Colds, Flu, Diarrhea
Last time I gave my theories on colds and flu, this time you get Dr. Max’s. This is kind of technical stuff, but wade on through it and you’ll know what to do next time a bug jumps on you.
Colds, flu, and diarrhea are histamine reactions to an intruder of some sort. A cold is histamine in the sinuses, throat, and nasal passages that sometimes goes into the lungs. “Flu” could either be vomiting or diarrhea and would either attack the stomach or the intestines. The reason your body reacts this way is to wash the offender out. However, this washing uses up a lot of energy that could be putting the immune system in gear. Your immune response will not happen while your body is producing so much histamine.
The Goal: calm down the histamine production so the immune system can fight the bad guys.
Citrus and chlorophyll will do that.
Nope, heading for the medicine cabinet can do you more harm than good. When you first get that post nasal drip that lets you know something is coming, the temptation is to reach for the anti-histamine. They’ll calm down the histamine response, but they don’t help your immune system to work. Instead they shut down your liver and you’re left with a disease that lasts even longer.
The oils in green leafy veggies, combined with fresh citrus juices (lemon, lime, or grapefruit — and fresh means you cut open the fruit and squeeze it yourself), will reset the histamine response.
How to get these?
Find these in your refrigerator:
- marinated greens made with lemon
- raw greens of any kind with lemon or lime juice added
- use cilantro, parsley, and spinach with some lemon
If you’re into juicing veggies:
- grapefruit and dark green leafy veggies
- fresh greens and lemon
- green lemonade: grapefruit, cilantro, fresh ginger
And eat no animal products until you’re healthy again.
If you’re like me, you’re wondering about other histamine reactions — like bug bites. I suspect that’s why people chew a few leaves of something and slap it onto the bug bite. Chewing just any leaf might not be a good thing, but you can learn a bit of local edible weed information.
Flu Shots
Mercola recently published an article about the dangers of flu shots and how some states are attempting to force all health care workers to get them. “Tell Your Doctor…”
In the article Dr. Mercola talks about the lack of evidence on the usefulness of flu shots, as well as the devastating side effects of vaccines in general — even death.
I’ve had exactly one flu shot, and yes, it was forced on me. If I didn’t submit to the flu shot I was out of the program and therefore out of a job. Of the 30 or so injected along with me that day, three had to drop out of the program due to intense and immediate physical illness (undiagnosable, of course — “they must have come in sick already”), and about 8 of us were sick enough to be miserable for the next four weeks of the training program. I didn’t get rid of that sickness for a long time, and then only through a lot of fasting and gut re-colonization.
There are theories out there about the flu, and I tend to believe one of them because it has proven itself true so many times: there is no such thing as the “flu.” It’s just food poisoning through a common food that most people in an area eat. And that same theory says that if you get a cold you’ve eaten something moldy.
The last time my family had the flu was in Kansas and driving back to SC. My daughter got sick while there and had stopped throwing up by the time we left, my husband (rumored to have a cast-iron stomach) began driving that morning with a bagel in his hand and started throwing up two hours into our 17 hour journey. That left me driving the rest of the way. Thank God for books on tape and a little bit of caffeine ingested very slowly.
Most dairy products are mixed before being packaged, and butter is perhaps worse than others. Milk from many cows is mixed into the farm trucks that go to the dairy co-op, milk from many small farms is mixed in the big trucks that go to the butter plant, and there the milk from many trucks is mixed again. All it took was one small amount of milk from one cow with an oozing wound on her tit and the entire region is thrown into a “flu” outbreak.
What do you do if you feel a case of the “flu” coming on?
The Goal
What is the goal of eating better?
Is it pride and arrogance?
For some people it is. I’ve met a lot of people who love to rub your nose in how inferior your eating is compared to theirs.
Some other answers might be:
- to get healthier
- to live longer
- to feel better
- to stop the cravings
- to look better
I’m going to suggest that BALANCE is the better answer — it takes in all of the good stuff above.
A balanced person isn’t overweight or underweight, doesn’t act out their anger, doesn’t live in fear, knows what good they can do on this planet, knows what harm they are capable of but they don’t do it, and they don’t focus on what goes into their mouths. They figure out what works, they don’t do what doesn’t work, and they make habits that still include variety.
In other words, a balanced person doesn’t spend a lot of time figuring out the perfect diet because they know the “perfect diet” doesn’t exist.
