LIVER AND GALLBLADDER FLUSH

The liver and gallbladder flush is an important detoxifying method which will help restore the normal functional capacity of these organs.

WARNING! You need to have a Gallbladder ultrasound or x-ray before doing the flush to see if you have medium-size calcified stones.  If you try to flush these, they may block the common duct and become a surgical emergency.

Listed below are the steps that should be followed:

  1. Have a gallbladder ultrasound or x-ray before doing the flush.
  2. Monday through Saturday noon, eat a fat free diet. Take no oils, fats or nuts.
  3. At noon on Saturday, you should eat a normal lunch.
  4. Three hours later, take two teaspoons of Epsom salt dissolved in about one ounce of water. The taste may be objectionable and may be followed by a little citrus juice.
  5. Two hours later, repeat the Epsom salts.
  6. You may have grapefruit juice, or other citrus fruits or juice for your evening meal.  No other food.
  7. At bedtime, drink ½ cup of unrefined olive oil followed by a small glass of grapefruit juice.  Unrefined olive oil can be purchased at any health food store.  It is best to use fresh citrus juice, but canned or bottled are permissible. 
  8. Following step 7 you should go immediately to bed and lie on your right side with your right knee pulled up close to your chest for thirty minutes.
  9. The next morning, one hour before breakfast, take two teaspoons of Epsom salts dissolved in two ounces of hot water.
  10. Be sure to continue with your normal diet and any nutritional program that has been prescribed for you.

Some patients have occasionally reported slight to moderate nausea when taking the olive oil/citrus juice; this nausea will slowly disappear by the time you go to sleep.  If the olive oil induces vomiting, you need to repeat the procedure.  Flushing of the liver and gallbladder stimulates and cleans these organs like no other method.

Patients who have chronically suffered from gallstones, backaches, nausea, etc., occasionally find small gallstones in the stool the following day.  These objects are light green to dark green in color.  They are irregular in shape, gelatinous in texture, and varying size from grape seeds to cherry seeds.  If there seem to be a large number of these objects in the stool, the doctor may wish to have the flush repeated.


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