Liver Flush Tea

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#1

In a recent publication of [I][B]The South African Journal of Natural Medicine[/B][/I] there appeared the following Liver Flush Tea:

1tsp Fenugreek Seeds
1tsp Fennel seeds
1tsp Peppermint leaves
1tsp flaxseed
1tsp of roughly chopped ginger root

Boil the ginger with 4 glasses of water for about 3 minutes, then add the rest of the ingredients. Let the mixture steep for about 10-15 minutes. Drink during the course of the day. Follow a simple sattvic/vegetarian diet.

Well worth trying it, just did it for three days (weekend) and it really has an amazing affect on the liver.

I think much from it stems from Auyurveda as I know a similar recipe but with two more ingredients.

Would like to share this recipe as the liver flush where you drink the olive oil, biral tablets, Epsom salts and grapefruit juice has never appealed to me personally. This one is much gentler and it feels natural and right.

Would like to hear what you think once you have tried it.

#2

thanks for posting this Pandara, what sort of difference did you notice?

i use Fenugreek for acute Sinusitis, either grind the seeds and steep in boiling water for 5 mins, then strain and drink, or use the powder and add boiling water :o ( doesn’t taste as nice as the seeds mind you) both work a treat.

Namaste
Savannah

#3

Hi Savannah,

Well, the first big difference was that I didn’t want to vomit with every sip of the tea as opposed to the half cup of olive oil and Epsom salts one has to endure on the other one. This one actually made me feel more energetic and more revitalised as opposed to the other one which made me feel more lethargic.

Other than that it just felt healthy and good to drink as opposed to the other one. I am not one who belief in extremes and heavy austerities as I feel they make you more attached to the body, so anything that is practical and easy to follow or to make as with this tea, I am all for it usually.

Try it and let me know what you think. :wink:

#4

If it doesn’t flush your liver out it will certainly put hair on your chest ~.^

#5

Pandara,
Thank you for the recipe. I am hoping Fin will contribute to this thread because he has a lot of experience and wisdom around liver cleansing.

Namaste

#6

Nichole thank you for the prompt. :smiley:

Hi Pandara & everyone,

Sometimes you have to walk through fire to get to a satvick place.

Although the Liver Flush with Epsom Salts & Olive Oil etc is tough it has tangible results.
All of us regardless how “good” a life style we live carries many “stones” in our Livers. These are induced by environment, life style, diet, stress, pollution etc Modern technology has made the environment harsh the human body has not kept up with the fast pace of technological advance. In evolutionary terms our human organs (Liver, Lungs, Heart etc) are ok for life in fresh green pastures of nature – not so happy about car pollution, bad diet, toxic material from plastics etc… The Liver can cope so much then it parcels the toxins into small packets of cholesterol stones which sit in the Liver & Gall bladder & set the scene for diseases such as arthritis, diabetes etc
When you a do a proper Liver Flush you can actually see quantities of stones being discharged. I did 23 Liver Flushes over a 2 year period, all my arthritis pains, back pains, stomach disorder etc vanished. I lost significant weight & gained much energy.I am also much more in tune with my subtle body after this process.

I do however agree with you that if you are not troubled by chronic diseases then it certainly is a tough process to do, but all the many people i have supported throught this process have benefitted regurdless of their physical state.

Pandara, with great respect the recipe you recommend sounds good and I’m sure has benefits (since the herbs mentioned are great) it is unlikely to result in a Liver Flush, still nice to have hair on your chest, right Bridgett!

Love
Best Wishes,
Fin

#7

Does anyone know of any scientific information confirming this? Pardon my caution, but as a scientist, hearing you say that you drank something and discharged chunks of something doesn’t exactly instill confidence. Chunks of what? Saying that you felt better is good, but has anyone actually studied these “quantities of stones” to see if they are actually gallstones? Your body might just be parceling up what you’re feeding it and sending it out in fatty (from the olive oil) clumps.

I don’t mean any disrespect to this particular treatment. I’m just making sure I’m convinced of the science behind it before I start downing the apple juice. Hopefully, someone has looked at this and has an easy answer.

Thanks,
Jacob

#8

The journal itself does not appear to be a peer-reviewed journal. Scientists, generally speaking, do not find much solace in journals that are not peer-reviewed. As I’m not a scientist by trade or training I take it case by case. Never the less, the journal is here

Here’s some other interesting stuff - most of it unrelated.

Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine

Natural Medicine: The Genus Angelica

This says “clinically tested herbal remedies”

#9

Ah, science! I think it is fantastic to look at the science behind anything we do, because I firmly believe the truth will stand…but we must be open to the fact that sometimes things have effects for reasons we can’t quite measure (i.e. when I was having a heart to heart with my mom, and expressing how lucky I felt for so many of the positive attributes I had developed, and didn’t know why I deserved them above anybody else…she said “do you know why you have these positive characteristics? It is because you were loved”. I have since realized how right she was…this is similar to a lot of botanists and gardeners, who, like Luther Burbank (I encountered him in Autobiography of a Yogi) and Prince Charles (I encountered him on a carton of Silk Soymilk) say that their secret to lush gardens is loving and talking to their plants as they rear them…could there be a biologically idential process of cellular growth in all life, one that is aided by the projection of positive feelings of warmth and acceptance towards the growing? Could science one day discover the intention of love emanating from a practiced gentle heart? Or is this all complete nonsense? [well, i know it’s not [I]that[/I]])
Back to science. Science should not be feared. There [I]is[/I] some nonsense in Eastern Mysticism, and it will eventually be weeded out as it collides with the West, and there [I]is[/I] a ton of nonsense in Western science/“medicine”, and it will eventually die out as we understand the simpler science of tending the mind (simpler, that is, than fixing it).
I’m reading a great book (well, taking in small does a great book) called “Zen and the Brain”, which is written by a neuroscientist who is exploring what exactly happens in the mind of people as the begin meditation practice, and attain higher states of awareness. Much of this provides solid support for the practice of meditation, which those of us who have experienced it don’t need, but an outsider might. Plus, it’s interesting, and life is supposed to be interesting!
Ok!
Science!
Hooray!
(Proceed with caution)

