When I have a festering splinter, say in my finger, I don’t know about you, but the only thing I can think of is getting the splinter out. Removing the splinter will relieve the accompanied swelling, excess fluids, oxidized by-products, and associated pathogens. This can be done externally by squeezing out that excess. However, if the surrounding skin, cells, vessels, and flesh, are healthy, they also internally remove it while sending in needed nutrients and oxygen, for rebuilding the damaged tissues. How is the excess removed?
In a normal non-traumatized state, the lymph system is responsible for putting back into circulation excess fluids, blood, plasma, and more.
The lymph system pulls excess fluids out of the extremities, limbs, and tissues, sending them up through the lymph vessels to just above the collarbone. On the left side of the body, it then enters the blood stream through the thoracic duct, and from the right side it enters through what is simply called the right lymphatic duct.
A healthy lymph system will take up about 15% of the body’s blood flow, returning it back into circulation. This ‘excess’ fluid is called interstitial fluid. If the lymph system is compromised the fluids won’t be removed in a balanced way, and the result is swelling. Swelling causes pain and disease.
From the force of gravity, there is about 14.8 pounds per square inch pushing down on us. It’s there all the time, so]simply being alive incurs stress. The increased stress from using extra oxygen, or the body having to deal with an increase in gravity, for example, the thumping of the feet against the pavement, requires the lymph system to pick up it’s game to get those interstitial fluids out of the extremities, and back into circulation. A stressed and sickly person can have a problem walking a couple of miles, or even climbing a set of stairs.
How do we maintain good lymph flow?
The cardiovascular system has a central pump, the heart, which keeps blood flowing. The lymph system does not have a central pump, but instead relies on localized smooth muscles of the lymph system acting as pumps and valves.
Skeletal muscles, let’s say I’m going to take a brisk walk, are conscious, voluntary muscles. However, they require the supporting smooth muscles of the lymph system to step up to the plate and take away the used up goodies, so the body can properly function. Smooth muscles, those are the involuntary muscles, the ones we generally don’t control with our conscious mind, help the lymph system pull used fluids out of the extremities, and away from gravity and other forces that would cause us to retain them.
Here is the science behind lymphatic pumps. “Their intrinsic contractile property—the intrinsic lymph pump—through rhythmical and phasic contractions of the vessels, represents the principal mechanism by which lymph flow is generated.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135727250300431X
Vancoction salves support the lymph system because they stimulate the contraction of involuntary, smooth muscles. See https://www.vancoction.com/our-salves
By applying Vancoction along the lymph system, it stimulates the lymph vessels and nodes to tighten up and move fluids through the system more efficiently.
Watch our video on how to stimulate the lymph system to function more effectively with the use of Vancoction. https://youtu.be/r0mQHxBC0U0
