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Cleanses for the
Liver and Gallbladder for Enhanced Vitality
By Mary Kurus
Copyright Mary Kurus 2004
All Rights Reserved
How Important Are Cleanses?
People today are filled with many
types of toxins, and toxins are poisons. These
include poisons from chemicals, metals, atomic energy, petrochemical residues,
parasites, worms, viruses, infectious bacteria, and fungus (including candida)
and mould. We find these toxins in
the air we breathe, the food we eat, the liquids we drink, recreational drugs,
and alcoholic drinks. Our food and
water is full of chemicals and our systems are not able to process out the
amount of toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis.
Almost every North American has at least one parasite within them today,
and this is accepted to be normal. Parasites dump toxins in you every day.
Toxins accumulate inside of you
causing your systems to become clogged up, which slow down in how they work,
eventually resulting in real malfunction and illness.
What you feel is fatigue and a loss of well being, but you have is a
serious toxic load. Many illnesses
are caused by high levels of toxins. I
truly believe that people who are free of toxins will live much longer and with
much greater energy that those filled with toxins. Cleansing is one way of living longer and more energetically.
A Few Words of Caution:
- Before
beginning any cleanse, please consult your physician or naturopathic doctor,
especially if you are suffering from any chronic illness.
It is dangerous to undertake any cleanses while pregnant or while
nursing a baby. You must
consult a physician before beginning a cleanse if you have blood-sugar
problems, if you suffer from high blood pressure, or if you are taking any
medication, especially cardiac drugs. You
need to exercise extreme caution if you have difficulty digesting sugars and
carbohydrates. You need to be
very careful if you have a candida or other fungal or mould overgrowth.
- If
you are run down, you need to build yourself up physically before
undertaking any cleanse.
- If
you have candida, other fungal overgrowths, mould issues, parasites, worms,
viruses, or infectious bacteria, the benefits of doing any of the cleanses
identified in this paper will be very limited.
In fact, you may not be able to complete any of these cleanses.
You may need to complete a deeper cleanse and detoxification with
Choming Essences (see www.mkprojects.com
for detailed information) before you can undertake these other types of
maintenance cleanses.
- The
cleanse recipes are based on various fruit juices and vegetable juices.
If you have candida, parasites or worms, you will have serious
digestive difficulty with fruit based cleanses and I strongly recommend you
do not undertake them before having your candida or parasites eliminated
with a Choming Essence Program.
- The
benefits of doing these cleanses will be quite limited if you do not change
your diet to eliminate taking in new chemicals, metals, chemicals, and other
toxins from food and water additives.
- People today have digestive food sensitivities, i.e.
difficulty digesting certain food types.
The food groups that tend to cause difficulties are grains, (and that
includes all breads and cereals), dairy foods, sugars, and peanuts and nuts.
If you want to experience improved energy from doing the following
cleanses, you will need to eliminate the foods you have difficulty
digesting. Otherwise, the
benefits of these cleanses will be minor.
Doing a gallbladder or liver cleanse
while you have parasites can cause you serious pain and discomfort. Consult your
physician prior to doing a cleanse if you have health issues with your
gallbladder or liver. Some people
have experienced serious attacks if they have large stones.
Be very cautious!
A Brief
Word About Cleansing Energy Systems:
Just as we
have physical systems such as the digestive system, elimination system, or
nervous system, we also have energy systems, such as the meridian system, auras,
the chakra system, and an extended energy system far beyond the auras.
These systems are within you, around you, penetrating you.
You could not live without these systems.
Energy
systems need to be cleansed as much as physical systems require cleansing since
energy systems become deeply congested with negative energies and chemicals.
Chemical, metal and atomic toxins clog up the energy systems so that
energy cannot move through you and around at the optimum rate.
This results in fatigue, lethargy, mental dullness and many other
physical symptoms. Please read the
article on my website www.mkprojects.com
called Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields:
Cleansing and Activating Your Energy Systems for additional
information. The Choming Black
Obsidian Spray and Choming Essences help release negative energies and stimulate
a lot of healing in all energy systems. Our
energy systems require as much work as our physical systems.
The
Relationship Between Organs and Emotions:
Traditional
Chinese Medicine sees a direct relationship between organs and emotions. This
means that certain emotions tend to be held by certain organs when they are
repressed within rather than being released.