I’m not saying to avoid cruelty-free or organic foods. I’m all for them. But if you can’t get them, or if they’re still overpriced in your area, go for the better choices (you probably know what those are if you’ve had any contact with LeftLemon.com at all) and stop stressing over it.
To clarify:
a balanced meal has about 30% protein which could already be in your other foods because protein is in everything
a balanced meal has about 30% good oils which could already be in your other foods — like avocados, olives, etc.
a balanced meal has about 40% good quality carbohydrates like leafy greens, fresh veggies, raw fruits, etc.
Try balancing every meal with 30/30/40 for a few days and see if your body doesn’t feel better.
observations
A few things I’ve noticed while grocery shopping lately:
Storage Bags
“Ziploc” brand bags say clearly on the side or bottom: “Product not formulated with BPA” — I’m impressed. None of the other reclosable bags in the stores I frequent say anything about BPA. Makes me wonder…
Mayonnaise
Have you noticed most mayonnaise is now low-fat? The same old brands are now adding olive oil to their less-than-wonderful Canola and soy oil, but the first ingredient is water. They boldly advertise on the label, “New! Lower in fat!” That means they have to add other things, non-mayonnaisey things, to make it act like mayonnaise.
I’ve made mayonnaise for decades and it’s wonderful stuff! But it is a bunch of oil that has been thickened with eggs and lemon. The oil is good, the eggs are good, the lemon is good. The real thing is good. Add a bit of garlic and it’s perfect! But you don’t ever use water.
So if you’re trying to improve your diet, make your own (recipes abound online) using good eggs, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and olive oil. You’ll be amazed at how your body responds. And for what it’s worth, I don’t add mustard to my mayonnaise recipe.
You can still find good mayonnaise in some stores — try health food stores or store brands at your regular grocery store.
Or you can whip up a batch of oil and lemon juice (equal parts) and use that instead. That’s what submarine sandwiches are famous for.
“Ultra-Pasteurized”
Ever wondered what that meant?
Let’s begin with basic cooking 101. The higher the temperature when cooking proteins, the more degraded and toxic it becomes.
From wikipedia (emphasis added):
Pasteurization of milk … is the main reason for milk’s extended shelf life.
High-temperature, short-time (HTST) pasteurized milk typically has a refrigerated shelf life of two to three weeks.
Ultra-pasteurized milk can last much longer, sometimes two to three months….
Pasteurization typically uses temperatures below boiling, since at very high temperatures, casein micelles will irreversibly aggregate, or “curdle“.
In the HTST [normal, pasteurized milk] process, milk is heated to 161°F.
UHT [ultra-pasteurized] processing takes it to 275°F.
A lot of doctors and nutritionists believe the protein in ultra-pasteurized milk has a much higher link to colon cancer than just about anything else. Mercola’s website has this article.
Ultra-pasteurized milk proteins are added to health drinks and powders, and energy bars. Heated cheese is about the worst thing you can give your colon.
South Carolina has very liberal laws on raw milk. Most health food stores, especially the independent ones, carry raw milk. You can call them to find out their delivery schedule. Raw milk cannot be kept next to the regular milk in some counties, ask if you can’t find it. Resources.
And just about any good health food store carries cheese made from raw milk.
Morning Exercises
I’m sure you already know that exercise is important. And hopefully you’re doing something — walking, swimming, dancing…
This is Max’s morning routine. He also runs and works on people all day, so he gets a lot more exercise than this. But these are the basic movements that allow most of your body to be worked out in a quick, three minute routine. Below that are his two favorite stretching/patterning exercises.
You can print the Core Exercises Chart to remind you of the general routine once you’ve seen the video. It will print in light color on two sheets of paper.
This first video is less than ten minutes with directions.
The second video is the three minute routine.
And the two stretches that also help with patterning:
Weight Loss
Francine and Delores asked for help in losing weight. Sensibly. Both had tried every diet they’d come across for several decades and nothing had changed them permanently. Francine was in her 60′s and didn’t do any kind of exercise. Delores was in her 40′s and worked out a lot at the gym.
1) analyze the situation
Francine figured she was about 60 pounds overweight. That’s a rough estimate based on how much she weighed 40 years ago when she was fit and liked her shape. She wanted the excess weight to leave so that she would look good in clothing and feel better about herself.
