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.