Detoxing With Tea & Juices
Detoxing your body is helpful when gearing up against this season’s allergies and flus. As the summer fades and we start to live more of our days inside, it’s important to rev up our immune system. It’s easy to stay healthy in the summer with all the sun and salt water, walking outside in the fresh air, lots of leaves giving lots of oxygen, and eating fresh fruits and vegetables. There are many tea companies that make a myriad of remedy teas already bagged and made easy to use. Liver detox, kidney detox, stress ease, immune zoom are all available in your local grocery stores in the tea aisle. Or you can collect those pesky dandelions in your yard (if you don’t use poisons on your lawn) and make your own detox tea. The dandelion root is used to detox the liver. The other ingredients are to make the bitter root palpable. Milk thistle and lemon peels are also detoxifying.
A good first morning detox is fresh lemon juice squeezed into 8oz of water. You can also juice the whole lemon. Lemons are a natural cleanser. The peel has many vitamins promoting heart health. It boosts immunity, improves digestion, boosts skin health, improves bone health, and may have anti-cancer properties. It also treats bacterial and fungal infections. The seeds are anti-parasitic, meaning, if you have intestinal worms (you can get these by walking barefoot in infected soil), eating lemon seeds (and grapefruit seeds) can help you get rid of them.
Celery juice is also a good detoxifier. Juicing celery and drinking 8-16 oz daily on an empty stomach, then waiting 30min, then drinking a juiced lemon in water, and waiting another 30min will set your day up for good digesting, clear thinking, and a detoxed body. My sister cured herself of IBS after many years of suffering and searching with this combination. I met a father of an autistic son who bought up all the organic celery in the store in order to treat his son. Conventional celery is one of the most highly sprayed and pesticide treated foods, so only use organically grown. The organic stalks are smaller and more expensive but it won’t help you if you’re putting more toxins in while attempting to cleanse. Juice fresh and organic items and collect your herbs away from trafficked streets where they can absorb the pollution of vehicles. And a teaspoon of Organic local honey daily can aide in addressing seasonal allergies. It also makes a tasty addition to your detox tea.
