I incorporate very unique natural healing techniques from Japan. Our approach is to focus on the root cause of illness. You may be surprised to hear if there are underlying common root cause which develops illness. Let me explain.
1. Improper, imbalanced diet, overeating
First and the most, our modern diet brought us imbalanced dietary pattern. Modern Western diet heavily relies on white flour, refined white sugar and prepared, processed foods including microwave foods for convenience and fast paced life style. Also, we created culture to consume foods for emotional comfort, which often leads to overeating beyond one’s digestive capacity. All these dietary patterns contribute to overwhelming one’s digestive ability and causing accumulating undigested foods in the digestive tracts that eventually absorbed into the blood stream, which would create allergic reactions and low ering immune system over a period of time.
2. Environmental toxins, toxins from food (such as pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, additives, artificial sweeteners, flavors, and GMOs), and by-product of medications
We are constantly exposed to environmental toxins, heavy metals and bacteria in the water, agricultural chemicals, such as pesticides, herbicides, added hormones, antibiotics, GMOs, and other food additives, artificial sweeteners, flavors. All medications are foreign objects to our bodies. They are detoxified in the liver, but their by-products are stored in the body until they are excreted from the body. Often our body is overloaded with toxins, its detoxification ability is compromised and it is unable to excrete toxins out of the body. This would lower organ functions as well as immune system.
3. Low body temperature
Our bodily functions depend on the body temperature. For instance, our immune system kicks in when it is elevated at the certain temperature, usually 97.5 F or 36.5 C or higher. That is why we cause fevers when we are getting sick. When the body temperature is decreased by 1 degree C, 36% of immune functions decline, 12% of basic metabolism declines and 50% of enzymatic activities decline. In the modern society, people take too much food that lower body temperature (Yin foods). Also medications such as pain killers and anti inflammatory medicines are cooling in nature. Using too much ACs also contributes to cooling the bodily temperature. According to Eastern Medicine, it is understood that when the interior (organs) is cold and weak, the exterior (surface of the body) feels hot and sweats more, often leading to weak immune system.
4. Blood stagnation – increased viscosity of the blood
Improper diet, toxins in the body, lower body temperature as described above, as well as lack of exercise and stress, cause poor blood circulation, leading to blood stagnation. When the blood circulation is poor, the body may be unable to excrete toxins and therefore toxins are accumulated in the blood. The blood may also get thickened and viscous. When this happens, the body would alarm us and try to release toxins in various ways through such symptoms as skin rashes, allergies, inflammations, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, thrombosis and bleeding and eventually possibly cancers.
5. Autonomic nervous system imbalance (sympathetic nervous system dominance)
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system for visceral functions, including heart rate, breathing, digestion, salivation, swallowing, perspiration, pupillary dilation and urination. It is called the autonomic nervous system as it does not involve conscious mind. The ANS is divided into three main sub-systems: the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), and the enteric nervous system (ENS). ANS and PSNS are regulators. ANS acts like an accelerator, while PSNS like a break. When under stress, ANS becomes dominant. It turns on the “fight and freight” mode, meaning that the body is hyperactive and alert, and that most of the bodily functions are off, including digestion, sleep and the immune system, so as to prepare for fight and freight. PSNS is the opposite. It enhances relaxation and strengthens digestion, sleep and immune system. Therefore, strengthening PSNS is the key for healing.
6. Emotional and Energetic imbalances
Whether cancers or diabetes, the emotional and energetic factor contributes to developing illness. German Medicine, for example, investigates the emotional factor in the process of developing illness including cancers. Accumulated stress from daily life may develop sympathetic nervous system dominance, where one would constantly undergo the “fight and freight response”, which would further lower the immune system. Negative thinking patterns and attitude may sabotage one’s healing process and slow down recovery from illness.
7. Consciousness – spiritual awareness
Consciousness is the quality or state of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Consciousness has become a crucial topic in quantum physics and more and more its role toward healing is discussed. One’s developing and recovering from illness may be dependent on various questions relevant to one’s consciousness level: How do you see your life? Can you see illness from a bigger perspective? Are you taking responsibility for healing? Are you willing to search toward finding one’s life purpose, life goal, life direction and life mission?
These seven root causes would further develop the following conditions:
1. All of the above weaken organ functions and make them sluggish, so that they are unable to function properly: including digestion, absorption, elimination, detoxification, hormonal balance, and circulation of the blood.
2. Due to the toxic loads and weakened organ functions such as the liver, the immune system response is weakened and the body becomes susceptible to infections.
3. The body is compromised with infections to parasite, fungi, candida and any other organisms.
4. The above conditions further weaken the digestive system. The digestive tracts cannot absorb nutrients or undigested foods and toxins in the digestive tracts are absorbed from the intestinal lining and released into the blood stream, even more spreading the toxins throughout the body (leaky gut).
5. Lack of exercise, poor circulation of the blood and stress response due to sympathetic nervous system dominance lower the oxygen at the cellular level. Healthy cells in the body are aerobic, meaning they require adequate levels of oxygen for cellular respiration and growth. When cells are deprived of oxygen for any reason, cells may lose normal functions and they can mutate or die. There is a close link discovered between the low oxygen level and cancer growth as cancer cells are anaerobic and actually thrive in an oxygen-deficient environment.
6. Toxic or negative energy and emotions
Eastern Medicine views that emotions are stored in the relevant organs. For instance, anger, frustration and depression are stored in the liver; lack of joy or anxiety in the Heart; excessive worry and overthinking in the Spleen; grief and sadness in the lungs; and fear and freight in the kidneys. When accumulated over a long period of time, may further lower the immune system and affect functions of relevant organs according to Eastern Medicine.