The Lymphatics and Colonics

Blood moves 300 times faster than lymph. The lymphatic system is a network of tubes throughout the body that drains fluid (called lymph) from tissues and empties it back into the bloodstream. The main roles of the lymphatic system include managing the fluid levels in the body, filtering out bacteria, and housing some types of white blood cells. Lymph is filtered through the spleen, thymus and lymph nodes before being emptied into the blood.

Your lymphatic system is the toxin removal system of the body.  It is like a slow moving ocean within your body.  90% of water in the body is lymph while the rest is blood, intracellular fluid and cerebral spinal fluid.  Lymph is a colorless liquid containing salts, electrolytes and nutrients that travels throughout the body in vessels alongside the arteries and veins of the circulatory system.  The lymphatic system is a series of beaded capillaries that flow through nodes and ducts that collect and circulate the lymph fluid.

The lymph lies just under the layers of the skin and it moves by stimulation through movement, exercise, massage and by the electro-magnetic energy system of the body.  It is generally thought that, unlike the heart for the circulatory system, the lymph system has no pump.  However, it has long been known in yogic circles that the lymph system, has two pumps.  The first is located in the perineum and the second in the back of the ankles which is why exercise is so good for moving lymph fluid.  Every time you pump your ankles as in swimming, cycling, walking, running etc, you are pumping lymph fluid around the body.

The lymph flows periodically through small filters of various size, called lymph nodes. These nodes are the familiar glands that get swollen and tender when infection is present in the body. There are singular nodes throughout the body often found along the beaded capillaries of the lymph system, but most gather in clusters in the neck, armpits, groin, and across the abdomen and spleen.  The main lymphatic area is in the solar plexus where the cisterna chyli is found, it is the most common drainage trunk of most of the body’s lymphatics.

Blood travels throughout the body feeding cells with nutrients and collecting wastes.  This waste is then dumped into the lymphatic system to be carried to the organs of elimination, the liver, lungs, colon, skin and kidneys.  Lymph nodes make immune cells that help the body fight infection. They also filter the lymph fluid and remove foreign material such as bacteria or infectious microbes.  When bacteria are recognized in the lymph fluid, the lymph nodes make more infection-fighting white blood cells, which causes the nodes to swell.

As the lymph system and the colon are both working to remove toxins from the body, colonics can help by speeding up the process freeing the body to find harmony and equilibrium.  Likewise, lymphatic drainage massage (find name of a local lymphatic drainage massage therapist) can assist and support colon hydrotherapy treatments making them more effective and encouraging the release of more toxins with each colonic treatment.

“Colon cleansing (colonics) can go a long way toward eliminating parasites and accumulated, impacted wastes in the large intestine.  These wastes can be caused by eating the wrong kinds of foods, drinking too little liquid, lack of exercise, improper combination of foods, emotional distress, and weak muscle tone of the colon.  Removal of these wastes by colon cleansing – wherein the colon is flushed with filtered water through a series of fills and releases – results in a renewed sense of health, vitality and energy in the individual’s entire system”.
Stanley Weinberger