Sandra Kim Leong

Liver cleansing is an effective method to remove gallstones. It improves your digestion, which is for good health. Many symptoms of allergies start to disappear, when you periodically cleanse your liver. Liver cleansing can also boost your energy levels. In certain people, cleansing of the liver helps in alleviating upper back and shoulder pain. You can achieve all this without much ill side effects.

An important function of the liver is the production of bile. The bile is moved into the common bile duct through many biliary tubes. The common bile duct passes it to the gallbladder which acts as a storehouse. The stored bile is released for the digestion of fats. Apart from this, the liver stores glucose and vitamins. It also helps in the metabolism of protein and fats. Liver is also an important detoxifier.

The formation of gallstones affects the functioning of liver. You will only notice the presence of gallstones in an advanced stage. This is one of the reasons why many people choose periodical liver cleansing. This helps in flushing out the gallstones in their initial stage of development.

Liver cleansing can be performed at your home. There are many easy liver cleanse recipes for this.

This is a popular liver cleansing recipe. The ingredients needed are:

a) 1 cup olive oil b) 4 table spoons Epsom salts c) three cups of fresh grape juice d) grape fruit

Determine an appropriate day for liver cleanse. On that day, avoid all medicines. For breakfast, eat food without fat. The best method is to have a fruit diet. Select a time to start the liver cleansing procedure. It is better to start in the afternoon. You should stop eating four hours before taking the first course. So if you plan to take the concoction at 1900 hrs, stop eating at 1500 hrs.

First, mix 4 table spoons of Epsom salts with the three cups of fresh grape juice. This should make four servings. Drink the first serving now. After two hours, take another serving.

After another two hours, squeeze the grape fruit into a cup. Remove the pulp. It should be at least half the cup. Now add this to the olive oil and shake well to make it watery. Take the concoction and lie down rightaway and go to bed.

Next morning, on awakening immediately take the third serving of Epsom salt mixture. After two hours, take the remaining serving. After another two hours you can start your normal diet with fruits.

After completing the recipe, you are sure to have diarrhea. Gallstones will be flushed out with the bowel movement. You can undertake this liver cleanse twice in a year. Spring is the ideal time. Never undertake liver cleanse during winter.

If you are doing liver cleanse for the first time, it is best to seek the guidance of a qualified practitioner. You want to ensure that you are getting the procedure right and taking the necessary precautions.

We have only one liver and its healthy maintenance is important. If you have not had a liver cleanse, consider it now.

Sandra Kim Leong writes on liver cleansing , kidney cleansing, colon cleansing, detox diets and juice fasting. For more tips and resources, please visit http://www.detox-cleansing.com.

Sandra Kim Leong

Why is kidney cleansing important? Every day, your kidneys process the blood and helps to sift out waste products (like mercury, copper, arsenic-bound chemicals and other toxins) and extra water. The waste and extra water become urine. The urine then flows to your bladder through the ureters. Your bladder stores urine until you go to the bathroom. When your kidneys become overloaded with toxins, diseases of the kidneys and bladder can happen as you are unable to discharge the waste and urine from your body.

When you do kidney cleansing, you help to cleanse the toxin built-up from the kidneys and the bladder. A cleansed kidney works optimally in its function to filter out pollutants, drugs, chemicals and other harmful materials. When you do a kidney cleanse, you also help to eliminate urinary tract infections and dissolves kidney stones.

What are some of the other functions of the kidneys? Other than being vital in the elimination of metabolic wastes, your kidneys also help to regulate your blood pressure, maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, activates Vitamin D, helps in maintaining acid-base balance (excretes alkaline salts).

What are the signs and symptoms of an ailing kidney? Lower back pain, edema ("water holding") in the lungs, legs, abdomen, etc, pains that are manifested elsewhere due to poor kidney health.

How do you do a kidney cleanse? There are hundreds of herbal recipes, and many different homeopathic remedies used for cleansing kidney stones. One popular way to cleanse kidney is to a watermelon cleanse. Just purchase 20 - 100 kg of watermelon (which will make up a few huge melons) and sit in a bath filed with water. Eat all the watermelon throughout a day (as much as you can), while continually empting your urinary bladder into the water.

You will need a lot of liquid to cleanse the insides of your body. You can also choose to do water fast or a juice fast to help you produce a gallon of urine a day.

During fasting, avoid strenuous exercise. Light yoga, walking, gardening are all excellent means to stimulate your body metabolism.

However, do note that before you embark on any program, please first consult your health practitioner on how you can best do a kidney cleanse.

How to have good kidney health? It is possible to dissolve all your kidney stones in 3 weeks, but if you continue to drink tea, coffee, carbonated drinks and eat unhealthily on a consistent basis, you will begin to make new ones.

To maintain a healthy kidney, begin a regular exercise regime and also avoid alcohol, red meat, smoked meats, canned fish and canned pork. Continue to drink plenty of water and fluids everyday!

Sandra Kim Leong publishes information on detoxification and cleansing. Based on today's diet and environment, she feels that detoxification should form part of one's regular regime. Please visit her site at http://www.detox-cleansing.com for more information on colon cleansing, liver cleansing, kidney cleansing, etc.

All of us hear a lot any more about organic foods and why they are healthy for us and for our environment. For those of us who are coffee drinkers there is also the chose of organic and non organic coffee. For me its clear that I should make an effort for my health and the health of the environment to drink organic coffee.

Just as with other foods, organic coffee is grown without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers, but by natural methods instead. Apart from the fact that organic coffee is better for you it is a way to protect our planet. The concern is not only the chemicals that we put in our bodies but just as important, if not more, it’s where those chemicals go that do not reach the plant but are distributed in the soils and then our streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. And I have always felt that organic fruits, vegetables, and yes, coffee tastes better than their non organic counterparts. There seems to be more flavor from organic products than non organic.

A downside of most organic products is their cost. The price will normally be higher for organic foods but that price is going down with their increased popularity. The methods for growing organic coffee are higher than the traditional methods and price is subject to the laws of supply and demand. As more farmers begin to implement organic farming methods the supply of organic coffee increase and we should see a price drop.