However, when your body is under too much physical, chemical and/or emotional stress it struggles with its normal work.

At these times, you do not feel well and experience one of, or a combination of, the following symptoms: fever, congestion, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea and sweating.

These are powerful ways that the body goes about reestablishing internal order and are a sign that something is wrong with your body.

Their individual functions are explained below:

Fever (Inflammation): the rise in temperature creates an inhospitable environment for germs, breaks up waste and increases chemical reactions and metabolism (respiration and digestion).

Congestion: if mucus encapsulates toxins it will be green.  If the mucus is clear the body is eliminating dog hair, pollen or other harmless material.

Coughing: air forcibly dislodges particles from the airways.

Sneezing: water is forced out with air, and as a result the sinuses are cleansed.

Vomiting: a violent ejection of toxins through the mouth.

Diarrhea: a violent ejection of toxins through the colon.

Sweating: an excretion from the skin to cool the body and clear metabolic waste.

When you suppress these natural cleansing processes, you create the terrain for chronic illness.