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We’ve been covering cleansing over the past few weeks. Our discussion started with guidelines for when cleansing is and isn’t appropriate, and from there we moved on to stronger and milder ways to encourage detoxification and decongestion of the body (There are links to the previous installments at the bottom of the article.) Last week I mentioned five main organs involved in detoxification – the liver, lungs, kidneys, gut, and skin – and we looked at ways to promote cleansing of the liver and lungs. Today we’ll look at the kidneys and skin.
As I explained previously, the skin is instrumental in the removal of heavy metals and petrochemicals from the body, and this occurs through sweating and the shedding of skin cells. A daily sweat is a good thing for most people. If you’re debilitated, this is better accomplished through a mild sauna than intense exercise, though. Interestingly, the composition of sweat differs slightly, based on whether it’s heat-induced, exercise-induced, or stress-induced, though I haven’t seen research that indicates if one method is most effective for detoxification. I’ve noticed that my stress-sweat stinks, but the other forms don’t.
It’s possible that enhancing circulation to the skin and exfoliating dead cells may facilitate detoxification. Besides dry skin brushing, which I discussed in part three, many people enjoy exfoliating with a nice scrub in the shower or bath, like the Dragontree Scrubs that Briana and I formulated.
Speaking of baths, there’s a long tradition of using baths to stimulate detoxification. The most common methods are: Epsom salt and natural mineral baths; spicy herbs that warm the skin and enhance circulation – like mustard seed, peppermint, and ginger; and mud or clay. I don’t know of any scientific studies showing that baths enhance detoxification, but it can’t hurt, and they do enhance blood flow to the skin and help clean off any grime that might be impeding the excretion of sweat.
Incidentally, many chronic skin rashes respond well to internal cleansing methods, such as a class of herbs called “alterative” herbs, known historically as “blood purifiers.” There are many herbs in this category. Some of the best for skin disorders include sarsaparilla, immature honeysuckle flowers, burdock root and seed, yellow dock root, Oregon grape root, echinacea, dandelion, and the Chinese herbs dictamnus, oldenlandia, and isatis. My favorite alterative for the skin is red clover blossoms. A conservative dose would be a tablespoon of any of these herbs (dried), simmered in a pint of water for 30 minutes, then strained and drunk in two or three portions over the course of a day.
I sometimes get asked about the merits of detox patches that go on the soles of the feet, or detox machines that you take a foot bath in. The short answer is: don’t waste your money.
Onto the kidneys. Your kidneys clean your blood, balance blood pressure, and maintain proper electrolyte levels and pH of the blood. Each of your two kidneys contains about a million nephrons – the basic functional unit of the kidney. Nephrons are networks of tubes that filter the blood, retaining useful stuff and dumping what’s not needed. What’s filtered out becomes urine.
Many drugs, heavy metals, and chemical solvents possess some degree of “nephrotoxicity,” meaning they are poisonous to the kidneys. The kidneys can handle a certain burden of nephrotoxins, but long term exposure (or intense short-term exposure) can result in irreparable damage, which can be deadly. Dehydration and high blood pressure are also hard on the kidneys.
Some nephrotoxic drugs include: many antibiotics (streptomycin, gentamycin, neomycin, vancomycin, penicillin, others), acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), aspirin, Benadryl, Unisom, Prozac, ACE-inhibitors, many cancer and HIV drugs, Prevacid, Prilosec, Protonix, Zantac, Xanax, Ativan, Plavix, and statins. Your best bet for healthy kidneys is to avoid using these drugs long term, if possible; protect yourself from solvent and heavy metal exposure; and don’t let yourself get dehydrated. Another common cause of kidney damage is diabetes, which is mostly preventable by maintaining a healthy weight.
If you have a known kidney challenge, there are a handful of herbs that are supportive to the kidneys (please discuss with your healthcare provider, because kidney disease is serious). Two of the mildest are parsley and corn silk. You can eat parsley as a kidney cleanser, and make a tea from a large handful of dried corn silk. These stimulate clearance through the kidneys, and cornsilk is soothing and perhaps has some reparative effect.
