This is a drink that flushes toxins from your body thereby flushing out fats.
It was created by Stanley Burroughs in 1941 and made popular by Peter Glickman through his book Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days, which promotes Burroughs' regimen to a modern audience.
It is simple and easy to make and the ingredients are gotten within the locality. So, let’s get down to business.
Although the recipe varies from source to source the ingredients are generally the same. The Master Cleanse involves eating no solid food. Instead, you drink a mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup, water and Cayenne pepper.
This mix can be taken cold or hot, as a tea. The mix contains some essential vitamins and minerals, and some sugars - avoiding the ketosis, a stage in metabolism occurring when the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies which can be used by the body for energy, experienced from pure water fasting.
The Cayenne is used primarily for its effect of promoting metabolic activity.
As solid food is not eaten it is necessary to help the digestive system eliminate material and avoid constipation through using laxative which may be in the form of a tablet, capsule, or tea.
MASTER CLEANSE INGREDIENTS :
1. Lime (if you can get lemon better).
2. Maple syrup
3. Cayenne pepper.
4. Water (not tap water which tend to contain impurities).
5. Laxative
6. Sea salt. ( get from health shops)
MIXING THE MASTER CLEANSE INGREDIENTS :
1. 2 tablespoon full fresh lime/ lemon juice.
2. 2 tablespoon full maple syrup.
3. 1/10 teaspoon pepper (or as much as you can bear!)
4. A glass cup of water.
This drink should be mixed fresh to be taken immediately.
Ideally 6–12 glasses should be taken but put into consideration that when you drink more you lose less weight and when you drink less you lose more weight.
Note: it is not advisable to drink less than 6 glasses in a day.
Remember you drink this mixture only in addition with water taken liberally to help in the flush of toxins and to give your body the illusion that your stomach is full!
Then repeat everyday for ten days which is the recommended duration of this diet.
Note: some extend it by four days i.e 14 days which is still okay. (I did mine for ten days).
STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE FOR THE MASTER CLEANSE :
3 days preparation before the cleanse.
Day 1: take fruits or vegetables made into soups with small pepper and tomatoes with fish to taste or grated carrots, lettuce, cabbage and onions. Just make it a balance of 60/40 of vegetables to fruits.
Day 2: Juice vegetables or fruits e.g. carrots, cucumber e.t.c
Day 3: Juice orange manually or electrically, make 2 litres and mix with water to taste.
Now we have given our body the signal something is about to happen or is happening.
The next day is our D-day.
But, first of all we need to DETOX our bowel. In doing the cleanse we flush our toxins off but this cannot be possible without our bowel movement so we use our NIGHTLY HERBAL LAXATIVE.
So, before the first day you should have taken your laxative in the night to aid bowel movement. (I used herb tea).
The laxative may cause diarrhea symptoms in some people. If this occurs, stop taking it until the diarrhea has stopped.
The liquid mono diet, with no fiber whatsoever to bulk up in the colon, combined with the elimination of runny, slimy mucus and old waste, will make your bowel movements appear loose.
This is not diarrhea; diarrhea will manifest as running to the toilet several times per day.
On the morning of Day 1 of the cleanse, before drinking lemonade, either repeat taking the herbal laxative or use an internal salt water bath.
The internal salt water bath is made by adding 2 teaspoons of sea salt to 1 quart of warm water.
Please do not drink the quart of salt water all at one time, as you will probably throw it up and be disgusted with it. I take about 10 minutes.
Day 4: Which is the D-day, you mix your Master cleanse drink as illustrated above and drink it fresh.
For those who want to mix the whole days drink, mix it using the proportion given earlier but do not add pepper and water to it until you want to drink it.
Drink lots of water in addition to the mix throughout the day.
You should have Daily Bowel Movements. It is vital that you have at least 3 to 4 eliminations from your bowel each day when you are using the herbal laxative.
Start Drinking the Lemonade Every morning, begin to drink the lemonade when you are hungry (normally within the first hour or two after arising), or, if doing the salt water bath, drink the lemonade after you begin eliminating the salt water.
Drink 6 to 12 glasses of lemonade every day. Drink the lemonade whenever you are hungry.
Just repeat everyday for the next 10 days not forgetting your daily (nightly) laxative usage. (Please follow direction on laxative).
You should not use supplements while on the Master Cleanse since they will stimulate your digestive processes.
Plain herbal teas of all types may be used while on the Master Cleanse, since they are not a food.
After the 10th day of the cleanse, I still advice not to just start eating normally. You ease out of the fasting the same way you eased in.
What to Expect During the Master Cleanse :
1- Flashbacks of Feelings or Tastes
2- Healing Crisis: A Good Thing
3- Comfort Food Cravings
More About the Cleanse :
For most people the worst day is usually Day 3 of the cleanse. Other common problem days are Days 1 and 4.
Having a problem day occurs about 40 percent of the time, but the number of problems experienced skyrockets if the cleanse is done incorrectly.
Permit Yourself to Heal. To experience the best, we must expect the best. Surrender to the Process.
It is not unusual for men to lose up to 2 pounds a day while on the Master Cleanse. For women, the loss is a little slower.
Remember, it is important to do a minimum of 10 days.
Although there have been claims of many pregnant and nursing women who have successfully done the Master Cleanse. I, personally do not subscribe to the participation of pregnant or nursing mums.
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