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There are many
variations on the basic liver cleanse or gallbladder cleanse. These variations make little
difference to the result. Some will use coca cola, some use various purging
agents such as Epsom Salts. The essential part of the liver cleanse or gallbladder cleanse is the olive oil
(walnut oil may also be used) and lemon juice. The Olive oil acts primarily as a solvent
and balsam.
The lemon juice acts to provoke the production of bile and other necessary
gastric secretions. Other fruit juices
will also work well - notably apple juice - some also use grapefruit juice. But, Lemon juice is the most popular
because it works best for most.
Cleansing the liver and gallbladder is not based on taking products natural or
otherwise. In spite of what many have
said and although there are many product claims - there
is no actual herb to dissolve the congealed bile/fats in the form of "stones" - which is what a
gallstone actually is. Some might produce more bile flow,
but gallstones will not be dissolved so easily by simply taking a pill, tea or
tincture alone especially with today's constant exposure to contaminants.
Herbal
remedies are best used to assist in the functions of the liver and gallbladder
either during the "softening"
process in preparation for or
leading up to the actual liver gallbladder cleanse and/or after the
actual liver cleanse to restore organ functions
that have been encumbered for a long time due to the congestion and their
resulting stagnation. Also, liver
toxins that have been sitting in the liver for years or even decades will not instantly
dissolve with a herbal remedy. However, the proper herbal remedy along with the
liver cleanse and a clean diet for a reasonable period of time helps greatly to
accomplish this.
There are also gallstones that
are the result of calcification. These are not dissolved with Olive oil and
lemon juice. There is an entirely
different yet simple and natural procedure for
this.
It should be mentioned that credit to who actually developed the liver cleanse procedure is hard to place. Some will
attribute it to Hulda Clark, others to Hanna Kroeger and to many, many other
little know natural practitioners, herbalists and healers. To many people
to mention have had
great benefits from this simple cleanse - tempting some to claim it as their
own - and many out of gratitude would simply like to give credit to whomever helped
them through this method.
The earliest author that we have found to
historically use this combination for the liver cleanse and gallbladder
cleanse was an English Herbalist called Frank Roberts, who's books were first
published in 1952. However, we are sure that
he too discovered it somewhere else, probably the Mediterranean.
The fact remains that this
ingeniously simple yet exceptionally helpful combination of Extra Virgin Olive oil and Lemon Juice comes from the Mediterranean. There it
is still used daily as a condiment over many traditional dishes or as a salad dressing
- which is all that it
really is - a salad dressing.
Many from that part of the world
like the taste of olive oil to the extent that they drink it for its flavour.
(after doing a liver cleanse many will agree that the taste of olive oil is the
last thing they would like to savour for a good while.) The balsamic effect of olive oil alone will explain the
lower incidence of major and minor ailments in those areas of the world in general as
compared to North America.
Many are concerned about the
"detoxification effect" of the olive oil and lemon juice liver cleanse, which
admittedly can sometimes be trying for some. But lets face it - this does not
change the fact that ingeniously simple combination of olive oil and lemon juice
is basically a salad dressing.
If anyone should drink it and not
feel good for a few hours or days it would be very understandable but, it will
not be entirely because of this benign combination - it will be because of what
they had put into their body over the years and the fact that these
accumulations are finally being dissolved and being made to move and are coming
out and in the process these substances make themselves felt!
Most of us can often attest to
being our own worst enemy in matters of health!
In any case we do not take credit for having created the liver cleanse or
gallbladder cleanse method and no contemporaries can or
should either.
There are several variations of
the main liver
cleanse some of which are included in this article. You will find these
variations in the following books
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR by Paul Bragg, OUR EARTH OUR CURE
by Raymond Dextreit,
Old Time Remedies for Modern Ailments by Hanna Kroeger and
Modern Herbalism for Digestive Disorders by Frank Roberts.
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