Healthy Lymphatic System - Key to good health

The lymphatic system is one of the most important but often neglected systems operating in the body. Most of the problems in the human body start due to the vitiation of lymphatic system.

The lymphatic system is vital to our health and very life. Part of our immune system, it provides defense against disease-causing organisms. When the lymphatic system becomes sluggish our tissues become congested, organ function is impaired and our health suffers.
A healthy lymphatic system will help reverse insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes), will help maintain optimum blood pressure levels, keep the heart healthy, keep the liver and kidney safe, help good skin and hairs and keep away baldness and aging, keep arthritis at away. It also keeps you safe from different types of tumors and cancer. It helps with the glandular system and maintain hormonal balance in the body. It won’t allow virus, bacteria and other disease producing microorganisms to flourish and thus keep you healthy.

Here we will explain what this system is, how it works, and how to keep ours healthy.

 

What is Lymphatic System?

Each and every cell of our body is surrounded by a fluid called interstitial fluid. At the cellular level, the lymphatic system is a pathway through which fluid flows from the inter cellular spaces into the blood.

The interstitial fluid surrounding the cells drains into a small tube like structure (shown in green in the picture).

The lymphatic system is made up of ducts, nodes, and organs that circulate a clear, watery fluid called 'lymph' throughout the body. The primary purpose of this fluid is to filter or flush out waste products such as toxins and pathogens. Lymph also distributes immune cells, fats and proteins and importantly, produces immune system cells called lymphocytes which protect our bodies from antigens such as viruses and bacteria. Lymph works with the circulatory system to drain fluid from cells and tissues and is the key factor in maintaining a healthy fluid balance.

Its main components are located in the bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus gland and tonsils. Lymphatic tissue can also be found in the liver, heart, lungs, and skin. Lymphocytes are formed in the bone marrow, while lymph nodes, small bean shaped filtering structures, are found in the armpit, back of the head, behind the ears, groin, neck, under the jaw, and chin. The lymph fluid moves through the body via channels or 'vessels' that are fitted with one way valves, so lymph always moves in one direction.

The lymphatic system is very much similar to the drainage system of our city and in fact it is the drainage system of the human body.

Like a drainage system from each house collect into bigger drainage pipes, the fluid from small tubes drain into bigger collecting tubes or lymph capillaries. 

Lymph capillaries turn into lymph vessels which pass through lymph nodes, empty into the lymphatic ducts and then into the venous system. The venous system carries the impure blood to the heart. The pure blood is given in red and the impure venous blood in blue and the lymph in green.

The lymphatic system includes lymph, lymphocytes, lymph vessels, lymph nodules, lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen and thymus gland. Part of the body’s defense system, the lymph nodes filter lymph and the spleen filters blood, removing microorganisms and other foreign substances. The lymph nodes act as a filtration system that keeps particulate matter such as bacteria from entering the bloodstream. They produce both lymphocytes and monocytes. Lymph tissue contains lymphocytes and other cells that can destroy microorganisms and foreign substances.    The cells have obtained oxygen and nutrients for its survival and also throw the waste products into this river of water. These waste products if not removed becomes toxic for the cell.

Any stagnant water is unhealthy and so imagine cells surrounded by stagnant fluids around them. A city in a country can be clean only if surroundings of each house are kept clean. This means there should be and efficient and regular means of garbage disposal system in operation.

Similarly a body can be clean and healthy only if the fluid surrounding each cell is kept clean by regular garbage disposal system. If cells dump waste every second but if the waste is not cleared, your interstitial fluid will look like the pictures shown below.

The lymphatic system helps maintain fluid balance in the tissues. It also helps in clearance of proteins and large particles which are too large to be absorbed into the blood capillaries, but can be carried through the lymphatics. Removal of proteins from the intercellular spaces is so important, that if were not done, we would die within about twenty-four hours.

Lymphatic fluid is derived from intercellular fluid that flows into the lymphatics. About two-thirds of lymph is normally derived from the liver and intestines. Small lymph capillaries originate in the tissue and carry fluid away from the tissues. These lymph capillaries, which are in almost all tissues of the body, except the bones, superficial skin, deeper portion of peripheral nerves, the central nervous system, endomysium of muscles. But even these are able to drain through minute pre-lymphatic channels, whose fluid then flows into the lymphatic vessels. The brain is unique in that the pre-lymphatic channels drain into the cerebrospinal fluid and from there directly into the venous system.

