Walking beside you on your journey towards health.

Dr. Laura Enfield

A definition for "drainage remedies" states that they are "remedies which promote the excretory functions of a particular organ or organ system".

Imagine a flower garden. Before you can actually plant new flowers, you must first remove the old plants, weeds, trim back any overgrown plants and fertilize the soil. The garden must be prepared for the new plants. If you plant new flowers before removing the dead plants and impurities, the garden will not grow but instead will begin to break down and will likely have to be redone before long. The same is true for healing the body. This is the reason drainage is essential in order to help restore your body and vitality to what you want it to be. One of the pioneering practitioners of Drainage in North America, Mikhael Adams, N.D., defines Drainage as, "the process of detoxifying the body by opening the routes of elimination (emunctories) and discharging the toxic accumulations."

These drainage routes (or emunctories as they were historically called) are separated into two categories: primary, which includes most of the abdominal organs (liver, kidney, intestines, lungs, stomach and pancreas) and secondary, which includes the other naturally existing routes of elimination such as the skin, mucus membranes, nose and genitals. When the primary routes are not functioning properly, the secondary routes are recruited in order to facilitate detoxification. These natural routes of elimination may not be active and functioning at all times leading to an unnatural accumulation of toxins. These toxins in the body may be considered to be the cause of many different symptoms and diseases. In today’s world, an individual is faced with environmental toxins (air and water pollution), dietary toxins (pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics), chronic stress, pharmaceutical drugs as well as any unhealthy lifestyle choices (alcohol, tobacco, junk foods, drugs). The body has a limited capacity to breakdown and excrete these and other unnatural chemicals and when that limit is surpassed, the body cannot prevent these substances from entering the bloodstream. As a result, waste products are not able to leave the body properly and begin to build up. The body, in its wisdom, tries to store these toxins by putting them into fat cells, joints, the blood or in the cells of organs. The body may develop stones, tumors, skin conditions, ulcers, chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue etc. as the body attempts to deal with the toxins. In a healthy system, the primary routes are working at an optimum level and no illnesses are present. Biotherapeutic Drainage helps to assist the body in optimizing elimination.

Michel Bouko Levy of Marseilles, France, a medical doctor and a Drainage practitioner gives this explanation of Drainage: "Cleaning and fortifying of the body is maintained by the emunctories. In most cases you need to help and stimulate the organs touched by chronic disease. This is drainage." Thus Drainage is involved not only in helping to eliminate toxic accumulation but also serves to stimulate the proper function of organs in order to improve the patient's overall health.

The most complete writings on Drainage are available only in French with the best-known books written jointly by medical doctors G. Gueniot and C. Deplanque. They believe that the accumulation of toxins can be a factor in acute and chronic illness, genetic weaknesses, and chronic disease and create blockages to therapeutic treatment. In these texts, the doctors clearly outline the necessity of Drainage, as well as the actions of individual remedies in the UNDA Numbered Compounds, which are the low potency combinations popular in Drainage and used extensively by Dr. Enfield.

Once there has been the gentle elimination of toxins, (the garden has been weeded and cleaned out in the flower analogy), other therapeutics are then utilized to help you achieve and maintain a level of optimal health.

Biotherapeutic drainage is a gentle form of detoxification that utilizes vials of liquid homeopathic medicines that have been formulated from plants and minerals. The plants have a special affinity for certain organs and may be stimulating or sedating depending on the treatment goal. The minerals support the various biochemical reactions that are necessary to efficiently begin the detoxification process. Three separate remedies are typically chosen for each session to support the body on a cellular, organ specific, and systemic level.

In your first visit, Dr. Enfield will begin with the Basic Treatment Guidelines to support your health along with Drainage remedies, to start the process of cleansing and clearing your tissues of toxic accumulations which will help you on your path to a higher level of health.