Yes Somedaysoon, I think we are talking about the same thing. I have wondered about this type of footspa for a while, and then thought stuff it, I'll go and get one. (Although you can go to a treatment room - or whatever and get a footspa done rather than buying one) The one I have is The "BioEnergiser D-Tox Spa" although their are many on the market i think. It says on the info about it -

" "it starts the process of rebalancing your body's BioEnergy. Effectively rebalancing the cells equilibrium of positive and negative ions which, in turn, "kick starts" the dispersal of unwanted toxins. The renewed re-balancing of the cells ensures rehydration resulting in optimum efficiency of their function to extract nutrients and dispose of unwanted waste"

There is a lot more info. about it on the instruction sheet I got with it. You just place a couple of spoons of special salt into the footbath with warm water and then place an energising cartridge (which comes with it) in the water. Then place your feet in for 30 minutes.

As I have seen on various sites where people are reviewing this type of footbaths, the water will change colour even if you do not have your feet in it, because as the information says, it is due to the reaction of the energising cartridge with the saline(salt) solution. But also there can be deposits floating on top of the water, apparently this is normal as one of the benefits of this treatment is" lymphatic drainage."

I have only used this twice so far think you need about 6 treatments in all and then maybe a maintenace of about one or 2 a month.

Is it helping pull the mercury out? can't say but I have felt better the last few days. Maybe just a concidence??!! I still have a filling under a crown, and I DO NOT want to remove that at the moment, I removed five mercury fillings at my normal dentist, - without precautions - stupid I now realise. Therefore I do not want to remove any more just now and put any more of a strain on my body. I thought if I did this it couldn't do any harm and if anything could help to remove some of the mercury - without stiring up any more. Well thats my theory anyway.

I should add though that I have ordered some of the clay bath too though, and intend to use this as well, although I think I will just start of using it as a footbath too.

Am thinking if I pull toxins through the skin rather than stirring up everything inside my body that it may not be so stressful.

Don't know if any of these things will work, but my opinion is that it surely won't make things any worse <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> First day I used it I slept brilliantly that night - again maybe a concidence, I am wary of saying to much in case, I was going to be feeling better anyway, it is about 5 weeks since I had the fillings removed, maybe I would be feeling a little better anyway?? Although I was a few weeks back having problems with breathing and had to watch my sugar intake because I seem to be getting hypoglycemic I have been told this is because the removal probably affected my thyroid. This seems to have cleared up although I better not tempt fate as I am well aware this may come back again.

As I said I have been feeling better but maybe that would have happened anyway - who knows ??????