Happy New Year everyone! A new year, a new start. As I have been thinking about new beginnings my mind was drawn back to cleansing. More specifically Dr. Christopher's three day juice cleanse and extended herbal cleanse.
The three day juice cleanse is a simple way to start and can be done each month. Set aside three days to do this, or if you can get it to work around your current schedule, wonderful. It is outlined as follows:
8am- 16oz. Prune juice
8:30- 8oz Distilled or Reverse Osmosis water
9am- 8 oz Apple Juice (this can be one kind of juice that you can stand to drink for three days straight)
9:30- 8oz Distilled water
10am- 8oz Apple Juice
This continues until a few hours before retiring. Around 12pm and 6pm take two tablespoons of olive oil. For some it is hard to take it strait, so you may want to mix it in one of the glasses of juice or water. In addition to this you will probably want the Lower Bowel formula. Starting this cleanse can lead to further constipation but as the cleanse progresses and with the help of the formula things will get moving on a regualr basis. The formula can be taken 2 caps 3 times a day or more as needed. (There should be no worry about overdose, some people have needed to take up to forty capsules a day)
The other cleanse is the extended herbal cleanse, which contains the formulas: Lower Bowel, Liver and Gallbladder, Kidney, Blood stream, and Vital herbs. This cleanse is done over a period of 6 months and outlined as such:
The first week of the month, take all formulas except Blood stream. This is to be 2 caps three times a day 6 days a week, resting on the seventh. The only exception is the Lower Bowel formula which can be increased as needed.
Week two, add the blood stream formula.
All formulas are to be continued for the rest of the six months, except on the seventh day of each week and the seventh week during the six months. When the six months are complete rest from cleansing all of the seventh month.
The reasons for the break on the seventh is to give the body time to further eliminate all the toxins that are being released. In many studies, they have found that by resting fields on the seventh year that production of the produce is better than if the field is not rested. It also has the biblical context, refering to the creation when the Creator rested on the seventh day.