Delores was about 30 pounds overweight and wanted to surprise her husband for their 20th anniversary — he was out of the country for two months so it would really be a surprise!
Both women were pear shaped with large thighs and fat pads on the hips and lower abdomen — LL. And they both craved dairy products all the time, eating them at least daily.
2) assemble the equipment
I suggested they invest in four items:
- good walking shoes
- a digital scale for weighing food
- a digital scale for weighing themselves that included bone density
- a smallish spiral notebook
The shoes were for walking around the neighborhood, the food scale to reveal how many calories they’d been eating, the people scale so they could see progress on a daily basis, and the notebook to keep track of their food and drink intake and any cravings or problems they encountered.
3) prepare for the assault
We spent the next three days going over the LeftLemon.com website to make sure they understood the two main ways to make a meal work:
- properly combine foods (don’t eat starchy foods with heavy protein foods in the same meal)
- balance each meal (30/30/40)
They also wrote down all of their food and drink intake for those three days, along with cravings, aches and pains, tiredness, and all other feelings they had. We used the Energy Cycle chart to determine they both had some LO problems going on, and Delores had 4C problems because of her stress levels.
They had a lot of questions, mainly asking why this way of eating (Francine didn’t like the word “diet”) would work when so many others had either failed or made them sick. “Eating for health” was my answer to most of those questions.
It isn’t about losing weight — it’s about gaining health.
It was easy to see why they had held onto those extra pounds when we analyzed the diet diaries on the third day. Both were surprised to find out they were eating well over 2000 calories most days, with a “good day” coming in at around 1400 calories.
4) launch
Both women were to begin each day with the juice of one lemon — straight. No water or juice added, just the juice.
Then they would move for twenty minutes, raising their breathing rate some but not too much. Francine was to go for a walk. Not a hard walk, but not an amble either. Just move her body, paying attention to posture, working up to 20 minutes. Delores went for a run — an easy run for her. She needed to calm down and relax through exercise.
On odd-numbered days they did the walk/run, on even-numbered days they did a stretching and free-weights workout lasting about 20 minutes. Francine used an exercise ball to do her stretching and strengthening exercises. Delores chose to do hers in the pool at the gym. They each chose one day each week to rest.
The first three days they ate 1200 calories, broken into three meals of about equal amounts of calories. Both had made marinated greens the day before, and found that balancing their meals made it easier to eat this way because the additional oils helped them to not get hungry.
They checked in with me every couple of days to discuss any problems they were having. Delores needed more 4C’s so she used a Rescue Remedy drink she could sip. Francine needed more lemon during the afternoons so added that to her afternoon water.
And they both stopped drinking so much water! Francine had been religious about drinking 8 glasses of water daily and suffered all sorts of swelling, stomach problems, excessive urination, and leakage problems. All of those disappeared quickly. Delores dropped back to one twenty ounce bottle of water each day, but sipped the 4C’s drink at least three times each day for the first couple of days. Then she dropped back to a 16 ounce bottle of water daily and found that worked well as long as she ate a lot of raw foods.
5) tweak
Keeping track of daily calories and weight helped them to find the sweet spot for their activity level and metabolism rate. After about a week Francine decided anything more than 1180 calories per day would stop the weight loss, but less than 1145 would make her lose too fast. Delores’ numbers were 1240 for the high and 1200 for the low. Every body is different, you just have to find your best spot and understand that additional stress changes things just like different activities change things.
Delores also found that relaxing a bit from so much physical exercise helped her emotionally. She had been stressing herself with so much activity, hating herself for not losing the weight, and comforting herself with sweet drinks.
6) emotional stuff
Both women examined their motives for eating, their feelings about food, and their early memories of how they were placated or motivated with food. Francine confessed she thought about food all the time and it was her primary way of motivating herself to do anything. Delores never saw the connection between what she ate and how she felt until she began keeping the diet diary and connecting yesterday’s eating with today’s pain. She completely eliminated knee and lower back pain by balancing her meals. Accepting responsibility for their own health was an important step for both of them.
They also went through Finding Comfort in Food several times, releasing anger towards friends and family, situations, and especially forgiving themselves.
7) the end…
Both women kept their weight loss to the “healthy standard” of about 2.5 pounds per week. And both women continued to weigh themselves daily for a full month. One huge lesson they learned was that the additional oils in their diets made them feel better, look better, function better, and eat less other foods. They were both pleasantly surprised with low calorie counts on several days so they could add something special as a treat.
