What is Lymphatic Drainage Massage and how does it help with detoxing your body?

This non-invasive, painless, and very effective therapy for lymphadema and other related conditions, has been used in Europe successfully for decades and is now becoming widely recognized in the United States.

Lymph Drainage Therapy has been proven to aid in the absorption of toxins, assist the body in deep cleansing, stimulate fluid circulation and the aids in the work of the immune system. Helps to absorb fat molecules, induce deep relaxation, and activate antispasmodic actions.

Lymphatic Drainage Massage can increase lymphocytes by as much as 30% and can increase the flow of lymph by as much as 20 times! A normal lymphatic flow is about 4 ounces of lymph per hour. This means that with Manual Lymphatic Drainage the flow can be increased to as much as 80 ounces per hour! The Manual Lymph Drainage is a superficial skin massage. The superficial skin massage stimulates the lymph nodes located just below the surface of the skin. When the proper essential oil and base organic products are utilized the combination is even tremendously more effective.

Our lymphatic system has vessels just like our circulatory system, but does not have a pump (whereas the circulatory system has the heart). In order to clear the “lymph” (the clear extracellular fluid that is collected by the lyphatic vessels and filtered by the lymph nodes), the lymphatic system must be pumped manually. We should be able to maintain this with an active lifestyle. Therefore this lymphatic overload can result from many forms of inactivity or trauma or surgery or illness….. and has no limitations or exclusions….

Lymphatic drainage massage is a gentle manual treatment technique which improves the activity of the lymph vessels by mild mechanical stretches on the wall of lymph collectors.Lymphatic Drainage massage re-routes the lymph flow around the blocked areas into more centrally located lymph vessels that eventually drain into the venous system. Lymph Drainage can be an effective means to help prevent colds and or shorten the duration of the illness once infection has set in.

Experience has shown that it is not only for ill patients: Lymph drainage massage is also a perfect technique for helping clients to maintain health and improve the beauty of their skin. It additionally facilitates detoxification which aids in weight loss and toning during weight loss.

You may be wondering “Why should I consider getting a massage”?

In reality we tend to treat our mind, body, and spirit as if we were made of stone. As we continue our journey, pieces of us become chipped, dislocated, rearranged, and often this manifests into pain, stress, dysfunction, and disease process.

Bodywork is truly one of the oldest forms of resculpting the mind, body, spirit integration, and when done with integrity and truly healing modalities and proper anointing of pure oils, and botanicals the body responds, as well as the mind and spirit. As an artist I have always viewed this as if I were sculpting, finding these issues as I work and helping you to release these. This means that we will need bodywork from time to time in order to continually be put back together and allow ourselves the ability to function at our best.

I’ve experienced this in my personal life and am continually reaffirmed by those who sing the praises of healing as a result of great bodywork.

The physiological scientific data is remarkable as well as the emotional and spiritual healing that results with each and every treatment.

THE BENEFITS OF THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE

• massage dialates or opens up blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion of blood.
• massage increases the number of red blood cells, especially in cases of anemia.
• massage acts as a “mechanical cleanser”, pushing along lymph and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
• massage relaxes muscle spasm and relieves tension.
• massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to overcome harmful “fatigue” products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
• massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
• massage can compensate, at least in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who, because of injury, illness, or age, are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
• transverse massage separates muscle fibers, undoing or preventing the formation of adhesions.
• massage may have a sedative, stimulating, or even exhausting effect on the nervous system, depending on the type and length of massage treatment given.
• massage may, according to some authorities, bust the fat capsule in the subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed. In this way, massage combined with a nutritious, but calorie deficient diet can be an aid to reducing.
• massage improves the general circulation and nutrition of tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells, heightening tissue metabolism.
•  massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and nitrogen, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal individuals.
• massage encourages the retention of nitrogen, phosphorous and sulphur necessary for tissue repair in personal convalesing from bone fractures.
• massage improves the circulation and nutrition of joints and hastens the elimination of harmful particles. It helps lessens inflammation and swelling in joints and so alleviates pain.
• massage helps eliminate edema (or dropsy) of the extremities.
• massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments and tendons, lessens pain and facilitates movement.
• massage empties the larger ducts and channels and so decreases the autointoxication resulting from the reabsorption of toxic materials in these channels resulting from inflammation or constipation.