
As adults, we have around 400 to 800 man-made chemicals lodged in our bodies. Normal healthy body elimination processes do not remove them all. Foods, drinks, breathing, medications, stress, metabolism, disease, personal products applied to skin, synthetics, home and workplace chemicals contribute to the body’s toxic load which accumulates daily and builds up over the years. This can lead to degenerative disease.
For effective natural immunity which has evolved over countless centuries, the body needs to reach a balance between excretion of toxins and absorption of nutrients and water. Everyone has a different metabolism and constitution – the condition of flesh and blood. Certain people have high moisture content in their flesh and others do not. Some people have good blood circulation while others may have thicker and stickier blood.
The seriousness of an illness and its treatment varies according to differing body constitutions. Toxins accumulate in the feet Eastern medical study for hundreds of years holds the view that toxins go downwards in the body during the day with gravity and they pile up from the tips of the toes to the ankles. Eastern medicine also understands that toxic accumulation leads to many degenerative diseases. For example, painful rheumatism and arthritis arecaused by toxic fluid gathered in the joints. There is another Asian expression that says aging comes from the foot.
The feet being extremities furthest from the heart have the hardest job of pumping blood carrying toxins back up to the heart, kidneys, lungs and liver and out through skin for natural excretion from the body. Accumulated fluids and toxins can cause painful swelling around the ankles with poor blood circulation.
The feet are considered the second heart, or an abbreviated version of the body, with over 62 acupuncture points on the soles relating to the major organs in the body, as in foot reflexology.
Generally, the top third of the foot relates to the top third of the body organs, the arch relates to the centre of the body and the heel to the lower third of the body.

When lying horizontally, the body fluids gather in the head and toes. Toxins that are heavier tend to sink to the lower part of the body when standing during the day and normally accumulate around the feet with gravity. There is an acupuncture point in the sole of the foot called yong chwean which in Mandarin means gushing water spring. Excess toxins and moisture from the body will be excreted into the patches at this acupuncture point.The feet of people with diabetes can be blue, with kidney problems they can be black and with cancer they can be a yellowish colour. Waste removal may assist to reduce fatigue and pain, improve blood circulation, cold feet and wellbeing and help prevent disease by lifting natural immunity.
