Kinoki Foot Pads
Has anyone tried the Kinoki Foot Pads? Do they work? If they do, are they worth the money? They seem kind of expensive.
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Permalink Reply by Tacoma on
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www.buykinoki.com
They are pads that adhere to your feet. They are supposed to remove toxins from you system while you sleep. I am wondering if they work.
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Permalink Reply by KQ on -
I have tried them. I used them for three days straight and the color on them is brown in the morning. I am going to put them on tonight because I just finished a 5 day fast/cleanse so I am thinking that since I am all cleaned out that they should not be brown. I will let you know tomorrow
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Permalink Reply by Miriam on -
Try Nutriworks Patch-It Detox Foot Pads available on Luckyvitamin.com (cheap). They are the original and the only ones I found that don't contain shellfish (chitosan). They are also the easiest to adhere and remove.
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Permalink Reply by Calyn on -
Thanks for the heads up regarding the Nutriworks Detox Foot Pads. I was recently introduced to the ShuLi pads for a severe case of hives I've experienced for the past 8 months on my knees and legs.. The pads were the only thing that started clearing up the rash, however I ran out after 5 days, the rash started to reappear 3 days later. I've been researching the foot pads to find a similiar, less costly product that I can use. Nutriworks here I come thanks to you, Miriam! :)
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Permalink Reply by KQ on
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Well......I did the foot pads last night and they came off a lighter brown color. I thought they would be a lot lighter after a 5 day fast/cleanse. So as I am not 100% convinced I will continue to use the ones that I have already purchased. I think someone needs to respond to this that had some kind of ache/pain that the foot pads helped out. Sorry not much help here.
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Permalink Reply by Dean on -
After researching I found this:
A patient of mine recently brought a leaflet advertising “foot detoxifcation” asking me if it will help her illness.
The brochure claims the device will “detoxify” your body by immersing your feet in it. The brochure is even so bold as to deny that they are “not linked with the recent media reports on foot spa services being investigated by the Ministry” and even has pictures of two alleged medical doctors in the brochure to claim “product genuity and reliability”
They even have a website which denies their product is a scam. However, while one section of the website states that “As a company we do not claim that we can cure disease by soaking the feet in water”, another section of the website has the usual “testimonials” of people with various “disorders” like migraine (see pic), kulit gatal-gatal and even “severe gout” allegedly obtaining benefit from its use.
People, a scam is a scam is a scam. Surely you cannot be so gullible to believe that by soaking your feet in this contraption your body will be “detoxified”? The public may be swayed by the water “miraculously” turning brown or black in colour.
Someone has offered a simple explanation on How Foot Detox Works:
The scam vendors advertised these devices as aqua chi machine, bio electrical biofeedback machine, foot spa, energy spa, super detox foot bath . They also advertise the scam as a service such as bio-detox, aqua detox, aqua spa, emerald detox, platinum detox.
In essence, the foot bath contains a low voltage/amperage AC to DC transformer attached to ferrous electrodes.
The process is basically electrolysis of water, a typical high school experiment, with a twist.
The brown “toxins” you see is from the rust generated by the corrosion of the iron electrodes. The different variations in color can be accounted by varying amount of salt added to the water and variations in the compositions of the electrodes.
It’s a simple chemical reaction folks. Don’t be gullible and fall for this BS!
Addendum 9/11/5: (Link pointed out by Jimmy Chew)
The Aqua Detox Scam in Devicewatch: further explanation of how it works:
Many skeptics suspected that the color change produced by the Aqua Detox was caused by rust (oxidized iron), rather than toxins. Ben Goldacre, who writes the “bad science” column for Guardian Unlimited (an online British newspaper), investigated by using a car battery to send current through two metal nails that he placed into a bowl of salt water. The water turned brown and developed some sludge on top. Then he sent a colleague to get “detoxed” and collect before-and-after water samples. Laboratory testing showed that in both cases, the change of water color was due to greatly increased iron content [7]. Thus it appears that (a) the color change is due mainly to the precipitation of rust created by corrosion of the electrodes, and (b) the water would change color regardless of whether or not a foot was placed in it.
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Permalink Reply by Volantis on -
> Someone has offered a simple explanation on How Foot Detox Works:
Like so many "skeptics," the "simple explanation" was just a blind guess and wasn't based on a scientific study. It is one thing to carefully examine a claim, it is quite another to give a cynical opinion.