#10

Hi Jacob,

Gall stones are well studied by modern medical science. They show up on x-rays (some varieties do) & when surgeons remove Gall bladder its content (which most of the time is full of stones) is well studied. The following book (see link below) shows pictures of a dissected Gall Bladder & its contents. What I have discharged is identical to this.

[quote=JakeS;10298] Your body might just be parceling up what you’re feeding it and sending it out in fatty (from the olive oil) clumps.
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In successive flush the quantity of stones being discharged diminished till finally none came out. Now I do a Flush once per annum and only a few are discharged, same quantity of Olive Oil consumed.

The Science behind the process is as follows: The Epsom Salts relaxes the billary tubes (which are inside the Liver). The Olive Oil stimulates the Liver & the Gall Bladder to discharge bile (in order to digest the fat in the Olive oil). Since Olive Oil is very fatty, the Liver gushes out a large quantity of bile which discharges the stones, which are often log jammed in the billery tubes within the Liver & Gall Bladder.

I would strongly recommend following the process to the letter as recommended in this book. There is a six day preparation period & if followed as per instruction then it is the safest way of doing the Liver Flush.

Do your own research, find out all the facts, and talk to people who have done the process ? but then in the end the proof of pudding ? :wink:
Book Ref:
Amazon.com: The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush: Andreas Moritz: Books

Best Wishes,
Fin

#11

Dear All,

thank you for the responses and views expressed here. About this “Journal”, although they say it as part of the name, it is in fact a magazine and one of the goals of the magazine is to try to bring light to the many misconceptions that exist surrounding natural medicine and homeopathy. Most of the contributors are practicing medical doctors, homeopaths, accupuncturists etc who share their wealth of experience and knowledge with a very broad public, some who swear by homeopathy and related practices but include a readership who are highly sceptical and even hostile towards anything that is natural. Personally I think this is the beauty of natural medicine, they venture where science cannot sometimes make sense of anything, but they know it works because they have experience the results first hand. I belief science has its place and also that other must collaborate what is being published, if it is a scientific journal and if the specific audience requires that, in this case this magazine is not published for scientists or doctors but for very simple people in many instances (please remember it appears in South Africa where we have a much more diverse readership split between third and first world readers with very different cultural beliefs.)

Dear Fin, thanks for your reply, unfortunately the olive oil and Epsom salts flush just didn’t work for me, my body went into such a shock that I was sick for days after it (I have lost too much of my good stomach bugs and electrolyte) and I personally feel I have hurt my liver more than I did good to it, having said that, that was how I experience it and others may have a completely different experience. This tea flush is extremely gentle, perhaps reflecting some of my personality as well, I don’t like things that will flung me into any kind of violence such as vomiting and cramps and the upset tummy I had for days afterwards. Perhaps I am just a big sissy :slight_smile: Fin, I had no discharges with the Olive Oil and Epsom salt flush (those gall stones everybody talks about) neither do I have anything related to it with this Tea flush, but as you say perhaps I don’t need such a radical flush. Anyway I have enought hair on my chest as it is :wink:

Anyway, if anybody has tried it, I would still like to hear what you think about it, has it work for you and how.

#12

Super insightful response, Fin. This is the kind of practical discussion I really enjoy. It makes the whole being feel so satisfied (i.e. that the mind can understand what is happening in the body, and thus agree to go along with it). Seeing as it’s spring, I might follow the advice given in this book as well. Thanks again.

#13

InnerAthlete, thanks for the links. Articles that aren’t peer reviewed can be very good. They just have to be read more carefully.

Fin, thanks for the further explanation, although I was really looking for scientific justification. I found this explanation in a few minutes of Googling around. I just had a hard time finding convincing evidence that it is correct. I was really just wanting to know if anyone had really tried to disprove this idea and failed to do so. That would be convincing, and exciting.

#14

Hi Pandara,

If the procedure is followed as per the book above, then ill effects such as the ones you mention (e.g. vomiting etc) do not occur. There is a 6 day preparation period & if the body is sufficiently relaxed through the process then results will follow. Also keeping the body properly hydrated is important, I know many tricks to achieve that.:slight_smile:

Having said this if no major health issues exist (which I suspect is the case with you) then this procedure is bit harsh & probably not necessary. However many Yogi?s do this procedure once per annum as a health maintenance procedure, i.e. part of their purification process.

If you wish to try the process again at some future date ( which I think you should do if you are to assist people with chronic health issues) then please contact me by private email and I will be very happy to assist you every step of the way
? even if it means contact you by phone to SA! :wink:

Sorry about your experience! :frowning:

Love,
Fin

#15

Dear Fin,

Thank you for the kind offer, I shall keep it in mind. I suspect you might be right about two things: Firstly in general I enjoy very good health apart from a cold or flu once or twice a year and then it is usually because I am clearing something out. Secondly, the flush I followed prescribed no 6 day preparation and my own bad experience with it might have something to do with this, I am not sure and also not really prepared to try it again and see if it will work. :slight_smile:

Anyway, if ever you try the flush I describe here, would like to know what you think of it.