Here is a liver cleansing diet.
DO NOT EAT

  • Meat, eggs. fish, milk, cheese, butter or yoghurt
  • Fats, oils or margarine
  • Tea, coffee, alcohol or cigarettes
  • Salt pepper or spices
  • Potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine, peppers
  • Sugar, honey or sweeteners
  • Wheat products: bread, pizza, pasta, cakes, biscuits, pies, pastries, some puddings go easy on citrus until you are sure they’re OK
  • Peanuts
DO EAT

  • OTHER grains: rice, barley, millet etc
  • Any fruit, vegetables, beans
  • Tropical fruits get 5* (bananas, guavas, mango, pineapple etc)
  • Avocados, broccoli, green vegetables get 5*
  • Sweet potato, parsnips, artichokes
  • Sprouts, esp alfalfa sprouts
  • Herbs (leaves) onions and garlic
  • nuts and edible seeds but not peanuts
  • Ryvitas, oatcakes  in moderation, and rice cakes
  • soya products but NOT soy sauce
  • TWO LITRES OF WATER A DAY

 

IN ADDITION-  these additions only if the homoeopath has recommended them
Walk a mile, (1.6km)  a day
Get up a sweat every day
Have two saunas a week if you don’t have high blood pressure
Lie down and rest for ten minutes each afternoon and meditate
 

EXPECTED RESULTS

The most common result is that after feeling deprived for a couple of days you get a "hangover" - a nasty frontal headache which lasts 2-3 days, and for which you can take Nux Vomica 6x which helps a bit.  Other symptoms can be aches, flu like symptoms, loose bowels or bladder, etc. Symptoms usually pass after four days, and afterwards you should feel MUCH better, brighter, cleaner, energetic and very virtuous.

 If you don't feel this improvement after seven days, you should stop it.  Otherwise, continue to the end and expect to feel good for a while afterwards.

COMING OFF THE DIET

After the two weeks has elapsed, you can continue the diet if you enjoyed it.  Most people want to eat more normally again and you should go back to a wide diet over a week or so, though dairy foods andwheat should be eliminated from your diet forever.  If any of them bring back uncomfortable symptoms, that's an indication that the food in question doesn't agree with you,  so tell your homoeopath about it at the next appointment.

 
COOKBOOK FOR LIVER CLEANSING DIET.

Breakfast menus.
1. Fruity porridge

Cook oatmeal as normal but with the addition of dates, sultanas, sliced bananas or apples and pears; alternatively you can stir in some 'apple and pear spread' to add flavour. Eat with soya milk but no sugar.

2. Rice pudding made with soya milk and fruit as above, and baked in the oven for one to two hours.  This can be prepared beforehand and eaten cold.

3. Fresh fruit salad.  This is more interesting in the summer but still edible in colder weather with the addition of some soaked, dried fruits.

4. Dried fruit salad.  A mixture of prunes, apricots, pears and apple rings soaked overnight can be made more interesting by the addition of almond flakes, chopped mixed nuts or desiccated coconut,  and then eaten with soya milk if desired.

5. Stewed apples and pears with currants or sultanas, eaten with soya milk if desired.

6. Rice cakes or ryvitas or oatcakes spread with marmite, sugar free jam or vegetarian pate and cucumber or alfalfa sprouts. Vegetarian pates contain a proportion of fats and so shouldn't be allowed in the diet,  but as savoury breakfast foods are in short supply this is allowed as a snack.

7.Nutri-grains with soya milk.  There are some other cereals on the market that may be acceptable but check for added sugar and salt.

8. Granola with soya milk.

9. Rice based muesli with soya milk or fruit juice

10. If not forbidden them, eggs/bacon/beans/mushrooms


Drinks: The best thing to drink is water - if you have potable water where you live or else bottled, fizzy or still. You should drink at least two litres of water each day. Fruit juices without additives are also fine. Warm drinks: water, barley cup, caro, bambu, dandelion coffee and rooibosh tea are all OK and drunk with soya milk; and of course any herb teas are fine.

LUNCH AND DINNER

-         Salads with anything: you can be imaginative with beany or aubergine pate, or roasted nuts; remember only a touch of mayonnaise or oily dressings. Many people find balsamic vinegar is fine by itself.

-         Stir fry: rice cooked then fries lightly with any vegetables and fish/meat/prawns with soy sauce, ginger and herbs for seasoning

-         Piece of fish with a pile of steamed vegetables and a little mayonnaise/tartar sauce

-         Chicken as above, with some rice if wanted

-         Chicken/ tuna/ prawn salad with a little mayonnaise or french dressing

-         Meat and five vegetables (but no potato: rice if wanted), risotto: rice cooked gently in chicken or vegetable stock with mushrooms, green beans, peas, any vegetables added that you like

-         Hearty vegetable soups with parsnip instead of potato, and plenty of ginger and garlic: I make a nice mushroom and chestnut puree soup/ celery and caraway seed soup/ chicken and pea soup

-         Pease pudding with bacon (if allowed bacon)  - old fashioned and tasty

-         Rice and corn pasta in any pasta dish

-         Premade nut loaf type things – have some wheat but fine occasionally

-         Rice with quick stir fried vegetables (mangetout, broccoli, carrot, beans, with smoked tofu which tastes a little bit like bacon

-         Spinach steamed then lightly cooked in coconut milk and ginger actually very nice! Eat with beany stews.

-         Beany stews are easy. Soak any beans overnight. Fry onions, add beans then add stock, apple juice, herbs  and carrots and parsnips, leave to cook 1-2 hours.

-         If allowed eggs: omelettes with nice things inside them; I make pancakes with cornflour and soya milk: tasty with summer fruits in (frozen from all supermarkets)

-     Waitrose in Monmouth do a variety of spiced rice, which are good with salads

 


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