Liver cleansing: what does liver cleansing give?

There are many options for liver cleansing, but there is no universal one among them, moreover, some recipes without a preliminary examination of the condition of the liver and bile ducts can seriously harm and cause an exacerbation.

Liver and gall bladder diseases have been known to mankind for many centuries. The great healer Avicenna said, "If you do not treat your liver, or treat it poorly, your disease will first spread to the blood vessels, and then affect the whole body." According to statistics, in the countries of the former CIS, every twentieth inhabitant suffers from one or another pathology of the biliary system.

The liver is one of the most important and multifunctional organs of the human body, primarily performing a barrier function. Everything that enters the bloodstream from the stomach, intestines, from useful nutrients to toxins, enters the portal vein of the liver and the organ itself, where filtration and specific purification of the blood takes place before the bloodstream carries it further into the body. If a person's liver does not work or is removed, he dies within a few hours from extensive intoxication. The condition of the liver is affected by toxic substances that fill the environment (more than 80,000), unhealthy food, bad habits, and many other factors. Today, few people can boast of a healthy, unclogged liver, the dysfunction of which is asymptomatic at the initial stage, and then manifests itself with the following signs:

• Pulling, aching pain in the right hypochondrium.
• A feeling of distension on the right side of the epigastrium.
• Irritability despite a favorable external environment.
• Decreased quality of sleep.
• Irritability despite a favorable external environment.
• Decreased quality of sleep.
• Decreased performance, fatigue.
• Itching of the skin.
• Dull complexion, pigmentation.
• Yellowish coating on the tongue.
• Intolerance to certain foods, fatty foods.

Many other symptoms and conditions require careful attention and action, which primarily include liver cleansing.

The liver can be cleansed by anyone who has zero or low acidity, contraindications apply to the following categories of people:

• Patients with diabetes mellitus, especially type 1 diabetes.
• People whose chronic disease enters the acute stage.
• Liver cleansing should not be performed if you have a high temperature, headache, or cold.
• Pregnant women and women during breastfeeding.
• People with high acidity are at risk of exacerbation of gastritis and ulcerative processes.
• For women during menstruation.

It is necessary to emphasize once again that before cleansing it is advisable to undergo an examination (ultrasound) of the biliary system and consult not with relatives, neighbors or friends, but with a doctor in order to avoid acute obstruction of the bile ducts and urgent surgery.

What does liver cleansing do?

• Activation of all functions performed by the liver, especially detoxification.
• Activation of production and outflow of bile.
• Cleansing the liver of lipid compounds (excess amounts of fatty substances).
• Improving the general condition of the body.
• Improving the condition of the skin, vision, digestion, and so on.

Liver Cleansing Methods

Liver cleansing methods have been known to mankind since the advent of ancient healers, healers, and doctors. It is unknown how many successful cases there were, and how many people got an exacerbation of diseases, however, it is obvious that those methods, recipes that have reached our days are really effective and efficient.

Today, the following liver cleansing methods are very popular, the most effective of which will be described below:

In addition, there are traditional methods of cleansing the liver and gallbladder, widely used by traditional medicine, and therefore safe. These include the following methods:

• Dissolution of stones by taking a course of special medications containing bile salts.
• Introduction of medicinal solvents (methyl titrabutyl ethers) into the gallbladder using a catheter.
• Grinding stones using ultrasound.
• Surgical removal of the gallbladder, usually using the laparoscopic method.

Like “folk” recipes, medical procedures have their own contraindications for use, this is due to the presence of concomitant pathologies in the patient, the state of the liver, and other factors.

The Pros and Cons of Liver Cleansing Methods

Method	Advantages	Disadvantages, special contraindications
Crushing and dissolving stones using catheterization	Safety, doctor's supervision	The method allows to cleanse only the bile ducts, gall bladder, and liver to a lesser extent.
Daily preventive cleaning with vegetable oil	Does not require a special regimen, does not cause exacerbations, gentle method	Long course – up to six months, delayed results
Gentle Herbal Cleansing	A relatively safe method that does not require changing your usual routine or daily routine	The effect accumulates slowly, the result is felt after at least three months
Sorbitol Cleansing	It takes time, a special daily routine, and is medically approved.	Preliminary examination required, not always effective
Gentle impact, low-cost, gentle method.	It takes time to prepare the product, the work schedule changes, there are contraindications (hypertension)
Crushing stones with ultrasound	Doctor's supervision, preliminary examination	Possible complications for the kidneys, increased blood pressure, high risk of relapse in terms of the formation of new stones
Cleansing with pharmaceutical preparations	Good, gentle effect, general improvement of the biliary system	If you follow the recommendations exactly, the course of medications is quite expensive.

