Flushing your Liver and Gallbladder

Giving your liver a through cleanse once or twice a year is always a good idea. Please remember that if it took you 30-60 years to get in the condition you find yourself, it will take some dedicated time to reverse your health, and it will be well worth it! This is the largest organ in your body and responsible for over 500 functions that are currently known. The liver is the major clearing house in removing all toxins before they enter the blood stream. Toxins come from your food, water, air, chemicals, medication, pesticides, your toxic thoughts, preservatives, drugs, alcohol and everything you put on your skin.

Your liver also creates hormones, aids in digestion, creates bile for the breaking down of fats, stores and creates glycogen or “brain food”. You cannot live without your liver and thankfully it is an amazingly regenerative organ, and there is an abundance of herbs used to clean, heal and restore it’s function.

Some of the common herbs used to clean the liver are;

Burdock Root
Burdock has been used for centuries to treat a host of ailments. It has been traditionally used as a “blood purifier” to clear the bloodstream of toxins, as a diuretic (helping rid the body of excess water by increasing urine output), and as a topical remedy for skin problems such as eczema, acne, and psoriasis.

Burdock Root is one of the foremost cleansing herbs, providing nourishing support for the blood, the liver, and the natural defense system. It’s rich in Vitamins B-1, B-6, B-12, and E, plus manganese, copper, iron, zinc, sulfur, and more. You’ll find Burdock Root in many tonic formulas and special blends designed for internal cleansing. Use for all skin troubles, arthritis, syphilis, cancer, gout, kidney and bladder troubles, burns, wounds and canker sores. Burdock stimulates the liver, helps regulate blood sugar levels, contains an abundance of antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties. This is one of my favorites for cancers, skin trouble, candida and arthritis.

Yellow Dock Root
It is largely prescribed for diseases of the blood, from skin eruptions, to scurvy, scrofula and chronic skin diseases. It is also useful in jaundice and as a tonic to the stomach and the system generally.The Yellow Dock has also been considered to have a positive effect in restraining the inroads made by cancer in the human system, being used as an alterative and tonic to enfeebled condition caused by necrosis, cancer, etc. It has been used in diphtheria. Yellow Dock contains the highest amount of organic iron found in any herb, it is a specific for anemia and creates iron rich blood.

Dandelion Root
Use dandelion to purify the liver and gallbladder of toxins. Dandelion is also recommended for the treatment of osteoporosis, abscesses, anemia, boils, mammary tumors, cirrhosis, water retention (leaf), hepatitis, jaundice and rheumatism. Dandelion may also be effective in eliminating or averting age spots. Dandelion root is considered a survival food and has a rich store house of minerals and vitamins, including A, C, D, and B-complexes, as well as minerals like iron, magnesium, zinc, potassium, manganese, copper, choline, calcium, boron, and silicon. Dandelion is excellent for creating youthful joints and in treating acid reflux.

Milk Thistle
Milk Thistle Seed has been used for the treatment of loss of appetite, liver and gall bladder complaints including inflammation of the gall bladder duct, toxic liver disease and hepatic cirrhosis. It has been used successfully as an antidote to Death-Cap mushroom poisoning (mushroom toxins a-amantin and phalloidin). It has been shown to protect the liver from damage caused by an overdose from acetaminophen, butyrophenones, phenothiazines, halothane, Dilantin or ethanol. It may reduce outbreaks of Psoriasis due to liver disease.

**MILD LIVER/GALLBLADDER FLUSH:
Do this for 1 week, first thing in the morning. Juice 8 oz fresh orange juice ( not frozen or store bought), add 8 oz distilled water, 1 clove garlic, 1 tablespoon olive oil and a piece of ginger. Put all in the blender and drink.

You may also use organic apple juice with all the sediment in it. You may use grapefruits or organic apple juice purchased at the health food store with the sediment at the bottom.

You may increase the olive oil to 3-4 tablespoons, the garlic to 2-4 cloves and the ginger in proportion as you become accustomed and can tolerate it.

You may chase it more fresh orange or apple juice.

15 minutes after drinking the juice, drink a tea made with the following:
1 part Dandelion Root
1 part Juniper Berries
1 part Uva Ursi
1 part Cinnamon
1 part Cardamon
1 part Black Pepper
1 part Ginger
1 part Clove buds
1 part Licorice Root

Wellements Daily Detox tea qualifies as a good general detox tea, but make it strong, really steep that tea long. To increase it’s effectiveness you may add cinnamon, cardamon, ginger or cloves or all of them.

**FULL STRENGTH LIVER/GALLBLADDER FLUSH:
Do this once or twice a week if ill or you can do several days in a row if severely ill.
Formula:
8 oz olive oil
8 oz fresh squeezed orange juice- Blend in blender
Drink 4 oz of mixture an hour for 4 hours starting at 6:00PM until 10:00PM or an ounce every 15 minutes.
Always have ginger tea or fresh root on hand for nausea.

Also take a liver/gallbladder herbal tincture three times daily at the rate of 2 full dropper fulls.

Herbal Tincture: Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Oregon Grape or Barberry Root or Wormwood and Artichoke leaf or any bitter green.

ADDITIONAL LIVER CLEANING HERBS:

Chaparral Leaf
Excellent liver, blood and lymph cleanser. Specifically for cancer and fungus.

Red Clover
High in organic iron and B-vitamins, blood cleaner, cancer, ovarian cysts, fibroid tumors.

Barberry
Cleans and strengthens liver, stops gallbladder pain. use for jaundice, hepatitis and skin infections.

Turmeric
Cleans and tones the liver and helps emulsify fats. Helps to remove scars and adhesions and has anti-inflammatory properties.

Blue Flag
For congested liver and gallbladder

Gravel Root
To eliminate gallstones and kidney stones

JUICING FOR THE LIVER:

Juice of 1 lemon with hot water in proportion, taken many times a day, supplemented with a tumblerful of carrot, beet and cucumber juice, taken 3-4 times per day will cause the disappearance of gravel and stones in a few day to a few weeks.

The combination of carrot, beet and cucumber juice is one of the finest cleansing and healing aids for the gall bladder, liver, kidney prostate and other sex glands.