The Liver Detox Diet

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You can expect your allergies to disappear more and more with each subsequent liver cleanse. Each liver cleanse "cures" a different set of allergies, suggesting that the liver is compartmentalized - different parts having different duties.

As a bonus a liver cleanse also eliminates most shoulder, upper arm and upper back pain.

To cleanse the liver completely you may need to do five or six cleanses, about three weeks apart. During each cleanse you will pass gallstones from the liver and gall bladder.

As I am no authority on the liver cleanse I am using information kindly supplied by Juergen Buche, ND, NHC, MI, Phy.D. a retired Naturopathic Physician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

More fascinating health facts can be found on his website http://seasilver.threadnet.com/

Instructions for a Liver Detox

Introduction:
One of the main function of the liver is to make bile, 1 to 2 quarts in a day! The liver is full of tubes (biliary tubules) that deliver the bile to one large tube - the common bile duct. The gall bladder is attached to the common bile duct and acts as a storage reservoir. Eating fat or protein triggers the gall bladder to squeeze itself empty after about twenty minutes (or after ingesting the liver cleanse solution). The stored bile finishes its trip down the common bile duct to the small intestine and eventually to the colon (large intestine). Of course the gall bladder does not hold enough bile to neutralize all of the liver cleanse solution you have ingested. The empty gallbladder then signals its master, the liver, to dump all available bile forcefully into the common bile duct as well. In this fashion, the liver turns itself practically inside out and empties all of its available bile together with stones, gravel and crystals to condition (treat) the bile using the potent liver cleanse solution. Epsom salt serves to relax the tubules so that the passage of larger stones is painless and smooth.  The Epsom salt also serves to evacuate the small and large intestines of feces.  

 For many persons, including children, the biliary ducts (tubing) are choked with gallstones. Some develop allergies or hives, but some have no symptoms at all. When the gall bladder is scanned or X-rayed, nothing is seen. Typically, the worst stones are not in the gallbladder but in the liver. Not only that, most are too small and not calcified, a pre-requisite for visibility on X-ray. There are over half a dozen variety of gallstones, most of which have cholesterol crystals in them. They can be black, red, white, green or tan colored. The green ones get their color from being coated with bile. When dissected and observed under a microscope, many have imbedded unidentified objects. Are they fluke remains? Many are shaped like corks with longitudinal grooves below the tops. We can visualize the blocked bile ducts from such shapes. Other stones are composites - made from smaller ones - showing that they regrouped in the bile duct some time after the last cleanse.

 At the very center of each stone scientists found a clump of bacteria, suggesting a dead bit of parasite might have started the formation of the stone. Perhaps it is the liver's function to encapsulate parasite adults parasites to avoid getting destroyed by such an invader. That's fine for one or two, but how about thousands of such encapsulations?

Eventually the above-described defense mechanism turns into an immense blockage that keeps the liver from detoxifying and eliminating harmful substances such as solvents and parasites. You see, as the stones grow and become more numerous, the back-pressure on the liver causes it to make less bile, which is, of course the transportation medium for the undesirable substances. Imagine the situation of your garden hose having marbles in it. Much less water would flow, which in turn would decrease the ability of the hose to squirt out the marbles. With gallstones and liver stones, much less excess cholesterol leaves the body and cholesterol levels may rise. A liver cleanse will invariably result in a lowering of cholesterol levels.

Also, gall/liver stones, being porous, can pick up bacteria, cysts, viruses and parasite stages that are passing through the liver. In this way, "nests" of infection are formed, constantly supplying the body with fresh irritating bacteria. No stomach infection such as ulcers (check also into Manuka Honey as an antidote for ulcers) or intestinal bloating can be cured permanently without removing these stones from the gallbladder and liver.

Preparation:
Cleansing the liver bile ducts is the most powerful procedure you can undertake in order to improve your body's health. A liver cleanse should be done twice a year if possible. Ideally, it should be part of a semi-annual kidney/liver/parasite cleanse the sequence of which is very important and enhances the overall results.

Step 1

Drink apple juice for three days preceding the liver cleanse. For these three days, eat frugally, if you must, and then only small amounts of raw unprocessed fruit and/or vegetable salads. Every day take at least one full quart of high quality, unfiltered, preferably home-made apple juice. You should be able to see the sediments on the bottom of the container. The pectin in the apple juice helps to soften and flatten the stones in the gall bladder and liver. This will also help their passage through the bile ducts. This semi-fast also empties the intestines of their food content and makes the collection of stones less problematic.

