Cleansing Bath recipe

As you are all aware, I am always open to natural remedies and prefer them to AMA recommendations. This week my Aunt Linda visited on the occasion of Samuel Gordon Price's birth (Feb 15), and we again got time to chat. She was telling me about a book she's read entitled Ultra-Metabolism, by Dr. Mark Hyman. It sounds interesting, and I look forward to reading it.

In our discussion, though, she was telling me about how the author recommends sweating out our toxins. I've long known about the power of releasing toxins through the skin, and of the power of a hot bath. However, my experience has been that a plain hot bath isn't enough. There has seemed like something missing. I think it is because of an incomplete "recipe". Hyman's recipe just might have the missing ingredient.

Per my talk with my aunt, Hyman recommends doing the following:
Submerge as much of your body in a bath as hot as you can tolerate. In the bath water, pour 2 cups of Epsom Salts and 1 cup baking soda. Soak for 20 minutes. Get out of the bath, but do not rinse off. Wrap yourself in towels and/or robes and then climb into bed. Cover yourself in blankets & keep yourself as warm as possible. Lay in bed for another 20 minutes. If I remember correctly, she also said that you do not need to rinse off afterwards, but I would guess that it would be good to exfoliate, either with a dry brush or a damp washcloth. Her recommendation was to dry-brush beforehand so as to stimulate your glands, but I'm also cautious about afterwards. My thought is this: our skin is porous so what comes out can also go back in. I suppose we should both see Dr. Hyrum's book for a more complete description, huh!!

I look forward to trying this as I've been meditating on doing a cleanse & a salt/soda bath just might be the right solution for my body. I'll keep you posted.


NOTE: I've had a few friends express concern that I might be ill. I want to say that I'm not ill, but my body is mildly toxic. In my effort to prevent illness, I'm doing things now to help my body return to and stay in balance as much as possible. It's easier to do when you're mostly healthy than when you're mostly not. Remember: disease is really just DIS-EASE. No wonder laughter is still the best medicine!!