Foods for liver cleansing

If a person suffering from liver and gallbladder diseases includes certain liver cleansing products in their diet, after six months they can at least feel relief and reduce the intake of medications, and at most forget about aching, nagging pains for a long time. All food components that are considered useful for the liver act as activators on the process of bile excretion.

Products that help cleanse the liver:

• Beets and carrots, which contain vitamins, fiber, flavonoids, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote detoxification.
• Garlic, if you eat 2 cloves daily, the liver will begin to work more actively, getting rid of waste and toxins. Garlic is used both in crushed form and whole (swallow the clove.
• Green tea, which contains antioxidants – catechins, vitamins and microelements.
• Grapefruit juice and pulp contain a high percentage of vitamin C. A glass of juice a day for two weeks helps remove toxins and promotes active enzymatic function of the liver.
• Pumpkin has a mild diuretic and choleretic effect.
• Sour apples are an irreplaceable food for cleansing the intestines and liver.
• Vegetable oils that have a powerful choleretic effect and also act as an adsorbent.
• Turmeric, ginger – spices that the liver accepts with gratitude in any form. These spices help to expand the bile ducts, activate the blood circulation process, stimulate blood microcirculation.

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Liver cleansing with juices

Sour fruit juices, vegetable juice - an excellent means for cleaning the bile ducts, removing toxins. Liver cleansing with juices has its contraindications and is not considered an absolutely safe method, but with a reasonable approach and preliminary preparation, such a procedure is quite effective and more pleasant than cleaning with vegetable oil.

Liver Cleanse with Apple Juice

Apple juice should be prepared fresh each time, preferably from sour varieties. Beforehand, you need to cleanse the intestines with an enema and a vegetarian diet for 3-5 days. Cleansing the liver with apple juice cannot be done during an exacerbation of cholecystitis, gastric ulcer, or other diseases in an acute form. Methods of cleansing with apple juice are considered relatively safe, but not all options are gentle. In addition, the proposed method is not suitable for people with metabolic disorders, pregnant women, or the elderly, since, in fact, it involves a three-day fast.

• Do a cleansing enema and drink only apple juice throughout the day without limitation.
• The second day is similar to the first, only juice and cleansing with an enema.
• The third day involves drinking juice until 18.30. Then you need to warm up your liver with a heating pad, lie on your right side and drink vegetable oil with lemon juice in small sips every 10-15 minutes (a total of 200 ml of oil and 150 of juice).
• After the release of cholesterol and bilirubin waste, you need to do an enema again, and in the morning a light breakfast is allowed - oatmeal, boiled vegetables - carrots, stewed pumpkin, but not potatoes.

• Three days before the cleansing, you need to prepare your intestines by doing daily evening enemas.
• The last meal on the day of cleansing should take place no later than 15-16.00.
• At 19:00 you need to drink a solution of magnesium (3 tablespoons per 250 ml of water) and a glass of still mineral water.
• At 9:30 pm you need to cleanse your intestines with an enema (at least 2 liters of water).
• The next morning at 7.30-8.00 you need to drink 100 ml of freshly prepared apple juice (the apples should be sour varieties).
• At 10:00 and 11:00 you need to drink another 100 ml of juice and drink only still mineral water throughout the day.
• At 9:00 p.m. drink no-shpa (dissolve one ampoule in 2 tablespoons of water).
• At 22:00 drink 100 ml of juice and 2 fresh egg yolks. From this moment on, you should warm up the liver, lying on your right side with a heating pad. After 3-4 hours, the release of toxins and stones should begin.
• In the morning you should do an enema and during the day you should stick to a vegetarian diet without salt.
• The next day you need to start with another cleansing enema and eat more nutritious food.
• Over the next few days, you can gradually return to your normal eating regime.

Liver Cleansing with Radish Juice

Radish contains fiber, phytoncides, diuretic and choleretic components. Its juice can help the liver not only cleanse itself, but also restore its functions. In addition, detoxification with radish helps to lose weight. The yield of the finished product is a kilogram of black peeled radish after processing with a juicer gives no more than 300 ml of juice. The juice should be prepared every other day so that it is fresh, and stored in the refrigerator. The cleansing course lasts one and a half months, so it is worth stocking up on the vegetable in advance.

