Category: Cleansing & Flushing

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Planning an ELF Party

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

Dara Dietz
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 31st.  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

Dara Dietz

BadBreath-183x253Over 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

Dara Dietz

Man new lifeBeginning 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

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.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing

Final thoughts on Juice Fasting

Dara Dietz
fresh juice

Juice fasting is a powerful tool for clearing the body of toxic back-up before a major disease takes hold in the system.  A pure food program, eating only the best quality food for the body, is an excellent safeguard for a healthy spiritual, emotional and physical life.  That said; even with the best lifestyle there is still a degree of waste that must be eliminated.  Regular times of fasting provide the extra nutrients to clear the body of accumulated toxins.  Think of juicing as pushing the restart button on your life.  When the body begins to send weird error messages, small little strange thing start popping up in your life, it may be time to hit the restart button.

My Personal Suggestion for a Painless Juice Fast 

Here is what I do when I juice fast.

An ounce of Echinacea daily, 4 to 6 days a week, each week I juice fast.  Since I’m asking my body to detox I might as well support my immune system to deal with the “die-off”.  Supporting the immune system also aids the body to more quickly clear any issues in my Bones, Flesh or Cartilage, namely areas in my body that are in constant need of support.

Superfood, two tablespoon in fresh juice two to three times a day.  This is my meal replacement.  I add Flax seed oil to my breakfast Superfood smoothie each day.  With each glass of Superfood I swallow 5 kelp capsules; this supports the thyroid and feeds the entire endocrine system.

1 teaspoon Psyllium husk powder daily, in a glass of fresh juice or water. Use the Psyllium powder or do a bowel cleanse using the LBF #2 daily during the entire juice fast to keep the bowels comfortable while supporting good elimination.

1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar in 32 ounces of distilled water each morning.  If drinking this first thing make sure to swish first few swallows around the mouth before swallowing.  This allows the stomach to set up for what is coming, preventing any discomfort that may arise from sending the vinegar onto an unprepared stomach.

Each morning I prepare a half gallon or better fresh fruit juice which I sip on all morning.  Come noon I make a fresh pitcher of vegetable juice for my afternoon drinking.  I keep a cup of tea or glass of juice with me throughout the day.  There is really no limit to the amount of juice but all juices should be sipped slowly allowing the flavors to fill the mouth before swallowing.  (Remember: Chew your Juices for best absorption of the nutrients.)

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing

Extended Juice Fasting

Dara Dietz

fastingWhy do an Extended Juice Fast?

An extended juice fast can be done for any number of great reasons.  The longest one I’ve done lasted forty days and was all about losing weight.  It worked; I lost 47 pounds in 37 days.  The real key to losing weight this quickly and safely was drinking lots of water along with my daily supply of fresh juice.  The days I did not keep up with my fluid intake the scales did not move downward the next morning.

Juice fasting while doing the Incurables Program for any major disease or condition will provide the body with the copious amounts of nutrients needed.  Whether doing a bit of minor cleansing or clearing a major disease juice fasting while doing the flushing programs will bring the best results.

How To End an Extended Juice Fast

The real issue of an extended juice fast is not how long you continue juicing but how well you transition back to eating regular meals.  A short juice fast of anywhere from two to seven days should be an easy two or three day transition back to eating cooked foods.  Day one; eat only raw food.   Consume only raw fruits & veggies.  If this goes well on day two introduce a baked potato with the skin or cooked brown rice with steamed vegetables.  Chew your food very well.  Seldom are there issues coming back from a short juice fast.

On an extended juice fast lasting from ten to sixty days expect to spend 50% of the time of the juice fast gradually introducing raw and then cooked food back into your system.  For an example coming off a twenty day juice fast will require ten days raw food.  On the day the fast has ended eat only one raw food.  You may eat as much of the food item chosen as desired.  A good food to end a juice fast with would be apples.  On day two choose another single food, maybe grapes.  Day three try a combination of raw fruits or veggies. Continue consuming several glasses of fresh juice each day.

Why do Raw before Cooked?

The question arises, Why all the drama?  What is wrong with stopping the fresh juices and making a big pot of pasta for dinner? Simply put your body will reject the cooked food if introduced too quickly.  A system that has been using only fresh juices for an extended period of time will treat any cooked food as it would a poison.  Either the meal will be vomited out or the bowels will become crampy and sick.  It is important to ease back into cooked foods.  Progress as quickly as your system allows, if you begin feeling poorly slow down, continue eating raw a few days longer.