Goldenrod, the common yellow flower (more a weed than a cultivated plant), is another useful cleanser of the kidneys and urinary tract, and is very common in European herbalism. Dandelion, which I wrote about last week as a liver cleanser, is also cleansing to the kidneys. Whereas the root is best for the liver, the leaves and flowers are better for the kidneys. It effectively flushes out the kidneys and supplies potassium (which is usually depleted by pharmaceutical diuretics). Two other valuable herbs for kidney health are juniper berries and uva ursi, which cleanse the kidneys and urinary tract. Any of these can be combined with either of two herbs I mentioned last week – mullein and marshmallow – which are also gentle kidney-supportive herbs. However, while the leaves and flowers of mullein are best for the lungs, the root is best for the kidneys and urinary tract.
As a practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine, the first formula that comes to mind in the treatment of kidney disorders, especially chronic kidney disease, is called Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six Flavor Pill with Rehmannia). It’s quite useful in improving kidney function and treating diabetes, and I have even seen it extend the lives of people end-stage renal disease (kidney failure).
Finally, although it’s not specifically a toxicity issue, kidney stones are a common and excruciatingly painful kidney disorder, and I want people to know that they are often highly treatable with herbal pills, like chanca piedra. The first thing that comes to mind is a Chinese blend made by the company Plum Flower, called Stone Formula. I’ve had patients experience such rapid and complete relief with it that they were able to avoid surgery. Another herb with a strong reputation is a Peruvian plant called chanca piedra (literally, “stone crusher”). Of course, anyone passing a kidney stone should consult with a healthcare practitioner.
This week, I encourage you to support the cleanliness of your body by taking a day to eat very simply – such as the green Bieler Broth I shared in the second article in this series.
Be well,
Dr. Peter Borten
Click here for parts
ONE,
TWO,
THREE, and
FOUR.
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It’s been about a decade since I wrote a series of articles about the “Chinese clock,” and I’ve been asked about it recently by several students and patients, so I decided it was time to revisit the topic. The “Chinese clock” is a concept of diurnal Qi movement in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) – meaning, the way energy ebbs and flows through the body over the course of the day. There are twelve main organs and each has a two-hour period of the day when its energy peaks. Paying attention to this cycle can help us achieve better health and can also offer clues about where problems may originate.
Before we explore the significance of each two-hour block, it’s important to note that I’ll be discussing the organs from a TCM perspective, which is a bit deeper than our Western understanding. Through this expanded view, each organ has both physical and mental functions, and it encompasses not just the internal organ but an energetic circuit called a channel or meridian.
5:00 to 7:00 AM – Large Intestine Time
According to Edison Research, among people who wake up before 10 AM, 30% are awake by 6:00. Another 23% awaken between 6:00 and 6:30, and 13% more wake up between 6:30 and 7:00. So, 66% of morning-wakers arise during Large Intestine Time. And to put it bluntly, this is the ideal time to poop. If you’re constipated, sometimes you can reset your bowels by simply sitting on the toilet during this period and waiting. (You can improve your chances by drinking a glass of hot water.)
The expanded version of the large intestine is that it represents our capacity to “take out the trash” – that is, to recognize and let go of the garbage we’re carrying around: thoughts, beliefs, habits, and attachments that burden, disempower, or degrade us rather than serving us. Anytime is a good time to let go, but during these two hours, before most of us get busy, before we check our email, get on Facebook, read the news, and start filling our minds with data, we have a special capacity to release.
When you have a bowel movement (regardless of whether or not it’s between 5:00 and 7:00 AM), you can intend that you’re letting go of anything you’re done with, even visualizing that you’re directing it into your intestines. The large intestine also has a close relationship with the lungs, which can facilitate letting go through the breath. Every exhale is a letting go and deepening the breath while relaxing the belly can help promote the wringing (peristaltic) movement of the intestines.
