LIVER CLEANSING TECHNIQUES

PART 1: Liver Cleansing Techniques:



Cleansing the liver of gall stones dramatically aids digestion, which in turn improves general health. Here are the 3 stages in a successful liver cleanse:



Stage 1: Prepare for the cleanse by drinking fresh apple juice for 3 days. Meals should be small amounts of raw salad or unprocessed fruit.


Stage 2: Buy the liver cleanse ingredients:


1. Epsom Salts, 4 tablespoons mixed in 4 cups of water

2. Olive Oil
3. Fresh Grapefruit juice and Lemon juice

Stage 3: Do the cleanse. Choose a Saturday if possible! Here is the routine you should follow -



(a) Eat a very light breakfast and lunch of fruit and vegetables.
(b) At 6pm, drink 1 cup of the Epsom Salt water. Repeat at 8pm.
(c) At 10pm, mix the fruit juices and one cup of olive oil. Drink it, go to bed and get a good sleep while the cleanse does its work!
(d) At 7am, drink 1 cup of the Epsom Salt water.
(e) Repeat at 9am and finish the mixture.
(f) Eat only light fruits and vegetables for the rest of the day.

Your liver should be cleansed of gall stones and by the evening you should feel great!




 PART 2: Liver Cleanse and Gallbladder Flush (Alternative Procedure)


An alternative procedure to Step 3 above combines gallbladder flush with liver flush. It uses apple juice fasting, as described below (based on Herbally Yours, by Penny C. Royal, Sound Nutrition, Utah, 1982). I would like to caution that people with cancer, candida yeast infection, diabetes, hypoglycemia or stomach ulcer should not use this apple juice fasting procedure because of the high sugar content in the apple juice.



Day 1:
Take 2 cups of 8 oz organic apple juice or apple cider every 2 hours from 8 am to 8 pm. Altogether 14 cups will have been taken during this period. Do not take any other food or drinks except plain water.

Please note that the apple juice should not be taken cold from the refrigerator. It should be kept at room temperature or mixed with about 10% hot water before use because cold drinks chill the liver. For people with lots of stagnant bile, the collapsed stagnant bile may rush out after drinking apple juice. It may feel like having diarrhea but is actually stagnant bile (brownish yellow colour).



Day 2:
1.Repeat Day 1

2.At 8:30 pm, take ½-cup (4 oz) of olive oil (extra virgin cold pressed) mixed with ½-cup of lemon juice (squeezed from 3 lemons) or with ¾-cup of freshly-squeezed grapefruit juice.

3.Go immediately to bed and sleep on your right side. If there is a large amount of stones, nausea may be felt after drinking olive oil but this feeling will largely disappear on the third day after taking some food.

Day 3:
1.Upon rising in the morning, take 1 litre (approximately 4 cups) of warm distilled or filtered water containing two level teaspoons of un-iodized sea salt. Alternatively the addition of juice from half a lemon may be used in place of the sea salt. Wait for at least half an hour before eating.

2.Take vegetable broth and softly cooked vegetables only. The stones should be passed in the stool any time between midnight of Day 2 and morning of Day 4.

Note: The purpose of drinking apple juice is mainly for the malic acid in apple juice. Malic acid is a good solvent for stagnant bile in the liver. Apple juice taken during fasting would dissolve and push out stagnant bile in the liver. For someone with a yeast infection or diabetes, apple juice can be replaced by malic acid in capsule or powder form. The fasting procedure is the same except that apple juice is replaced by 1000 - 2000 mg of malic acid taken with 2 cups of warm water.


PART 3. Liver Detox Drink Recipe

This a delicious easy drink to make. Add all ingredients into the blender and voila!

a.A handful of spinach

b.1 apple
c. 1 banana
d. 1 lemon (squeezed)
e. Half a chili pepper (optional)
f. 1 garlic clove or as much as desired (optional)
g. 1 glass of water