I'm ordering the pads to try them for myself. But while I'm waiting, it occurred to me that soaking my feet in Epsom salts is also supposed to "detoxify" the body. So I soaked my feet last night and I'm doing it right now. I used one gallon fresh rain water from my rain barrel, two cups of Epsom salts, and about 20 drops of rosemary oil. I soaked my feet four 90 minutes in a plastic tub filled with most of the water mixture, but I kept about a pint in the heating pan. After 90 minutes, the water my feet were soaking in was filled with a brown substance of some sort, the water in the pan was still clear.
I took a shower and washed my feet before both soakings. While soaking my feet in the Epsom salts, I noticed after about 20 minutes that I developed a kind of burning sensation inside of my foot, but not on the surface of the skin. The sensation felt as though it were a phisiological process inside of my foot.
I am quite familiar with topical remedies intended for internal detoxification. It is a treatment in macrobiotic healing to cure bleeding in the brain using tofu or taro root plasters on the shaved scalp. Various plasters and herbs are used for healing bruises, mending broken bones, and treating the organs. It would be interesting to find out how this works, but the Japanese who came across these techniques were mainly concerned for the health of the patient, not the curiosity of the doctor. There is so much modern medicine does not understand that it is foolish to make a statement like, "Surely you cannot be so gullible to believe that by soaking your feet in this contraption your body will be 'detoxified'?" That is cynical. If the treatment were to actually work, such ignorant statements could deprive many people of a safe and inexpensive cure for their ailments. Even if the treatment doesn't have the effect being claimed, a proper response would be to physically investigate the claim and produce a precise explanation for that is really going on. Comparing the color of water after a battery test is hardly a proper investigation. I could just as easily turn the water brown with food coloring or an handful of dirt, and it wouldn't prove any more or less than the meaningless battery test.
I don't know what exactly what processes are occurring. What I do know is that I had a physiological sensation and the soaking water became full of dark brown matter that wasn't there before. The substance isn't rust, because I put a powerful NIB magnet to the bottom of the bucket and it didn't affect the brown stuff. Besides, there isn't that much iron in my sweat. Further, there was no evidence I was sweating to begin with. I have sweated many times in my life, but I don't recall my sweat producing this brown substance when it came in contact with salt. Also, the dark matter is coagulated substance floating in clear water, it is not a discoloration of water. After about 90 minutes, the physiological sensation inside my foot stops and no further brown matter seems to be produced.
It will be interesting if I have a few more days before the detox pads arrive. If the Epsom salt water mixture is "detoxing" my body through my feet, I would not expect the pads to produce the dark ooze that people talk about. It should start off as the lighter color.
After the first night of soaking, I did not feel any particular good feeling in my body as a result of the treatment. But tonight, the second night, I feel lighter inside my body. I feel like a burden is lifting. If anybody else is looking for a cheap treatment to "detoxify" the body through the feet, I would suggest trying Epsom salts, first. It is certainly cheaper and it seems to produce the same results as the commercialized products. - Dave
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Permalink Reply by Volantis on
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Michelle, too bad there isn't a natural remedies lab for people to send samples to for testing. I can see why commercial labs would not want to test the material being expelled from the feet, as average people can do this on their own very cheap. And if it does cure problems like psoriasis, joint pain, or some other ailment that a commercial entity relies on for income, then they are not likely to release any results.
Modern medicine is a two-edged sword. It is responsible for creating many useful treatments for relieving symptoms, but it is afraid to provide cures, particularly cheap cures. Based upon my own experience, I would say there is something physiologically beneficial about "foot detoxification." It only reinforces my personal analysis that you and others on this forum also experience beneficial results. And that is not to say anything about the fact that this treatment has been used for centuries by others, who also reported beneficial results.
When I woke up this morning, I felt cleaner inside. My mind was clearer. I also feel like I have some more "detoxification" to do, so I will continue the treatment with Epsom salts until the pads arrive.
Having recently developed clogged arteries and the resulting chest pains, panic attacks, anxiety, and mental disturbances (numbed brain, physiological depression, and the inability to keep my mind still for more than ten minutes), I'm finding that I need to clean my body out much more than I realized. I'm also realizing that I need to repeat these cleansing methods at regular intervals and for the rest of my life. Now I'm beginning to understand the role of rituals in private and shared human cultures.
I'm making good use of my Microsoft Outlook Calendar program and setting up daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual cleansing practices. In fact, I may start a new group on this topic. Thanks for sharing your own success with the foot treatments. - Dave
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Permalink Reply by maryanna55 on -
Where can i get rosemary oil? and would it work using a massaging foot bath for the container?
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