[Waco]

Hello!

I saw this post yesterday, and didn't think much of it as i didn't know of anything to help, then this morning while doing some of my work for the herbal medicine course i have started, i was reading a bit about elimination of toxins from the body and remembered this post. It was talking about how excretion (of toxins, etc) can go astray. It can go astray in the form of mucus production, so putting that and the bit of information i have read about macrobiotics together, i guess that your excess mucus is the result of your body cleaning itself out. I don't think its a good idea (or that you would want to) stop the body cleaning itself out. In my course work it sujested Elderflower (Sambucus nigra) tea, this not only tones the respiratory mucus membrane (thus reducing mucus) but also acts as a diuretic (stimulates urine production) and diaphoretic (makes you sweat) amongst other things, so this would reduce your mucus and help the body discharge toxins in a better way. Elderflower tea bags can be brought from most health food shops that i have seen.

It also recommends that if toxins are going to be redirected to the kidneys for getting rid of (where toxins are normally got rid of) that a tonic for the kidneys and also the liver (which works together with the kidneys for processing toxins) should be taken, Dandelion (you can also get dandelion tea bags from health food shops) covers both organs.

I do not know how the use of these herbs ties in with macrobiotics, i would be very interested to know. I would also be interested to know what someone with more experience with herbal medicine thoughts were on this (i'm sure there must be some on this board)

I hope this might be of some help

Thankyou

Mark