09.29.09
HealthQuest: day 1
I’ve been incommunicado for a while, traveling, etc. But I’ve been studying various modes of healing, and am ready to undertake a strict regimen.
I considered whether or not this is the place for a log of it, but I decided to put it here for 2 reasons. Druidry is all about relationship; and I wish to improve the relationship with my body. In addition, much of my relationship with my environment is governed via my senses, which is rooted in my body. If I am more vibrant, more healthy, then my own energy will reflect this, and I will be able to more intimately and authentically be in relationship with my environment.
Over the past few months, I’ve made significant inroads into my healthquest, detoxing via drinking spring water, eating lots of raw foods, superfoods. I am no longer on any prescription meds, though I still have an inhaler floating around for my asthma. My goal is to heal myself completely; lots of energy, clear mind, a basis of joy, strength, and no chronic physical discomfort or dis-ease.
Toward this end, I am researching titrating an ascorbic acid dose for myself. I’m going to start with 5g of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), 5 times per day, and increase the dose to bowel tolerance. Once I achieve this level, I will back off the dosage a bit, and stick with this dose.
The fascinating thing about this therapy is that the body’s ability to tolerate high doses of vitamin C varies with one’s toxicity level. If someone gets the flu, for instance, they will be able to tolerate higher levels of Vitamin C while they are sick. So as we heal, our bodies can tolerate less Vitamin C. Once my bowel tolerance does decreases, I’ll correspondingly reduce my dosage.
High doses of Vitamin C, when administered this way, have been known to heal a variety of conditions; basically we are creating an environment for the human body to thrive, and illnesses or dis-ease to go away.
With that said, today’s the day this begins.
DAY 1
11am – lots of spring water. I prefer to begin my day with oil-pulling, THEN a liter or two of spring water. Didn’t do oil pulling today, but I did brush my teeth before I drank.
12pm – big green smoothie. Yum. I’ve been doing green smoothies for a long time and they are essential to my morning. More details on smoothies in time.
1pm – 2 packets of Emergen-C (2000mg) in water. I wanted to ramp up my Vitamin C intake slowly for the first dose.
4pm – 5000mg of ascorbic acid. It’s now about 4:30 and I’m experiencing a wonderful glow of sun energy, Vitamin C does after all come from the Sun. My lungs are clearer than they’ve been in days.
8:30pm – 5000mg of ascorbic acid. It’s not about 11:30 and I’m almost ready for another dose. Feeling some allergy-like symptoms, itchy and scratchy throat. Bowels are fine so far. I think I’ll take another 5000mg dose shortly and then up it tomorrow.
Also, noticed something really cool earlier when I took the ascorbic acid. It has a very sour taste. After I finished it I took a big swig of spring water, and it tasted sweet in comparison to the ascorbic acid! Like a rush of clean sweetness, it was amazing.
One of my demons — this one actually has a very serpentine imagine in my head, rather than demonic — is night eating. At the moment, I’m feeling the familiar drive toward eating, but I’m very in tune with myself at the moment and am just not hungry. Apologies for the confessional nature of this paragraph (or this entire post, for that matter), but this is very deep-level detox work for me to get the next stage in my HealthQuest.
12:00 midnight: 5000mg of ascorbic acid. It’s now 12:45, and the allergy symptoms mentioned above are gone. Lungs are clear.