Liver flush step by step

Why would I bother? Probably because this first glass of epsom salts was so fowl that the only way to take it out of my system (other than going to the toilet) is to write about it.

The Liver flush:
Instructions: Afer having read the Andreas Moritz book on gallbladder flush, drink a litre of apple juice, cranberry juice, cider, vinegar or malic acid a day, all through the day, for 5 days running.

I didn't.
I had apple and cranberry juice when I felt like it in the last few days and this morning had nearly the litre of apple juice as well as some extra malic acid powder which I found on the net, in a protein shop for people who do weight lifting. It is quite important to have the right amount of apple juice the day of the flush (or malic acid, which is in the apples) so to foment in the guts(???! What for??) and also, more importantly, to soften the liver stones which are going to come out tonight, when drinking the grapefruit juice and olive oil mixture.
Actually, I feel more like sesame oil today, so I think I will have that instead of olive oil.

1pm: Have your lunch. Lunch should comprise of merely plain and boiled basmati rice (agremented over here with grey sea salt, himalayan sea salt, aniseeds and a few more curminative spices) and boiled or steamed vegetables.
I don't remember if we were not meant to have any raw food, but never mind, the steamed Hackney garden vegetables (probably blessed by the pigeons) came together with carrots, celery, soaked (delicious, my favourite) Sea spaguetti seaweed, provence herbs, grated ginger, grated garlic, and raw tomatoes and raw coriander leaves. It was delicious. I must say, I did cheat and had a tiny teaspoon of flaxseed oil. Something told me to have some (but nothing told me to have chocolate unfortunately, so I didn't have any of that)
It is important to follow intuition.(rather than the Andreas Moritz book)

3pm: Have a few fennel teas to start helping with the coming flatulences from the flush, fennel is great to expell winds, it is a nice tea to have just before you see your lover for a romantic night. Poor lover. I am not going to hold myself back for him.

4pm: Try and not get depressed about the prospect of having to drink that much epsom salts, it really is disgusting, and I am quite used to disgusting things, so it is to say.

5pm: look at the clock and say a gratitude prayer to the Lord for allowing it not to be 6pm yet.

6pm: No turning back now, the time has come.
Mix, in 24 ounces of water, 4 tablespoons of epsom salts and share it in 4 glasses, drink your first glass now. (I went light, this time, no heaped teaspoons like last time)
Robert doesn't seem happy about having to drink his at all and retires to watch the cricket instead. (He is doing it too, but I don't know if I should narrate his as he may do a blog about it himself)
I m off to tidy up my sewing room.

7.39pm: Sewing room didn't get tidied at all, but this drawing above was done instead. I like looking at drawings I have done, it's a bit like jewelry to most women, they make my eyes happy, even when they are ugly. It is somewhat narcissistic to feel that way towards my own things I create, but it is also a bit of a child like pride, happiness to have managed to do something! (AlexandreD blog is mainly drawings done on the computer, it makes me happy to look at it)

But anyhow, I am looking forward to the 8pm epsom salts glass and starting to regret my statement about "a lover" in the previous paragraph. It was not meant at anyone and not mean to be taken in any offensive way. I don't have a lover. Well, I sort of do, but he is absent so he doesn't count. His name is Rupert. He was also interested in doing a liver flush so I lent him my Andreas Moritz book [not to be seen again, note from 19-08-09]

9.45pm, or rather, 10.19, I decided to have a bath, with 4 essential oils which I found in aromatherapy books and then dowsed over to decide which one was right for this occasion, and sticking to those. Carrot oil is one of the main ones, as well as rosemary (carrot seed oil is excellent for gallbladder and liver, but it is disgusting) and lemon, etc.
The bath was a bit too hot but felt right. I am not in the calmest and pecefullest state, on the opposite. I'm a bit worried that my tension, as well as affecting Robert, may affect my own liver flush...


