This week and next, I will look at the care of the skin. Your skin is not just an envelope which surrounds you - it is a powerful and vital organ, in fact, the largest organ of the human body. The skin acts like a “second lung” through which the body eliminates a great deal of waste material - at least, it does when it is healthy. Your circulatory system carries metabolic wastes, which are being constantly produced as by-products of the normal body functions along tiny capillaries to the skin where they pass out of your through skin pores. In fact, the skin plays a major role in keeping our bodies “harmonised.”
This process of elimination can be assisted by stimulating the circulation to the skin surface and keeping the skin surface clear so that the skin’s pores don’t become blocked. The skin surface is made up of “dead cells” which are shed all the time. But when these dead cells become covered with small dirt particles and oils (which we produce ourselves), the process of elimination can become blocked or slowed, leading to blemishes, pimples and blackheads.
There are several easy ways to use water to stimulate the circulation to the skin, so that wastes are delivered more efficiently, and to help clear away the obstructions caused by dead skin cells and debris on the surface, thus opening up the pores and enabling them to function more efficiently. Other benefits of regularly treating the skin (it’s no good doing this just now and then) with hydrotherapy include improved tone and the breakdown of any fatty deposits lying below the skin (cellulite). Clearing cellulite depends on improved circulation and drainage of the tissues, and water treatments help to achieve this wonderfully.
Your overall health will also benefit when your skin is working efficiently because your level of toxicity drops, thereby putting less strain on the other organs of elimination such as the liver, kidney, bowels and lungs. Minor problems such as chronic catarrh can improve or vanish with open channels instead of blocked ones: when the skin does its job properly, there is less need for other means of removing toxins, such as excretion through the mucous membranes. Any tendency to unpleasant body odour will also improve dramatically with hydrotherapy treatments because bacteria on the skin surface which can cause body odour will have less chance to operate and, at the same time, sweat deposits will be cleared away more efficiently.
Another spin-off of helping your skin to do its job properly is that you will have more energy available and greater vitality, as toxic deposits are removed from the system. Of course, the skin itself will also look and feel better with regular skin hydrotherapy.
Another amazing quality that skin has is the fact that, while it is a protective envelope, it will allow some passage through itself in both directions. So as well as eliminating wastes, it will also allow nutrients and herbal essences in. By using special mixtures of nutrients and salts, as well as essential oils from plants, you can have a profoundly beneficial influence on the way your body works.
Another aspect of the skin - from a traditional Chinese world-view - sees it connected emotionally to sadness. By touching and caring for our skin, we become less sad. In times of grief, therefore, it’s important to treat the skin.
Next week I’ll look at the different methods that can be used to treat our skin.
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