Let's look at what most people have come to know as the Master Cleanse, or the Lemonade Diet.  Stanley Burroughs created the Lemonade recipe in 1941, and this cleansing recipe has been recently made popular by Peter Glickman. 

 

Many people, including celebrities, have undergone the lemonade diet with great results.  This is a fantastic thing.  Again, people are taking more responsibility for their health in this age of information and greater consciousness of diet having a direct correlation to our health. 

 

The lemonade recipe consists of water, fresh lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup.  What is also included is to do a salt water flush and to drink a laxative tea.  If anyone is interested in doing this particular fast I would make some suggestions. 

 

Number 1. I would use distilled water.  The recipe to my knowledge doesn't call for a specific type of water over another.

 

All of natural drinking water is distilled, or "soft".  Coconut water is a soft distilled water and so is all of the water contained in all fruits and vegetables.  So you can either buy distilled water by the gallon or invest in a distiller. 

 

Number 2.  I would use agave nectar rather than maple syrup.  Agave nectar is a diabetic safe sweetner that comes from a cactus plant.  Agave has gone through very little processing and is one of the best sweetners any health conscious person should have available to them for juices, smoothies, deserts, and dressings. 

 

Maple syrup is highly refined.  Syrup from trees in their natural state are very bitter and in order for the syrup to become sweet it has to undergo multiple processes of boiling and refining.  Agave is the superior alternative. 

 

Number 3. instead of cayenne pepper, practice yoga daily.  The purpose of cayenne pepper is to stimulate blood flow.  To practice yoga daily will allow your blood and lymph to move out the unnecessary toxins that is clogging up the system.  Yoga will also do much more in the way of exercise and healing the body by allowing the body to become better aligned and more relaxed.

 

As far as the salt and herbal regimen, this is necessary for the lemonade diet recommended as the so-called master cleanser.  The salt water and smooth move herbal teas will stimulate your bowels to eliminate waste from your body.  However, herbs and salt water act by shocking by body through stimulation rather allowing your body the freedom to work the waste out of the body by its own power. 

 

My thought is that if the lemonade recipe is the master cleanser, why is salt and herbal laxative teas needed? 

 

Drinking the coconut water alone is sufficient for adequate nourishing and cleansing.  You can drink coconut water everyday of your life and some have made the argument that you can even live solely on coconut water and thrive.  You can not live on salt water and herbal teas. 

 

Using your food as your medicine is always the best way to go.  And this is why the coconut water as a healing water, a drinking water, and a fasting water is the real master cleasner and is second to none.

 

(Article excerpt from VegSoul.com)

 

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