CAREY THE KIDNEY
I'm Carey the Kidney, and some folks tend to blush when they talk about me. This is all right for the overly modest, but for your health's sake, don't ignore me, especially if I show signs of giving trouble.
Actually, I'm twins. I'm a pair of organs that lie at the lower border of the rib cage, one on each side of your spinal column. I am a glandular organ, but unlike most of the other organs who manufacture substance to be used in the body's metabolism, I perform a completely different function. I remove useless - and sometimes even dangerous - materials from the body's fluids.
Each of us twins is honeycombed with thousands of tiny tubules, each directly or indirectly terminating in a central cavity. This cavity drains into the bladder, from whence the wastes are dispelled.
How do you know if I'm functioning properly - or, more important, improperly? The most commonly recognised symptom will likely be an aching sensation in the small of your back. Swollen feet are a good indication that I'm giving you trouble.
If the condition is severe you may experience nausea, diarrhea, dry skin and dry mucous membranes. One important thing to remember, I am a hard worker, but I can't stand to be ignored if I'm in trouble.
If you suspect I'm in trouble, see your Doctor of Chiropractic at once! You see, if I have a problem it generally means that one or more of my tubules is not functioning properly. And why would this occur?
Usually it means that the tubules are not receiving their necessary supply of vital nerve energy.
This nerve energy is supplied through your entire nervous system, and its super highway is down through your spinal column. Then it branches off on its proper access roads between the vertebrae. If one of these routes is shut off, or even slightly detoured by a misaligned vertebra, causing irritation to nerves, the proper nerve supply will not get to the various organs.
If this happens, you will know it at once. If the cause is in the spine, no amount of pills and potions will do you any good other than perhaps providing temporary, but also possibly dangerous, relief.
Your Doctor of Chiropractic has spent years in college, and thousands of hours in training and practice, to know precisely how to search out these misalignments in vertebrae and the resulting interference with nerves. They know how to make the gentle vertebral adjustments that are so important to restoring the nerve energy supply to its normal state. At this point, nature takes over with its own marvelous healing processes.
You are a lucky person if all your elimination organs are in perfect working order. I know that I am not particularly glamorous, but just like at your home, someone must pick up the garbage. If it isn't done properly, you are in painful trouble.
See your Doctor of Chiropractic medicine at the first signs of trouble. They will tell you quickly and honestly if yours is a chiropractic case.
Please try to keep me healthy - and I'll keep you happy in return.
Only Nature Heals ... Chiropractic Proves It!
"Discover the Benefits of Chiropractic" Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation, 1973. Litho in U.S.A
Authorised Redistribution; J. Howard Morley D.C. Dip. N.B.C.E. Doctors of Chiropractic. U.S.A
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