The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition

bodies of overweight people. Most people have fatty tissue, especially
women. All these toxins can be potential cancer promoters. There are at
least fi fty thousand environmentally harmful chemicals in use causing
daily problems, and most of these are unlikely ever to be investigated.
There are approximately fi fty thousand pesticides alone used around
homes, schools, and workplaces. Levels of car exhaust fumes are steadily
increasing: approximately thirty thousand new cars are put on the road
worldwide every twenty-four hours. This knowledge should give us a
strong incentive to take regular care of our bodies by cleansing and
detoxifying just to keep pace with all the poisons that fl ood our systems,
no matter how careful we try
to be.

Hints and Tips When Eliminating Certain Foods

Emotional effects Coffee

Coffee is a strong masker of flagging energies,
and these will now be felt, sometimes making it
hard to concentrate. You may feel sad, de-
pressed, or angry as the liver starts to detoxify.
You can also feel dizzy, anxious, or nervous. Irri-
tability, insomnia, and depression can be other
results.
Physical effects The bowel will become more lazy because of

a lack of morning peristaltic stimulation pro-

vided by the coffee. Headaches (throbbing, pres-

sure), nausea (vomiting), and other such “liver-

ish” side effects may be felt.

Tips and procedures
to help the detoxifi -
cation process Reduce the daily number of cups and gradually

decrease the strength of the coffee used. Decaf-

feinated coffee can be an intermediate crutch, but

only briefly. For energy lows that come through

lack of coffee’s stimulating effects, take rosemary

leaf tea and tincture of prickly ash berry and bark

until the crisis is over. A few drops of lobelia leaf

tincture will help balance and calm nerves, de-

creasing the overall need. Ensure that the bowels

are moving daily and that the liver is supported

via liver drinks once or twice a week. Drink plenty

of water and herb teas — dandelion root, cham o-

mile flower, and burdock root — in order to flush

the body out. St John’s wort flower can help

some people with depression (and valerian root

will aid sleep if needed). Dance or some other

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