In This Chapter
■The history, techniques, and effectiveness of
water-based healing.
■Ways to enjoy detoxifying therapies at
home.24 Detoxifying Therapies
24 Detoxifying Therapies.
Many cultures and religions, past and present, consider people or things
they find evil or unhealthy to be “unclean” and most have developed
rituals of purification to correct this. In Western cultures, some people
are currently fascinated with the concept of detoxification, the belief
that physical impurities and toxins must be cleared from the body to
achieve better health, in most cases using our most ancient and basic
therapeutic substance: water. This chapter provides an overview of sev-
eral ways people use water to clean their bodies inside and out:
hydrotherapy, colonics, and chelation therapy.