 

Step 2

Choose a day like Saturday for the cleanse so that you can rest the next day. Take no medicines, vitamins or other pills that you can do without. They could hinder success of the cleanse.
Stop any parasite or kidney cleanse the day before.
Eat a no-fat fruit breakfast and light fat-free lunch such as cooked cereals with fruit but no butter or milk. This allows the bile to build up and develop pressure in the liver. Higher pressure pushes out more stones.

2:00 PM. Do not eat or drink after 2:00 o'clock. If you break this rule you could feel quite uncomfortable later. Get your Epsom salts ready. At 2:00pm, mix 4 heaping tablespoons of Epsom salts in 3 cups of water, add 1/2 teaspoon of Vit C powder and pour this into a jar. This makes four servings, 3/4 cup each.  Please keep in mind that the first serving begins at 6:00pm and the 2nd serving for the evening is taken at 8:00pm.  The other two required servings are reserved for the following morning.

Place the jar in the refrigerator to get ice cold (this is for convenience and taste only). Take an optional rectal enema before 4:00 PM with distilled (not chlorinated) warm water to clean out your large intestines of any unwanted fecal matter. The cleaner your intestines are, the easier it will be for the stones to be eliminated. Besides, if you want to see just what you will be eliminating, it is more appetizing to look only for stones and not be turned off by pungent stool.

6:00 PM. Drink one serving (3/4 cup) of the ice cold prepared Epsom salts water. If you did not prepare this potion ahead of time at 2:00 PM, mix 1 heaping tablespoon in 3/4 cup of water now. You may add 1/8 teaspoon of vitamin C powder to improve the taste and to avoid 'the runs'. If you have no vitamin C powder then add a little citrus juice to improve the taste; but this is entirely optional. You can certainly drink a few mouthfuls of water afterwards or rinse your mouth. Get the olive oil, lemons and grapefruit out to warm up a bit.

8:00 PM. Repeat the above by drinking another 3/4 cup of Epsom salts water. You have not eaten since two o'clock, but you won't feel hungry. Get your bedtime chores done now. Don't answer your telephone and be prepared to stay by yourself for the balance of the evening. The timing of the actual cleanse is relatively critical to achieve success. Do not be more than 10 minutes early or late for anything that follows next.

9:45 PM. Pour 3/4 cup (measured cup) of your high quality olive oil into the pint jar. Pour the prepared 3/4 cup of squeezed grapefruit and lemon juice into the measuring cup, adding this to the oil. Close the jar tightly with its lid and shake briskly until well mixed, almost watery. Only fresh squeezed juice will do this.

Now visit the bathroom one or more times, even if this makes you slightly late for your ten o'clock drink. Be ready to go to bed and STAY in bed. Don't clean up the kitchen. Do it the next day.

10:00 PM. Take the solution to your bedside if you want, but drink it standing up. Drink the potion you have mixed. If you have them, take four optional Ornithine capsules with the first sips to make sure you will sleep through the night. Take eight if you already suffer from insomnia. Get all of it down immediately, if possible. Very elderly, or weak persons, should space this over a period of five minutes.

Lie down immediately. The sooner you lie down, the more stones you will get out. Put your knees up to your chest in a fetal position. Lie on your right side for at least half an hour. The oil/citrus juice mixture will go to your gallbladder and liver. These organs will not know what to do with THAT much oil emulsion, so they will spasm and throw off all the available bile - plus stones, gravel and crystals.

One half hour later - you may turn on your back with a good thick feather pillow. Try to think about what is happening in the liver. Think loving thoughts - your liver is sensitive and responsive to feelings of resentment, vindictiveness and hate. Try to keep perfectly still for about half an hour or at least 20 minutes. Visualize the cleansing action taking place. You may feel a train of stones traveling along the bile ducts like marbles. There is little likelihood of pain because the bile duct valves are open - thanks to the Epsom salts.

Relax and go to sleep. Let nature do her thing. Tomorrow you will be cleaner, much cleaner, and also healthier than before.

Next morning (early): Upon wakening, take your third dose of prepared Epsom salt solution. If you have indigestion or nausea (highly unlikely), wait until this is gone before drinking the Epsom salts. Don't take this potion before 6:00 AM. It would be best if you don't get up and have someone else give you this potion. This drink will act as a mild laxative and provoke several later loose bowel movements. Drink more water than usual to replenish lost liquids.