If the lymphatic system becomes congested, blocked, damaged or severed, fluids can build up in the connective tissue leading to edema. After a time, cell pathology may begin. If there is damage in the connective tissue due to burns, chronic inflammation, ulceration, or other factors, the lymph system transports damaged cells, inflammatory products and toxins away from the area. The more quickly this can happen, the faster recovery will be.

The liver is very permeable to fluids and this flow freely into the liver’s lymphatic system. The liver is an expanding and contracting reservoir of blood, lymph and bile. If circulation is weak, these fluids will have a tendency to congest the liver.

 

What can i do to keep my lymphatic system healthy?

Since there is no pump for the lymphatic system as the heart is the pump for the blood system, how does the lymph move? Several factors influence lymph movement. The filling of a lymph vessel segment causes it to contract, which pumps the lymph into the next segment. This is known as intrinsic lymphatic pumping. Other factors that influence lymph movement are all related to movement and activity:

1) contraction of surrounding muscles during activity 
2) movement of the body 
3) pressure changes in the thorax during respiration 
4) compression of tissues by objects of the body 
5) arterial pulsations

During periods of rest, lymph is sluggish. During exercise the lymphatic pump becomes very active. Exercise can increase lymph flow ten to thirty fold. Thus, regular exercise is the most important factor in keeping a healthy lymph flow.

 

Exercise and Lymph circulation

Why is exercising healthy? Medical Researchers and Doctors advocate exercise, but many do not understand its real benefit. For example, they know that exercise and estrogen levels in women are related. There is lot of research evidence showing that exercise prevent heart diseases, cancers, diabetes and various other diseases. In short medical research shows that poor exercise is one of the major contributor of many diseases and hence they recommend physical exercise.

This is also true but there is much more to it. Exercise increases blood flow, which removes all the wastes from that region and supplies nourishment. They increase blood circulation, heat circulation, air circulation and energy circulation. More important is that it facilitates lymphatic circulation. Poor body movements mean poor lymphatic circulation and so poor immunity.

We have already seen that body movements and deep breathing helps in lymphatic circulation. Deep breathing can happen only when you have awareness of yourself. And that’s the reason why yoga has been so useful in many diseases and recommended by many doctors of different system of medicine.

Beside this Nature has given us many herbs which help in cleansing of the interstitial fluid and the whole lymphatic system. The proper use of these natural supplements keeps the body healthy.

Nature has given us many herbs which help in cleansing of the interstitial fluid and the whole lymphatic system. The proper use of these natural supplements expel the foreign matter and keeps the body healthy.

This process was well known to the ancient doctors so they had devised different kind of massage with different herbal combinations to accelerate the circulation of lymph in the body to remove the toxins and pathogens to heal it.

At NATURAL CARE it has been our consistent approach to purify the blood and the lymph of all the patients so that they get long lasting results. And working on the same philosophy we have achieved excellent results in different disease/disorders which are said to be incurable in other systems of medicines.

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Healthy Lymphatic System - Key to good health

Excellent result of Herbal Medicines on Gout on a Malaysian Patient

This 50 years old male from Malaysia contacted me for his Gout problem.

Let me put his case in his own words.

On further investigation he told us that he was having this Gout problem for the last 4 - 5 years and along with this he was having sinus and Asthma. And he wanted to have the Gout problem addressed.

Based on his detailed description over the phone and mails, We advised him the herbal formulations.

I just keep wondering what could have propelled people from different countries to contact us for the treatment. Their belief on a doctor who is thousands of miles away. How much was their suffering that a ray of hope led them to someone 1000s mile away for their cure.

I always pray to lord almighty to give me the healing power so that all those who have put their faith in us should get healed in the least possible time.

He received on September 8th, 2011 and started using it right away.

We have cured many cases of Gout, Osteo Arthritis, RA and many other types of Arthritis and our patients are spread in different geographical locations of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. But still its a challenge every time to cure a patient from such a distance without physical examination.

But my patients never complain me regarding the distance and they feel that they are much closer to me because they can always mail me and give me a call whenever required. Our phone lines open 24 X 7.

I was waiting for the response of the medicines on his body. He mailed me back after 2 weeks of using the medicines.

