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Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Why & When to Flush

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

liverflushdrink1 Hardly a day goes by without the subject of liver flushing popping up. Either someone needs to do the incurables program for a major issue or their program was working very well but has stalled and they want to know why. A good understanding of flushing the liver is important for anyone wanting to hold onto or regain their health. The liver is the vacuum of the body. No infection, disease or condition is healed or cleared from the body without the aid of the liver. The Liver is the more important detoxing organ in the body.

Backed Up Liver Needs to Be Flushed

Many members start a program to heal an issue and are thrilled during the first few weeks to see their symptoms disappearing and their energy rebounding. Then about a month or two into their healing or rebuilding programs they begin slipping backwards. I get a call or email asking for help because the herbs are no longer working. Since I know the herbs do not stop having the nutrients needed to heal the body the real question is what has stopped working. The answer most often is, the Liver is full and needs a bit of attention. A nice week of liver flushing and the program is back on track.

Liver Flush Once A Month

liverflushdrink2 When doing a good healing program of any kind it would be advisable to flush the liver at least once a month if not more often. While clearing an infection or some other system wide issue it might be necessary to do an ELF every week. Flushing the liver is a safe simple way of supporting this important filter to work more effectively as it clears the issues from your body. I have personally seen stubborn knee pain cleared by a week of juice fasting and liver flushing. Anyone choosing to eat unprocessed natural foods can expect to feel better. The body is being nourished and supported with the needed nutrients for building healthy flesh and blood.

So why do so many feel so bad when they first begin to clean up their food program?

Several reasons factor in. The first place to check out is the bowels. Make sure this important organ is open and working well before beginning any healing program or cleanse. A healing crisis can be triggered by something as simple as adding a glass of fresh fruit or vegetable juice to your food program. The body receives a healthy dose of alkaline rich food and will not need permission to begin cleaning house. A good example of this would be to throw soapy water on a dirty floor. The water will immediately cut the filth and absorb all it can carry away. The moment the clean soapy water touches the floor it begins dissolving curd and breaking down the grim.

Alkaline; the Body’s de-grimer

This is how alkaline nutrition works in the body. All fresh, unprocessed, uncooked foods are alkaline rich. Toss fresh juice into a toxic system and watch the waste rise to the surface. Sometimes the reaction will be so strong the drink will come right back up. This is because the system is backed up and the waste being released cannot find an open door through the normal channel so all the toxins suddenly released into the stomach must go somewhere. Don’t be deterred, get the bowels moving well and the body will be able to process the waste out normally.

Immune Boosting with Echinacea

Boosting the immune system is another important part of any healing or building program. There must be enough immune cells to attach and neutralize each piece of waste, toxins ect… flushed out. If the immune system is unable to neutralize the waste then it will be reabsorbed back into the organs and tissue it was drawn from. When the toxins are reabsorbed the body will begin to feel toxic and sick. The saying “run over by a mac truck” comes to mind. The head can ache, muscle and joint pain, nausea, loose bowels, mental confusion, depression ect…This is the healing crisis.

Foundational Programs

The best way to begin any new health building program is to start at the beginning. The three Foundational Programs are for everyone. 1) Bowel Cleansing; 2) Immune Boosting with Echinacea; 3) Superfood & Fresh Juices.

Once these programs are established the sky is the limit. You can begin the health building programs without fear of “the healing crisis” normally expected during the first few days of any good program.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing

Bowel Cleansing Away My Headaches

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

As far back as I can remember I have experienced headaches. Often the discomfort was just enough to send me looking for a bottle of aspirin. No one ever asked and I assumed everyone got headaches for no reason. Except for the migraines I experienced in my early twenty’s, the mild throb of my brain became an accepted part of nearly every day.

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As far back as I can remember my bowels have moved once in the morning for sure and maybe a bit later in the day. This was normal for me, no one said otherwise so I assumed my bowels were working just about right. As a child no one asked about my pooping habits. My older sister suffered from a congenital hip defect which required several surgeries during childhood. She could go for weeks without moving her bowels causing much alarm around the house. From the information I gleamed as a child once a day was a good thing.

