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Allergy-causing foods most likely trigger gallbladder attacks in this
way: The digestive enzymes receive a signal from the immune cells that
the food is a foreign substance, so they stay way from it. As a result, the
food remains undigested and degenerates into acidic waste. When
acidic waste level reaches a critical point, it fl ows into the small intes-
tine and from there through the bile duct to the gallbladder. Once in
the gallbladder it becomes raw material for the formation of gallstones.
It also irritates the gallbladder, which becomes disoriented and directs
the fl ow of the bile to the wrong organ. Instead of going into the smallwhenever they feel sick because its healing properties reach out
to all illnesses.)
➤ Ox bile. Take two capsules with meals. When there isn’t
enough bile because some of it has crystallized into gallstones
or the gallbladder has been removed, ox bile is a good
substitute. (See Resources.)
➤ Lipase. Two capsules with each meal will help bile emulsify
fats.
➤ Olive oil. Three to four tablespoons a day increase the fl ow of
bile.
➤ The gallbladder fl ush. Drink as much apple juice as possible
for three or four days. (The malic acid in apples helps dissolve
gallstones.) On the fi fth, sixth, and seventh day, use a castor oil
pack on the liver for one hour. On the eighth day, take two
teaspoons of Epsom salts after lunch, and two hours later take
two more teaspoons of Epsom salts. On day nine eat only a
grapefruit for dinner, and at bedtime drink four ounces of
extra-virgin olive oil. Sleep on your right side. The next
morning, one hour before breakfast, take two teaspoons of
Epsom salts.
➤ Vitamins. See the supplement suggestions at the end of the
section on ulcers.
➤ Ground psyllium husks and clay. When suspended in water
mixed in juice these are good colon cleansers.