• Week one – drink radish juice after meals (after 30 minutes), one tablespoon three times a day.
• Week two – three times a day after meals, 2 tablespoons of juice.
• Each week add one tablespoon, so that during the sixth week you get 6 tablespoons three times a day after meals.

The juice should be drunk regularly, without missing a dose. At the end of the first week, the liver may start to ache, this is a signal of the imminent removal of stones and toxins. As soon as such sensations appear, the liver needs to be helped by warming up (with a heating pad). During the entire period of cleansing, it is useful to follow diet No. 5 according to Pevzner, this will help the body to endure the cleansing painlessly.

Liver Cleanse with Pumpkin

Cucurbita is the Latin name for pumpkin, it is the largest multi-seeded berry in the world, which many of us are accustomed to consider a vegetable. Pumpkin contains a huge amount of invaluable substances - vitamins, minerals, pectins. All this "wealth" is able to cleanse and restore liver cells, which are regularly attacked by toxins and harmful substances.

Liver cleansing with pumpkin can be done in different ways:

• Using pumpkin seeds, which are crushed and mixed with vegetable oil. The mixture should be heated in a steamer or water bath, without bringing to a boil, and left to infuse for a week. The mixture is calculated as a glass of crushed pumpkin seeds per one and a half glasses of oil. You need to drink the remedy by a teaspoon before each meal half an hour for 2 weeks.
• Take a small pumpkin weighing up to 2 kilograms. Open the top and take out the pulp, seeds, and pour honey inside - 200-250 grams. The "vessel" is again covered with the cut part, wrapped in a clean cloth and insisted for ten days in a dark, cool place. After 10 days, what was inside is drained and taken a tablespoon three times a day before meals. The course of treatment lasts 3 weeks. If the composition runs out, you can prepare a new one.
• An option for those who do not have time to prepare infusions, decoctions. Every day you need to eat raw pumpkin, finely chopped, in a volume of at least 500 grams. This remedy cannot be mixed with other vegetables, that is, make a salad, liver cleansing with pumpkin should be used as a mono medicine. Pumpkin pulp can be replaced with freshly prepared juice - 500 ml daily, but this requires much more effort and time.

Detoxing with pumpkin is considered a relatively safe method, although it is long-term.

Liver cleansing with buckwheat

Fagopyrum is the official name of buckwheat. Buckwheat contains up to 30% light carbohydrates and 16% proteins, in addition to almost all B vitamins, magnesium, rutin, fiber, folic acid, amino acids and many other useful substances.

Cleansing the liver with buckwheat is one of the most effective, inexpensive and safe ways to restore health, which does not require a preliminary examination.

Methods of cleaning with buckwheat:

• Sort out about 3 tablespoons of buckwheat, pour boiling water over it and place it in a glass of low-fat kefir. The mixture should be infused for 10-12 hours. Buckwheat in kefir is eaten instead of breakfast and then it is advisable not to eat or drink anything until lunch. The diet during the cleansing should be dietary, with limited fats, salt, meat and whole milk products. The course lasts 10 days, then there is a two-week break and the liver cleansing with buckwheat can be repeated 4-5 more times. Whole buckwheat grains can be replaced with chaff or buckwheat flour, so it will be better absorbed.
• Boil one tablespoon of cereal for 10 minutes (do not add salt), then pour in a tablespoon of vegetable oil (preferably unrefined). Take the mixture half an hour before each breakfast for 10 days, then take a break for 7-10 days and repeat the course 3 more times.

Aching sensations in the right hypochondrium are considered acceptable during the cleansing period; this indicates slagging and that the detoxification process has begun.

If a person is diagnosed with chronic cholecystitis, for safety reasons it is better to consult with the attending physician, and those who have an exacerbation of a chronic disease should also be careful. Pregnant women should not experiment with any liver cleansing methods in principle.