Headache Support

Fast forward thirty-eight years into the future to 1998 the year of my first bowel cleanse. Wow! What an experience. The immense amount of waste eliminated from my body flattened my pouchy stomach and brought an end to thirty-eight years of headaches. The cesspool I had been holding in my bowels had been putrefying my entire body, creating a toxic condition in my brain. The headaches I’d experienced since childhood were due to my backed up bowels.

Over the next nine months I continued the bowel cleansing routines. My inflamed bowel healed along with a case of irritable bowel syndrome I had developed while working for Riverside County Dept. of Social Service. My bowels had been speaking loudly to me for years. One day they would be too lose the next they would not move at all. If I ate the wrong foods I would have horrid cramps. Bowel cleansing became the beginning of what has been my healing journey. Cleansing and healing my bowels for me was better than discovering the fountain of youth.

Bowel Cleansing

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Grape Fast

May 30, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

red&green grapes This next week I am planning to do a Grape Fast. A Grape Fast for detox is a great way to get the old crud out while flushing the body with life giving healing nutrition. It involves eating nothing but grapes and drinking nothing but water or grape juice for several days at a time. Grapes also have cancer fighting properties and are an excellent weight loss food.

Doing a Simple Grape Fast:

A grape fast can continue for several days or several weeks depending on how long you want to carry on. A grape fast is done by consuming grapes for twelve hour periods followed by twelve hours of water fasting. Consume the grapes gradually in small amounts over each twelve hour period. You are not eating a large meal but constantly ingesting the grapes. For the next twelve hour period, you should eat nothing, drinking only water. I normally will plan to fast for five days at a time, deciding if I want to continue or stop at the end of each five day period.

What is the best grape for fasting?

Any grape will do as all grapes provide excellent nutrition to detox the body. The very best grapes are purple grapes. They contain the most helpful ingredients for weight loss, detox and fighting cancer. Try to get organic grapes if possible. The pesticide content in other grapes can be a problem considering the large amount of grapes you will be consuming. Juice them yourself if possible, include the seeds and skin.

How does a grape fast work?

Purple grapes and particularly grape seeds; contain numerous detox, cancer fighting and cleansing compounds which will flush toxins from your system. These include ingredients that can cleanse and detoxify the liver and kidneys. This is why a grape fast is ideal for weight loss and detox. When using a grape fast for cancer, the idea is to starve your body for twelve hours to fool cancer cells into rapidly consuming certain compounds from the grapes to fight the cancer.

Is there any danger involved in a grape fast?

A grape fast, in and of itself, poses no danger. Use Echinacea daily to avoid feeling weak from the toxins being flushed out. Once they are gone you will be revitalized like never before.

Cleansing & Flushing, Digestion & Gut, Herbal Healing

Effect of Gallstones on the Liver

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

digestive system organs Over the next few weeks I want to share some great information on how important flushing the liver is and how a backed up liver affects every system of the body. The health of the body and quality of life depend to a large degree on how well the liver is functioning.

The liver acts as a filtering or cleansing device for the blood; it even deactivates a limited amount of hormones, alcohol, and medicinal drugs. Its task is to modify these biologically active substances so that they lose their potentially harmful effects–a process known as detoxification. Specialized cells in the liver’s blood vessels (Kupffer cells) mop up harmful elements and infectious organisms reaching the liver from the gut. The liver excretes the waste materials resulting from these actions via its bile duct network.

A healthy liver receives and filters 3 pints of blood per minute and produces 1 to 1.5 quarts of bile every day. This ensures that all the activities in the liver and in the rest of the body run smoothly and efficiently. Obstructive gallstones in its bile ducts greatly undermine the liver’s ability to detoxify any externally supplied and internally generated harmful substances in the blood. These stones also prevent the liver from delivering the proper amounts of nutrients and energy to the right places in the body at the right time. This upsets the delicate balance in the body, known as homeostasis, thus leading to disruption of its systems and undue stress on its organs.

