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Skin Brushing 101 by Lapis 6 mon (14 responses) Subject: Skin Brushing 101
From: Lapis | All Lapis's Messages |
Date: 8/18/2003 1:35:46 AM ( 6 mon ago )


The Basis for Dry Skin Brushing

The skin is our largest route of elimination, excreting more than 2lbs of waste each day, and taking in air and sunshine. Our skin breathes! And yet, in most people, this vital route of detoxification is operating far below it's capacity, because it is clogged with dead skin cells and the un-removed waste excreted through perspiring. Dry skin brushing is a simple, inexpensive way of removing the waste from the skin and breaking down old toxic deposits through it's unique action on the lymph vessels and capillaries. Our bodies make a new top layer of skin every 24 hours - skin brushing removes the old top layer, allowing the clean new layer to come to the surface, resulting in softer, smoother skin.


Draining the Lymph

The lymph is the interstitial fluid that bathes our cells, bringing them nutrients and removing their waste - all detoxification occurs first and foremost through the lymph. Our bodies contain far more lymph than blood, and yet the lymph is dependent upon outside forces for it's circulation around the body; the lymph has no heart to pump it! Consequently, the lymph relies upon exercise and massage for it's vital circulation, two things that are lacking in most people's everyday lives. For many years, the only way to drain the lymph was through lymph drain massage or manual lymphatic drainage, a powerful massage technique credited to have originated from ancient Chinese Medicine. Dry skin brushing prompts the body to release it's toxic deposits into the lymph, whilst simultaneously cleansing the lymph itself, through it's return to it's two plexuses, or centres, near the heart. Because of it's ability to release the skin's detoxification potential and to cleanse mucoid deposits from the cells directly into the colon, dry skin brushing is considered by many (including such luminaries as Bernard Jensen and Robert Gray) to be an essential part of any intestinal cleansing program.


Dry Skin Brushing Routine

The dry skin brushing routine is best carried out before a bath or shower, and for optimal results, must be done each day. Your skin may feel tender at first, but if you continue to brush your skin on a regular basis, you will soon feel the benefits, and your skin will come to yearn the daily brush! The entire surface of the skin should be brushed, with the exception of any broken or cracked skin, etc, and the face, which is generally regarded as too sensitive to be brushed. It is imperative that the brushing be carried out when your body is dry - this is vital to receive the benefits - and the brush must also be kept dry, as any exposure to water will soften it's bristles, depriving it of it's stimulating effect.

In order to maximise the lymphatic benefits of dry skin brushing, the skin should be brushed according to the locations of the two lymph plexuses. The majority of the lymph in the body drains into the thoracic duct, located near the heart, but the lymph from the upper-right quadrant of the body (the right-side of the face, neck and chest, including the right arm, and following the line of the ribs down) drains into the right lymphatic ducts, located above the liver, under the right breast. The skin should therefore be brushed in long, firm strokes up the legs and in towards the heart, except for the upper-right quadrant, which should be brushed down towards the liver (under the right ribcage) and the right breast. Of special note are the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, both of which are reflexive maps of the body, meaning that they are linked - via nerve pathways - to every part of the body, like the tongue and the eyes, as studied in the art of iridology, where the irides (irises) are recognized as mirroring the state of the body.







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