Re: Histamines was Radiation & Thyroid

[Guest guest]

I have been following this thread very loosely, so I don't know if

this theory has

come up, but what about histamines? We studied this topic in massage

school as it relates to working on the body and detoxing. Often when

you get

hands-on body work (including hydrotherapy) your skin reacts by

turning red

in some, but not all, areas being worked on. I would imagine this

could also

happen in energy work as I have felt the excess heat the body gives

off when

a patient is releasing, but I can't observe the skin reactions due to

body

coverings. I have seen amazing

things

show up on people's bodies as I work on them during a massage, from

vague

red patterns to

specific

pain " pictures " of where the worst of the discomfort lives. The skin

reacts this

way to throw off toxins and to

protect itself.

This might help explain both the physical reaction of seeing old

bathing suits

appear, and the psycological reaction of feeling heat/turning red

from cold

water.

Here is a succinct quote from _Mosby's Basic Science for Soft Tissue

and

Movement Therapies_, Fritz, et al. There are several great mentions

of this

and tissue hormones.

" Histamines are a stimulant realeased by the mast cells as part of

the

inflammatory process. It causes itching at the cellular level and

also works as

a vasodilator. Also found in the hypothalmus, it regulates the body

temperature, water balance, and plays a role in our emotions.

Histamine also

stimulates pain receptors to sensitize against further stimulation,

as during a

sunburn. "

Sally

--- In , Heidi Schuppenhauer

<heidis@t...>

wrote:

>

> >But it was radiation, not heat. Where would the

> >heat come from if it was not from radiation? What causes the skin

to

> >burn from the sun? Isn't it the radiation?

>

> You skin can generate heat without radiation just fine. The best

> example I saw was at a work lunch. A guy spilled some water,

> but THOUGHT it was coffee. He jerked his hand back, and

> said OUCH! and lo and behold his skin was red and burnt!

> He laughed later at how his body reacted -- I guess since

> he thought it was coffee, his body reacted by rushing blood

> to the site which made it red and hot, and he " felt " heat

> (tho it was ice water).

>

> Of course the " burn " went away very shortly. The point is --

> if your body is reacting to something, it commonly

> gets hot and red. The red from sunburn isn't from radiation --

> it is from your body reacting to the UV. That's why you don't

> get red while you are in the sun, but often an hour or two

> later. People who get, say, gamma radiation might not get

> symptoms for days. You can get red and hot from a bee

> sting too, which is not radioactive.

>

> Since one part of your skin turned color and the others

> didn't, one could say that you were reacting to *something*

> during detox, possibly changes to the cells that happened

> while sunbathing. But is accurate ... no one with

> training in how radiation works believes it is stored in

> the cells, esp. not the UV type. (if you were exposed to

> depleted uranium you might pick up some extra nuclei? But they

> would be unlikely to come out during a detox).

>

> -- Heidi

[Guest guest]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:48:54 -0000

" selry " <selry@...> wrote:

> I have been following this thread very loosely, so I don't know if

> this theory has

> come up, but what about histamines?

Hasn't come up much here, but it has quite frequently on the raw food

lists.