Cleansing & Flushing, Emotional Healing, Herbal Healing

The Wisdom of Juice Fasting

Dara Dietz

Juice Fasting sounds like such a great idea.  Anyone wanting to know what Juicing is all about need only watch, “Fat Sick & Nearly Dead,” for the inspiration to get on the juice fasting band wagon.  Everybody would benefit from juice fasting one day each week.  Take a single day and consume only water, fresh fruit and veggie juices all day.  Unless there are blood sugar issues one can drink freely of any and all juices, no limit, drink all you want.

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A one day juice fast requires no real preparation.  Under most conditions a body can wake up and just decide today is the day I’m juice fasting.  Ok, so now you do have to hustle a bit.  Your juicer needs a little help producing the nutrient rich juices your body will be thanking you for all day.

My favorite morning juice requires a little planning so an early morning trip to the local store may be in order.  For one day I’d get a five pound bag of apples, two pears, one pineapple, and a bunch of Kale, one honeydew melon or cantaloupe for my morning fruit juice.  The afternoon vegetable juices will need a five pound bag of carrots, head cabbage and 1 beet. There are books full of great juicing ideas out there.  Discover the mixes that best appeal to you.

A one day juice fast, yes, you can do this.  Now comes a little juice fasting wisdom.  First, do NOT gulp down your juices.  Drink one swallow at a time.  Swish each mouth full around in your mouth before swallowing.  It sounds a little weird but you need to “chew” your juices.  This allows your body to begin digestion in the mouth and set up for what is coming so it will be properly handled when it reached your stomach.

Secondly, never give in to hunger before slowly drinking a full glass of juice.  It will normally take at least ten minutes to properly “chew” your glass of juice down.  Many a time I have decided, “I’m finished with this juice fast,” after letting myself get too hungry.  Before eating anything I keep the promise to myself to have one last glass of juice.  Drinking slowly I find myself completely satisfied by the time the glass is empty, the heady sick way I was feeling has cleared, no need to eat.  The truth be told I don’t really want anything else.

We will discuss longer juice fasting in our next newsletter along with a few tidbits of wisdom for first timers to juicing.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Understanding Bowel Cleansing

Dara Dietz
Bowel Cleansing

So much can be said for the benefits of bowel cleansing.  One of the biggest reasons I hear for not doing a good cleanse is fear of losing control.  This has never been an issue when using the LBF #1 & the LBF #2.  With a good understanding of how these two formulas work you will be in complete control of your bowels.

The LBF #1 increases the output of waste by stimulating the peristaltic waves in the bowel.  This formula does not work on the content of the bowel but goes to the bowel structure supporting the function of waste removal.  When the chemistry in these herbs comes in contact with the bowel wall they cause the squeezing, kneading motion of the peristaltic waves to work more effectively.

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There are those who say a body can become addicted to the herbal laxatives.  I have always understood an addiction to be a negative action causing a debilitation to the area affected.  In the case of these herbal supports they are actually strengthening the bowel over time.  As the herbs affect the muscles to contract with greater strength the muscular tone of the bowel become stronger. Over time the peristaltic action will work effectively without the use of the herbs.  Many who have used these herbal supports have, after several years, strengthened their bowels to the place where they no longer need to use the LBF#1.  Their bowels inability to properly remove waste has been cleared.  This is not the action of an addictive substance.  The need for the LBF #1 will go down over time, not increase.

The LBF #2 is a bowel vacuum.  This formula has the bentonite clay and charcoal, powerful drawing herbs.  It also is binding, which makes it an excellent herbal support for any issues that result in loose bowels.

A rounded teaspoon of the LBF #2 powder shaken in six ounces of water or juice will quickly clear an issue of loose stool.  It will also do wonders when the lower bowel is crampy and uncomfortable.

When the bowels have turned to water a good dose would be one tablespoonful of the powder shaken in twelve to sixteen ounces of water or juice.  This can be done for each watery movement.  Except for the worst cases of food poisoning it will normally solidified the bowel in only one or two doses.