Liver Cleanse with Oats

Oats are traditionally considered one of the most useful cereal crops, even Hippocrates called it a grain that gives people the strength of Hercules. Oats contain almost all vitamins, proteins, fats, minerals, its property to activate the removal of bile and excess fluid was known even to ancient healers.

Even doctors consider liver cleansing with oats to be a safe, effective and extremely useful method, the only condition of which is that the oats must be whole, not crushed and preferably not treated with chemicals.

Options for cleansing the liver with oats:

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Method #1

• Grind 500 g of whole oat grains in a mortar (preferably in an electric coffee grinder) until powdery.
• A tablespoon of oatmeal powder is poured with a liter of boiling plain water and infused in a thermos for 12 hours. It is convenient to make the infusion in the evening so that by the morning it is ready.
• Oatmeal infusion should be drunk daily for 3 months before each meal 40 minutes before. Dose – about a glass (200 ml). The infusion should be warm. Every 3-4 days you need to prepare a fresh remedy.

Method #2

• Boil oat grains in purified (filtered) water in the following proportion - 1.5 liters of water and 150 grams of grain (pre-washed). Boil the product for 15 minutes on very low heat.
• The resulting decoction should be wrapped in a large towel (wrapped up) and left to infuse for another 2 hours.
• The course of treatment is 2 weeks, during which you need to drink the decoction 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals, 2 glasses.

There are many options for cleansing the liver with oats, but the essence of preparing the decoction is the same - oats are steamed, infused and drunk regularly half an hour before meals. The course of treatment can last a long time - several months, since the effect of oat broth is soft, gentle. However, the indisputable advantage of this method is its 100% safety and effectiveness. During the cleansing, you should follow a certain diet - without fat, smoked foods, with a limitation of meat, whole milk, salt.

Liver cleansing with rose hips

Rose hips contain vitamins, especially valuable for vitamins C and P. After cleansing, the entire body seems to be rejuvenated, not only the functioning of the liver and gall bladder improves, but also the heart, blood vessels, and skeletal system.

Cleansing the liver with rose hips includes the use of auxiliary substances - sorbitol or magnesium as laxatives.

Cleaning method:

• Crushed rose hips (3 tablespoons) are poured into a large thermos and filled with boiling water. The decoction is infused for 12 hours (it is convenient to leave overnight), in the morning you can do the cleaning.
• You will have to fast the entire cleansing day, only drinking is allowed, in extreme cases - no more than 250 grams of oatmeal in water during the day and a handful of nuts, raisins.
• In the morning on an empty stomach you need to take diluted sorbitol (2-3 tablespoons in a glass of rosehip infusion). You need to drink the solution quickly, in one gulp.
• After taking sorbitol, you can do a light warm-up - bend over, squat, and move throughout the day.
• 30 minutes after taking sorbitol, you need to finish the remaining rosehip drink.
• An hour later, if you feel very hungry, you can eat oatmeal (100 grams) and a few nuts.
• In an hour, slags, stones, and plugs should come out. If the process is difficult, you can help the intestines with an enema.
• It is better to drink purified water and not eat anything until the evening.
• The next morning you can have a light breakfast and drink apple juice throughout the day.
• After 2 days of cleansing, you can gradually return to your usual dishes, but remember that fatty, canned, smoked foods can again clog the liver and bile ducts.

Liver cleansing with rose hips is repeated after 3 days, that is, it is carried out 2 times a week for a month.

Liver Cleanse with Raisins

Üzüm - this is the Turkish name for the well-known dried grapes, raisins, which contain almost all the vitamins and microelements known to medicine. But the main wealth of raisins is oleanolic acid, which has a powerful antioxidant, radio projector effect. In addition, raisins contain a lot of magnesium and potassium, which makes them a real assistant to the cardiovascular system.

Cleansing the liver with raisins is aimed at activating bile excretion; this method is especially useful for those who suffer from heartburn and a feeling of heaviness and nausea in the hypochondrium.