Liver
………………..
Anger
Kidneys………………..
Fear
Spleen
…………………
Worry
Lungs
………………..
Sadness
Heart
….………………
Joy
Difficulties
with these specific organs usually indicates difficulties with the associated
emotion. Although these emotions
are part of normal living, in excess or repressed, they cause disease.
Western
scientific research has shown that intense fear and anger produces changes in
three organs, the liver, brain and the adrenals.
It also shows that these organs work in a very integrated manner and that
intense fear or anger always affects the brain, nervous system, and the adrenal
glands.
Feeling
different emotions triggers the release of different chemicals in your body.
When you are experiencing pleasant emotions you release a certain set of
chemicals. When you are
experiencing negative emotions you release a very different set of chemicals.
Intense negative emotions, experience for prolonged periods of time, have
a serious physical effect on your systems.
Many
individuals who have undertaken cleanses for the liver, have found that they
felt a great deal of anger during the cleanse.
People are not aware that they are repressing anger, and are surprised at
the anger they might feel when undertaking a liver cleanse.
So please be forewarned, you might experience some strong emotions when
undertaking one of the following cleanses.
Different
Types of Cleanses:
Today there
are so many different types of herbal cleanses on the market.
On average, the majority are of short duration, lasting from three days
to two weeks. These short-term cleanses can work if your toxic load is
relatively light. But please
think carefully, if it took you ten or twenty years to build up toxins in your
body, why would you expect this type of accumulation to be released in any
two-day or even two-week period.
A
longer-term cleanse with Choming Essences, which uses vibration for raising
inner vibrations and releasing toxins, is often required for a first deep
cleanse. Detoxification or
cleansing with vibration (please see articles on detoxification with Choming
Essences at www.mkprojects.com)
is much deeper than any herbal cleanse or other natural cleanse, works at a
cellular level, but takes much longer than other cleanses.
Choming Essences cleanse using the vibrations of a tree, grass, plant, or
flower. You take Choming Essences
every day for a number of months. This
continually increases the inner rate of vibration of your physical and energetic
systems. Toxins and many other invaders including candida cannot stay
in a body with a high vibration and raising your vibrations causes the toxins to
wash out very naturally. This type
of a cleanse takes 32 - 40 weeks on average for the first cleanse, and about 5
– 8 weeks on average for subsequent cleanses.
Why
Cleanse the Liver, Gallbladder, and Colon?
The liver
is responsible for moving toxins from your systems as well as making many of the
hormones and enzymes required for the digestion of foods.
It has important functions relating to the release of toxins from your
blood. As the liver becomes
congested it has difficulty removing these toxins.
Slowly these toxins build up throughout your physical body.
People often develop digestive food sensitivities, fatigue, low-grade
depression, as well as many other physical discomforts as a result of a toxic
build-up.
The
gallbladder serves an important digestive function; it emulsifies fats.
Just as soap breaks down fat on your dishes, the gallbladder emulsifies
the fats in your food. Similar to the liver, the gallbladder becomes congested with
toxins. This results in poorly
digested food that leads poor nourishment, deficiencies in vitamins and
minerals, and serious health issues.
Food
moves through our systems through the large and small intestines.
Slowly food particles and all types of toxins, parasites, candida, and
other invaders build up inside these intestines.
This has a major effect on decreasing your ability to digest food and
absorb nutrients from your food. Many
worms, parasites, viruses, infectious bacteria, and other invaders like to rest
in your intestines as well as other organs.
These organs eventually become narrower, malfunction, and create a
variety of serious health issues.
What
Does a Colon Cleanse Eliminate?
The
following colon cleanses will eliminate only the top layer of the toxins in your
intestines. They do not release
many of the toxins held at a cellular level.
A two week colon cleanse will only begin to scrape off some of the
accumulated debris lining the intestines, but it will not release the toxins
being held at a cellular level. I recommend six weeks as a minimum for the
suggested colon cleanse.
Detoxification
Symptoms:
When you
begin any detoxification or cleanse, toxins begin to cleanse out of your body.
This means is that the toxins leave the organ or cell, drop into your blood
stream and they find a way to leave your body.
This can make you feel tired, nauseous, have an upset stomach, headachy,
or with overall flu type symptoms. These
symptoms should be gone within 5-10 days. Be
patient and stay with the cleanse. It
is very important for your overall health and energy and vibrancy.
