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Foot bath may clean body, too Gannett News Service
January 6, 2008
It's like a magic show, except with your feet.
A regular plastic pan is filled with plain water and a little salt. Then your feet are submerged near a small black machine.
After a few minutes, the water begins to change color. First gold, then the colors begin to come quickly - brilliant amber, bright red, a hint of green.
The water fizzes with tiny bubbles, as though someone just dropped an Alka-Seltzer tablet into the pan.
The water now looks like sludge - foamy, muddy and almost black. It is both disgusting and truly fascinating.
This is an ionic foot bath, and it is one of the hottest ways to detoxify your body. During the ionic foot bath, the machine creates a mild current to produce millions of negative ions.
Color tells all
The theory is that when those ions attach to positive ions (like chemicals, heavy metals or parasites), the body can eliminate them. These toxins are gently drawn out through the foot bath.
When your feet are inserted into the bath, the water changes color and texture dramatically - the colors indicate what part of your body has been cleaned.
"This eliminates the guesswork," said Nina Venturella, CEO and founder of Spa-Tacular Health in Palm Desert. She has done hundreds of ionic foot baths since her facility opened in March 2006.
"I can look into that water and make an accurate assessment of what's happening and where you need help, whether it's joint pain, asthma, fibromyalgia," she said. "What you're looking at in that water is you."
Proponents claim the detox baths enhance the immune system, relieve pain and joint stiffness, regulate sleep, remove heavy metals, improve organ function and assist in recovery time from illness.
Hayley Riccio, 17, of Palm Springs has been on a regular program of foot baths for the past six weeks.
Prior to visiting Spa-tacular Health, she was in poor health.
"I was bent over and crying, the pains in my stomach were so strong," she said. "Sometimes I couldn't sleep from all the pain."
She visited a host of conventional doctors and was given a number of tests, though not one could find a problem.
Venturella believed Riccio was suffering from candida, an infection said to cause severe immune system malfunction.
"After about a week, I saw a huge difference from before," Riccio said. She also eliminated wheat, dairy and sugar from her diet. "I've been feeling great ever since."
The ionic foot bath has been criticized by some for being a hoax. However, Dr. Sairwaa Prevost — a board-certified internist who is on staff at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and has her own medical spa there as well - said the science behind the ionic foot baths makes sense.
She likens it to the herbal detoxifying foot pads the Japanese and Chinese have been using for many years.
"The science sounds reasonable to me," Prevost said. "It's taking advantage of the same principles of reflexology, that everything is connected through the feet."
Prevost does not offer detox foot baths at her spa. She heard about the process from two patients - a man with AIDS and a woman with breast cancer. Both patients have been doing regular detox baths to complement traditional medicine.
"(My patients are) telling me they are feeling better. And they're not coming in to see me very often, so to me that speaks volumes," Prevost said.
"I'm open-minded enough to realize this could really help people," she said.