Understanding the Lymphatic System

Introduction

The treatment of lymphedema is based on an understanding of how the lymphatic system works. Therapists must understand this system in depth. Patients, and others involved in self-care steps, need to have at least a basic understanding of these functions. It is this basic level of understanding that is presented here.

The functioning of the lymphatic system is closely related to that of the circulatory system. To understand more about how these systems differ, see The Circulatory and Lymphatic Systems Compared.

The Origin of Lymph

Lymph originates as blood plasma. The plasma of arterial blood is rich in “groceries” for the cells. In the capillary beds throughout the body the flow of blood is slowed so that plasma can leave and become tissue fluid. Tissue fluid is also known as intercellular fluid or interstitial fluid.

Tissue fluid delivers the nutrients, oxygen, and hormones required by the cells.

Tissue fluid collects and carries away some cellular waste products.

90 percent of the tissue fluid returns to the capillary bed.  Here it again becomes plasma and continues its journey throughout the body as part of the venous circulation.

Lymph is the 10 percent of the tissue fluid that is left behind. Normally the amount of lymph circulating in the body is one to two quarts and it makes up one to three percent of the body weight [6].

The Role of Lymph

The role of tissue fluid is to deliver the groceries to the cells. The role of lymph is to take out the trash that is left behind and to dispose of it.

As lymph continues to circulate between the cells it collects waste products that were left behind including dead blood cells, pathogens, and cancer cells. This clear fluid also becomes protein-rich as it absorbs dissolved protein from between the cells.

Lymphatic Capillaries

The lymphatic capillaries form a mesh-like network of tiny tubes that are distributed throughout the tissue spaces and are located just under the skin. These capillaries branch and interconnect freely so that they extend into almost all tissues.

Lymph capillaries are blind-ended tubes with no opening to allow the lymph easy access. The end of the capillary is only one-cell in thickness and these cells are arranged in a slightly overlapping pattern – like the shingles on a roof.

Pressure from the fluid surrounding the capillary forces these cells to separate for a moment. This allows fluid to enter, but not to leave, the capillary.

There are one-way valves within the lymphatic capillaries. These valves ensure the continued flow of the lymph away from the tissues.

This animation, which shows this action, was provided courtesy of John Ross, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Luton, UK.

Lymphatic Vessels

Deeper within the body the lymphatic vessels become progressively larger and are located near the veins. Like veins, the lymphatic vessels have valves to prevent any backward flow. Angions are the segments created by the space between two sets of valves. Smooth muscles in the walls of the lymphatic vessels cause the angions to contract sequentially to aid the flow of lymph toward the thoracic region.

Lymph Nodes

Afferent lymphatic vessels carry lymph into the nodes where waste products and some of the fluid are filtered out

Lymphocytes, which are specialized white blood cells located within the lymph node, kill pathogens that may be present. Lymph nodes also trap cancer cells and slow the spread of the cancer until they are overwhelmed by it.

Efferent lymphatic vessels carry lymph out of the node to continue its return to the circulatory system.

Cancer cells that have left their original site travel first to nearby lymph nodes. For this reason lymph nodes play an important role in the detection and treatment of cancer.

The terminus is the area at the base of the neck where the lymphatic ducts return the lymph to the circulatory system.

Here the subclavian veins, which are located just under the collar bones, receive the lymph and it once again circulates throughout the body as plasma.

Lymphatic drainage is organization into two separate and very unequal drainage areas. These are the right and left drainage areas and normally lymph does not drain across the invisible lines that separate these areas. Structures within each area carry lymph to its destination, which is to return to the circulatory system.

 

Lymphatic drainage is organization into two separate and very unequal drainage areas. These are the right and left drainage areas and normally lymph does not drain across the invisible lines that separate these areas. Structures within each area carry lymph to its destination, which is to return to the circulatory system.

The Right Drainage Area removes lymph from the:

• Right side of the head and neck
• Right arm
• Upper right quadrant of the body.

Lymph from this area flows into the right lymphatic duct. This duct returns the lymph to the circulatory system by draining into the right subclavian vein.

 

 

 

The Left Drainage Area removes lymph from the:

• Left side of the head and neck
• Left arm and the left upper quadrant
• Lower trunk
• Both legs

 

The cisterna chyli temporarily stores lymph as it moves upward from the lower areas of the body. The thoracic duct carries lymph upward to the left lymphatic duct. The left lymphatic duct returns the lymph to the circulatory system by draining into the left subclavian vein. 