Whatever the liver cleansing methods, an important point to pay attention to is the mandatory preliminary cleansing of the intestines, since detoxification of the biliary system with a clogged colon can only harm, not benefit.

How to restore the liver after long-term medication use?

Long-term use of certain medications can have a negative impact on the liver, causing damage or toxicity. Recovering the liver from this damage may take time and effort. Here are some steps and recommendations that can help restore the liver after long-term use of medications:

1. Stopping Harmful Medications: If you suspect that long-term use of certain medications may be adversely affecting your liver, discuss this with your doctor. Your doctor can review your medication and, if necessary, suggest safer alternatives. It is important to strictly follow your doctor’s instructions for taking medications.
2. Proper nutrition: A healthy diet plays an important role in liver recovery. It is recommended to eat foods rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. This includes fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins, fish and low-fat dairy products. Avoid snacking on fast food, fatty and fried foods, alcohol and sugary drinks.
3. Moderate physical activity: Regular physical activity helps improve metabolism and blood circulation, which can be helpful for liver recovery. However, before starting a new exercise program, consult with your doctor.
4. Vitamins and Supplements: In some cases, your doctor may recommend taking vitamin complexes or supplements that help restore your liver. This may include antioxidants, vitamin E, vitamin C, and others.
5. Maintain a rest regimen: Give your liver enough time to recover by getting a good night's sleep and relaxing.
6. Ongoing medical monitoring: If you have had severe liver damage due to medications or other factors, it is important to see your doctor regularly to monitor your liver health and assess the effectiveness of your recovery efforts.
7. Avoiding Alcohol and Toxins: Avoid drinking alcohol and avoid exposure to toxic substances that can negatively affect the liver.

If you suspect that your liver is damaged by medication or other causes, be sure to consult your doctor. Your doctor can conduct additional tests and provide individual recommendations for liver recovery based on your medical history and health condition.

Liver Cleansing Diet

Liver cleansing requires a special diet; at the initial stage of stagnation in the bile ducts, it is enough to follow a diet to ensure that the detoxification process is successful without additional aggressive effects.

In addition, a liver cleansing diet is also a preventative measure to prevent the formation of new stones after a scheduled cleansing.

Liver unloading lasts at least a week, but it is better to create a two-week menu so that toxins are completely removed.

During cleansing, you should avoid the following products:

• Products containing pure carbohydrates – sugar, refined grains (polished rice, oatmeal, etc.).
• Pasteurized, canned products containing colorants, stabilizers, food flavors, hydrogenated oils, fats.
• Sea fish and seafood are not allowed due to the possible content of mercury elements in them.
• All types of sausages and ready-made store-bought pates are not allowed.
• Alcohol is strictly prohibited.

A liver cleanse diet should include the following ingredients:

• Each meal should be accompanied by at least one fresh fruit or vegetable. For example, oatmeal made from whole grain oats plus an apple.
• Porridges should be cooked in water from unrefined grains - unpolished rice, oats, buckwheat.
• The menu includes legumes – beans, lentils, river fish, nuts.
• Meat should be limited and use the white part of chicken, lean beef, rabbit, turkey. Meat dishes are steamed or baked without adding oil or fat.
• You should eat boiled or raw grated beets (as a component of salad) every day.
• Every day there should be vegetable oil in the menu – in porridge, in salads.
• You should limit your consumption of whole milk and potatoes; it is good to eat 100 grams of natural yogurt and cottage cheese every day, and drink a glass of low-fat kefir.
• The portion size should not exceed 150 grams, food should be taken in small portions – 5-6 times a day.
• A great way to relieve the liver is the long-known, time-tested diet No. 5 according to Pevzner.
• You need to drink at least 1.5 liters of sour juice, still mineral water, and grapefruit juice every day.

