is in you, what you let out will save you; if you do not let out what is in you, what you do not let out will destroy you."
from the book "Amiga Cozinha"
Source: https://soniahirsch.com.br/2016/12/06/detox/
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