When it comes to ionic foot baths you have your nay sayers and your believers. I am a believer because of my own experience using them.
When I first started using the ionic foot bath a few years ago there were only a few websites that sold them. Now if you look on Google, you’ll see pages and pages of them. Go to any one of them and you’ll see testimonials from so many people. You’ll notice that it seems to have different results person to person.
I can only tell you with certainty what it did for me and in a relatively short amount of time.
I saw my first foot bath at a clinic and had the typical response of shock at the dirty water. I couldn’t believe that so much gunk could come out of a person’s body. After seeing it over and over I was still skeptical. But I did find it odd that the color of the water wasn’t the same for everyone. Some would have very black water, some light to dark brown, one lady had only slightly yellowish water but the most dramatic on I saw was a lady whose water turned green. The most common was dark brown.
My husband found a site that had a great deal and bought one for the family. He was completely skeptical but then again he had not seen all those foot baths I had observed. I wanted to see what it could do for me. At the time I was suffering from arthritis that was painful and debilitating. Because foot baths were so new at the time we bought one, I wasn’t sure what to expect.
I stared my sessions, twice a week and realized that my arthritis was diminishing. I hadn’t changed anything I was doing except the foot bath. Boy did I become excited. Anyone who has arthritis knows the constant pain you go through. After my tenth session, the pain was completely gone and I had complete range of motion. My husband couldn’t believe it. He is the type that wants scientific evidence, proof if you will, that the foot bath was doing something. Well no one can tell me that the foot bath didn’t do anything!
I also noticed after several sessions how good and alert I felt right after completing a foot bath.
Over those weeks I was using machine I decided to do an experiment. I did a complete session with no feet in the water. I was surprised to notice that there was considerable color change of the water. Huh! I brought my husband over to have a look. The water was definitely dirty. But it wasn’t until I was cleaning it that I noticed something. When I do a foot bath there is a thin slimy film that floats on the top that stains the side of the tub. With my experiment water it was absent. Interesting! Apparently there is always some discoloration of the water due to electolysis and minerals in the water, but additional stuff from the body as well with feet in the tub.
I guess my point in all this is that whether or not you believe it works, is entirely dependent on what it is or isn’t doing for you. If you have ever been interested in trying it, there are lots of chiropractors, beauty spas and salons that can get you started. But give it a chance and do more than just one session. It took about 2 months before I really noticed a change. If it doesn’t do anything for you then stop. But if you are getting change from it, then keep on going until it does the job.
By the way, it is 3 years later and my arthritis never returned. Hallelujah!