 

Damage disturbs the flow. When lymphatic tissues or lymph nodes have been damaged, destroyed or removed, lymph cannot drain normally from the affected area. When this happens excess lymph accumulates and results in the swelling that is characteristic of lymphedema.

Drainage areas. The treatment of lymphedema is based on the natural structures and the flow of lymph. The affected drainage area determines the pattern of the manual lymph drainage (MLD) and for self-massage. Although lymph does not normally cross from one area to another, MLD stimulates the flow from one area to another. It also encourages the formation of new lymph drainage pathways.

MLD treatment and self-massage begin by stimulating the area near the terminus and the larger lymphatic vessels. This stimulates the flow of lymph that is already in the system and frees space for the flow of the lymph that is going to enter the capillaries during the treatment. See Lymphedema Treatment Methods.

MLD treatment continues as a gentle massage technique to stimulate the movement of the excess lymph in affected tissues. The rhythmic, light strokes of MLD provide just the right pressure to encourage this excess lymph to flow into the lymph capillaries.

The compression garments, aids, and/or bandages that are worn between treatments help control swelling by providing pressure that is needed to encourage the flow of lymph into the capillaries. See Compression Methods.

Exercise is important in the treatment of lymphedema because the movements of the muscles stimulate the flow of the lymph into the capillaries. Wearing a compression garment during exercise also provides resistance to further stimulate this flow.

Self-massage, as prescribed by your therapist, is another way in which lymph is encouraged to flow into the capillaries. Each self-massage session begins with steps to stimulate the flow of lymph that is already in the system. This is followed by gentle strokes are used to encourage the flow of lymph into the capillaries.           

Lymphatic System References

© LymphNotes.com 2006. This information does not replace the advice of a qualified health care professional.

You can't buy good health, you have to create it...

For some pretty frightening cancer statistics, click here.

Imagine if you could stop breast cancer dead in its tracks.

Current tests require at least 3 years of growth before breast cancer is even detected! That's a poor detection system, one which won't stop breast cancer.

There are quite a few theories about the epidemic of breast cancer in the United States. The cancer epidemic keeps growing and growing, with treatment costs increasing too. 

Fact is a lot of money is being made out of breast cancer... tests, doctors fees, research funding, consultations, hospitalization, drugs, surgery fees, chemo, counseling, insurance, etc.. You name it. Money is being made out of our bad health rather than money being made from us acquiring good health. Tests, pills, chemo and surgery is not money being made from our good health. They don't provide good health, they just try to slow down declining bad health.

"They' have been feeding us story after story for over 35 years now, and they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on cancer research and experimental drugs. And they still don't have a clue, and we are told to expect "a 50 percent increase over current rates.

Lets cut the chase.

Breast cancer is in essence a direct result of ailing lymph nodes, and those ailing lymph nodes are in essence a direct result of a blocked up colon, and a polluted filthy morbid toxic bloodstream.

Breast cancer <==> Colon, blood and polluted lymph

The lymphatic system is part your immune system. The lymph (blood plasma and white blood cells) circulate through the body tissues transporting debris and toxins from tissue to the lymph nodes. The lymph nodes enable the body to rid itself of these toxins. The lymph circulatory system evacuates toxic debris from the lymph nodes for evacuation out of the body by way of the colon.

Impacted toxic and encrusted colon walls block lymphatic drainage at their point of entry into the colon, thereby blocking lymph drainage out of nodes. Lymph backs up and festers... At the same time through osmosis continuously day in and day out the toxic morbid waste inside the colon pollutes the bloodstream, which requires from the liver additional resources to purify the blood. THE cycle is clear, the domino effect tragic.

Consequently, lymph backs up, and backs up, and backs up, and finally in some people it settles in the breasts lymph nodes...and can not drain out from the lymph breast nodes. Diseased and impaired cells cannot be efficiently disposed of, and fresh nutrition provided by the blood to the cells arrives too in a deficient manner leaving the cells malnourished. Add it all up, and you got a festering mess.

Lymph drainage ducts that drain into the colon (where toxic lymph and debris is disposed for evacuation out of the human  body) are blocked and impacted with mucoid encrustations Jos-hua's were, yours probably are... most peoples are.

