Understanding the Healing Crisis and Hering's Law of Cure Cleansing Reactions or detoxification are adjustments made by the body to purge waste material from within. The elimination of stored toxins, sometimes called a healing crisis, is part of the body's healing process. During a Healing crisis toxins are pulled out of the body tissues and into circulation to be eliminated. It is difficult for people accustomed to having symptoms suppressed by medications to understand that a healing crisis is a natural process, which may cause some initial discomfort. It is important to understand this natural process occurring inside the body instead of resorting to drugs, which may defeat the regenerative intent of the body.
Symptoms represent the body's efforts to heal itself.
Therefore, they are stimulated to complete the curative process. Minor ailments are often compounded by the use of drug therapy, which suppresses symptoms and weakens the body's line of defense. Rather than suppressing symptoms we need to interpret and understand the changes that arise from introducing higher quality foods, or discontinuing the use of stimulants such as coffee, tea or chocolate. There are basically three phases the body goes through as it strives for a new level of well being. The first is catabolism, the elimination or breakdown of tissue Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food.