Making Distinctions

 

From: A Comprehensive & Up-To-Date Self-Help Approach To Good Health

Prescription for Nutritional Healing

Second Edition

James F. Balch, MD * Phyllis A. Balch, CNC

Paragraph 5, pp 253:

 

The symptoms of environmental toxicity and environmantal allergies can be very

similar, but the mechanisms that cause them are different. Allergies result from an

over-reaction by the immune system to some substance encountered in the

environment.

Environmental toxicity, on the other hand, is not a result of an immune system

reaction, but a direct poisoning of tissues or cells, so that they can no longer

function as they should. Allergic reactions usually begin to subside when contact with

the offending allergen ceases, whereas toxicity-based problems can persist long

afterwards, depending on the type and extent of the damage the toxins have caused.

Webmaestrzae Note: These compounds, many being drying agents as well as poisons, can cause external and internal tissue burning once progressed to the kindling effect.