Detoxification Strategy in Chinese Medicine: "Coursing the Liver, Cleansing the Planet"

In diagnosing an illness, practitioners of Chinese Medicine consider the cause of the disease.  Among "external" causes, a prevalent problem in the present day is toxic overload.  It has always been acknowledged, among alternative preventive healthcare practicitioners, that most of the fuctional reserves of the body are dedicated to the removal of toxings.  It has always been a practice of many cultures (and wild animals) to fast in order to allow the body to cleanse and to heal.  Nowadays, most alternative practitioners will not recommend fasting because the body does not have the capacity to remove the toxins.  Instead of being excreted, the foreign accumulations are loosened from the fat tissues and then driven into the bone marrow to be stored due to impaired excretion and elimination.  In this modern world, therapeutic detoxification is complicated.  We will present strategies to maintain a healthy environment and to detoxify the body.