A liver cleansing diet is not always an effective method; in cases of chronic congestion and severe slagging, it is impossible to do without laxatives and hepatoprotectors.

Liver cleansing in a sanatorium

Sanatorium and spa treatment is the most effective way of detoxification, restoration of body functions. Liver cleansing in a sanatorium has many advantages and practically no disadvantages. It has long been known that to eliminate symptoms, it is not enough to stop the pain, discomfort, you need to remove the etiological cause. A course of liver cleansing in a sanatorium can not only remove toxins and stones, but also really restore the normal functioning of the entire biliary system. This is achieved due to the following factors:

• Professional approach to prescribing procedures. All treatment is carried out under the supervision of the attending physician.
• A comprehensive preliminary examination, which must be completed before going to the sanatorium, some types of diagnostics are carried out right on site.
• A course of dietary nutrition that you don’t have to worry about, everything is prepared in sterile conditions from fresh products according to the prescribed diet.
• A regime and certain limits that are so often violated at home. The sanatorium routine assumes a full daytime "load", during the day the body receives nutrients, massage, medical procedures, and physical activity.
• Fresh air and a change of scenery have a fantastic anti-stress effect.
• Application of the most modern, proven and safe methods of cleansing, restoration, availability of high-precision devices and equipment.

Liver cleansing in a sanatorium involves the following indications and contraindications:

Can:

• For all those who suffer from chronic diseases of the liver, gallbladder (cholecystitis in remission), biliary dyskinesia.
• For anyone recovering from long-term drug treatment.
• For everyone who wants to normalize their weight and metabolism.
• For everyone who is planning a preventative detoxification of the body.

Contraindicated:

• Gallstone disease in the acute stage.
• Acute hepatitis.
• Presence of large stones.
• Hepatitis in the jaundice stage.
• Liver failure.
• Cirrhosis.

Sanatorium procedures can be different, but the most popular ones are still tubage, treatment with mineral waters, juices, colon monitor cleansing (CMC), detoxification using manual and vacuum massage.

Popular Ukrainian sanatoriums include all medical and preventive institutions in Truskavets, Morshyn, Evpatoria, Mirgorod, and Odessa.

Liver cleansing with leeches

Liver detoxification with leeches is a rather exotic method that not everyone accepts and can use.

Hirudo medicinalis – medical leeches are considered one of the most active “live” medicines, quickly eliminating any congestion – in the blood, intestines, bile ducts.

Liver cleansing with leeches has a complex healing effect and gives the following results:

• Normalization of blood clotting levels.
• Prevention of thrombus formation.
• Stabilization of cell membranes – both hepatocytes and others.
• Improves blood supply to organ tissues.
• Activates the flow of oxygen into tissues.
• Reduces swelling and eliminates fluid retention in tissues.
• Restores the walls of blood vessels.
• It has an anti-sclerotic effect.
• Normalizes blood pressure.
• Breaks down lipids.
• Activates the immune system.
• It relieves pain.
• Relieves inflammation.

You can try to cleanse your liver with leeches at home, although it is best to do this with the help of a specialist - a hirudotherapist, who knows exactly the quantity, time and points to which this type of annelids are applied.

For one procedure, 3-4 leeches are used, then their number is increased to 8. Cleansing is carried out twice a week, then once a week so that there are at least 12 hirudotherapy sessions. One session lasts no more than an hour, during which time the leech has time to do all the healing work.

Description of the procedure:

• The area of the right hypochondrium is treated with a gauze swab. Substances with a strong smell or aroma are unacceptable. It is also useful to apply glucose (solution) to the skin, because leeches are very fond of sweets.
• Leeches should be applied one at a time using a medicine bottle or test tube. Four leeches are enough for the first session, then their number can be increased to eight.
• If the leech does not want to attach, it is replaced with another one, or a small puncture of the skin is made with a sterile needle until a small drop of blood appears.
• After the leech has sucked, a burning sensation may appear, this indicates that the worm's salivary secretion has entered the bloodstream and has begun to act; literally after 10 seconds, the discomfort goes away, and the anesthetic component of the saliva begins to act.
• The leech should not be touched or disturbed, it will fall off on its own.
• After the leech falls off, a drop of blood may appear at the site of the bite; it should not be blotted; a gauze napkin should be applied.
• A small gram from a leech bite dissolves within a month.