Effect of Gall Stones on the Liver

A clear example of such a disturbance is an increased concentration of the endocrine hormones estrogen and aldosterone in the blood. These hormones, produced in both men and women, are responsible for the correct amount of salt and water retention. When stones congest the gallbladder and the liver’s bile ducts, these hormones may not be broken down and detoxified sufficiently. Hence, their concentration in the blood rises to abnormal levels, causing tissue swelling and water retention. Most oncologists consider elevated estrogen levels to the leading cause of breast cancer among women. In men, high levels of this hormone can lead to excessive development of breast tissue and weight gain.

Obesity and Liver Congestion

Over 85% of the American population is overweight or obese. Men, women, and children in this condition suffer mainly from fluid retention (with relatively minor fat accumulation). The retained fluid helps trap and neutralize noxious substances that the liver can no longer effectively remove from the body. This unsightly side effect, however, helps the overweight or obese person to prevent or even survive a major toxicity crisis that could otherwise lead to a heart attack, cancer, or massive infection.

The problem with prolonged fluid retention in the tissues, though, is that it causes these toxins and other harmful waste matter (metabolic waste and dead cell material) to accumulate in various parts of the body and further congest the pathways of circulation and elimination. Whenever in the body that storage capacity for toxins and waste is exceeded, symptoms of illness begin to show up. These symptoms merely indicate that the body is desperately trying to correct these imbalances and heal itself.

Stones inside the Liver: Intrahepatic gallstones

Gallstones in the liver, which John Hopkins University and some medical schools referred to as intrahepatic biliary gallstones or biliary stones, tend to cluster together and form large obstructions that can lead to dilation of bile ducts. Intrahepatic gallstones are composed of mostly cholesterol and other bile constituents.

What makes bile so important?

One of the liver’s most important functions is to produce bile, about 1 to 1.5 quarts (0.95 – 1.4 liters) per day. Liver bile is a viscous, yellow, brown, or green fluid that at a pH of 9.5 is highly alkaline and has a bitter taste. Without sufficient bile, hydrochloric acid entering the small intestine from the stomach can cause burns throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Also, ingested foods will remain undigested or only partially digested. For example, to enable the small intestine to digest and absorb fat and calcium from the food you eat, the food must first combine with bile.

Bile Needed for Calcium Absorption

When bile secretion is insufficient, fat is not absorbed properly. The undigested fat remains in the intestinal tract. When undigested fat reaches the colon along with other waste products, intestinal bacteria break down some of the fat into fatty acids or excrete it with the stool. Since fat is lighter than water, having fat in the stool may cause it to float. When fat is not absorbed, calcium is not absorbed either, leaving the blood in a deficit. The blood subsequently takes its extra calcium from the bones.

Most bone density problems (osteoporosis) actually arise from insufficient bile secretion and poor digestion of fats, rather than from not consuming enough calcium. Few medical practitioners are aware of this fact and, hence, merely prescribed calcium supplements to their patients without addressing the underlying reason for the calcium deficiency.

Bile Needed For Proper Digestion

Likewise, the body also requires fats to help digest and make use of proteins and carbohydrates. To digest these fats, the liver and gallbladder must release sufficient amounts of bile. Poor bile secretion leaves these foods largely undigested, which subjects them to decomposition by bacteria. Persistent abdominal gas, discomfort, and bloating are among the first indications to show that this important liver function has been seriously compromised.

Besides breaking down the fats in our food bile also removes toxins from the liver. The liver is the most important organ of detoxification, and the health of every cell depends on how efficiently it rid itself of these toxins.

The bile constituents, bilirubin and biliverdin, process significant antioxidant and anti-mutagenic properties. Higher concentrations of bile pigments in the body have been linked with reduced prevalence of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Bile: Natural Laxative

One of the lesser-known but extremely important functions of bile is to deacidify and cleanse the intestines. Bile serves as the body’s natural laxative. Constipation and sluggish bowel movements are the commonest consequences of impeded bile secretion.