Purification method:

• 100 grams of raisins are carefully sorted and washed. Raisins are poured into a glass and the container is filled with warm boiled water.
• The raisins should be left to soak for 20-24 hours.
• The infusion water is drunk early in the morning on an empty stomach, and all the raisins are eaten.
• Then you need to warm up the liver - lie on your right side with a heating pad. Warming up continues for 2-3 hours.
• The course lasts one month, the procedure is performed once a week.
• You can also use raisin liver cleansing in a more accelerated version.
• A glass of raisins, 50 grams of buckthorn, half a glass of holosas, 1.5 liters of water. Raisins and all the buckthorn grass are boiled in water (15 minutes on low heat). The composition is infused for 2 hours, filtered. A liter of hot boiled water is poured into the remainder (strained pulp) and the liquid stands for another 10 minutes. Everything is filtered again, the pulp is removed. Both decoctions are mixed, and holosas is added to the mixture. In total, more than 2 liters of the product should be obtained.

The resulting decoction is stored in the refrigerator and taken warm every evening at 9 p.m., 150-200 milliliters, until the liquid runs out.

Liver Cleanse with Beetroot

Cleansing the liver with beets can be done by almost everyone, without exception, since the method is gentle and does not cause complications in the form of blockage of the bile ducts.

How to prepare beets for cleaning:

You need to take a medium beetroot, wash it, but do not peel it. Pour one liter of cold water and mark this level in the pan. Then pour another two liters of water over the beetroot and cook until the liquid boils down to the marked liter level. The vegetable needs to be taken out, cooled under running water, peeled, grated on a coarse grater directly into the pan and cooked for at least another 30 minutes.

Beetroot Liver Cleansing Scheme:

• Morning, 8-9.00 – a glass of beetroot broth and pulp.
• Then take only the decoction every hour - strain, divide into three parts and drink one third.
• At 12:00 lie down with a heating pad on your right side for 30-40 minutes.
• You should not expect the stomach to relax, only urination will increase. More active defecation is possible, which indicates good bowel preparation, which should be done 3-4 days before the beetroot procedure (do enemas).

In addition, you can cleanse yourself with beetroot kvass:

• 3 medium sized beets.
• 2 tablespoons flour.
• 1 kg of sugar.
• 500-700 g seedless raisins.

Raw peeled beets are cut into cubes, placed in a three-liter jar, all ingredients are added except raisins. The mixture without water is left for 2 days, then you need to add raisins and 100 ml of boiled water, leave for a week, stirring occasionally. When the kvass is ready, it is filtered, the yield is small - no more than a liter, but this product is enough for the initial course of cleansing. Beet kvass is drunk in a tablespoon before meals three times a day until the liquid runs out. Then there is a week's break, the liver cleansing with beets is repeated 3 more times.

Liver Cleanse with Lemon

Lemon detoxification is an effective method, but far from safe. In order for lemon liver cleansing to proceed without complications, you need to follow these recommendations:

• First, you need to prepare your intestines for a week by eating only vegetarian dishes.
• It is best to cleanse with lemon in the fall.
• The procedure will be more effective if you start cleansing at 1:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m.
• You need to be prepared for painful sensations in the right hypochondrium and stock up on no-shpa and valerian in the form of drops.
• Three days before the cleansing, you need to cleanse your intestines every morning with an enema.

Liver cleanse with lemon:

• You need to prepare a glass of olive oil and a glass of lemon juice.
• In the morning on the day of the procedure, do an enema with 3 liters of water.
• During the entire procedure (2 days) fasting is recommended, drinking still mineral water and apple juice is allowed.
• On the third day after the enema at 13.00 you need to lie down with a heating pad on your right side and drink a glass of oil in small sips, washing it down with lemon juice. It is convenient to do it like this - a spoonful of oil plus a spoonful of juice, a 15-minute break and repeat.
• Removing stones, blockages, and toxins can take a long time, so it is better to plan the cleaning for a day off.

