Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Short Home Cleanse

By John Douillard, DC, PhD

As September winds down we should all be asking the health question, am I ready for winter? As summer ends and the leaves turn red we must do our job and remove any excess heat out of our body. If we do not – the heat will turn to dryness and the dryness of winter will accumulate and irritate our sinuses. When the sinuses dry out the mucus membranes react and product reactive mucus which acts a breeding ground for an opportunistic bacterial or viral infection. To prevent this we must follow nature’s lead. For starters, how about eating apples lots of them because nature is harvesting lots of them. They are cooling and cleansing and a great end of summer seasonal detoxer. Eat 2-4 per day till Halloween along with more pomegranates, other ripe seasonal fruit and veggies. After that we want to start eating a more warm insulating winter diet. Go to www.LifeSpa.com in the library to print out the seasonal grocery lists.

In many cases eating apples is just not enough or we just cant quite eat our fair share od seasonal foods. In this case perhaps a home detox may help you. One of the best end of summer cleanses is the pre-cleanse we use for our panchakarma treatments. It is a 4-7 day cleanse where you drink ghee each morning which forces fat metabolism along with a no fat diet. You can eat kitcheree (also in the library or The 3-Season Diet), veggies, hot cereal, fruit, crackers, or flat bread, rice and beans – but remember no added fat or fatty foods. During these days of no fatty foods and ghee first thing in the morning – the body will begin to burn its own fat. Fat is a stable – non-emergency fuel plus it is a detox fuel.

Ghee Cleanse (Not indicated if you have gallbladder trouble or difficulty digesting fat)

First AM

Day One

2 tspns. ghee


Day Two

4 tspns. ghee


Day Three

6 tspns. ghee


Day Four

8 tspns. ghee

Each day of the cleanse use the LifeSpa Body Mask mixed with the LifeSpa Aloe gel. After a shower mix the mud and aloe gel together into a paste and apply it evenly all over the body. Let dry and in about 10-15 minutes you can rinse. This will mobilize the toxins in the deep tissues to be removed via the skin.

Eve of Day Four
Take a hot bath.
Mix 4 tspns. castor oil with the juice of and orange and hot water. Hold your nose and drink castor mix and quickly suck on the orange. 1-4 hours later you should experience a laxative effect.

During the cleanse take 1-2 Liver Repair 2x/day. This will cool and clean the blood and dissipate any remaining heat in the body. Take 1 or 2 per dose depending on tolerance. The Liver Repair will gently purge the liver and at a higher dose can trigger a laxative effect. This effect is not necessary so take a comfortable amount.

For those who want a more deep cleansing and want to begin to address the underlying patterns of behavior that keep us tortured in our body and prisoners of our minds than consider a few panchakarma treatments after your ghee cleanse. We offer 3, 5 and 7 day panchakarma retreat programs that are designed to break those old physical, mental and emotional patterns of behavior. For more information call us at: 303 516 4848

Further Information

http://www.lifespa.com/article.asp?art_id=59

1 comment:

Cleanse said...

I remember that this was so inspirational for me! I still do my Cleansing this way because of this post! It really helps a lot, I always feel brand-new after it.