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I am always amazed after I am done with a detoxing fast and feel so good, because it is then when I realize exactly how badly I was feeling before! I suspect many people don’t know how bad they are feeling and how much better they can feel. Things like clarity of mind and skin improve, sometimes little health problems vanish, and the thing I find interesting is the eyes. During a detox and especially a detox fast, your eyes may change colors! Blue eyes will often times become more clear and blue, some brown eyes will become hazel, and hazel eyes often start looking very dark blue! The eyes are a window into the body, and if you have ever been to an iridologist you know they can tell you things that are going on throughout your body before you even tell them. Iridologist’s know that murky browns in many eyes is a sign of toxins in the body, and interestingly enough people who are constipated usually have very brown centers close to the pupil of the eye, and after correcting the problem with cleansing this often clears up showing the true eye color.

The purpose of fasting is so that the body can rest from digesting food, and focus it’s energy on eliminating toxins and healing the body. In the book Essential Oils Desk Reference “An extremely important benefit of fasting is the elimination of toxins. By minimizing the work our digestive system must do, we allow it to repair itself and clean up stored toxins.” They go on to say “Exercise makes fasting work better, particularly if one is trying to lose weight.” According to M.D. Elson M. Haas, “Fasting clearly improves motivation and creative energy; it also enhances health and vitality and lets many of the body systems rest.”

Fasting can be a wonderful way to facilitate cleansing, and health authorities teach that it can be beneficial if done in combination with herbal cleansing; however, as health authorities put it plain water fasting is like fire. Although it can eliminate toxins quickly, it can do thus too quickly and make a person feel very ill. Water fasting is not highly recommended by those in the know unless it is done starting out slow (i.e, one day the first week, two days the next, and so on and so forth). I still would not do water fasting without some ionic or trace minerals, such as Young Living’s Mineral Essence and some NingXia Red. The reason being is we don’t want the body to become depleted of important nutrients, however health practitioners have advocated plain lemon water fasting for centuries. The Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs is one I as well as many have done numerous times and done well on. A wonderful book on fasting is The Seasonal Detox by Iridologist Carrie L’Esperance. According to her, things such as headaches, cold or flu symptoms, constipation, depression, skin eruptions or fatigue are not abnormal during a fast, and they are a good sign that you are allowing your body to heal itself. Many health practitioners find that by keeping the colon open and moving, many of these problems can be avoided, however.

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Although fasting in general is safe one should check with their health care professional before proceeding with one. Naturopathic doctors would be a the best choice since they are well educated in the area of fasting, more so then M.D.’s, but some doctors are becoming aware of the healing benefits of fasting. If your doctor does not know very much about fasting, he will most likely not advocate it just because he is being cautious (i.e. he is afraid you will try it, and not knowing anything about it he fears something may go wrong and you will blame him). For this reason it is suggested to find an Naturopathic doctor, or and M.D. who has studied into alternative medicine as well. Inquire at your local health food store or coop for local doctors that are more naturally minded. It is not recommended that women do cleanses when pregnant or nursing, and the very weak are not recommended to fast either. Because of pregnancy/nursing, and through two children I myself at one point was not able to do a cleanse for over 5 years. When I did one again, I did experience nausea and a mild headache-or what Dr. Christopher referred to as a mild “cleansing crisis”. Health authorities such as him say these are normal “cleansing crisis’s” and evidence the body needed detoxification. If I am feeling too sick, I simply break the fast and eat the heathiest food I can and attempt the cleanse again later.

My personal favorite cleansing fast is one put together by Dr. Christopher, founder of the School of Natural Healing. The more modern science discovers, and the more I learn, the more I am impressed with this cleanse and how everything in it meets and exceeds all the “new” data that is always flooding in. My husband and I have found, however, even greater and faster cleansing benefit for ourselves by adding a couple more things, such as therapeutic grade essential oils! The difference is actually astounding. For example, Dr. Gary Young spoke of how a couple drops of  Thieves essential oil blend mixed together with a couple ounces vinegar on an empty stomach can work to eliminate inflammation, and balance and acidic body (which is what he and many, many other health authorities teach is the root cause of many diseases). The three day cleanse includes vinegar, and I simply add my Thieves to it. Another benefit of the Thieves is that according to the Essential Oils Desk Reference, it contains oils that are anti-septic, antiviral, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial. Below is the original Dr. Christopher’s Three Day Cleanse. He used to teach that this fast can be done once a month.