When gallstones in the liver or gallbladder have critically obstructed bile flow, the color of the stool will be tan, orange-yellow, or pale as in clay, instead of the normal brown.

Gallstones are a direct product of an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. Even if someone has successfully dealt with all other causes of chronic illness, if gallstones are still present in the liver or gallbladder, recovery may be short-lived or impossible.

Gallstone’s detrimental effects

Gallstones pose a considerable health risk and may lead to illness and premature aging. Over the next few weeks our newsletter will carry a description of some of the detrimental effects of gallstones on the different organs and systems in the body. When these stones are removed the body as a whole can resume its normal, healthy activities.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Starting Week Two of My Juice Fast

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

fresh juice Today I start the second week of my extended juice fast. My energy is up today, I feel great. Why am I doing an extended juice fast? It is my way of clearing the cobwebs from my life as well as kick starting my weight loss program.

The fresh juice I drink is only a part of my program. I am using two tablespoons of Superfood three times a day. Clear distilled water 32 oz. three times a day. Apple Cider Vinegar one tablespoon in 16 oz. of water twice a day. Psyllium Husk Powder 1 rounded teaspoon once a day in my evening Superfood.

My need for the LBF #1’s has gone up by three capsules a day. This was expected. The waste coming from the liver has no fiber and sits heavy in the bowel. I’ve lost 11 pounds since beginning my juice fast last Monday. I can already feel the need to do a liver flush again. Flushing my liver has been on my schedule since last Friday. Hopefully I’ll be able to do an “ELF” tonight.

One really weird item: This past month I’ve developed heavy crystals in my left foot. After setting for any length of time the first step I take feels like I’m crushing glass under my foot. The sharpness crushes away as soon as I step down. I’ve never heard of our felt this type of heavy crystals before. They went away for a couple of weeks after my last liver flush. It’s apparently time to clean this house I’m living in.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Planning an ELF Party

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

2013 is fast becoming the summer of the liver flush. Our local members have discovered the fun and cleansing benefit of flushing the liver. There is a whole lot of liver flushing going on. ELF parties are popping up all over. An ELF Party can be a fun end to a beneficial week of juice fasting.

Below are a few guide lines and suggestion for planning an ELF party.

First and most important find a group of like-minded family members or friends who want to do some serious cleansing work. Two or three people will do, six or seven will round out a great party.

Plan an introductory evening get together with all your party people. At this time provide everyone with details of the adventure they are beginning. A packet containing the following items would be a huge help: Juicing combination suggestions, Liver Flushing E-book, Foundational E-Book, and anything else you feel would be helpful.

The week before the juice fast everyone must make sure the Foundational programs are in place: Boosting with Echinacea and that the bowels are open and working well. Beginning use of the Superfood during this pre-fast week is also an excellent idea. Provide the party guest several good juicing combination suggestions. Provide these now before they go veggie shopping. There are many juicing recipes on line. Look around find a few that seem interesting. Below are two of my favorites.

My morning juice is a combination of:

½ Cantaloupe
¼ Honey dew Mellon
2 Apples
2 Pears
2 to 4 cups Dark Leafy Greens (Chard or Kale)

For Lunch I make the following Vegetable Juice:

4 Tomatoes
2 bunches of Parsley
¼ Red Onion
1 Large Cucumber
2 stalks Celery
1 Bell Pepper
1 Green Hot Pepper (Optional)
1 Lime

The last two days before the juice fast is to begin everyone is to eat only raw food. Some may want to plan a raw food menu for those fairly new to the idea of eating raw.

The night before the juice fast is to begin throw a raw food feast kick-off party. The night’s entertainment, if possible, must be playing the inspirational DVD, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead”.

During the five to seven days juice fast stay in touch with your party guests. A daily check in time for each guest would be an excellent idea. You can also use the buddy system in larger groups.

