Acne Eczema Psoriasis
Lots of great info. here explaining the root of ACNE which some of
you have and its relation to toxins. Focus on healing the entire body
and removing toxins for a better and happier well being.
Toxemia means blood poisoning. Way back in 1926, a famous Colorado
healer, JH Tilden MD, wrote a book which was the culmination of a
lifetime of clinical experience, Toxemia Explained. Dr. Tilden was
radical. He didn’t believe drugs cured disease. He had one simple
thesis:
"… every so-called disease is a crisis of toxemia, which means that
toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration point. …
the crisis, the so-called disease - call it cold, flu, pneumonia,
headache, or typhoid fever - is a vicarious elimination. Nature is
endeavoring to rid the body of toxin."
A disease is named for where the toxins accumulate so much that that
body part starts failing.
This concept of disease, known as vicarious elimination, has never
been disproven. What happens is, the normal avenues for expelling
waste - liver, kidneys, colon - are overwhelmed by the amount of
poisons being accumulated. As a survival instinct, various other
organs of the body which were not designed for elimination of toxins
become enlisted to help get rid of wastes. They try desperate
measures to expel the indigestible, rotting poisons, often becoming
inflamed or diseased themselves in the attempt.
One obvious example of this idea is ACNE. Acne is not a skin problem.
It is a vicarious elimination: the blood and the colon are so backed
up with poisons that are accumulating faster than they can escape
that the body tries an extreme solution: expel the poisons through
the body’s largest organ: the skin. An alternative escape route. As
the poisons leave, they irritate the normal skin and cause rash,
redness, or pustulated eruptions, like pimples or boils. This is why
skin creams and lotions don’t work in such a scenario. It’s not a
skin problem. It’s a problem of chronic blood poisoning by means of
an indigestible diet. Third World people rarely get acne. Acne is a
disease of excess, a consequence of the fast food lifestyle.
Chronic "incurable" eczema and psoriasis often fall into the same
category. People suffer needlessly for years with these diseases,
under the direction of their well-intentioned but clueless
dermatologist who has convinced them that their only hope is to find
the right medication for their "skin disease."
Same with the kidneys. Their original job was simply to maintain
water and electrolyte balance within the blood. But with the advent
of modern foods of commerce, suddenly the kidneys find themselves
spending all their energy trying to filter out these new manmade
chemicals from the blood - a function for which they were never
designed. Result: kidney disease today is the #9 cause of death in
the US. (Historical Statistics)
Dr. Henry Bieler offers another example of vicarious elimination: the
lungs take over for the kidneys. When the level of toxins in the
blood exceeds the kidneys’ capacity to eliminate them via the urine,
the lungs try to take up some of the slack. The lungs secrete some of
the blood’s toxins through their mucous membranes. Such toxicity
irritates and inflames the delicate lung membranes, and can be the
initial cause of pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, edema or virtually
any other lung problem.
Same with a cold. A cold is simply the body’s way of saying that the
level of toxicity has now surpassed the body’s ability to get rid of
wastes through the normal avenues: colon, kidneys, and liver. So it
will try alternative or vicarious routes: nose, mouth, throat, eyes,
lungs.
Bieler uses this same model to explain dysmenorrhea and pelvic
inflammatory disease: irritation of female organs when they are used
as alternate routes of toxin removal from the blood, every month. At
menopause, when this avenue of detox falls into disuse, various new
problems may occur as a result. Vicarious elimination: an organ of
reproduction being used as an emergency organ of detoxification.
Again, Tilden’s theory of vicarious elimination is that many diseases
are really just an organ’s emergency attempt to discharge excess
poisons because the primary avenues are overloaded. If that body part
is overwhelmed in the process, it becomes diseased and we pretend
that that organ, in isolation from the rest of the body, is the
problem.
Such thinking is more than just simplistic and disingenuous; if
medical decisions are based on false perceptions characterizing the
diseased organ as the disease, the results can range from ineffective
to fatal.
Dr. Tilden felt that undigested food in the intestines and in the
blood was the primary cause of all disease. His ideas are now being
substantiated in most gastroenterology journals, which explore in
great detail the ‘modern’ phenomenon of
Leaky Gut Syndrome.