Detox Retreats With Essential Oils: An Amazing Combination
Detox retreats are becoming more and more popular with the raw food and yoga sets. In todays polluted environment, taking extra effort to release unneeded and toxic substances from the body can mark the dividing line between vitality and fatigue.
An innovation making its way into some detox retreats is the use of high grade essential oils as part of the detox protocols.
The reason for this is simple. These natural distillates of aromatic plants are able to detoxify tissues that are harder to cleanse with fruit and vegetable juices.. Juices definitely cleanse blood, lymphatic tissue, and intracellular fluids, namely, the water-based areas of the body. But some very important areas of your body are not water-based.
Your brain contains more fat than anything else. The nervous system as a whole, the liver, and the kidneys are also fairly fatty structures. And of course theres a layer of fat below the skin. The fatty tissues tend to be where we tuck away toxins from the environment. Heavy metals, petrochemicals from exhaust fumes, skin care products, and household cleaners, chemicals such as pesticides they all end up in the fatty tissues. Once these substances are in the fatty areas of the body, they are harder to flush out than the toxins that are in more active circulation in the blood and lymph.
How to Detoxify Fatty Tissues
Thats where essential oils come into the detox picture. They are fat soluble and easily penetrate the bodys fatty areas. They even contain substances called sesquiterpenes that can cross the blood-brain barrier and work to cleanse and strengthen the brain tissues. They break down petrochemicals and heavy metal salts in the body.
During a detox retreat, they can be taken internally along with juice, massaged into the skin, and added to colon hydrotherapy treatments. Using them this way will definitely enhance the effects of the detox retreat.
Clinical trials that have been done at the Scottish Agricultural College in the United Kingdom and the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Hungary, found that daily lifelong feeding of thyme and clove essential oils to laboratory animals preserved key antioxidant levels in the liver, kidneys, heart and brain. As a result, these organs were not damaged by environmental and metabolic toxins to the same extent as would normally be expected over time. Brain chemistry was so profoundly affected in these animal experiments that a human being experiencing the same effect would experience the brain chemistry of a 20-year-old at 80 years of age!
A 2003 clinical study of four individuals tested the effects of three essential oils on mercury detoxification. Over only four days of evaluation, four healthy individuals taking distillates of helichrysum, ledum and celery seed doubled their urinary elimination of mercury.
Oil Quality is Critical
Do not use an essential oil internally or topically for cleansing purposes unless it is clearly labelled as safe for internal use. Also note that oils not labelled as safe for internal use may be contaminated with chemicals or plant substances not listed on the label.
Blogging