During that first month both tried to lose weight without counting calories — each time ending in failure. Getting a feel for the amount of calories you are eating each day can be hard, and it takes a long time to defeat all those lies we like to believe about food. It took them both about four weeks. Then they continued to weigh themselves each morning and wrote down anything unusual in their diet diaries for another month.
The main thing that worked for them without counting calories was to have a collection of meal plans that were balanced, properly combined, and the right amount of calories for them. The favorite breakfast was fruit with some nuts, or fruit with yogurt or cheese. Lunches were leftovers from dinners planned weekly, but one day each week they met at a restaurant to encourage each other. The easy way for them to eat out was at a sandwich and soup place — they would order the sandwich on a plate, hold the bread. Or sometimes they would eat a bowl of soup with a salad on the side. Or side dishes of guacamole and hummus and eat them with a spoon.
Neither of them are finished with their weight loss, but they’ve both quit trying to lose weight. Why? Because they are eating for health, weighing weekly to make sure they’re still headed in the right direction.
And they are both very close.
fluoride on foods
Fluoride is used as a pesticide. It used to be used mostly as a roach poison on buildings, but now it’s one of the most popular pesticides used on the fruits and veggies we eat. As fluoride use became more accepted, the FDA was petitioned to raise the allowable contamination limits on our foods. They reason that you throw away the outside of the produce anyway, so you won’t get so much. Unfortunately, romaine lettuce and grapes are a tad difficult to peel.
Grapes are heavily sprayed with fluoride pesticides, and watered with fluoridated water. The more they’re sprayed, the more the ground water is contaminated. They are probably the worst product you can eat when it comes to healing your thyroid.
You don’t eat grapes? Guess again. Most fruit juices are sweetened with grape juice, even if they’re marketed as my favorite — cranberry juice. Many cereals, fruit concoctions, and other processed foods are sweetened with grape juice. And raisins are dried grapes.
Something pretty to look at. :-)
Grains are sprayed with fluoride pesticides, animals are fed grains sprayed with fluoride pesticides, and citrus groves are heavily sprayed with fluoride pesticides.
Though this may sound like a lot of bad news, there is much you can do to avoid fluoride in your foods. First don’t drink anything out of a can or bottle unless you put it in there yourself. Juices and sodas and drinks are bottled with fluoridated water. Eat organic foods as much as possible to avoid all pesticides. And eat better so your body can heal. If your main source of drinking water is fluoridated, use a filter. Make sure it says on the label that it removes most of the chlorine and fluoride.
Dehydration
If you eat a 60 – 80% raw, whole foods diet, you’ll only need about 20 ounces of water daily.
I know this could sound like a recipe for dehydration, but there are scales available that check hydration levels and body fat. Once you program a scale for your height and age, it tells your hydration percentage. You should use your scale at the same time each day. First thing in the morning after using the bathroom is usually the most accurate.
People who strive for 6-8 glasses of water per day usually show up as dehydrated because their body can’t figure out what to do with all that water. Adding lemon juice to your diet and cutting down on water intake makes the body able to get the fluids into the cells where they are needed.
The quality of your water is important too. Water with additions (city water or flavored waters), or leaching from plastic bottles could be a problem. You could install a reverse osmosis carbon filtered system into your kitchen cold water line, or you could go to a regularly tested natural spring and fill your own glass jars. Water should test at 5.5 – 6 pH.
If your body pH is too acid it will be difficult for you to hydrate properly. Saliva pH should be between 7.2 and 7.4.
Drinking with meals can slow down your digestion. A bit of lemon or water with lemon is okay, but iced drinks are the worst thing to drink with a meal. Get into the habit of chewing your food until it is liquefied.
You can only absorb water in the bowel. If your stomach isn’t acidified enough the lower valve won’t open and you just get water logged — you can hear the sloshing in your stomach. The hormones needed to empty the stomach properly and hydrate are related to the LL side – use more lemon.
The Dreaded Diet Diary
Whenever I’m asked to coach someone through a crisis of some sort, the first thing I have them do is email me a list of everything that goes into their mouth each day along with a list of how they’re feeling, and the times all these are happening. This gives me two huge bits of information:
- which system is having the hardest time functioning
- what beliefs this person has about food and nourishment
Then it’s pretty easy to point someone to the appropriate website pages and help them understand how they are shooting themselves in the foot. It’s hard for many to understand before keeping this Diet Diary though, and you can learn much by keeping one yourself.
