The best time to do a cleanse, according to many holistic health experts, is between the full and new moons. So this month, that’s exactly what I’m doing — cleaning house.
Armed with Andreas Moritz’s The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, I’m on day two of drinking the required six litres of organic apple juice. That’s one litre a day before the seventh day of the actual flush. According to Moritz, cleansing the liver and gallbladder from gallstones is one of the most “important and powerful approaches to improve your health”.
Thanks to toxins and cholesterol from animal foods, pesticide and chemical-laden water, and deadly pharmaceuticals, the gallbladder can be packed with stones of all sizes, colours and shapes. Some, says Andreas, are even as big as 3cm wide and are literally as hard as rocks. It’s not uncommon for some people to release hundreds of stones with one cleanse—and that usually means there are more where they came from (which means keep on cleansing).
While I’ve been vegan for a couple of years, and have done juice cleanses and undergone colonic hydrotherapy, I have 30-odd years of bad eating and lifestyle habits to clean up after. The liver and gallbladder flush is just the next step in my natural health journey.
So what does the prescribed six litres of apple juice do? The malic acid in the juice softens the stones to enable them to pass easily through the bile ducts. It also has a strong cleansing effect.
Speaking of the apple, this amazing fruit that I’ve often taken for granted is really one of nature’s superfoods (as all wholefoods are in my opinion). Cut an apple in half to reveal a star, which is a mirror of the body’s star formation (think Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man – see below). This wholefood signature suggests that the humble apple benefits every part of the human body. Hence the saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”.
Some of the known benefits from eating (raw) apples include: improved lung capacity, blocking diarrhea, prevention of constipation, cushioning the body’s joints and even slowing the aging process. Bite that, botox!
So this week, to prepare for the actual day of flushing (which will fall on the day of the new moon), I’m not eating any foods or drinks that are cold or chilled because they chill the liver and stop the cleanse from being effective. Andreas also suggests giving animal products the ol’ heave ho. No problem there. Also no overeating.
Rather than bore you all with a day-by-day account of drinking truckloads of apple juice, if you’re curious, check back later in the month to get the lowdown on how the cleanse went.
One of nature's incredible superfoods, the humble apple
great article! once a year i do the edgar cayce apple diet. it’s a de-tox of eating apples for 3 days then at the end of the 3rd day drink 1/4 c. olive oil.
i went to the doctor a few years ago for a check-up and this old russian doctor was filling in for him. he looked me in the eyes and said, “you’re healthy. just eat an apple a day.” that was my check-up! how fantastic!