The walls of the colon are so heavily blocked and impacted with mucus and feces... 
See for yourself what we mean by blocked.  
See here the density and severity of the blockage. You'll be shocked. 

Toxic debris and lymph festers and simmers in the breast lymph nodes, rather than being drained into the colon for evacuation out of your body. It's like a stagnant cesspool, the physiological equivalent to a festering pile of uncollected garbage or a broken toilet that continues to be used for defecation.

Regardless of the cause or name attached to any particular disease, all diseases pollute the purity of the body's blood, bile, lymph, mucus, hormones, and other essences and provoke severe imbalances in human energy systems. Pollution of vital essences, impairment of vital functions, and imbalance in vital energies always manifest themselves in abnormal symptomatic reactions which skilled physicians are able to interpret correctly as a basis for treatment.

Collectively the four foundations of health constitute the complex defense mechanisms of the human immune system. In Western medicine, immunity is attributed solely to the presence of certain forms of 'vital essence' in the bloodstream such as T-cells from the thymus gland, white blood cells from the marrow, scavenger cells such as leukocytes, and a variety of enzymes.

Blood is the cornerstone of the Four Foundations, and its condition determines the degree of one's resistance to negative external energies as well as immunity to disease.

Cancer, for example, is regarded as a 'blood disease in traditional Chinese medicine, because weak, toxic, or otherwise impaired blood is unable to perform its vital functions of nourishing and cleansing bodily tissues.

Deficient blood permits cellular wastes and pollutants to accumulate in tissues, until they become so toxic that they fester and ferment like rotting flesh, forming malignant tumors which spread to other tissues.

Conventional Western therapy treats cancer with surgery, radiation, and toxic chemicals, attacking the symptomatic tumors but doing nothing whatsoever to correct the extreme toxicity of blood and imbalance of energy which causes the problem in the first place.

Indeed, such radical therapy further weakens blood and depletes energy, so that even if a temporary remission is achieved by removing or destroying a few tumors, the cancer usually recurs in even more virulent form.

The proper preventative as well as curative therapy for cancer is first to detoxify and purify the blood, then rebuild it with proper nutrition and appropriate supplements and circulate it with deep breathing and rhythmic exercise. Scavenger cells, enzymes, and other immune factors carried by healthy blood will then attack the cancerous tissues, digest and dissolve tumors, and dispose of debris through the excretory system.

The place to start is the colon and the bloodstream. Purification of both.  There is an clear connection between the consequences of a toxic polluted colon, and toxic bloodstream, toxic polluted lymph and breast cancer.

Within the colon and the folds of the colon lays 5 to 10 pounds of smelly foul toxic impacted mucus, plus another five pounds of undigested meat putrefies inside you. Leave five pounds of meat in a dark, warm, moist place for a few days and see for yourself the results of putrefaction.

Chances are 95% that you too are carrying around this collection of toxic waste and morbid rubbish- impacted feces and mucoid encrustations half an inch thick! Some of it is over 1.5 feet long and as hard as a worn out tire!

The end result of neglect is a long chain of events leading to breast cancer. No cancer, including breast cancer develops overnight... it is a long road to travel for cancer to develop. It requires quite a long time and a lot of festering for cells to multiply in a continuously abnormal manner. A dirty polluted colon takes years to build up. It too doesn't happen overnight.

Instead of toxic lymph being 'dumped' into the colon for elimination out of the body, it continues to be recycled within the body for years on end! 

It resettles in some women in the breast nodes and festers there for a few years, until eventually one day your doctor runs some tests and discovers that you have breast cancer. Shocked? Don't be if you haven't been engaging in 'true' preventative health care. Taking an annual mammogram is not 'true' preventative health care. That's 'symptom oriented' health care.

In many people the toxic waste does not necessarily settle in the breast lymph nodes, but rather in other parts of the body. Each person has their own constitutional weakness acquired at birth.

When acute illness strikes it is often a sign that blood, lymph, lungs, and colon have become so toxic that the body must take emergency measures to purge toxins from your tissues to restore a healthy homeostasis.

As tissue becomes more and more toxic your system becomes ever more vulnerable to abnormal environmental energies and the Six Evils, Emotional stress (Seven Emotions), and the ever-present germs inside and outside the body gain the upper hand. 

This toxic waste settles in different lymph hubs (neck/throat, armpits, breast nodes, groin nodes), or in specific internal organs each depending on state of  health, lifestyle, genetic makeup, and inherent constitutional weaknesses of the body.

