Cleansing
& Hydrating Drinks
Hot Lemon-Water Flush
You will drink the
Hot Lemon-Water Flush first thing each morning, to help complete
the cleansing process that has been going on during the night.
This drink flushes all the systems of elimination, especially
the kidneys, the liver, and the colon. It helps to cleanse waste
from the digestive tract and keep your breath sweet.
8-ounce
glass of warm, purified water
Juice of 1/2 fresh lemon with white pulp pulverized
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Heat water until it
is quite warm. Pour 8-oz of hot water into glass and add lemon
juice and cayenne. You may increase the amount of cayenne gradually
(up to 1/4 teaspoon) as you continue to make your Hot Lemon-Water
Flush each morning.
Lemon juice helps to
break up and dislodge the sticky mucus deposits that tend to clog
up the system. Its powerful enzymes and high vitamin-C content
are natural cleaners, helping to flush your system of toxic wastes.
The bioflavonoids in the white inner rind and fibrous strands
are also very cleansing, so squeeze to deliver the benefits of
these fibrous parts of the lemon as well.
SUGGESTION: Peel lemon
only half way. Cut and place peeled half in blender. Pulverize
and add juice (with ground white, inner rind and seeds) to hot
water.
Cayenne pepper aids
digestion by stimulating the production of digestive juices, and
helps to eliminate mucus. It is healing to the respiratory system
and is thought to enhance the effects of many other herbs and
vitamin C. Some people report that drinking hot water alone early
in the morning encourages bowel movements.
Hydrating
Drink
You can enhance the
hydrating properties of your purified drinking water by adding
a small amount of natural brown sugar (turbinado). This procedure
was developed by two Australian doctors working with dehydrated
and malnourished African babies near death from starvation and
diarrhea. The results are literally the same as giving intravenous
glucose or sugar water to people in the hospital who cannot eat
solid food.
Prepare the Hydrating
Drink using organically grown apple juice and pure drinking water.
Mix
6 ounces
of purified water with
2 ounces of organic apple juice
and drink between meals throughout the day. Or prepare
it by mixing
1/2
teaspoon Turbinado with
8 ounces of pure drinking water.
or
1
tsp Turbinado with
32 oz pure drinking water
Drink as much as you
can. Try to drink 128 ounces at a minimum. Drinking from a plastic
cup with a straw coming through the top makes it much easier to
consume huge volumes.
This drink not only
helps flush toxins from the body, it stimulates the lymphatic
system as well and flushes it as well. It discourages constipation.
"Sily
Tea"
One of the most impressive
responses in all of herbology is the response of the liver to
an extract of milk thistle. Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) yields
an extract rich in silymarin. Silymarin actually is a group of
flavonoid compounds which have a well documented and tremendous
effect on protecting the liver from damage as well as enhancing
the body's detoxification process.
Silymarin prevents
damage to the liver by acting as an antioxidant. Silymarin is
many times more potent in its antioxidant activity than vitamin
E and vitamin C.
Silymarin protects
against liver damage by extremely toxic chemicals such as carbon
tetrachloride, amanita toxin (poison mushroom), galactosamine,
and praseodymium nitrate.
Silymarin enhances
detoxification reactions by preventing the depletion of glutathione.
The level of glutathione in the liver is critically and strategically
linked to the liver's ability to detoxify. The higher the glutathione
content, the greater the liver's capacity to detoxify toxic chemicals.
Typically when our
liver is exposed to toxic chemicals the concentration of glutathione
is substantially reduced. This reduction in glutathione makes
the liver cells susceptible to damage. Silymarin not only prevents
the depletion of glutathione induced by alcohol and other toxic
chemicals, it increases the level of glutathione by up to 35 percent.
Silymarin is very useful
in treating liver diseases including cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis,
fatty infiltration and inflamation of the bile duct. Under ordinary
circumstances the standard dosage for silymarin ranges from 70
to 210 milligrams three times daily.
Prepare Silymarin Tea
by adding
4
dropper "squirts" of silymarin extract (alcoholic extract)
to
64 ounces (2 quarts) of pure drinking water
Drink 4 ounces of this
tea (Sily Tea) every 30 minutes throughout the day until the entire
64 ounces is consumed.
Drink 64 ounces of
Sily Tea daily for the first 14 days of the liver and gut detoxification
program. Thereafter drink 32 ounces of Sily Tea daily.