Some basic rules:
- write down everything that goes into your mouth and what time it happens
- write down when you’re feeling hungry, thirsty, sad, tired, or anything else, especially pain
- don’t try to make your diary look good, just be accurate
- don’t change what you eat just because you’re writing it down
- do this until you have no problems left
- analyze them by going through the Left Lemon System page on the website
Using the information found on that page you can adjust your diet to make your life work so much better! All sorts of **-isms disappear.
For a walk-through of using a diet diary to figure out how to change your diet, read Study: John or Sue’s Skin.
Here’s how I usually tell people to begin:
- Get a smallish spiral notebook. Begin listing your food and drink intake every day along with how you feel before and after each meal (or between if there’s something worth noting).
- If you are significantly overweight or have difficulty losing weight, two scales would be very helpful: one digital scale to weigh you to tenths of pounds, and one scale to weigh your food. I know this sounds tedious, but I was amazed at how much I was eating once I finally got around to counting calories. And weighing yourself every morning helps you to see the impact of that extra whatever you ate or drank yesterday. If you have bone density issues, get a digital scale that includes bone mass. You might have to go online to find one.
Cardiovascular
High blood pressure, cholesterol problems, heart attacks, & strokes related to the Left Lemon system.
Pear-shaped people usually have blood vessels that are too loose and the blood vessels tend to leak. They have strokes and clotting issues, tending toward low blood pressure. Focus on improving digestion, temporarily adding more lemon to the diet to help you digest your foods. Don’t overeat and don’t eat foods that you don’t digest well, especially processed proteins and anything you may be allergic to. The top allergens are corn, soy, wheat, peanuts and dairy products — all highly processed foods. Also stay away from tannins: coffee, tea, chocolate and colas.
Apple-shaped people usually tend toward heart attacks. The blood vessels are too tight, leading toward high blood pressure and cholesterol problems. Focus on getting better oils into your diet and eliminating hydrogenated or other highly processed oils. Eat a lot of greens but make sure you are digesting them. The Marinated Greens recipe is easier to digest than plain raw greens.
Plum-shaped people usually have a mixture of both, but high blood pressure is frequently a problem. Focus on general health — make sure you are eating plenty of vegetables that you can digest. Avoid caffeine (coffee, tea, chocolate and colas) and artificial red food dyes.
The goal is balance, not dominance in one of the areas above. Balance is achieved by eating better, gently persuading the body to move toward health through foods chosen by two methods:
1) Eating a balance of 30% good proteins, 30% good oils, 40% good carbohydrates (mainly vegetables) with each meal.
2) Not eating starchy foods with your protein meals.
High cholesterol is only found in about half of people with heart attacks. According to research, inflammation is a higher risk factor than high cholesterol levels. An excellent book on the fallacies of cholesterol and blood pressure is Cholesterol & The French Paradox by Frank Cooper. You can read the condensed version for free here. The author clearly explains the reason to attack these health problems with diet instead of prescription drugs. You’ll have to give them your e-mail address to access the book, but there are some excellent books at this site in condensed form.
Eating Out
I was in Butte, Montana recently, looking for a restaurant. We had just toured the amazing Mineral Museum — a place even normal people might appreciate for the beautiful displays of gems and minerals — and we were hungry. We asked around for a good place to eat and someone mentioned The Hummingbird Cafe, just a few blocks from the museum.
To say we had a pleasurable experience would be an understatement. Great food, great service, and a comfortable place to eat while the weather outside was frightful.
But more than that I was reminded of what makes a great dining experience when you’re trying to improve your health while still enjoying food, friends, and family.
Rule #1: pick a place that knows what “fresh” means
Wilted lettuce or canned guacamole just won’t improve your health like a pile of fresh alfalfa sprouts and a dollop of fresh hummus.
Rule #2: if they won’t work with you, go elsewhere
I don’t eat wheat. Nope, not ever. So when entering a sandwich shop the first thing I want to know is if the chef is having a bad day and can’t handle arranging sandwich ingredients on a plate. By the time you find that out, you already know if your waiter is going to be helpful.
Rule #3: comfort is…, well…, comforting
Is it too crowded? Too noisy? Too dark? Too anything?