*Remember to keep those bowels open and comfortable

The last evening of the Juice Fast will be the ELF Party Night. Plan a sleep over.

You will need plenty of Castor Oil & Flannel and a package of Press & Seal Wrap for the Castor Oil packs.
Fresh Ginger, Olive Oil, and Grape Fruit juice for the Liver Flush Drink
Make a large pot of Detox tea for sipping while warming the castor oil packs.
Everyone will need to bring their own heating pad.
Plenty of Digestive Tonic & LG/AP Formula for anyone who develops an upset stomach

When dealing with nausea during a liver flush I would suggest 1 tsp. Digestive Tonic and 1 tsp. LP formula mixed together in an ounce or two of water. Knock this mix back. (Drink all in one swallow, DO NOT SIP) This will settle any system where the bowels are open and working well.

Eat Raw for two days then introduce cooked food. IF you do okay eating your cooked food proceed with a normal food plan. IF cooked food is not agreeing with you eat raw a few more days before resuming a regular food plan.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Juice Fasting-Life’s Restart Button

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

The end of December I decided it was time to push the restart button on my life. I recently discovered a couple of great documentaries showing people who had changed their lives with food.

The First was the feature film Forks over Knives which examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. http://www.forksoverknives.com/about/synopsis/

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, Chronicles the journey of Joe Cross, who is 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, he is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn’t end well— with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn’t far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe’s personal mission to regain his health. http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

After viewing these two inspiring and informative movies my husband and I decided to make a few changes starting with an extended juice fast. He had never done one before and has always struggled to keep a healthy weight. Michael is 6 ft 4 inches and for the first 15 years of our marriage he was seriously under weight, tipping the scales around 137 pounds with his clothes on. After some serious Bowel Cleansing and Liver flushing in the late 1990’s he began putting on weight. By 2002 he was tipping the scales at 170 pounds.

We both felt the need to hit the restart button on our bodies. Michael was looking for an energy boost and I want to drop a few pounds. We began our juice fast on December 31^st. Michael managed four good days and gained two pounds. This was amazing to me as I drank a lot more juice than he did and lost 14 pounds over the same four days. This only proves again that our bodies know what they need to do and will do it if we will provide the proper nutrition and then get out of the way.

I plan to continue juice fasting for an extended period. I was concerned I would not be satisfied with only juicing to continue for any length of time but have found the following routine to be very satisfying.

Each morning I begin my day with a hot cup of Echinacea tea followed by my Superfood in 16 ounces of fresh fruit juice.

My morning juice is a combination of:

½ Cantaloupe
¼ Honey dew Mellon
2 Apples
2 Pears
2 to 4 cups Dark Leafy Greens (Chard or Kale)

For Lunch I make the following Vegetable Juice:

4 Tomatoes
2 bunches of Parsley
¼ Red Onion
1 Large Cucumber
2 stalks Celery
1 Bell Pepper
1 Green Hot Pepper (Optional)
1 Lime

Throughout the day I enjoy my regular herbal teas and additional glasses of the juices above. If I feel hungry or weak I slowly sip a glass of juice for an almost instant energy pick-up.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing

Fear of Liver Flushing

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

BadBreath-183x253 Over the years many members have expressed a reluctance to do the liver flushing part of the cleansing programs. The common excuses have been:

“I can’t get the oil down.”
“I already feel so bad; I don’t want to feel worse.”
“I can’t afford to take off time from work if I get sick.”
“Way too much work. There must be an easier way to get well.”

Everyone underestimates the power of the Liver Cleanse. Failure to do all the cleansing programs rigorously and repeatedly can cause you to NOT GET WELL. Members believe they are on the Incurables program, yet they are not regularly flushing their livers. They fail to understand how critical it is to repeatedly clear the waste from the liver.

We would all like to be handed some herbs in a bottle that will reverse, in a day or a weekend, all the damage, heal our diseases, and fix 30 years of unconscious living. There is no magic herb.