The solution? Simple, quick, and pocket friendly. Cleanse and purify thyself... and then forget about breast cancer and get on with your life. 

Preventative health care the HPS-ONLINE way makes sense. It's economical too. We have never heard of an active cleansing practitioner who got breast cancer. Never.

Clean out your colon and bloodstream, cleanse and nourish your internal organs, detoxify lymph in a serious way, learn how to eat to nourish your body rather than just satisfying your tastes and watch how breast cancer, cervix cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, and other female reproductive problems won't be a nuisance anymore for you! 

Eliminate them from your life. You can! It's totally up to you. Turn your intentions into reality.

Protect your breasts. No surgery, no radiation, no chemo. Quick and easy. Natural, safe and holistic.  Pocket friendly too. Cleansing.

Lets remember what Dr. Bernard Jensen the pioneer 20th century Cleansing Guru teaches us:

"There are many therapeutic approaches to restoring or maintaining health today.

However, the presence of toxic settlements in the body prevents any of these methods of treatment from being completely successful. If a treatment does not work toward complete detoxification, the rejuvenation of tissue will not take place as it should.

The complete rejuvenation process involves the replacement of old under active tissue with new, clean, efficiently working tissue. This is what brings a degenerative condition to a state of recession and remission. Many kinds of processes can be used to bring this about, and this is what the healer must be alert for.

The natural immune system can only be built up in a clean body, a body with a minimal amount of accumulated toxic material."

Most of us know little about the lymph system. We’re familiar with the lymph nodes located in the armpits and the groin, and have a vague notion that swelling of the nodes is a danger signal, but that’s it. That was about the extent of my knowledge – until I read Dr. Lemole’s book, The Healing Diet (William Morrow, 2001). The title is misleading, because the book is really a fascinating introduction to the lymphatic system; Lemole calls it "our river of life."

Did you know that the lymph system is twice the size of our other circulatory system? It true. Twice as much lymph as blood is present in our bodies, and we have twice as many lymph vessels as blood vessels. The key to health, Dr. Lemole believes, is to keep your lymphatic system open and flowing freely. Says Dr. Lemole, "You can eliminate 70 percent of the chronic illnesses that are in part the result of that system being clogged." The risks that can be reduced by unclogging the system include heart disease, arthritis and cancer.

Dr. Lemole has been chief of cardiovascular surgery at the Christiana Care Health Services of Delaware since 1986. After medical school, he trained in Texas with pioneer heart surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley. Now a professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, he has performed or directed more than 20,000 heart operations.

Like many surgeons, he was skeptical about the power of lifestyle changes, but is now a strong believer. He agrees with his wife, Janie: "Much of being healthy is a choice."

As most readers probably know, much of the body is made up of water. Part of the water is in the bloodstream, but far more resides in the lymphatic system. Our cells are located in a sea of lymph, a pale fluid. Oxygen and sugar are transported from the blood vessels to nourish the cells via the lymphatic fluid. Likewise, wastes from the cells – carbon dioxide, lactic acid and metabolites – are carried back to the bloodstream through the lymph fluid.

Like the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system is made up of channels or vessels, valves and filters (nodes). Unlike the bloodstream system, however, there is no pump like the heart. Instead, the lymphatic fluid is forced through the system by the action of the muscles and breathing.

When the lymphatic system is flowing freely everything is fine. When it backs up, however, there’s trouble. The consequences, according to Dr. Lemole, can be serious, even life-threatening.. Not only are the building, repair and waste disposal systems affected by a disruption, the body’s defenses against foreign substances are also impaired. In addition to filtering out toxic materials, the lymph nodes also produce substances which fight off invading viruses and bacteria and destroy abnormal cells that developed within the body, such as cancer cells. In addition to being part of the body’s plumbing and repair system, the lymphatics are an essential part of our immune system.

"The lymphatic system is as essential to bodily function as the bloodstream it complements," writes Dr. Lemole. "To keep it clear," he says, "you need to increase its drainage capacity or reduce its intake of toxins." He suggests doing both – through diet, stress reduction, exercise and deep breathing.

Dr. Lemole believes he was the first to recognize that clearing the lymphatic system can substantially reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, or blockage of the arteries. The idea came to him when a colleague wondered whether the accelerated rate of atherosclerosis seen in heart transplant patients might be related to cutting the lymphatics -- an unavoidable consequence of the transplant operation. Lemole tested the theory by interrupting the lymphatics of the hearts of monkeys and then feeding them a high cholesterol diet for several weeks. "All of them developed severe atherosclerosis," Dr. Lemole writes.