A comfortable chair at a table with space to move around, good art on the walls, a bit of tasteful humor in the bathroom — these are all appreciated.
Rule #4: your turn — share your thoughts on finding good food when eating out
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The good…
Everyone has organisms living in their gut. It’s a good thing. Well, the good bacteria is a good thing. They help us digest our food, make vitamin B12, keep things clean down there, and even fight to keep their space free of the bad guys.
But sometimes we do things that harm the good bacteria. Like eat raw yeast dough, or eat bad food for a long time, or eat something that is rotten and we get food poisoning.
Then the good guys suffer and the bad guys take over and we get all sorts of problems.
the bad…
Once you’ve had food poisoning you can get it easier next time because your immune system doesn’t quite kill them all. In other words, once you get something bad living in your gut it can easily come back if you don’t take good care of yourself. And once the good guys are not having an enjoyable life, other bad bacteria, fungus and yeasts can come in and make things worse.
and the ugly…
Yup, parasites. Nope, you don’t want a photo. Take my word for it, they’re not fun to look at.
Colon Basics
A healthy person wakes up to urinate and move their bowels as soon as they get up. Then their bowels move within 2 hours of each meal. How can you have more bowel movements than meals in a day? Because what you eliminate is not what you eat.
If you are eating balanced and properly combined meals, your food is digested and used, with very little of it getting to the large bowel. Feces contain the waste products of bodily functions. The high amount of dead red blood cells make feces brown, and there are a lot of waste products from intestinal flora (good guys and bad) and parasites (ugly). Most of the organisms living inside your body have a 12 hour life cycle, and that die-off goes into the feces.
Parasites live in decaying matter. If the bowels are moving properly you won’t suffer from an overgrowth of yeast, which feeds on the excrement of worms. You also won’t have worms, which feed on the breakdown of bacteria that isn’t being eliminated.
It’s important to keep moving
To solve chronic constipation:
- Eat 70-80% raw
- Balance all meals with 30/30/40 balance.
- Don’t eat animal products until the good guys are in control and your bowels move regularly.
Probiotics are not needed if you’re eating right. If you use them and you’re not eliminating, you’re adding to the problem with more things to live in there. Commercial probiotics cannot help if you are not moving.
To establish normal flora:
- Eat raw
- No animal products, especially dairy products
- If in crisis, eat 100% raw for at least three days
- Eat marinated vegetables
Flora comes from plant matter. You may also add cranberry (the berries, or the juice, not the sweetened juice) or coconut so the caprylic acid can help fight off yeast overgrowth.
And if you’re not digesting…
Then a lot of your food gets into your gut to feed the parasites. That’s not a good thing. They love undigested proteins so if you overeat protein foods or don’t digest what you’re eating (seeing food in your feces is one indicator, so are food allergies — it’s the undigested proteins that cause the problems), you need to add lemon to each meal to help you digest those foods.
Getting rid of the ugly
Parasites are more active around the full moon. Think about that one — like maybe the world is a little crazier at that time due to parasite activity. So that’s the best time to give them something that decreases their existence in your gut.
The Recipe:
- 1 quart clean water
- 2 tablespoons black walnut hull powder
- (optional but very effective) 1 tablespoon clove powder
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar with the mother included (Bragg’s)
Bring the water to a boil, remove from heat, stir in the powder, cover with a lid, and let it rest five minutes. Then cool it to room temperature and add the vinegar. Put this into a jar for 3 or 4 days before you begin to use it, stored in the refrigerator.
You will begin drinking the tea three days before the full moon, take a break the day of the full moon for a total fast, then take the tea for three more days afterward. One-quarter of a cup with each meal.
That total fast in the middle really helps. And you can suck on whole cloves instead of adding them to your tea.
Recap:
The full moon is next Thursday. Make one quart of the tea now and let it grow in your fridge until Monday. Begin a second batch (per person) on Monday so you’ll have enough for the second half of the treatment.
- Monday begin drinking 1/4 cup of the tea with each meal for three days.
- Thursday fast from all food and drink.
- Friday through Sunday drink the tea again with each meal.
Rescue Remedies:
One way to figure out what is going on in your gut is to poke your belly and notice any pain, bloating, or tightness. You can remedy according to the quadrant that is in distress. Remember, mid-line distress (along the center line up and down through the belly button) would be 4C’s. Also pain on both sides at the same time would be 4C’s.
