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The Master Cleanser (original)

Before using the Cleanser it is recommend you read "The Master Cleanser", by Stanley Burroughs, for complete instructions for optimum results and additional instructions: origins of the cleanse, how to finish the cleanse with a four day suggested menu, and recipes. What follows comes from the book with minor additions.

2 tbsp fresh lemon or lime juice (about 1/2 lemon), not frozen juice
2 tbsp of pure grade B maple syrup, genuine maple syrup, not flavored maple sugar water
1/10 tsp cayenne pepper (red) or to taste
purified water (very warm, slightly more than blood warm)

Squeeze the juice into a 10 oz glass. Add maple syrup and pepper. Once the syrup has been thinned, add the warm water and drink immediatly. Drink several times throughout the day, 6 to 12 glasses, and be sure to drink plenty of filtered water all day long. No solid food is to be eaten while on the Cleanse so if you feel hungry, have another glass. Nothing else is to consumed while on the cleanse.

It is suggested you follow this cleanse for 10 days in a row once each year and 1 or 2 days each month for maintenance. You many increase the recipe to fill a large thermos bottle that has been warmed in the morning with some hot water to drink all day long while away from home.

To help with the elimination process and to make sure regualr bowel movements continue, 2 to 3 movements each day is healthy, drink an herbal laxative at night and first thing in the morning. Check with your health food store. In this way nothing stays put inside your body but is removed, as it should be.

Internal Salt Water Wash:

It is suggested to help the cleanse internally by drinking salt water in the monring. To a full quart of warm water add two teaspoons of sea salt or epson salt. Do not use any other type of salt. Drink this first thing in the morning on an empty stomach to help the gastrointestinal system to remove any waste. Be warned, this will help the system with several eliminations. If elimination does not occur try adding additional salt. If the taste is not agreeable, then you may add the juice of a lemon or lime, but nothing else. This is a great addition to the laxative tea the night before.

The Master Cleanse helps to:

• purify the liver and blood
• to dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion that have formed in the body
• cleanses the kidneys and the digestive system
• purify glands and cells
• eliminate unusable waste and hardened material in the joints and muscles
• to build a healthy blood stream
• relieve pressure and irritation in the nerves, arteries and blood vessels

When to Use:

• When sickness, chronic or acute, develops
• To give the digestive system a rest

Maple syrup contains a large variety of minerals and vitamins including: sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine and silicon, vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, and pantothenic acid (B5). Of course amounts will vary depending on where the trees were grown.

Suggestions: (not part of the original information found in the book)
For people who have sluggish bowel movements add a good pinch or two of psylium seed husk and drink it down, so it wont thicken on you. If you have ever taken a sauna before, it would be a good addition to help purity the body by sweating out toxins, just be sure to drink plenty of water.

Master Cleanse, a variation

1 quart of purified water
2 shaved lemon (save as much of the white pith as possible)
1 pinch of cloves (whole cloves or powder)
2 Tablespoons raw honey, real maple syrup or stevia
pinch cayenne pepper
pinch garlic powder

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend for 20-40 seconds. No straining necessary. Sip the master cleanse throughout the day, just remember to give it a quick shake. You can drink the Master Cleanse daily for an extended period of time.

People have drunk the Master Cleanse daily for 40 days and lose many pounds, mostly in the form of waste. It seems amazing that one could live on just lemonade cleanse for 40 days. In The Master Cleanser, Stanley Burroughs says "All the necessary vitamins and minerals are in the lemonade, and therefore we do not need an additional supply in most cases."

[ Comment by Sebahu.com: This cleanse does not provide all nutrients, as Burroughs once thought. It is recommended that if you would like to do an extended clease to add a variety of vegetable, greens and few fruit juices, made at home, fresh, with your own juicer-liquid only, no solids. Adding a variety of juices to the Master Cleanse will give the body plenty of nutrients while it cleans house. ]

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