What is Lymph Drainage Therapy; What Does it Offer?
New Visions Magazine. By Jane Shepard, M.Ed., L.L.C.C. Photo: Ronald Schuster. The lymph system is an unsung hero of human health. Like nutrition, it is covered quickly in medical schools. However, as with growing valuation of nutrition, doctors are becoming aware of the import and potency of the lymph system (LS) in the maintenance and recovery of health. It is a complex system responding to many complicated factors in the body.
Lymph Drainage (pronounced drainahhge, like massage) Therapy is an original hands-on method developed by the French physician and research scientist Dr. Bruno Chikly. The technique enables practitioners
to detect the specific rhythm, direction, depth and quality of the lymph flow. For recipients, the process is pleasurable and induces deep states of relaxation. It involves gentle manual maneuvers to attain and sustain
proper functioning of the LS.
The LS, a circulatory system running parallel to the blood circulatory system and going almost everywhere in us, is critical to the body’s ability to maintain proper fluid balance, detoxify, regenerate tissue, filter out foreign substances and maintain a healthy immune system. When the LS is not working well, fluids,
proteins (cellular proteins, not the kind in food), metabolic waste and toxins accumulate and the body’s ability to maintain a healthy state is seriously compromised. This leads to physical ailments and hastens
the aging process.
LDT can be applied to the whole body or just the face protocol may be used.