Changes To
Your Diet Are Essential:
There is no
point going through all the effort of cleansing your liver or gallbladder or
colon if you continue to eat a diet loaded with sugar, fat, refined
carbohydrates and starches, dairy products, and coffee.
These foods are filled with chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, and metals,
and leave a great deal of debris in your systems.
You should
undertake major changes to your diet for at least two or three weeks before
undertaking any of the following cleanses.
Eat organic vegetables, meat, grains, rice, and fruits. Reduce the fat in your diet to one tablespoon a day.
Eliminate all dairy products, including milk and cheese.
Eliminate all white and brown sugar (and check the ingredients of food
packaging, you’ll be amazed at how much sugar is in everyday foods that you
eat)and artificial sweeteners. Artificial
sweeteners are chemicals and that means more toxins.
Use honey or maple syrup in moderation as a sweetener.
Eliminate 90% of the wheat and other grain products you are eating.
Substitute these with rice. Rice
is easily digested by everyone whereas many people have great difficulty
digesting wheat and other grain products, and that includes spelt and kamut
grains. Reduce your coffee intake
to two eight-ounce cups each day at a maximum and eliminate it if you can.
Cleanses
Are Important During Menopause:
Menopause is
a time in life when many functions change in the human body. The symptoms and discomfort of these changes can be minimized
if your organs and systems are cleansed and working at their highest efficiency.
I personally believe that candida overgrowth, parasites, worms, and
overall liver and gallbladder congestion greatly exacerbate many of the symptoms
experienced by women going through menopause.
A cleanse helps to fine tune the body, increasing its level of
performance. This is a major
benefit to women and men going through menopause.
How Often
Should You Repeat a Cleanse?
I believe
that everyone should do a thorough colon cleanse twice a year, once in the early
spring, and once in the late fall, about six months apart.
A liver and gallbladder cleanse should be undertaken two to four times a
year, depending on the state of your overall health.
Recipes
for Cleanses:
There
are many different ways and recipes to use for cleansing and today there are a
variety of new products as a support to this system.
However, the following is a list of various recipes recommended by Hanna
Kroeger in her book called “God
Helps Those Who Help Themselves”.
Hanna was a brilliant herbalist who was deeply experienced in many types
of cleanses. Her book contains many
other cleansing recipes and lots of additional information.
Cleanse for the Gallbladder and Liver
First
Day – drink the following:
8AM
8 oz apple juice
10AM 16 oz
apple juice
12PM
16 oz apple juice
2PM
16 oz apple juice
4PM
16 oz apple juice
6PM
16 oz apple juice
Use only
natural unfiltered apple juice, no chemicals or sweeteners, preferably made
fresh from organic apples. This is
important since it’s the malic acid that softens the stones in the
gallbladder.
NO FOOD
WHATSOEVER
Second
Day:
Repeat the
juice routine of the first day.
No food
whatsoever all day.
* At bedtime,
drink down at once, 4 oz olive oil.
Between 4 AM
and sometime in the morning you will have a major bowel movement.
In the fecal matter you will find small green pebbles, the size of a
pinhead or as big as a bird egg. These are what are left of your gallstones.
Or you may just get green feces. Many times it all looks like green mud.
Old stagnant bile becomes dissolved and liquefied through the malic acid
of the apple juice. The oil moves the entire mess.
It is possible that if there is enough colon congestion, the waste from
the gallbladder will be stored in the colon, and not expelled for a few days.
If you did
not expel any stones after the first two days on this cleanse, wait a week or
two, and then do this cleanse again.
This
cleanse was developed in Austria and is today used in many health spas in
Europe. It frees the liver/
gallbladder tract of old bile and debris, which we call stones.
Liver and Gallbladder Cleanse
- Prepare
and mix together:
2 oz.juice
of raw beets and greens of beets
3 quarts water
2 cups fresh lemon
juice
2 tablespoons raw
honey
- Make fresh
unfiltered apple juice from organic apples or use purchased unfiltered organic
apple juice.
