Saturday, 26 May 2007

The Daily Regimen

Salt Water Flush (SWF)-
1 qt fresh water (Spring or filtered)

2 tsp non-iodized sea salt (yes, the salt must be that specific)


One Dose-
2 tbsp lemon (about half a lemon)
2 tbsp pure, organic, grade B maple syrup (use only grade B, it has more nutrients, for example 2% more RDA of Iron.)
1 pinch cayenne pepper (or to taste, my boyfriend used a bit less)
8 oz water (try to keep this warm, room temperature, unless that’s unbearable)

The book mentions that you may substitute lime juice and you can use “freshly extracted juice from sugar cane.” Other recommendations online include Brown Rice Syrup, or Agave Nectar. You should NOT use Honey. That warning is on a lot of websites, with good reason. It has significantly fewer nutrients (roughly 1/3), and far more calories (about 3x). The book also mentions that you may increase or decrease the amount of maple syrup depending on if you are doing this and want to gain weight or lose weight. I wouldn’t really recommend either because of the taste of the juice.


Full Day’s Dose-
The recommendation is 6-12 servings. At the advice of a friend, I went with 8. That seemed to work for me, though my boyfriend needed more like 10.


How I Did It-
The same friend told me her secret:
Take (2) 1.5 liter Poland Spring, you can use these for the duration, add to each:
40 oz water
4 oz lemon juice
4 oz maple syrup
4 pinches cayenne pepper

Shake, drink, repeat. Really, shake it every time you want to drink, the pepper settles. This took me about 5 lemons a day, sometimes more. We used organic lemons. If you’re doing this for health, you might as well, eh?


Teas-
Laxative Tea (Smooth Move by Traditional Medicinals or Get Regular by Yogi Teas)
Peppermint Tea (or a Mint tea of some kind. I often went out and took whatever the café had available for mint)

Many websites listed a number of alternative teas they drank during the cleanse. I suppose any herbal, caffeine-free tea is not going to do much harm.


Equivalencies
1 oz = 2 tablespoons
8oz = 1 cup
4 pinches = roughly ½ teaspoon (I actually have a “pinch” measuring spoon, so I measured this out for those that don’t)

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