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In my first post on natural radiation detoxification, I listed several protocols that are recommended and wrote in detail about the first: a diet consisting mainly of brown rice, miso and seaweed. Part 2 focused on other additions to the diet. In this post, I will explain the details of the third protocol:
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Sea salt, Baking Soda and Clay Baths
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Naturopath and Chiropractor, Dr. Hazel Parcells (Live Better Longer) popularized therapeutic baths for radiation detoxification. Her suggested protocol was:
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Dissolve 1 pound of sea salt or rock salt and 1 pound of baking
soda in a hot bath — as hot as can be tolerated — and soak into the
water until the bath becomes cool. This usually takes about 20-25
minutes. Afterwards, do not shower or rinse the salt off your body
for 4-8 hours.
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One of the keys to this protocol is making sure the water is hot to start out with, and that you stay in it until it cools down. It is the temperature change that helps to draw the toxins out of the body. Dr. Parcells stated that the best time for this type of bathing is at night when the body is naturally geared to detoxification. One bath per day was her recommendation for acute symptoms of radiation poisoning.
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The idea behind clay baths is similar. Clay has incredible drawing, absorbing and adsorbing power. (Adsorption characterizes the process by which substances stick to the outside surface of the adsorbent medium. Absorption is a much more slow and involved process than adsorption. Here, the clay acts more like a sponge, drawing substances into its internal structure.)
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Raymond Dextreit, the French naturopath who popularized the clay cure in his own country, says that clay “transcends its purely physical properties. Most of the poisons in the body,” Dextreit notes, “are positively charged, whereas clay has a negative electrical attraction. These toxins cannot resist being drawn toward the clay.”
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“Russian scientists use bentonite to protect their bodies from radiation when working with nuclear material, by coating their hands and bodies with a hydrated bentonite “magma” before donning radiation suits. Bentonite adsorbs radiation so well, in fact, that it was the choice material used to dump into Cherynobyl after the nuclear meltdown in the former Soviet Union.”
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There are many types of clay that can be used in therapeutic baths for detoxification purposes. Bentonite, Calcium Montmorillonite, Jordan clay or French green clay are only a few of them.
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Dr. Jensen, N.D., D.C., Ph.D., suggests using bentonite to absorb radiation from the bones.
Bentonite is probably the most commonly used of the therapeutic clays, but there are around 200 different kinds of bentonite and many of them have a high aluminum content. I have found Pascalite (calcium bentonite) to be the most highly recommended of the bentonites, partly because of it’s low aluminum content. It is suggested to take clay baths no more often than one time per week.
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In the next post, I will discuss homeopathic remedies to consider at this time.