You may already have experienced the beneficial energizing effects of walking barefoot along the beach or the edge of the sea. While you are walking, your feet are absorbing billions of negatively charge ions through the pores, which then exert an alkalizing effect on our blood which in turn gets carried by circulation to all our tissues and organs.

Ionic detoxification works in much the same way, only in a more concentrated, efficient manner through electrolysis. You will be asked to sit with your feet in a warm bath of water to which a small amount of salt has been added. A very small electric charge is passed into the water which causes the H2O molecules to separate into negative ions (-OH) and positive (+O) ions.

As the negative ions move through the water they are absorbed through the pores’ membrane into the blood by osmosis, the process by which charged ions pass from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration, and vice versa. This interchange of electrical energy is what enables the toxins to move from your body into the water and has the effect of balancing the body’s positive and negative charges which in turn allows the smooth flow of qi and leads to inner harmony and balance.

Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that only when the body is in a balanced state can the process of healing begin.