is and resources and then I will start my posts.This is straight from the Master Cleanse Yahoo Group. Which I encourage everyone to join. They are very supportive and have a lot of information about the cleanse.
This should be a link to the Master Cleanse Yahoo Group
but I digress....
This information was obtained from the website: http://www.therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse.htm (by Peter Glickman)
[I have added clarifications, and modified the information to fit a Canadian context (i.e., grades of maple syrup) — Mimsie ]
Master Cleanse 10-Day Organic Kit with Free MC book
(Peter Glickman)
(Peter Glickman)I have personally done this cleanse for 20 days and then six months later for 10 days. I have counseled my wife and twenty-seven year old son through it twice each as well as many other people. Please believe me when I say that the Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs is, in my opinion, the fastest and most effective way to regain your vitality.
Never mind that it will help you lose weight and give you astounding energy. Although I have included my own summary of points for the Master Cleanse, I recommend you buy the book (available through Amazon.ca).
For a minimum of 10 days, drink a mixture of:
· 2 Tablespoons lemon or lime juice (approx. ½ lemon) — Use fresh (organic) lemons or limes only, never canned lemon or lime juice nor frozen lemonade or frozen juice.
· 2 Tablespoons organic [Grade C-Amber (Canadian)] maple syrup — [Available at health food store]. (Not maple-flavored sugar syrup or syrup from companies that use formaldehyde to process the syrup),
· 1/10 Teaspoon cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste, and
· Water, medium hot or cold as preferred — distilled, reverse osmosis, or spring fed, but not tap water.
Combine the juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper in a 10 oz glass and fill with water
Drink six to twelve glasses of this lemonade mixture daily. No food is eaten nor any vitamin supplements taken during the cleanse. If you get hungry, have another glass of lemonade. After all, this is also called the "lemonade diet."
If you are overweight, you may use less maple syrup. If you are underweight, use more maple syrup if you wish. If you are worried about losing weight, "... The only things you can possible lose are mucus; waste, and disease. Healthy tissue will not be eliminated."
Do not vary the amount of lemon juice per glass and be sure to drink at least six glasses of “lemonade” a day. You can drink more water, if you want.
Enhance Your Elimination
This is a cleanse as opposed to a weight loss diet. So, you need to ensure you are eliminating the toxins that are being loosened in your system. Cravings, aches, pains, mental irritability and tiredness will turn on as your toxins are mobilized. To eliminate these unpleasant sensations, you need to be sure you have two, three, or more bowel movements a day.
Drink a laxative herb tea each evening. You can find it in your local health food store. I recommend senna tea or a blend with senna in it. (Senna is an herb that promotes bowel movement.) The kind I've bought warn you not to drink more than two cups per day.
Each morning on an empty stomach, add two teaspoons of sea salt to a full quart (4 cups) of luke-warm water. Do not use ordinary iodized salt as it will not work properly. Drink the entire quart of salt water first thing in the morning. "Chug" this — drink it as fast as possible. Within an hour several bowel movements will likely occur. (You'll need to be by a toilet for half an hour to an hour.) If you do not have several bowel movements, try a little more salt in the water until it works.
Drink the herb laxative tea at night to loosen and the salt water each morning to wash it out. If you can't drink the salt water in the morning, drink the herb laxative tea at night and in the morning.
Breaking Your Fast
Breaking a long fast is very, very important. You should ease your way back to solid food after one or two additional days of juices, orange or grapefruit. If you are going back to raw fruits and vegetables, you may do so on the afternoon of the second day.
If you have been a meat eater and/or milk products consumer, shift to cooked vegetable soup on the afternoon of the second day and a salad for dinner. Keep the lemonade drink as your breakfast drink after that. Of course, you would do better with the least amount of meat and no milk products as they are very productive of mucus and hinder digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Detox Symptoms
Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from your body. Once these poisons are gone, you will feel energetic, vital, happy and healthy. It is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable, unhappy, depressed and ill. Consequently you should look forward to detoxification.
Unfortunately, when the toxins are mobilized, they will bring about those unpleasant feelings and tempt you to quit the cleanse before you are through. So, you need to understand the symptoms of detoxification and ensure that you drink your laxative tea and salt water to stimulate elimination of those toxins.
My experience with the cleanse and with various people doing it has taught me that whatever symptom I experienced one day, it would be gone the next morning with my bowel movements. It is nevertheless helpful to know when you are detoxifying because it helps you to get through that symptom to know it will be gone tomorrow.
I have grouped the detox symptoms I and others have had into three groups:
· Cravings — I have never known anyone to be hungry on this cleanse. Drinking more lemonade or water handles that. I have, however, observed that people on the cleanse crave what they are detoxifying. If this were not true, the craving would not go away the next morning with bowel movements. You can crave anything when detoxifying, but most likely you will experience cravings for the most toxic foods, such as pizza, hamburgers, bar-b-que ribs, etc.
· Mental unpleasantness — (such as tiredness, irritability, wanting to quit, or being upset) On my first 20 day cleanse, I was not tired except on the fifteenth day. The next morning, I experienced heat in my bowel movements, an indication that acidic toxins were being eliminated. I also lost all sense of tiredness.
· Aches or pains — I have not experienced any myself, but my son's girlfriend did have a headache her first or second night. Again, these aches and pains leave after the bowel movements the next morning.
I hope you will have the same wonderful increase in mental clarity, health, energy and positive mental attitude that I and others have found. If I can be of any additional help, please email me.
Yours in Health,
Peter Glickman
Additional Notes: (by Mimsie)
Keep a journal during the fast, dedicated to the fast. Make sure the daily experience is logged into the journal each day. Each person’s body is unique, and this log will help you on future fasts — to know how your body handles it, what you are likely to experience, etc. so that you can be prepared.
Keep focused. Have some anchors in place to hold on to when your mind goes wonky because of detox. Anchors could be teaching tapes, books, scriptures to memorize. Write down the purpose of your fast in your journal and flag the page so you can find it easily. During severe detox, you will not be thinking straight. Have a mechanism in place to handle this – be prepared.
Do this fast with someone else who will encourage you.
