Herbal Detox

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By Recovery Guy


One of the best ways to do an herbal detox and really flush your system out is to incorporate the herbal supplements that you take with a juice fast.  This will accelerate the detoxification process and really get your system flushed on a deep level.  Many people believe that there are a bunch of toxins that we both eat, breathe, and absorb on a regular basis that need to be flushed from our system.  Whether or not this is really true is debatable.  For most people who eat a fairly standard diet, this whole process is going to be very beneficial even if there is not such thing as toxins at all.  If you are interested at all in having increased energy, losing some weight, and possibly removing some of those mysterious toxins, then read on and be prepared to take some action in order to clean your system up a bit.

Detox through a juice fast

My suggestion, if you are extremely wealthy, is to go buy a very expensive juicer for about 300 dollars or more, and then stock up on about 200 dollars worth of organic fruits and veggies with which to make juice.  The target is to do a juice fast for 3 days straight, for starters, without eating any solid food whatsoever.  This means that you will be removing any pulp from the fruits and veggies that you juice.  This is the absolute best way to do a juice fast and it is also the healthiest.  But it is extremely expensive.  The cost of the juicer is really quite minimal compared to what you will spend on organic fruits and veggies in order to create enough juice to sustain you.  I like to drink about 1500 calories worth of juice every day on a juice fast, which translates into hundreds of dollars worth of fresh produce.  For me this is not economically feasible. 

What I recommend that you do instead is to buy cheap juice off the store shelf and make sure it does not have any pulp in it.  Apple juice or V8 Fusion is just fine, but anything will work really.  This is the base of our juice and all of it is pasteurized so it is not going to help us much other than provide some vitamins and calories.  The real magic will happen when you add in the lemons.

I suggest that you buy about 3 bags of lemons for a 3 day juice fast and every time you drink a glass of juice (which should be nearly every hour of the waking day) you should squeeze a lemon and strain it through a paper towel and put it in your juice.  Yes this is a huge hassle and you will be quite sick of it after 3 days but you have to do it.  This will convert your store bought "dead" juice into living juice that is going to make all the difference in how you feel.  If you do this you will feel no hunger whatsoever during the fast.  Do not buy an expensive juicer, just buy one of those plastic orange cones that you can cut a lemon and press half of it on and catch the juice in the jar beneath.  These are cheap and they work great. 

Adding the lemons in will help to turn your digestive system off as the living enzymes in the lemon juice will do any remaining digestion for you.  Your stomach will shut off completely and you will feel no hunger.  This is how to flush your system out.  3 days of this and you will feel fantastic and full of energy.  You can even exercise while you are doing this detox diet.

Detox herbal tea

One of the quickest ways to get involved with an herbal remedy is to simply drink herbal tea every day.  Many people will use green tea for this because of the added nutritional benefits that come from the high level of flavanoids and antioxidants in the tea. 

If you have the means to do so I would highly recommend that you incorporate some green tea into your juice fast, as this will greatly enhance your health in the long run and also give you some variety during the fast as well.

Herbal detoxification

If you want to detoxify your body and certain organs, then you might experiment with adding in other herbs to help you detox.  For example, you might use ginger and parsley in order to cleanse the kidneys, and red beet and chamomile to cleanse the liver.  Different herbs work for different organs and you can always mix it up and try different combinations of herbs.  If you are combining with a juice fast then stick to herbal teas instead of the powders or pills.

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