The following days, a slow return to the usual diet is recommended. Liver cleansing with lemon should not be done too often, it is best to do it twice a year. In addition, the method has many contraindications, you should remember the danger of blockage of the bile ducts. Without a preliminary examination, ultrasound, such detoxification is risky.

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Liver cleansing with honey

The unique properties of honey do not need additional praise, almost everything is known about honey today. Also very popular is liver cleansing with honey, which helps to remove toxins, slags and stones.

Recipe for cleansing and treating the liver with honey:

• A honey mash is prepared. 300 grams of good honey, one and a half liters of unboiled milk, 6 eggs. Honey is placed in a three-liter jar, then raw, thoroughly washed raw eggs are carefully placed, everything is poured with milk on top.
• The jar is covered with gauze and placed in a warm, dry place for 14 days.
• The product is ready when the eggshells dissolve and the eggs “float”.
• The top layer is carefully removed from the top and discarded. The contents are filtered through cheesecloth.
• The clots and eggs will remain in the gauze, the film of which must be pierced so that the liquid drains. Again, the yolks and film remain on the gauze, they must be thrown away.
• The strained medicine should yield at least 1.5 liters; it is stored in the refrigerator.

Liver cleansing with honey, scheme:

• In the morning on an empty stomach, drink 30 grams of the mixture, shaking it first in a jar.
• You only need to drink the remedy once a day until it runs out.
• The course of treatment with honey can be repeated after six months.

There is another additional option for using honey for detoxification, which involves external use. The area of the right hypochondrium should be lubricated with a thin layer of honey for a week, after which the honey is "driven" into the skin with light claps. Honey acts as a kind of adsorbent, after half an hour of the procedure it acquires a white tint.

Liver Cleanse with Oil

Detoxification with vegetable oils is probably the most popular method among all known today. Liver cleansing with oil is a rather aggressive method that should not be carried out without a preliminary examination of the biliary system and consultation with the attending physician, in addition, this method is considered very powerful, so it should be used no more than once a year.

Oil can cleanse not only the bile ducts, but also the lymph glands, lungs, bronchi, genitourinary system, and also activate the heart, strengthen the skeletal system. Cleansing the liver with oil is strictly contraindicated for diabetics and those people who have large gallstones detected by ultrasound examination.

Oil Detoxification Scheme:

1. 3-5 days before the cleansing, you need to follow a gentle diet, completely exclude fatty foods, alcohol, whole milk, limit meat products. A vegetarian diet is preferable, which helps to pre-cleanse the intestines.
2. On the day of cleansing, in the evening at 19:00 you need to drink a laxative (magnesia - 4 tablespoons diluted in a glass of boiled, cool water). If there is no laxative, cleansing can be done without it, but then it is advisable not to eat after breakfast.
3. At 9:00 p.m. you need to do several cleansing enemas, using at least 6 liters of water.
4. The detoxification procedure itself begins the next day. During the day, starting at 8 a.m., and then at 10 and 11 a.m., you need to drink half a glass of fresh apple juice. Then you can take a break until 3 p.m., then juice again, except for which you can neither drink nor eat anything.
5. In the evening at 20.00 you need to drink allochol, which must be ground and diluted in a small amount of water. Allochol can be replaced with no-shpa in ampoules (2 milliliters per 50 milliliters of water), this should be done to expand blood vessels, neutralize spasms of smooth muscles, to facilitate the passage of stones.
6. At 9:00 PM, the oil detox begins. 50 milliliters of vegetable oil (preferably olive oil) should be drunk in small sips, constantly washing down with lemon juice (30 ml).
7. A warm heating pad is placed on the right side until 11:00 p.m. You should lie on your right side, with your knees pressed to your chest.
8. In the morning, at 6.00, you need to do a large enema (5-6 liters of water) and stay at home all day, since the process of removing toxins can take a long time. Food is vegetarian, in small portions.
9. The next day involves eating boiled vegetables and salads with vegetable oil.
10. The entire week after the cleansing should be devoted to the rules of rational, gentle nutrition, after which you can move on to your usual food.