Bowel Cleansing Program

Food Poisoning

The worst instance I ever cleared was a case of food poisoning where the woman passed water from her bowels every hour or so all night long.  We went through nearly a whole eight ounce jar of the LBF #2 that night.  At one point she took two heaping tablespoons of the stuff in twenty ounces of water.  Around five in the morning she finally passed solid waste.  The bowel was back to normal.   There was no after effect from using such large amounts of the LBF #2.  Her bowels just normalized, she did not even need an extra dose of the LBF #1.

Doing the Bowel Cleanse

When using these formulas in a bowel cleanse you are in complete control.  Take one of the LBF #1 capsules with your dinner the first night.  The next morning if you don’t have a, “WOW,” bowel movement, take two capsules with dinner that evening.  Continue to increase by one capsule each day until your bowels are open and working well.

That first evening you might want to do a castor oil pack over your bowel.  This will soften up harden waste clinging to the walls of your bowel, allowing the peristaltic waves to flush the bowels more effectively.

Once the bowels are moving well it is time to take an extra capsule or two of the LBF #1 with your regular dose.  It is time to begin using the LBF #2 or bowel vacuum.  This formula is binding to the bowels so it is necessary to increase the amount of LBF #1 capsules to compensate for this effect.

This is where understanding these two formulas are the control you need to do an effective cleansing without undue stress or discomfort.    Here it is:

The LBF #1 will make the bowels move.  This formula will cause the muscular movement of the bowel wall to work more effectively.

The LBF #2 binds up the bowels.  This formula will slow down the muscular movement and solidify the contents of the bowel.

There you have it.  If the bowels are backed up, not moving well, take an extra LBF #1 Capsules.  If your bowels are over active and crampy take a heaping teaspoon of the LBF #2 to bind up the problem.  The LBF #2 will work in minutes to clear an uncomfortable bowel.

At dinner time each day count out the number of LBF #1 you need to use.  If you bowel were too active that day drop a capsule, if they were a bit sluggish add one.  You are in control.

Cleansing & Flushing, Herbal Healing, My Opinion

Thought on Bowel Cleansing

Dara Dietz
Dara Dietz

As humans most of us have little understanding beyond what we have experienced and feel is normal.   I believed it was normal and healthy to have only one bowel movement each morning.  This is how it had always been for me.  The healing journey I had begun that year was going to teach me many things I did not even know to question.  The Father and I were to take this journey together joined from time to time by other also on this path.  Looking back at the beginning of what is not yet finished, I have been privileged to know so many who have shared freely with me from their own experience.

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My First Bowel Cleansing

My introduction to Bowel Cleansing and the LBF #1’s was pretty normal.  My bottle of Capsules arrived with detailed instructions from my friend who had introduced me to all things natural healing.  As I unloaded the box I put all the items away one at a time.  She had sent Superfood, the #2 formula, Echinacea extract and the LBF #1’s.  I quickly started the Superfood and Echinacea but never touched the Bowel Cleansing products.  Two weeks later when it was time to begin the liver cleanse I still had not taken my first #1 capsule.  Why?  I figured my bowels were doing just fine and the bowel cleanse was optional.  Wrong!

I’d been walking around for years with a roll of poop setting right under my bust line.  I looked five months pregnant.  Of course I didn’t know that roll around my middle was a stuffed bowel.

Two weeks after receiving my package I was scheduled to fly to my friend’s clinic for a month’s stay.  When I arrived she wisely started me on the bowel cleanse routine.   Fourteen days into the program and my bowels were still not working well.  The thirteen capsules I swallowed each night had started something moving but it was not enough to clear thirty eight years of constipation.  My friend arrived in my room that evening with a castor oil pack.  She placed it over my colon, covered it with a towel and said good night.

The next morning I could not believe how much poop was still in me after fourteen days of juice fasting and an enema in the morning and evening.   Under my breast I had been carrying a roll for years, now half the roll was gone.  That’s right; half my stomach was flat the other half looked five months pregnant.  Another castor oil pack was placed over my colon again that night with similar results the next morning.  My stomach was now flat.  The roll I had assumed was fat all those years was my colon filled with poop.

Staying open and willing to be taught can be the hardest part of healing.  All the answers do not lie within us, we must be willing to continue to learn and grow.  As long as there is life there is learning to be done.