Detoxification and treatment with leeches has contraindications:

• suspicion of oncological process.
• low blood pressure.
• blood diseases, hemophilia.
• cachexia, exhaustion.
• allergy.
• pregnancy.
• intoxication.
• exacerbation of chronic diseases, elevated body temperature.

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Liver Cleansing Course

The liver cleansing course can last from three days to six months, it all depends on the choice of method - aggressive or gentle. Of course, soft, long cleansing courses are the safest, and as effective as more accelerated methods. In addition, a long liver cleansing course is "ecologically friendly" for the body, and does not cause physiological stress. Therefore, before using a three-day detoxification, you should undergo a thorough examination, prepare and foresee all possible risks. It is quite possible that the choice will change, and preference will be given to the standard, 21-day course of cleansing and restoration of the biliary system.

Liver cleansing regimen for 21 days:

• Preparation of the remedy. You need to prepare the following herbs: immortelle, chicory flowers, horsetail, yarrow, rose hips, mint. Take 2 tablespoons of each except mint, 1 tablespoon of mint, mix and put in a linen bag. Brew a tablespoon of the mixture daily in a thermos (1.5 liters of boiling water). The decoction should stand in the thermos for at least an hour.
• Method of taking the decoction. Drink 75 ml (1/3 cup) three times a day half an hour before meals. The first dose is in the morning on an empty stomach before breakfast, half an hour after the decoction you need to drink half a glass of kefir or yogurt.

The liver cleansing course in this way lasts exactly 3 weeks, during which a gentle diet is recommended with limited meat, whole milk, and salt. Alcohol, smoked foods, and canned foods are excluded.

How often should the course of cleansing be repeated? The doctor who conducts the examination before detox, as well as the body itself, can best answer this question. If after the first cleansing there is a noticeable relief, the procedure went without complications and exacerbations, the second cleansing can be done after six months for preventive purposes. If the body is heavily slagged, detoxification should be repeated at least once a quarter. It is believed that the liver cleansing course should be continued until the intestines stop secreting cholesterol plugs, bilirubin stones, and mucus.

Liver Cleanse Reviews

Reviews of liver cleansing methods today are so diverse that it is impossible to understand them. Among them, there is a paradoxical gradation - from enthusiastic-praiseworthy to critical-warning. Accordingly, liver cleansing reviews can receive both positive and negative depending on the complications during the procedure and the result.

In this sense, doctors' opinions on various methods of detox in general and the biliary system in particular are indicative. Some doctors are favorable to cleansing procedures, but subject to a preliminary examination and exclusion of the risk of blockage of the bile ducts. Moreover, hepatologists and gastroenterologists regularly prescribe tubages at home, which indicates a real effect of cleansing.

There is another category of doctors who are not inclined to an optimistic view of the liver detox process, especially if the procedure is carried out at home using a method called "folk". Obviously, such denial has its own arguments, according to statistics, 12% of those experimenting with home tubages end up in hospital, half of them undergo urgent surgery to remove stones that have clogged the bile ducts. Cleansing with lemon juice and vegetable oils is especially dangerous. Despite the enthusiastic reviews, this method has many negative aspects:

• Vegetable oil quickly activates bile secretion.
• The liver does not always have time to work in an accelerated mode and begins to bother with painful sensations.
• Excessive amounts of ejected bile displace stones in the gallbladder, including very large ones, and biliary colic develops.
• A stone can block unprepared, undilated ducts.

It is for these reasons that you should not blindly trust unverified reviews; you need to approach the cleansing procedure wisely and carefully. If you use a detox method, then use one that has been tested over the years, confirmed by statistics, and approved by doctors.

Liver cleansing really does have a powerful healing effect, significantly improving the functioning of all systems and organs, provided that the method is chosen correctly, the state of one’s own health is assessed and, most importantly, further adherence to the rules of healthy eating and lifestyle is maintained.