This is a very positive mail. And we have advised him to continue with the medicines for some longer duration so that his problems go away for ever.

Herbal medicines are very effective in treating this type of patients. We have treated several patients of Gout, chronic Arthritis and other types of pain who were suffering for last 25 years and had tried every kind of medicines and had lost hope in medicines. But now they lead normal life and their smile puts a smile on our face too.

Asthma Cure the herbal approach

Asthma is a common disease of the lungs, affecting millions of people worldwide. Lets discuss its causes, symptoms, and treatment options.

Anatomy 
Oxygen is vital for life. Without it, death occurs very rapidly.The lungs allow us to fill our blood with oxygen. The air we breathe comes in close contact with the blood in the depth of the lungs.The blood then fills up with oxygen and releases unwanted carbon dioxide, CO2.

When we breathe, the air goes through the mouth and nose. From there it goes to the air pipe, known as the trachea. From the trachea it goes into an increasing number of smaller tubes, called bronchial tubes.

Small balloon-like sacs called alveoli are at the end of the tubes. The walls of the alveoli are very thin. On the other side of the walls small blood vessels exist. The very thin wall of the alveoli allows the oxygen to go into the bloodstream and also allows CO2 to go from the blood to your lungs to be exhaled.

Muscles surround the bigger bronchial tubes. The inner lining of these bronchial tubes secretes special substances called mucus. The mucus helps trap dirt from the air. Mucus is continuously expelled from the lungs. Very small brushes, known as cilia, on the outside of the lung cells continuously push the mucus to the outside. If the mucus becomes sufficiently big, it is coughed out.

Symptoms And Their Causes 
Asthma is a condition that makes breathing difficult. This causes a feeling of tightness in the chest. Patients with asthma are sensitive to certain materials that cause an inflammation or swelling of the inner lining of the lungs. This swelling can cause narrowing of the air passages. The swelling and inflammation of the inner lining of the lungs can lead to symptoms such as difficulty breathing and tightness in the chest. The muscles around the bronchial tubes could also tighten abnormally resulting in further narrowing of the air passages.
When an asthma attack occurs, the lining of the lungs quickly becomes swollen. The air passages fill up with thick mucus and the muscles around the bronchial tubes tighten.
This greatly decreases the airflow in the lungs: this could potentially be life threatening.

Triggers 
Many things can lead to the inflammation of the lungs and abnormal muscle tightening, these are known as triggers. Triggers include substances to which a person may be allergic. Animal hair or secretions, mold, pollen, and dust are examples of allergens. These allergens can trigger an asthma attack.

Extreme conditions, such as very cold or very hot weather, can also trigger an asthma attack. Particles in the air from car exhaust or other pollution and medications, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, may act as a trigger. Food additives, such as sulfites found in wine, can also act as a trigger. Some diseases such as colds can trigger an asthma attack. Stress, and bouts of extreme laughter or crying, can also affect the lungs and cause an asthma attack.

Diagnosis 
Repeated occurrences of difficulty breathing and wheezing are indications that the patient may have asthma. After taking a detailed medical history and listening to your lungs, you may have to have a special test done known as Pulmonary Function Test. This test aims at determining the ability of your lungs to function.
Peak flow measurement is a part of this test that the patient may be asked to perform on his or her own following the visit to the physician. This test allows patients to monitor their own progress. The patient is asked to blow into a tube; a marker on the side of the tube indicates the speed at which the breath is exhaled out of the lungs. A chest X-ray may also be done to check for other diseases that have the same symptoms as asthma. A skin test may also be done to help the patient recognize possible triggers.

Curative Approach

In contrast with the conventional approach which is just based on just making the patient a well managed chronic patient, we heal the ailing organs to cure the patient.

It reduces the frequency of asthma attacks
It reduces the severity of attacks
It enhances immunity whereby your tendency to get frequent cough, colds, throat infection, etc. reduces
It reduces the need for broncho-dilator, cortisone, inhalers, antibiotics
It heals the bronchial tube and strengthens it. 
It regulates the mucus production.
It strengthens the cilial action to expel the dirt and mucus out.
It also heals the nasal cavity so that the filtered allergen free acclimatized air reaches the bronchial tubes.
It improves overall health
It is absolutely safe and can be taken with the conventional medicines
Its long term usage heals the whole respiratory system and thus cures it

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