He believes cleansing the lymphatic system allows the body to more efficiently clear excess cholesterol out of the arteries. "If we could keep the lymphatics -- the body’s cleansing system -- clear, the cholesterol would travel easily, and little or no cholesterol would build up in the arteries," Lemole theorized. The excess cholesterol -- some cholesterol is essential -- would be carried through the lymphatics to the veins and then to the liver, where it can be broken down and discarded.

That makes perfect sense, of course. One way to get rid of excess cholesterol is to clean out the disposal pathways. It’s like draining dirty water backed-up in your kitchen sink by unclogging the drain pipe or using a plunger to unstop the toilet.

The other way to reduce the cholesterol in the arteries, of course, is to lower the intake of cholesterol-containing and cholesterol-producing foods in the diet. Dr. Lemole suggests a diet containing 15 to 20 percent fat, most of it good fat such as olive oil, fish oil and flaxseeds, and no more than 1 to 2 percent saturated fat. He reminds us that about 80 percent of the cholesterol in the system is manufactured by the body, and emphasizes that excessive amounts of fat, any kind, will cause cholesterol buildup.

"The purpose of fat is as a fuel reserve," Lemole explains, "and when the body sees it, its first reaction is to store it by making new cell membranes to enlarge the fat cells." Cholesterol is an "essential building block" for the enlarged cells, says Dr. Lemole.

Lemole walks his talk. He used to eat meat, but no more. "My own diet now includes grains, soy, vegetables, fruits, beans, some fish, green tea instead of coffee, a glass of wine with dinner, and vitamins and minerals at each meal," he writes. His wife, Janie, eats basically a vegetarian diet, although she includes fish occasionally. Their six children have been raised on the same diet.

Many more details on his dietary recommendations are in the book, including 40 pages of recipes and his own unique food pyramids: "The Lemole vegetarian diet pyramid" and "The Lemole beverage pyramid." He recommends six to eight glasses of filtered or spring water daily. You’ll also find instructions for making "Dr. Lemole’s Drink" -- touted as a good breakfast for people in a hurry.

Now, let’s move on to exercise, the element of Dr. Lemole’s program which I find most interesting. That’s not to downplay diet and stress reduction, because they’re important. It’s just that I’m fascinated by the many benefits of exercise, and this one is little understood. 

Read Dr. Lemole’s book to learn about all aspects of his program, including Yoga, massage and spirituality. He favors a balanced approach.

Chalk another one up for walking. "It should be your first option," says Lemole. "Anything that keeps you moving" will do, however, he adds. Dr. Lemole walks at a brisk pace for a mile or two each day, outside or on a treadmill. He also plays golf, and occasionally basketball. "I don’t feel the need for more strenuous exercise," he says. "For the purposes of keeping the heart and the lymphatic system healthy, such exercise is not necessary, though it does benefit muscle tone and aids in weight loss."

I’ve always claimed that my daily walks help me recover from intense workouts. "The icing on the cake is that walking actually aids recovery," I wrote in Challenge Yourself. "It stimulates circulation, bringing the building blocks of recovery to the muscles and carrying away the waste products generated by high-intensity exercise." I was talking about blood circulation, of course, because I was not fully aware of the lymph system. Dr. Lemole fills out the picture by explaining that both nutrients and waste products travel between the bloodstream and the cells in the lymph fluid.

"Exercise is a powerful conditioner of the lymphatic system," says Dr. Lemole. The lymphatic fluid, which we’ve learned is twice the volume of the blood, normally circulates throughout the body once a day. "Exercise can increase lymphatic flow threefold (or more with extreme exercise)," writes Dr. Lemole.

Imagine that. It means that walking or other exercise that gets you moving can speed recovery tremendously. Importantly, Dr. Lemole says it also means that excess cholesterol and other harmful elements are expelled from the body faster with exercise. What’s more, it strengthens the immune system. Exercise makes the whole lymphatic system work better.

Exercise, of course, makes us breathe faster and more deeply. Deep breathing, according to Dr. Lemole, is an important element in circulation of lymph fluid. In fact, Lemole says, "The major exercise that I do is breathe." He’s not talking about the unconscious breathing we do constantly. He’s referring to "deep, conscious breathing," which, he says, speeds the flow of lymphatic fluid around the heart and "through your chest on its way to the liver."