No Back Lash

The truth is there is no back lash to doing a liver flush. Cleansing the liver is simply flushing the excess waste from the liver into the bowel for elimination from the body. The liver is our internal vacuum cleaner; it is the organ all the waste must process through. Clearing a major or minor issue can cause this filtering organ to become gummed up, unable to properly function.

Doing an ELF (Emergency Liver Flush) will not cause your issues to become worse or create more discomfort in the body. Liver flushing will greatly reduce the discomfort regardless the reason. Flushing the liver allows this mighty internal vacuum to begin pulling waste from every corner of the body and can break up congestion, clear hives and break-outs… as quickly as several hours.

The Healing Crisis

Any healing crisis will be brought on when the liver is too over loaded and unable to process waste out through normal channels. This is when doing an ELF would be most beneficial. Let’s look at a common issue. A body is going along doing what it does every other day when suddenly out of the blue hives develop. Large patches of hives covering the arms, legs, tummy and back. Why? Nothing was different today than yesterday.

The day may appear ordinary on the outside but on the inside the liver has become so congested it can no longer process waste properly. When this happens the liver looks toward the skin as another avenue for waste removal. The skin is not able to handle such toxicity and quickly breaks down.

Other issues that can occur are a buildup of congestion around the body over injured or weakened areas. I discovered when my liver is backed up the pain in my knee returns. Applying BF&C salve over the affected area is an excellent healing support but will only go so far in clearing this issue. Failing to flush the liver will prevent the congestion from clearing and the issue will not heal.

Flushing to Heal Damaged Joint

Over the past month or so my younger brother has been working on trying to clear the pain from his thumb joint. He works in construction which takes a toll on the hands. I’d sent him some BF&C Salve and Extract which he was using. I’d expected the issue to clear quickly but it was dragging on. Finally I suggested he do a liver flush. Within a day or two of his flush he called to share that his thumb was completely healed. He had continued to use the BF&C Salve over the area and had not put the two together. When brought to his attention he realized the pain had cleared immediately following flushing the liver.

Disease or injury in any form comes down to blockage or congestion. Clearing this blockage or congestion from the body is the only true healing. A body cannot be poisoned back to health. Massive amounts of nutrition for rebuilding a broken down system along with repeated flushing of the eliminative organs is how to truly be well.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Intense Cleansing Program: The Preparation

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

Man new life Beginning a strong juice fast, body flushing program without the proper groundwork will prove a huge mistake. Preparing the body for the work about to be done is as important as the cleansing itself. Even the introduction of fresh juice can cause a cleansing crisis if the immune system is unable to handle the toxins released for removal. I’ve even seen people new to eating fresh fruits and vegetables suffer a detoxing crisis over a nice salad.

It’s All about Alkalinity

Think about nutrition for a minute. Our blood is in balance when we’re slightly alkaline: with a pH of 7.35. Pure nutrition is alkaline. Alkaline foods are foods that raise the amount of oxygen that your blood takes in.

How much oxygen your blood can absorb is measured on a pH scale that ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 0 is most acidic while a pH of 14 is most alkaline. Your body functions best when the pH of your blood is 7.35. If your blood pH gets below 7 or above 7.45, your body cannot function.

The question then is what will happen in a very acidic body when massive amounts of pure alkaline are introduced? Every cell in your body jumps for joy and dumps its waste. The entire system will begin to release massive amount of acidic waste for removal. Will… Yahoo!? Right? Wrong. Unless you are into feeling like you have been run over by a mac truck.

Here is what will happen within about twenty-four hours. Mr. New to Nutrition reads something about the benefits of juicing and decides to give it a try. Instead of beginning his day with a glass of fresh juice for a start, he decides to jump right into a major juice fast. Morning of day two he wakes up with a banger of a headache and likely muscle aches from head to toe. The amount of waste up for elimination has overwhelmed his immune system. All this waste must be attached and treated by the immune cells before it can be released from the body. What the immune system is unable to treat is then reabsorbed. Not good!

