Mono-Fruit Fasting
HEALING ECZEMA NATURALLY: PART THREE
Healing eczema naturally requires a deep cellular overhaul and fasting is nature's way of clearing the body of not only toxins (often stored in fat!) but more importantly of acids, mucus, parasites, viruses, and mutated/diseased cells.
This is a very important step, because when these toxic and biological byproducts sit in the lymphatic system indefinitely, the interstitial fluids (around each individual cell) become a toxic soup that will over time cause mutation of the cells.
Simple chemistry: when human cells designed for alkaline environment get trapped in acidic fluids, damage ensues.
Nikiforos and I try to plan a few fruit fasts within the year. Because we don't live in a tropical climate that energetically supports us to live raw, or even high-raw, it is extra important for us to do this.
We hold no illusions that we are clearing up our lymphatic systems (the body's 'septic system' of acidic waste) while eating cooked foods. I mostly consider eating low-fat cooked vegan to be a sort of 'place holder' that doesn't heal the body and only minimally hinders it.
So we really look forward to these longer fruit fasts to do the bulk of our healing and detoxification work every year. Fasting is also an important spiritual practice and tool.
We usually do orange fasts in the winter and grape fasts in the summer. Those are our standard methods.
The longest mono fruit fast we've done is forty days on grapes/grape juice in August/September 2018.
We've done a handful of twenty day mono fasts on oranges and apricots, and several ten day mono fasts as well.
There are other people that do much, much longer mono fasting than we have done (sometimes 6-12 months on one single fruit!). But it is not a race, nor a measure of goodness/worthiness to do mono fasting. I’m also not convinced that such long-term fasting is truly beneficial. Nikiforos and I have found that this rhythm has worked very well for us so far, but we take it on a year by year basis.
Sometimes we do longer periods of just fruit, any fruit, though funnily enough I've noticed that this is harder on me energetically than sticking to only one specific in-season fruit. I have also done several Master Cleanses prior to finding Dr. Morse, but honestly it was a very aggressive and sporadic type of cleanse that didn't sit well with me. I much prefer the company of fruit.
In the winter we eat a huge amount of persimmons, and on the property where we now live there is a mature mulberry tree which is great for morning mono-eating, too, in the summer. They are an extremely high vibrational food that will activate the more subtle energy bodies.
Berries are the superior medicine of the world to activate and awaken human glands and the nervous system!
If you want to naturally and easily enhance your intuition, dreams, and pineal gland activity, eat lots of berries!
In closing, we look forward to the day we can visit tropical lands and do much longer fruit fasting with the many different fruits available there. This is the true way, if at all possible, to dig deeper into detoxification.
But every fruit fast - even a five day orange fast - helps. It sends signals to the body that your intention is to clean up shop.
BEWARE OF TOPICAL STEROID WITHDRAW (TSW)
If you are one of the many, many people who originally turned to topical steroid creams to 'manage' your eczema (perhaps at the advice of a dermatologist) I have some news for you:
There is an EXTRA PHASE you will likely have to pass through while on your detoxification journey. This happens when the body FINALLY has the opportunity to off-load the immuno-suppressant effects of your previous steroid use.
It's called Topical Steroid Withdraw.
No, it is not rare, and if you're committed to detox deep enough to cure your eczema then yes, its likely to happen to you, too.
But its OKAY!! THIS is as a POISITIVE SIGN that your body is PRIMED ENOUGH to cleanse and purify your whole system.
Such creams were applied to my skin almost daily for the first ten years of my life.
And even though I started to systematically detox, more than twenty years later I STILL HAD TOPICAL STEROID WITHDRAW! My sister also experienced TSW after stopping her steroid creams to continue breastfeeding her baby.
To see a picture of my sister's terrible TSW (warning, very graphic) click here.
As you can see, it looks like decades of unexpressed eczema exploding on the skin overnight. Because in essence, that's what it is.
[P.S. - It goes without saying that you cannot under any circumstances use such steroids and detoxify the body at the same time.]
