Ingredients for an Herbal Liver Cleanse
Cleansing your liver is an important process, since the liver is the organ responsible for cleaning the body of toxins. Over time, these toxins can build up in the liver, resulting in a less-than-optimal performance, especially if your diet is high in alcohol, drugs or unhealthy foods. Cleansing your liver takes about two weeks, and should be done on a regular basis to help keep your immune system and entire body as healthy as possible. Before starting any cleanse, seek the counsel of your doctor, especially if you have any medical conditions.
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Healthy Diet
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A healthy diet is one of the most important ingredients of an herbal liver cleanse. You should not only keep up a healthy diet while you are on a cleanse, but also have a healthy diet in general, so that when you cleanse your liver your body is able to handle it better. A proper, healthy diet should consist of as many fresh fruits and vegetables as you can eat, with as little alcohol or other drugs that make the liver have to work extra hard to process and clean out of your body.
Starting the Cleanse
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When you first start your cleanse, remove any unhealthy foods from your diet, so that your liver has to work as little as possible. Drink only water for the first few days, and fast lightly, eating only fruits, light salads or other fresh foods. This will give your body the opportunity to rest and relax without having to worry about processing heavy or unhealthy foods. During the entire fast, drink as much water as possible, as this will help your body remove toxins at a rapid pace.
Specific Ingredients
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After you finish with your light fast, start by taking capsules of milk thistle, dandelion root, ginger, sarsaparilla, parsley, nettle, yellow dock and kelp once in the morning and once in the evening. During the afternoon, drink tea comprised of dandelion, ginger, peppermint, rosemary and rose hips. These ingredients should be used for the first week of your cleanse. For the second week, you'll need to change your capsule ingredients, and only take dandelion root, milk thistle, ginger, spirulina and kelp. Again, do this once in the morning and once in the evening, and feel free to continue drinking the tea in the afternoons. After the second week of the cleanse is up, return to your normal diet.
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