Is Your Detox Protocol Doing More Harm Than Good?

Have you ever had a rash, or pimples when doing some sort of cleanse? Do you get irritable bowels or diarrhea when detoxifying your liver? Do you feel light headed, grouchy or depressed when following an Ayurvedic detox program?

You could be detoxifying too fast, or inappropriately for your body's condition. Without knowing it, you could be moving the toxins out of your liver and depositing them in your brain or heart or other vital organs.

This is what Vaidya Mishra means when he says that knowledge of Ayurveda has to be both truthful and complete. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

satya sampurna gyan

In Sanskrit, satya means "true," sampurna means "complete," and gyan means "knowledge." This is Vaidya Mishra's motto.

A Complete Understanding of Toxins in Ayurveda Can Avert A Detox Crisis

Vaidya Mishra's complete knowledge of toxins from the ancient Sanskrit texts can prevent a multitude of problems when detoxifying the body. All toxins are not created equally, and they can't be treated the same.

Did you know that the Ayurvedic texts mention four distinct types of toxins? Most Ayurvedic practitioners speak of only one type of toxin, ama.

There is a reason that the Ayurvedic texts speak of four types of toxins. Each type requires a different approach to detoxification. If you treat every toxin like it is ama, you are bound to make mistakes.

The four types of toxins are:

Ama - This is partially digested food. This toxin is cool, clogging, heavy and sticky.
Amavisha - This is formed when crude ama sits in the body. It gets putrefied, rancid and becomes highly reactive. The name visha literally means "poison." This kind of toxin often contains free radicals, reactive proteins and highly acidic molecules.
Garavisha - Like amavisha, this toxin is also very reactive, but it originates from outside the body. Snake poison for example is garavisha. So is mercury, arsenic and lead. Pesticides and preservatives also fall into this category.
Indravajravijanyavisha - This is electromagnetic toxin. We are exposed to this kind of toxin regularly today in the form of computers, cell phones, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. This type of toxin was recorded in ancient times when lightning would strike and give the same symptoms that we experience today from modern technology.

How Should Different Toxins Be Handled Differently?

Let's look at the difference between ama and amavisha as an example.

Crude ama is simply undigested material. It is cool, sticky and heavy. Ama is neither waste material nor useful material. It's a mix. So it sits there and blocks the channels as the body tries to figure out what to do with it. It slows digestion and metabolism. It makes you feel stiff and dull.

Now compare that with amavisha (literally "poison" ama). What makes amavisha poisonous? It is the highly reactive nature of these toxins. Crude ama becomes amavisha when it sits in the body over time. You can't keep partially digested food material sitting in a warm, moist place (like the inside of the body) and expect it stay nice and fresh.

The crude ama becomes putrefied and chemically charged. It becomes hot, and very acidic. Some amavisha toxins have been sitting in the liver, for example, for years or decades. You can imagine how chemically charged these toxins are.

Separate Protocols

So how do you deal with these two types of toxins? If you don't know about the difference you might treat them the same. You might think, "There's ama in the body and Ayurveda says that to get rid of ama I need to increase digestion and metabolism and burn it out. So I'll give some ginger or trikatu (ginger, black pepper and long pepper) or recommend drinking hot water throughout the day to get rid of all this ama."

It sounds good in theory, and it works great for crude ama in a kapha body-type (cool physiology). But in reality you may have more amavisha in your body than crude ama. In our modern culture amavisha is much more prevalent than crude ama, though both are a problem. Or you may be a pitta body type. If you give ginger and pepper or hot water to someone who has lots of amavisha or pitta dosha, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire.

The Ayurvedic texts (shastras) say that ama should be given hot treatment and amavisha should be given cool treatment. Moreover, you can get rid of ama fairly quickly, but you have to go very slowly with amavisha so that it does not get reabsorbed in the intestines and travel through the blood and lodge in other tissues and weak spots in the body.

The Side Effects of Partial Knowledge

If you suddenly squeeze the liver full of amavisha into the intestines, you will almost certainly create bad diarrhea, and you may irreversibly burn the intestinal walls with the highly reactive toxins that pass through. You burn the bridge, and you now have no recourse left for getting the toxins out.

Worse yet, those hot, acidic toxins will more than likely be reabsorbed. They can end up going to the brain and causing problems down the road, or lodging in the skin or bone or bone marrow and setting the stage for deeper imbalance in the future.

Vaidya Mishra is the only Vaidya speaking of amavisha in the West today. It is not even emphasized in Ayurvedic medical colleges in India today. But it is mentioned widely in the Ayurvedic texts, and it has been used in Vaidya Mishra's family of healers for millenia.

Avoiding Mistakes Is Easy When You Have Complete Knowledge

Improper detoxification can be avoided so easily if you study Ayurveda from the source texts with a Vaidya who is very familiar with them. Vaidya Mishra comes from a 5000 year old family tradition of Shaka Vansya Ayurveda. Not only does he know the Ayurvedic texts inside and out, he also is the custodian of all of his family's centuries-old practical experience using Ayurveda.

Take, for example, a practice sometimes recommended in Ayurveda to drink water that has been sitting in a copper cup overnight. This is recommended in the Ayurvedic texts as a way of getting trace amounts of copper, which the body needs. But Vaidya Mishra's family discontinued recommending this over a century ago when it noticed that water everywhere was becoming more acidic. When acidic water is kept in copper, copper sulfate is formed, which is poisonous to drink.

In this way, Vaidya's family adjusts the practice of Ayurveda to fit the specific, ever-changing conditions of time and place. By studying with Vaidya Mishra, you will get the benefit of this practical wisdom of his family tradition.

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Purnasya purnamadaya purnamevavashishyate

Taking fullness from fullness, what remains is fullness.

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