2 hours later. Take your fourth (the last one - Thank God!) dose of Epsom salts.
Drink 3/4 cup of the mixture. You may go back to bed if you like.

After 2 more hours you may get up and take something into your empty stomach. Start with some fresh-made fruit juice. Half an hour later, eat some fruit. One hour later you may eat regular food but keep it light, uncooked and natural. By supper of the next day (Sunday) you should feel fully recovered and ready to slay a dragon.

How well did you do?
    Expect diarrhea in the morning of the second day (Sunday). The ideal way to see what you are actually eliminating is to defecate into a white porcelain bowl or large white plastic bucket. The bowl or bucket is used instead of the toilet to also see the reddish crystals which collect at the bottom of the bowl (the stones float on top) and those crystals would ordinarily be lost somewhere at the bottomless hole in the toilet and you would have missed them. If you don't care to see the crystals - by all means, use the toilet.

    Another way would be to use the toilet and look into it for the stones with a flashlight. Look for the greenish kind, since this is proof that they are genuine gallstones and not food residue. Only bile from the liver is green. The bowel movement (if there is any) sinks, but gall and liver stones float because of the cholesterol content. Eventually, you may have to eliminate up to 2,000 stones, in several sessions, over a period of a year or so, before the liver is clean enough to rid you of all allergies or upper back, or other symptoms, permanently. The first cleanse may rid you of them for a while, but as the stones from the rear of the liver travel forward, they might give you the same symptoms again. For best results, if this is the first time you do this, repeat the Liver Cleanse two weeks later because the liver cleanses in stages - moving deeper toxins and debris and parasites into lower and more shallow areas of the liver tissues. You may repeat this gallbladder/liver cleanse at two-month intervals until no more stones come out. Then, do the cleanse as a maintenance every six months. Two tablespoons of fresh olive oil per day will provide optimum liver performance.

Never purge when you are ill. Pregnant mothers should consult their pediatrician. The elderly should do this purge under the supervision of a health specialist. Drink lots of water during the second and third day.

    Sometimes, the bile ducts are full of cholesterol crystals that did not form into round stones. They appear as a "chaff" floating on top of the toilet bowl water. It may be tan colored, harboring millions of tiny white crystals. Cleansing this chaff is just as important as purging stones.

How safe is the liver cleanse?
   It is very safe. Professionals and individuals have conducted thousands of liver purges, including many persons in their seventies and eighties. We have heard nobody ending up in a hospital, and none reported pain. The author, in over a dozen years of private practice, has never seen any complications. This liver purge could make you feel a little uncomfortable for a day or two thereafter. Stirred-up toxins are in solution, begging to be released.

Conclusion:
    The above procedure contradicts many modern medical viewpoints. Gallstones are thought to be few, not thousands. They don't get linked to pains other than gall bladder attacks. It is easy to understand why this is thought: By the time you have acute pain attacks, some stones are in the gallbladder, are big enough and sufficiently calcified to be seen on X-ray, and they have caused inflammation there.

Caution:
   In the highly unlikely event that you feel waves of pain reaching up to your throat, you might have a gallstone stuck in a bile duct. Clay-colored stool is evidence of bile duct blockage. Epsom salts can relax that bile duct in 20 minutes. Take a heaping tablespoon in 3/4 cup of water but only on an empty stomach or you may feel quite ill. Taking a large dose of Valerian herb, 6 to 8 capsules four times a day, including bedtime, may also help to relax the duct. If you do get relief, you can be sure it was a spasm of the bile duct system. The magnesium in the Epsom salts relaxes spasms. It would be best to clean the liver a number of times (at two week intervals unless too ill) to try to dislodge the sticking gallstone. If this does not relieve the pain then you need to consult a medical professional.

It is advisable to drink copious amount of water during the second and third day, when you eliminate the waste matter and body fluids as well. This will prevent dehydration.

My Opinion on the Liver Detox Diet

I went out and bought everything I would need, and it is still in my bathroom unopened.

However making this page has renewed my interest, I will keep you posted if I ever get round to it!

The health benefits must be enormous if you can put up with chronic diarrhea for a few days.

If you would like to try the The Liver Detox Diet I urge you to read Andreas's book.