- For
2 days, and if possible 3 days, drink the following:
7AM
2 glasses apple juice
9AM
2 glasses beet/ lemon juice
11AM
2 glasses apple juice
1PM
2 glasses beet/ lemon juice
3PM
2 glasses apple juice
5PM
2 glasses beet/ lemon juice
7PM
2 glasses apple juice
9PM
2 glasses beet/ lemon juice
Between 4 AM
and sometime in the morning you will have a major bowel movement.
In the fecal matter you will find small green pebbles, the size of a
pinhead or as big as a bird egg. These are what are left of your gallstones.
Or you may just get green feces. Many times it all looks like green mud.
Old stagnant bile becomes dissolved and liquefied through the malic acid
of the apple juice. The oil moves the entire mess.
It is possible that if there is enough colon congestion, the waste from
the gallbladder will be stored in the colon, and not expelled for a few days.
If you did
not expel any stones after the first two days on this cleanse, wait a week or
two, and then do this cleanse again.
Colon Cleanse:
There are
many ways to cleanse the colon and today there are a variety of new products as
a support to this system. However,
the following is a list of various approaches recommended by Hanna in her book
called “God Helps Those Who Help
Themselves”.
·
Earl Iron’s method: Bentonite Clay and a
cleanser such as Psyllium husks for
7 days;
·
A herbal combination of yellow dock, onion,
sage, wahoo bark, and rhubarb root;
·
A herbal combination of white pine tree bark,
mugwort, myrrh, chamomile, catnip, and mullein;
·
1 tablespoon glycerin in 1 cup of coffee;
·
1 quart of lightly salted water upon rising.
A
variation of Earl Iron’s cleanse is to take 1
teaspoon of Bentonite (or another type of clay) and 1 teaspoon Psyllium husks
mixed into 16 ounces of liquids (water, herb tea, or unsweetened juice, each
morning. If you constipate, add 5-6
drops of the cascara sagrada tincture or another herbal laxative to this mixture
to keep your bowels moving. It is
very important to keep your bowels moving regularly.
Take this mixture each day for at least 6 weeks.
During this time, keep your meat intake and your intake of refined grains
and flours to a minimum, and increase your intake of raw vegetables and fruits.
The purpose of this cleanse is to get as much fiber into the intestines
to scrub them out.
You
may experience headaches, nausea, or other physical pains while doing this
cleanse. As you loosen waste that
is accumulated on the lining of your intestines, some of it will be absorbed
into your blood and sent all over your body before it is eliminated.
It will take time to eliminate these toxins out of your systems.
Drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water or herbal tea each day while doing
this cleanse.
Spleen
and Liver Cleanse:
Ingredients:
2 Quarts Concord Grape Juice
Juice of 6 Oranges
Juice of 3 lemons
Cut the white of the lemon in
small pieces. Boil this in a little
water for 10 minutes. Mix this
mixture with all the juices and add enough water to make 1 gallon. This is a one-day supply of your food/drink intake.
Just 2 days of this will cleanse your organs, as Drano cleanses your
water pipes.
A
Quick Cleanse for the Liver:
The
first day on arising, drink 8 oz hot water with 2-3 fresh lemons squeezed into
it. From then on, eat whenever
hungry, stewed tomatoes and tomato juice. This
acts as a cleanser. Drink hot water
and lemon or tomato juice whenever you feel like it.
Do not worry about the following day, because it will be exactly the
same. It is amazing how hungry you
become.
At bedtime of the second day just
as you are ready to go to sleep drink the following mixture:
3 oz olive oil
2 oz castor oil
3 oz whipping cream
You can chew a small piece of
lemon after drinking this, just for taste.
At 3 or 4 AM (for some it’s 8AM)
you will have a nature call with much dark and ugly smelling waste.
The next morning have a good breakfast.
In Summary:
For the average man or woman, the
suggested short-duration cleanse can help you feel more energetic, and less
irritable and restless. However, to
live longer and enjoy that life with vibrant energy, deep release of toxins is
required, and lifestyle changes are essential.
To
Contact the Author
Mary Kurus can be reached by
e-mail at mary@mkprojects.com.
Her website at www.mkprojects.com
has many articles on vibrational healing and physical, emotional,
intellectual, and spiritual healing. She
provides a lot of information about healing with vibration, and Choming Essences
made from flowers, trees, grass, crystals, gems and things from the sea.
Please contact her by email if you require additional information.
With Love and Caring,
Mary Kurus |
