Robert uses therapeutic bath formulas (hydrotherapy) for lymphatic drainage, infections, detoxification, relaxation, and many other healing purposes. The great importance of lymphatic drainage, for a wide variety of health problems, is detailed in a brief article appended below, written by Dr. Fauci of the NIH, National Institutes of Health.

The actual ingredients of the lymphatic drain bath formula are primarily Epsom salt and baking soda. For healing purposes other than lymphatic draingage, Epsom salt is used with hydrogen peroxide instead.

PEROXIDE. The peroxide used is the ordinary 3% solution found in any drug store or supermarket. The peroxide/epsom baths are used for a great variety of purposes, principal of which would be physical body cleansing and detoxification, infections, and emotional cleansing and clarifying.

HEALING EFFECTS. After these baths, people feel a greatly enhanced sense of calmness and serenity on the one hand, focus and decisiveness on the other. Higher quantities of peroxide, usually 1-2 16 ounce bottles of peroxide, are required with infections.

Baking soda and epsom baths are also used for a variety of purposes. For lymphatic drainage, fairly high quantities of soda an Epsom are required; significantly higher than what is needed for other healing goals. There's a threshold point involved here, whereby you have to bring up the concentration of Epsom salt and baking soda to a sufficient level before lymphatic drainage is induced.

A general formula adequate for most people would be: one pound Epsom salt and one pound baking soda. Most commonly a few drops of pine essential oil are added; this is optional. For some, other essential oils would be better.

PROCEDURE. Fill the tub half full with hot water, as hot as you can comfortably stand. Begin pouring in the Epsom salt and baking soda immediately, while it is filling. Introductory dosage is one pound of each. Stir the water to help it dissolve. Get in when the tub is at a level about half of what you normally bath in.

Dribble in more hot water while you're sitting there, until it's "full", over about 5 minutes of time. It's important to keep the temperature hot. Stay in the bath about 15-30 minutes, depending on your own subjective sense of what feels right. Do the baths maximum twice a week. A course of about 10 baths total should be sufficient to complete the process. You need not stay in the bath continuously, but can get out for brief breaks, and then get back in.

Adding more and more water makes the bath solution progressively more diluted. This changes the energetic effect, also progressively. The important point about being inside the tub while the energetics are shifting, is to receive the full range of these progressively shifting energetics. This is comparable to the homeopathic principle: change the homeopathic dilution and you change the energetic effect.

After a couple of baths at the level of one pound of Epsom salt, going up gradually to two pounds, 3 ounce increase at a time, will draw out the lymphatics more strongly. It's usually better to begin at the one pound level.

Lymphatic Drainage

Lymphatic drainage is an important factor in dealing with a very broad range of ills. A device called the Light Beam Generator is also used to stimulate lymphatic drainage. By all reports, the LBG is extremely effective in doing this. The only problem here is a new unit costs $3100.

INFECTIONS. This formula consists primarily of Epsom salt and hydrogen peroxide; sometimes with small quantities of Clorox, boric acid, tea tree oil and/or other essential oils such as camphor, oregano, and some others.

Excerpts from an article by Dr. Fauci of the NIH are appended below, which explain some of the basic concepts involved in lymphatic drainage.

"Lymphatic Therapy": (as taken from a non copyrighted pamphlet)

Dr. Fauci, M.D., NIH Allergy and Infectious Disease Control Center:

"up to 10 times as much virus
resides in the lymph system as in the blood".

The problem:

The most underrated circulatory system in the human body is our lymphatic system. And, most health practitioners never consider the critical role lymph plays in preventing sickness nor the critical role it plays in keeping us healthy!

The Lymph System is a vital circulatory system, critical to managing the elimination of toxins from our body and is the body's primary immune defense and waste eliminator system. It contains over 600 "collection sites" called "Lymph nodes" and has a network of collecting vessels, more extensive than the venous system (veins).

Our lymphatic system is primarily responsible for carrying disease fighting material to cells attacked by germs, transporting the dead germs away, and supplying protein-rich plasma fluid back to the heart. When this system is blocked, we become defenseless against attacks by virus, fungus and bacteria. Medical research explains the lymphatic system as a primary system used by all immunological support elements such as: macrophages, T-Cells, B-Cells, Lymphocytes, etc. to fight the virus, fungus and bacteria attacking our body.

It is also composed of over 50% plasma protein, and is the major system carrying nutrition-rich plasma protein back into our blood. When the lymph system is blocked, infection fighting material is prevented from destroying germs and cell nourishing elements are prevented from reaching our blood and cells. And as a result, germs grow, our blood looses needed protein, and infectious diseases march in! With the lymphatic system blocked, an engorged (swollen) condition results in our lymph nodes.

In a recent AIDS study by Dr. Fauci, NIH Allergy and Infectious Disease Center, (this condition) "results in providing a breeding ground, especially for the HIV virus, for pathogenic material. The lymph system acts as a reservoir of infection churning out billions of HIV-infected immune system cells that eventually spill into the blood stream, where they travel to other parts of the body. Much later, after enduring years of viral proliferation, the immune system begins to falter, and infectious disease marches in."

Most chronic disease problems occur at the junction of lymph vessels called "lymph nodes". One can feel lymph nodes, by pressing under the arms; just below the collar bone; or in the crease between the thigh and pelvic area. When touching these areas, most people will feel small bumps and sometimes pain. The bumps and pain are symptomatic of blocked lymph nodes. Blocked lymph nodes indicate a breakdown in the "mechanical" functioning of the lymphatic system.

In men, the inguinal nodes, located in the area (creases) of the groin, between the genitals and the thigh, are the primary channel for letting accumulated lymph (protein and fluid) release from the prostate. In women, the axillary nodes, located in the arm pit and extend from the arm pit down towards the breast, are the primary channel for releasing accumulated lymph fluid from the breast. In many prostate, breast and other cancer situations, these lymph nodes are involved and greatly enlarged.

The solution:

The issue of lymphatic flow has been studied for years with in-depth clinical research resulting in very efficient manual methods for restoring the lymph system. Modern research, using manual lymph drainage techniques in conjunction with a non-invasive technology, called the LIGHT BEAM GENERATOR (LBG), effects a swift, safe, and natural method of eliminating excess lymphatic fluid.

The LBG assists the body to achieve a free flow of proteins within the lymph system and to release bonded protein blockages in the interstitium of the connective tissue. The LBG is non-invasive technology, using extremely low current and negatively charged light photons providing compatible frequencies to the blocked area, resulting in cells correcting their out of balance condition and disassociating themselves from the binding agent responsible for the swelling and blockage.

Rapid movement of waste material within the cell occurs and the delivery of the waste material to the organs responsible for body waste disposal is greatly increased. Hands on therapy is increased as free flow of proteins speeds the healing process. With waste material moving within the body, day to day factors like eating habits, body structure, nutrition, medication and mental health can be addressed to provide a successful formula to restoring health.

Common conditions presenting relief when using lymph massage and LBG, are: Pain, especially as it involves soft tissue: Sciatica, Breast conditions, Fibrocystic disease, PMS and inflammation: Intestinal syndromes; diabetes; arthritis, bursitis and other conditions where inflammation is involved; swelling, bruising with edema; and pre-op and post-op facial surgery recovery.