A friend of mine does reflexology. He's worked on my feet three times now. Twice, before I started taking Iodine, it was excruciating. He encouraged me to breathe deep and let him torture me, claims that if you are healthy, you don't feel any pain at all, that I really needed the deep work.

Apparently the tender spots are an indication of toxicity and illness. It hurt just about everywhere he touched me, really bad in some places.

I hadn't seen him in over a year. Yesterday, he worked on my feet again. This time it mostly felt great. I only experienced mild pain in a few places. And I could tell by the grimace on his face that he was putting a whole lot of muscle into it. He says it feels to him like I am much, much healthier than the last time he worked on me.

It is because I've been taking Iodine. There is no other explanation. For three years I had to take bloodroot, or red clover stillingia, or both, to keep the parasites under control. I stopped taking the red clover stillingia months ago, and have only been taking the bloodroot when they start stinging my throat, waking me up at night, which cycles with the moon. The stinging is getting weaker.

Iodine, Iodine, Iodine. I've been taking it since January. It is strengthening my immune system. I was deficient. That's why the parasites had such a hold on me and I couldn't get rid of them.

The places on my feet that were tender this time corresponded to my spine, neck, and lungs. There is a place on my back that's been itching. It is right next to my spine. And I have a bruised sensation in my lower back, next to my spine. When I wake up in the mornings, my neck is stiff. And I still occassionally feel a mild stinging sensation in my lungs right before I fall asleep. But I am much, much, much better than I've been in years.

I'm getting well. Completely. It's just a matter of time and iodine, before all my symptoms subside.