"Proper breathing is the most important thing you can do for maintaining health," says Dr. Lemole. There’s a wrong way and a right way to breathe. Children, says Lemole, breathe deeply, from their diaphragm. As we age, however, our breathing shifts to the chest and becomes more rapid and more shallow. Deep breathing is best, says Lemole. He recommends taking a few minutes each day to practice breathing deeply. You’ll find exercises in his book to help you learn to breathe more deeply throughout the day.

Deep breathing is important, because it makes your lymphatic system work better. The lymph collected throughout the body drains into the blood through two ducts situated at the base of the neck, the main one being the thoracic duct. Breathing drives this action. "If you take a deep breath and exhale deeply, you’re massaging the thoracic duct upward into the neck so that the fluid flows generously," Lemole explains. "This duct empties the lymph into the veins, where it becomes part of the blood plasma. From there the lymph returns to the liver for metabolization, and finally to the kidneys for filtering."

Remember, the lymph system doesn’t have a heart to keep it flowing. It’s dependent on contraction of the muscles and breathing. So, breathe deeply and exercise. "No matter what exercise you choose, the important thing is to do it regularly and habitually," counsels Dr. Lemole. "No matter what exercise you prefer, the key is consistency."

The lymphatic system is part your immune system. The lymph (blood plasma and white blood cells) circulate through the body tissues transporting debris and toxins from tissue to the lymph nodes. The lymph nodes enable the body to rid itself of these toxins. The lymph circulatory system evacuates toxic debris from the lymph nodes for evacuation out of the body by way of the colon.

Impacted toxic and encrusted colon walls block lymphatic drainage at their point of entry into the colon, thereby blocking lymph drainage out of nodes. Lymph backs up and festers... At the same time through osmosis continuously day in and day out the toxic morbid waste inside the colon pollutes the bloodstream, which requires from the liver additional resources to purify the blood. THE cycle is clear, the domino effect tragic.

Consequently, lymph backs up, and backs up, and backs up, and finally in some people it settles in the breasts lymph nodes...and can not drain out from the lymph breast nodes. Diseased and impaired cells cannot be efficiently disposed of, and fresh nutrition provided by the blood to the cells arrives too in a deficient manner leaving the cells malnourished. Add it all up, and you got a festering mess

Lymph drainage ducts that drain into the colon (where toxic lymph and debris is disposed for evacuation out of the human  body) are blocked and impacted with mucoid encrustations Jos-hua's were, yours probably are... most peoples are.

The walls of the colon are so heavily blocked and impacted with mucus and feces... 
See for yourself what we mean by blocked.  
See here the density and severity of the blockage. You'll be shocked. 

Toxic debris and lymph festers and simmers in the breast lymph nodes, rather than being drained into the colon for evacuation out of your body. It's like a stagnant cesspool, the physiological equivalent to a festering pile of uncollected garbage or a broken toilet that continues to be used for defecation.

Regardless of the cause or name attached to any particular disease, all diseases pollute the purity of the body's blood, bile, lymph, mucus, hormones, and other essences and provoke severe imbalances in human energy systems. Pollution of vital essences, impairment of vital functions, and imbalance in vital energies always manifest themselves in abnormal symptomatic reactions which skilled physicians are able to interpret correctly as a basis for treatment.

Collectively the four foundations of health constitute the complex defense mechanisms of the human immune system. In Western medicine, immunity is attributed solely to the presence of certain forms of 'vital essence' in the bloodstream such as T-cells from the thymus gland, white blood cells from the marrow, scavenger cells such as leukocytes, and a variety of enzymes.

Blood is the cornerstone of the Four Foundations, and its condition determines the degree of one's resistance to negative external energies as well as immunity to disease.

Cancer, for example, is regarded as a 'blood disease in traditional Chinese medicine, because weak, toxic, or otherwise impaired blood is unable to perform its vital functions of nourishing and cleansing bodily tissues.

Deficient blood permits cellular wastes and pollutants to accumulate in tissues, until they become so toxic that they fester and ferment like rotting flesh, forming malignant tumors which spread to other tissues.

Conventional Western therapy treats cancer with surgery, radiation, and toxic chemicals, attacking the symptomatic tumors but doing nothing whatsoever to correct the extreme toxicity of blood and imbalance of energy which causes the problem in the first place.