• Sixteen oz prune juice (unsweetened)
• One half hour later, eight oz apple, carrot, or grape juice (pick one for all three days)
• Every half hour drink another eight oz. juice and all the pure water you can. One gallon of juice should be drank each day. Swish each mouthful of juice thoroughly.

  Also, three times a day take the following:

• One teaspoon cayenne pepper in water or juice
• One tablespoon wheat germ oil
• One tablespoon black strap molasses
• One tablespoon honey and apple cider vinegar in a cup of warm water
• One or two tablespoons olive oil, to aid in cleansing the liver and gall bladder
  
• Castor oil fomentation, three times a day-soak a piece of flannel in castor oil and place over liver area. Massage in circular motion toward the heart. Place a hot water bottle over the cloth. Leave on for ½ hour.
• Olive oil fomentation-same as castor oil. (I must admit, I don’t know that I have ever taken the time to do the Castor oil and the olive oil fomentation, yet I have still reaped benefit from doing the other parts of the cleanse. )

When I do this cleanse, I personally like to add more supplements as I have found even greater benefit from doing thus. The products I add to mine are as follows;

• Enzymes such as Young Livings Essentialzyme, 3 times a day.
• Young Living JuvaTone and Juva Flex Essential oil with my olive oil 2-3 times a day
• Young Living Comfortone in place of or in addition to prune juice, 2 times a day or as needed to assure the bowels keep moving (very important, constipation during a cleanse is very bad and can make you sick).
• 1 drop Young Living Thieves essential oil blend with my vinegar/cayenne/ water.
• Young Living Mineral Essence to avoid mineral depletion.
• 1 teaspoon Bentonite Clay and 1 teaspoon charcoal (found at health food stores) in 1 cup water- According to Dr. Richard Schultz the two have been said to draw over 600 different toxins from the body, including heavy metals Purchase Essential Oil Supplements Here.
  
  After I have done the above cleanse a time or two, I might add to the above supplements that facilitate nourishing other area’s. I wait until I have done the above a time or two just to make sure things don’t break loose too soon. I usually rotate the following;
• Herbs 3 times a day such as K&B (Young Living) for kidney supplementation
• Herbs 3 times a day such as Rehemogen (Young Living) for supporting the circulatory system
  
• A parasite cleanse such as Young Living’s Parafree
• Herbs such as cilantro, bugleweed, and yellow dock have been used for centuries to eliminate heavy metals

Some good things to do while on a cleansing fast are to try to minimize stress, if possible. Try to do things you enjoy doing, which will make the fast more enjoyable. If you can find a Raindrop practitoner, or talk a family member into doing one on you this would be a great time to have a Raindrop Therapy done. Massage using Young Living therapeutic grade oils can help work toxins out of the muscles. And of course, it is going to be important to stay close to a bathroom!!!

To summerize, I have found hunger to be minimized on the above fast (which is one of the reasons I love it), and after doing one I actually look forward to doing it again! Many find that after cleansing, symptoms such as fatigue and sluggishness go away, allergies become minimized, food tastes better, and since going on a cleanse shrinks an overstretched stomach problems such as overeating can away too. In her book, Carrie L’Esperance writes that on a fast “Everything gets better, including the memory, circulation, and digestion. These benefits are only the beginning. Health and happiness can become as contagious as disease. If we work on our health only when we are ill, we will usually return to the place where we started.” She goes on to say “Fasting reduces fat in the body. Women enjoy a firm waistline and men are delighted when the ‘love handles’ or the ‘spare tire’ around their waists disappear as a benefit of fasting. The body becomes less congested and is able to reshape, restore, and retexturize itself once the purification process begins. Of course this does not always happen instantaneously; for most of us it occurs gently and consistently through correct diet over time.”

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References

1. Essential Oils Desk Reference
2. A Modern Herbal
3. The School of Natural Healing
4. Every Woman’s Herbal
5. Back to Eden
6. Natural Remedies Encyclopedia
7. Food Enzymes by Tonita d’Raye

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Article by Shayla, Master Herbalist, Homemaker, and Young Living Independent Distributor.

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