7:00 to 9:00 AM – Stomach Time
The stomach is the organ that first receives the food we swallow, and begins the process of breaking it down so we can absorb its nutrients. In the broader TCM concept of the stomach, it represents our ability to receive and accept nurturing and support, to recognize the fruits of our labors, and to allow ourselves to be mothered.
The peak period of the stomach is from 7:00 to 9:00 AM, which is the ideal time to have a fortifying meal. Your body is most likely to process this meal efficiently, which lends some credibility to the saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In order to make the most of this special digestive mojo, it’s actually a great time to have some vegetables and protein, rather than, say, the empty calories of a bagel and coffee.
Meanwhile, set aside at least a moment in the breakfast process to consciously choose to be nourished and to receive the abundant gifts in your life. Close your eyes, savor the tastes and textures of what you’re chewing and be grateful. Of course, you can exercise your metaphoric stomach at any time by bringing your consciousness to the “harvest” that’s available to you.
9:00 to 11:00 AM – Pi Time
Following the stomach, our food passes into the small intestine where enzymes from the pancreas and bile from the gallbladder further prepare it to be absorbed and distributed. Most of these digestive functions fall under the role of the organ called the pi (pronounced “pee”) in Chinese Medicine. (It’s often mistranslated as “spleen,” an organ that has nothing to do with digestion.) The pi has two main jobs – the transformation of food into something the body can assimilate, and the transportation of these nutrients throughout the body.
To extend this idea beyond nutrition, the pi represents your capacity to nurture and hold the many parts of yourself, your life, and your world – people, projects, career, etc. The pi is associated with the earth element and works for us much in the same way that Mother Earth holds, supports, and feeds everything that lives upon her.
During this time of day, imagine that the energy from your breakfast is making its way into all your cells, fortifying your body, and strengthening and stabilizing your mind. You can facilitate this process by avoiding stress and intense exercise at this time. Consider the whole world, even the parts you dislike or disagree with, as an extension of your own body, and exclude nourishment from none of it.
I’ll discuss the remaining time periods over the next couple weeks, but for now, I wanted to avoid giving you too much new information to digest. Think about just these three time periods in the morning, and see how you’re affected by bringing consciousness to these phases of your day.
Be well,
Dr. Peter Borten
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nondual philosophy a couple weeks ago, I received several requests from readers for more information on nondual Tantric philosophy. Tantra is a complicated subject; there are many forms, and it means different things to different people. In the West, the word “Tantric” is usually combined with the word “sex,” and this pair of words has been used to sell millions of books and workshops on mystical sexual practices that have almost nothing to do with Tantra. But Tantra doesn’t need that lascivious association to be significant; it was hugely influential on the development of yoga, which (in some circles) is almost as popular as sex.
Since I can’t possibly explain this entire system in a brief article, I’m going to focus today on just one of its concepts, called the Five Acts of Divine Consciousness. It is explained in the beginning of a work called Pratyabhijna Hrdayam, “The Heart of Recognition,” written by Rajanaka Kṣemaraja around 1000 A.D.
These five “acts” (pancha kritya) describe the Tantric view of how our reality is created. As Ksemaraja says, “Reverence to the Divine, who ceaselessly performs the Five Acts, and who, by so doing, reveals the ultimate reality of one’s own Self, brimming over with the bliss of Consciousness!” Regardless of where your philosophical and spiritual sensibilities lie, I think you’ll find it an intriguing perspective.
• Srsti. The first act, Srsti, means creation, emission, or the flowing forth of Self-expression. This is the process by which Divine Consciousness (use whatever word you like here – Love, Highest Self, God, Universe, Awareness, Goddess, Divine Light) expresses itself as something. It takes form. It emerges in the world as a person or a flower or a breeze.
• Sthiti. The second act, Sthiti, means holding, preservation, stasis, or maintenance. First Consciousness emerges in manifest form as something, then it holds this form – maybe for a moment, maybe for eons.