The Startup Plan

No, do not take your new juicer back to the store. There is a plan. You can have all the benefits of healthy living without the cleansing crisis. Follow this simple start up program for a week or so to prepare the body for the onslaught of good you plan to do.

Bowel Cleansing; Make sure the Bowels are open and working well. Establish the bowel cleansing program before beginning any cleaning campaign.
Echinacea to Boost the Immune system. Begin boosting the week before beginning a major cleansing program or juice fast. An ounce a day for four days each week you do an cleansing program is a good place to start.
Always step up and down from a juice fast. How is this done?

Stepping Up and Down from a Juice Fast

Begin eating raw the week before you plan to start an extended juice fast, or intense healing program. This will more gradually raise the amount of alkaline being introduced into the system.

Stepping Down

For an extended juice fast or healing program you will need an extended stepping down period. This is very important. Listen to your body. Do not be in a rush to eat cooked foods. If you transition back too quickly to cooked foods you can create a healing crisis all your own.

The rule of thumb is you will spend ½ the amount of time on the juice fast transitioning back to cooked foods. If your juice fast was thirty days you will need a fifteen day period of raw food before introducing any cooked food back into your body.

Do not stop juicing. Continue with your juicing as you reintroduce one raw food the first day. You can have as much as you like but only one food. I like to break my fast with either grapes or apples. If this one food is well accepted depending on the length of the fast after a day or two you can introduce more raw food combinations. After a week or two you should be eating raw fruit or Vegetable salads, supplemented of course with Superfood and fresh juices.

Continue this raw food program until you have covered at least half the time you were juice fasting. On the day you plan to consume cooked food again I would boost with Echinacea if you are not already boosting. The best first cooked food is either brown rice or a baked potato with the skin. You must eat the skin or do not choose the potato. Introduce the cooked food after your raw salad. Enjoy, eating slowly. If you do well continue to add cooked food slowly back into your food program.

Final thoughts:

Listen to your body. You have provided an opportunity to clean house, allow your body the time to finish the effort begun. Do not allow your appetite for cooked food to destroy the good you are doing. You will enjoy cooked food again. Taking your time during this transition period will allow the work you have done to be completed.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Incurables for the Elderly

May 29, 2016September 29, 2026 Dara Dietz

An elderly family member with an incurable or chronically debilitating condition can do a strong cleansing program with great benefit. The fragile constitution of advanced years must be taken into account when applying the natural healing protocols. Begin slowly; notice any adverse or positive reaction to the herbal supports and procedures. Since everyone is different there are no hard rules here, common sense should always be liberally applied.

Where to Begin

Begin at the beginning with the Foundational Programs. These three routines must be established and continued as long as any restorative program continues. Learn more about the Foundational Programs in the member’s area.

Once the Foundational programs are in place it is time to begin supporting the body’s efforts to clear disease from the system. The main thrust of this work is done by flushing the liver. Understanding the liver as the vacuum cleaner of the body will afford a prospective of the work ahead. Providing the body the needed resources to process out the waste is only half the story.

Time to Detox

A week or two into a good cleansing program is about when the liver begins to need a good flushing. All the waste it has been filtering out has begun to gum up the works. The body will begin to show signs of the waste back up in many different ways. Symptoms ranging from hives to depression can all be contributed to an over-toxic system in need of a liver flush.

Preventing the toxic symptoms is best. This is accomplished by following the immune boosting routine and liver flushing every other week. Direction can be found in the Liver Flushing E-Book.

Remember to advance slowly into the liver flushing routines as you daily build the body with fresh juices and natural herbal supports.

Flushing the Kidneys

When the week of liver flushing has been finished it is time to do the milder week of Kidney flushing. This week of mild flushing not only supports and feeds the entire renal system but allows the body a chance to finish the detoxing process it began during the week of liver flushing. The waste still needing to be eliminated from the body can now be handled. Kidney flushing will not create the flood of detoxing waste liver flushing calls forth.