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Liver Cleanse with Olive Oil

Like other methods that involve taking vegetable oil internally, cleansing the liver with olive oil is considered an unsafe method, so it should only be used after examining the abdominal organs.

Olive oil, unlike sunflower oil, contains a large amount of monounsaturated fatty acid - oleic. In addition to the fact that it improves overall metabolism, its chemical composition has a beneficial effect on the contraction of the gallbladder and the removal of waste and toxins. Olive oil is well accepted by the stomach, completely absorbed into the intestines, improves the condition of blood vessels, gives energy to the body.

Olive Oil Liver Cleanse Method:

• Three days before the cleansing, you need to drink one liter of vegetable or fruit juice (apple, beetroot). Every day, morning and evening, you need to cleanse the intestines with an enema (at least 2 liters of water).
• Cleansing day – in the morning a light breakfast of oatmeal, at 2:00 pm – juice or two sour apples, at 3:00 pm – dilute an ampoule of no-shpa in water and drink, you can add an allochol tablet.
• From 15:00 you need to constantly warm up the liver area, both in the hypochondrium and on the back side.
• At 17:00, do a large enema (at least 2 liters of water), at 18:00 take another No-shpa (open the ampoule), diluted in warm water.
• The time 19.00 is considered the most favorable for the expansion of the bile ducts, from this moment the liver cleansing with olive oil "starts". You need to drink a glass of oil, washing it down with lemon juice (150 ml). It is easier to drink the remedy by the tablespoon in turn every 10-15 minutes until the glass with oil is empty.
• Between taking the oil, you need to lie down and warm up your liver each time, you should lie on your right side. Deep diaphragmatic breathing (from the stomach) helps with painful sensations.
• Around 22:00-23:00 the removal of toxins and stones should begin. If by this time the cleansing has not begun, you should help the body with an enema. The cleansing process can last a long time, so you need to prepare for a rather restless night. It is advisable to warm up the right side with a heating pad during the entire period.
• In the morning, you can drink a glass of juice from sour apples or grapefruit, it can be diluted with boiled water. You should also cleanse the intestines again with an enema from the remains of mucus, toxins. You must stick to a diet all day, eat only oatmeal, boiled or fresh, chopped vegetables, fruits. It is better to limit salt.

Cleansing the liver with olive oil as a method has many controversial points and contraindications. Before the procedure, in order to avoid unpleasant complications, you should consult a doctor and undergo an examination. Pregnant women, anyone who suffers from coronary heart disease, hypertension, ulcerative colitis and other gastrointestinal diseases, especially cholecystitis, cannot perform such a cleansing.

Liver cleansing with vegetable oil

Cleansing the liver with vegetable oil is a rather insidious procedure; if there are large stones in the gallbladder and the ducts are narrowed, exacerbations are possible, so you should first do an ultrasound of the gallbladder.

Method No. 1, gentle, relatively safe, but long-lasting

• 1 week – drink half a teaspoon of refined vegetable oil in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Week 2 – drink one teaspoon of oil in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Week 3 – drink a dessert spoon every morning.
• Week 4 – start every day by taking a tablespoon of herbal oil on an empty stomach.
• Week 5 – drink oil every morning, increasing the dosage daily - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 tablespoons.

During the entire period, a strict diet is recommended without fatty, spicy, fried foods, and salty and dairy foods should be limited. Boiled and baked vegetables (except potatoes), porridge, salads, and fruits are allowed.

Method No. 2

• 1 week – 2 times a day you need to actively dissolve in your mouth without swallowing a tablespoon of vegetable oil.
• Week 2 – do the same procedure, but 4 times a day.

The oil is vigorously moved around the mouth with the tongue, the substance should become white and slightly thicken. After each absorption, the oil is spit out, and the oral cavity is thoroughly washed with chamomile decoction. The course can be repeated after 2 months, a total of 5-6 times a year. Such methods are relatively safe, except for the unusual sensation of using vegetable oil, there should be no other complications.

Products for liver cleansing should have a sour, slightly salty taste, be fresh, preferably not thermally processed.