• Samhara. The third act, Samhara, means dissolution, resorption, or retraction. After emerging in the world as something and sustaining it for a while, the form dissolves – or is reabsorbed or retracted – back into Consciousness. This is why death of a body is not seen as the end of life in this system – because the body was just a temporary emergence of Consciousness into form, which is then reabsorbed into itself. Thus, none of the vulnerabilities of your body actually threaten what you really are. And consciousness never ends.
• Tirodhana. The fourth act, Tirodhana, means concealment, occlusion, or forgetting. An interesting property to ascribe to the Divine, no? Why would one of its five core acts be to conceal? Well, the explanation is that Undifferentiated Consciousness possesses all possible qualities; in order to manifest as one specific thing, it must conceal all the other qualities that don’t belong to that thing.
Additionally, it explains the limited awareness of sentient beings. When Consciousness emerges as, say, a human, as part of its Divine Play, it imparts itself with only a fraction of its unfathomable awareness. In the process, it forgets what it really is. In this way, rather than acting like its various creations, it immerses itself in them. It becomes them. It’s how you don’t realize you’re Divine Consciousness itself, instead believing you’re “only” a human, disconnected from your Source and all other humans. This also allows for each being to have the experience of free will.
• Anugraha. The fifth act, Anugraha, means revealing (revelation), remembering, or grace. Besides allowing for creative expression, the fourth act (Tirodhana) is also the reason why we suffer. We can’t see the truth of our reality and this is frightening and painful. But this is eventually resolved by Anugraha – when what was hidden is revealed and we remember. As author Christopher Wallis explains, it’s not meant to negate the act of concealment, but to bring it to fruition by revealing its deeper purpose: “Such reconciliation is thus also a reintegration; through it you experientially realize yourself as a complete and perfect expression of the deep pattern of the one Consciousness which moves and dances in all things.”
I’m curious to hear how this concept fits with your own worldview. How do you see things differently? Does this perspective feel more or less liberating than your own? Feel free to share your thoughts below.
Be well,
Dr. Peter Borten
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We’ve been covering cleansing over the past few weeks. Our discussion started with guidelines for when cleansing is and isn’t appropriate, and from there we moved on to stronger and milder ways to encourage detoxification and decongestion of the body (There are links to the previous installments at the bottom of the article.) Last week I mentioned five main organs involved in detoxification – the liver, lungs, kidneys, gut, and skin – and we looked at ways to promote cleansing of the liver and lungs. Today we’ll look at the kidneys and skin.
As I explained previously, the skin is instrumental in the removal of heavy metals and petrochemicals from the body, and this occurs through sweating and the shedding of skin cells. A daily sweat is a good thing for most people. If you’re debilitated, this is better accomplished through a mild sauna than intense exercise, though. Interestingly, the composition of sweat differs slightly, based on whether it’s heat-induced, exercise-induced, or stress-induced, though I haven’t seen research that indicates if one method is most effective for detoxification. I’ve noticed that my stress-sweat stinks, but the other forms don’t.
It’s possible that enhancing circulation to the skin and exfoliating dead cells may facilitate detoxification. Besides dry skin brushing, which I discussed in part three, many people enjoy exfoliating with a nice scrub in the shower or bath, like the Dragontree Scrubs that Briana and I formulated.
Speaking of baths, there’s a long tradition of using baths to stimulate detoxification. The most common methods are: Epsom salt and natural mineral baths; spicy herbs that warm the skin and enhance circulation – like mustard seed, peppermint, and ginger; and mud or clay. I don’t know of any scientific studies showing that baths enhance detoxification, but it can’t hurt, and they do enhance blood flow to the skin and help clean off any grime that might be impeding the excretion of sweat.
Incidentally, many chronic skin rashes respond well to internal cleansing methods, such as a class of herbs called “alterative” herbs, known historically as “blood purifiers.” There are many herbs in this category. Some of the best for skin disorders include sarsaparilla, immature honeysuckle flowers, burdock root and seed, yellow dock root, Oregon grape root, echinacea, dandelion, and the Chinese herbs dictamnus, oldenlandia, and isatis. My favorite alterative for the skin is red clover blossoms. A conservative dose would be a tablespoon of any of these herbs (dried), simmered in a pint of water for 30 minutes, then strained and drunk in two or three portions over the course of a day.
