LIVER CLEANSING AND STRENGTHENING 1. Liver Flush on purifying diet: Cold pressed olive oil with lemon is a cleanser for liver. Daily Breakfast: Mix 3-4 tbsp. pure, cold pressed almond, olive or sesame seed oil 6-8 tbsp. (twice the amount) of fresh squeezed lemon juice Fresh ginger juice may be added to taste Add fresh grapefruit, orange or tangerine juice to taste Liguify with 3-6 cloves of garlic Drink and follow with herbal tea containing 2 cupfuls of a mixture of: Licorice Root Anise Fennel Fenugreek, peppermint and violet leaves. If constipated: add more licorice root fresh garlic If diarrhea: no licorice, ginger or liver flush but substitute cinnamon bark in the tea and use ground cinnamon with baked apples dates, raisins OR cinnamon cooked with rice and barley and curd. Also chew citrus seeds, keeping in the mouth for at least 15 min to gain the benefit of enzymes, vitamins, minerals. The bitter essence is helpful to the liver. This also helps to relieve the garlic odor, as does parsley or whole cloves. NO FOOD TO BE TAKEN WITH THIS MORNING CLEANSE! 2. Liver flush on health- building diet: Take 1-3 tbsp. of pure, cold pressed almond or olive oil mixed with 3× the amount of fresh lime or lemon juice – stir and drink. Then take 2 cupfuls of HOT water with the juice of ½ to a whole lime or lemon juice to each cupful. Or Alternative: Take 1 glass (8oz) fresh orange, grapefruit, pineapple or pomegranate juice with the 1-3 tbsp. oil added in and followed by 2 cupfuls of HOT lemon water as above. ALSO HELPS TO RELIEVE CONSTIPATION. This health – building liver flush may be followed by fresh fruit with a few almonds and raisins about 15 minutes after the liver flush. Heavier Breakfast: may be taken 1 hour or more after this liver flush. Millet and fenugreek steamed porridge with ½ cup of juice containing a little bit of ginger and water in which raisins, dates and/or figs were soaked overnight. Fruit may be added, but never citrus fruit. Also you may have 2 dozen peeled almonds (preferably soaked overnight). DIET: 1. AVOID alkali medicines completely as they neutralize the substance which sets off the instructions which eventually result in the flow of liver bile. 2. AVOID ALL FRIED AND FATTY FOODS, including dairy products. 3. AVOID all alcohol. 4. AVOID tea, coffee, spices, condiments 5. Liver/ gall bladder herbs to restore liver function