Indeed, such radical therapy further weakens blood and depletes energy, so that even if a temporary remission is achieved by removing or destroying a few tumors, the cancer usually recurs in even more virulent form.

The proper preventative as well as curative therapy for cancer is first to detoxify and purify the blood, then rebuild it with proper nutrition and appropriate supplements and circulate it with deep breathing and rhythmic exercise. Scavenger cells, enzymes, and other immune factors carried by healthy blood will then attack the cancerous tissues, digest and dissolve tumors, and dispose of debris through the excretory system.

The place to start is the colon and the bloodstream. Purification of both.  There is an clear connection between the consequences of a toxic polluted colon, and toxic bloodstream, toxic polluted lymph and breast cancer.

Within the colon and the folds of the colon lays 5 to 10 pounds of smelly foul toxic impacted mucus, plus another five pounds of undigested meat putrefies inside you. Leave five pounds of meat in a dark, warm, moist place for a few days and see for yourself the results of putrefaction.

Chances are 95% that you too are carrying around this collection of toxic waste and morbid rubbish- impacted feces and mucoid encrustations half an inch thick! Some of it is over 1.5 feet long and as hard as a worn out tire!

The end result of neglect is a long chain of events leading to breast cancer. No cancer, including breast cancer develops overnight... it is a long road to travel for cancer to develop. It requires quite a long time and a lot of festering for cells to multiply in a continuously abnormal manner. A dirty polluted colon takes years to build up. It too doesn't happen overnight.

Instead of toxic lymph being 'dumped' into the colon for elimination out of the body, it continues to be recycled within the body for years on end! 

It resettles in some women in the breast nodes and festers there for a few years, until eventually one day your doctor runs some tests and discovers that you have breast cancer. Shocked? Don't be if you haven't been engaging in 'true' preventative health care. Taking an annual mammogram is not 'true' preventative health care. That's 'symptom oriented' health care.

In many people the toxic waste does not necessarily settle in the breast lymph nodes, but rather in other parts of the body. Each person has their own constitutional weakness acquired at birth.

When acute illness strikes it is often a sign that blood, lymph, lungs, and colon have become so toxic that the body must take emergency measures to purge toxins from your tissues to restore a healthy homeostasis.

As tissue becomes more and more toxic your system becomes ever more vulnerable to abnormal environmental energies and the Six Evils, Emotional stress (Seven Emotions), and the ever-present germs inside and outside the body gain the upper hand. 

This toxic waste settles in different lymph hubs (neck/throat, armpits, breast nodes, groin nodes), or in specific internal organs each depending on state of  health, lifestyle, genetic makeup, and inherent constitutional weaknesses of the body.

The solution? Simple, quick, and pocket friendly. Cleanse and purify thyself... and then forget about breast cancer and get on with your life. 

Preventative health care the HPS-ONLINE way makes sense. It's economical too. We have never heard of an active cleansing practitioner who got breast cancer. Never.

Clean out your colon and bloodstream, cleanse and nourish your internal organs, detoxify lymph in a serious way, learn how to eat to nourish your body rather than just satisfying your tastes and watch how breast cancer, cervix cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, and other female reproductive problems won't be a nuisance anymore for you! 

Eliminate them from your life. You can! It's totally up to you. Turn your intentions into reality.

Protect your breasts. No surgery, no radiation, no chemo. Quick and easy. Natural, safe and holistic.  Pocket friendly too. Cleansing.

Lets remember what Dr. Bernard Jensen the pioneer 20th century Cleansing Guru teaches us:

"There are many therapeutic approaches to restoring or maintaining health today.

However, the presence of toxic settlements in the body prevents any of these methods of treatment from being completely successful. If a treatment does not work toward complete detoxification, the rejuvenation of tissue will not take place as it should.

The complete rejuvenation process involves the replacement of old under active tissue with new, clean, efficiently working tissue. This is what brings a degenerative condition to a state of recession and remission. Many kinds of processes can be used to bring this about, and this is what the healer must be alert for.

The natural immune system can only be built up in a clean body, a body with a minimal amount of accumulated toxic material."

See, Mom, I had it right. Exercise is good for just about everything that ails you. Do it for the health of your lymphatic system.

You can probably find The Healing Diet at your local bookstore or on Amazon.com. If not, check the public library.