I sometimes get asked about the merits of detox patches that go on the soles of the feet, or detox machines that you take a foot bath in. The short answer is: don’t waste your money.
Onto the kidneys. Your kidneys clean your blood, balance blood pressure, and maintain proper electrolyte levels and pH of the blood. Each of your two kidneys contains about a million nephrons – the basic functional unit of the kidney. Nephrons are networks of tubes that filter the blood, retaining useful stuff and dumping what’s not needed. What’s filtered out becomes urine.
Many drugs, heavy metals, and chemical solvents possess some degree of “nephrotoxicity,” meaning they are poisonous to the kidneys. The kidneys can handle a certain burden of nephrotoxins, but long term exposure (or intense short-term exposure) can result in irreparable damage, which can be deadly. Dehydration and high blood pressure are also hard on the kidneys.
Some nephrotoxic drugs include: many antibiotics (streptomycin, gentamycin, neomycin, vancomycin, penicillin, others), acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), aspirin, Benadryl, Unisom, Prozac, ACE-inhibitors, many cancer and HIV drugs, Prevacid, Prilosec, Protonix, Zantac, Xanax, Ativan, Plavix, and statins. Your best bet for healthy kidneys is to avoid using these drugs long term, if possible; protect yourself from solvent and heavy metal exposure; and don’t let yourself get dehydrated. Another common cause of kidney damage is diabetes, which is mostly preventable by maintaining a healthy weight.
If you have a known kidney challenge, there are a handful of herbs that are supportive to the kidneys (please discuss with your healthcare provider, because kidney disease is serious). Two of the mildest are parsley and corn silk. You can eat parsley as a kidney cleanser, and make a tea from a large handful of dried corn silk. These stimulate clearance through the kidneys, and cornsilk is soothing and perhaps has some reparative effect.
Goldenrod, the common yellow flower (more a weed than a cultivated plant), is another useful cleanser of the kidneys and urinary tract, and is very common in European herbalism. Dandelion, which I wrote about last week as a liver cleanser, is also cleansing to the kidneys. Whereas the root is best for the liver, the leaves and flowers are better for the kidneys. It effectively flushes out the kidneys and supplies potassium (which is usually depleted by pharmaceutical diuretics). Two other valuable herbs for kidney health are juniper berries and uva ursi, which cleanse the kidneys and urinary tract. Any of these can be combined with either of two herbs I mentioned last week – mullein and marshmallow – which are also gentle kidney-supportive herbs. However, while the leaves and flowers of mullein are best for the lungs, the root is best for the kidneys and urinary tract.
As a practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine, the first formula that comes to mind in the treatment of kidney disorders, especially chronic kidney disease, is called Liu Wei Di Huang Wan (Six Flavor Pill with Rehmannia). It’s quite useful in improving kidney function and treating diabetes, and I have even seen it extend the lives of people end-stage renal disease (kidney failure).
Finally, although it’s not specifically a toxicity issue, kidney stones are a common and excruciatingly painful kidney disorder, and I want people to know that they are often highly treatable with herbal pills, like chanca piedra. The first thing that comes to mind is a Chinese blend made by the company Plum Flower, called Stone Formula. I’ve had patients experience such rapid and complete relief with it that they were able to avoid surgery. Another herb with a strong reputation is a Peruvian plant called chanca piedra (literally, “stone crusher”). Of course, anyone passing a kidney stone should consult with a healthcare practitioner.
This week, I encourage you to support the cleanliness of your body by taking a day to eat very simply – such as the green Bieler Broth I shared in the second article in this series.
Be well,
Dr. Peter Borten
Click here for parts
ONE,
TWO,
THREE, and
FOUR.
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