The mixture is going to be drunk.
I am not going to go to bed, but instead, decide to live uncomfortable things. Put a DVD on, which I know will arouse out of me the greatest sadness. Living through the emotions of what happens to the hero of "The last Unicorn", I know things that they reflect in me, will come out.

The DVD didn't make me cry at all, I think I chose the wrong one, I was not attuned to that sort of sadness, tonight, unfortunately.
I didn't drink all my glass of grapefruit juice/sesame/olive oil, but about 2/3d of it, a bit less than 8 ounces. I stopped drinking when I felt I had had enough, which I have never done before, usually, I think "The more, the better and the healthier" like the American think, and force myself into big portions.
This time, I follow Neil and Robert's political views of "Moderations " and trusting my body to tell me when it had enough. This really was a small glass, and after I had drunk it, instead of lying in bed and not moving for 20minutes, I am in the lounge, lying on the rug, with a duvet, unsettled, taking a cushion, arranging it, not being comfortable, moving one side then the other, then getting up to move the table which is in the way of my feet, then after about 10 mins of feeling slightly settled, feeling a draft which really teases me, coming from the sewing room door so getting up again to close that door... Moritz's book is definitely getting a slap in the face! If this liver flush is unsuccesful, I will know that he was right, about the "not moving and not saying a word for 20 minutes" thing.

The DVD finishes, I feel slightly sick from the grapefruit juice and oil, and go to bed. Before bed, I put some more lemon oil and Ravensara oil (which was calling me) over my liver and stomach area.
I have not cried, I don't feel sad (unfortunately) though I have had all through the day, some little second long snippets visions and memory of my growing up and childhood. Like my body knew what I was going to do and was preparing to it.

Falling asleep is easy, and I sleep straight for the next 6 hours, waking up at 5.20 but deciding it is too early to drink my 3d glass of Epsom salts for 6am, get back to sleep, and when I next wake up, it's 8.20. The Epsom salts strangely, unlike the times before, do not make me sick. Though, I felt in a worse condition this time to do a liver flush than last month. I was really reluctant to drinking that olive oil, last night...

The night was charged with dreams; dreams of everything. Dream of a fox in France. Dream I was pregnant again and my boyfriend was giving me an enveloppe to authoise me to have an abortion, and an enveloppe with money that I accepted (???) but I was telling him that even though I didn't know how it may have happened, I may not really be pregnant since I hadn't had my periods yet.
Other dreams all over the place, when I woke up, I felt I had lived another 2 weeks within that night.

No signs of needing to go to the toilet yet. I fall asleep again till 10am, when an attentionned Robert brings me up my last glass of Epsom salts, which I am not willing to drink in case it makes me sick, but again, it does not.

The toilet calls me at last, it must be around 10.30 and I feel a bit dehydrated.
But oh my god... It has never happened like that before. My first toilet go, which usually is just rubish coming out, like foam and shuff and frothy smelly water, is actually... MANY STONES!!!!

I am so excited that I nearly have a dance around the bathroom to celebrate(but it's a bit small to dance about, so I don't, and shout at Robert instead to declare victory)
The stones are green and also yellow, and there are at least 3 times more stones there than the last liver flush gave in its entirity! There are some quite big ones too!
Strangely, the smell is not as toxic smelling as the other liver flushes, which is odd, it is just more stony. My last flush which gave hardly any stones (the first one often doesn't) was extremely toxic smelling (well, of liver smell, it does not smell like turds at all, it's a very particular smell)

Of course, to mirror last time, my body decides it is the right time to come up and wants to have his monthly womanly clearance. I accept it, it is very strangely exactly timed like last time, and is exactly 28 days, which is unusual.
Maybe my body was just waiting for me to organise something regular so it could become regular also. I was a bit peeved because it is best to do one thing at the time, plus Andreas Moritz says we should not have periods when doing liver flush but should keep them for later. As it is too much cleansing for the body to be able to cope with everything.
I think he probably is right, but if my body decides it is fine that way, then I will follow it. After all, my body is more intelligent than I am.

The second toilet makes me think that maybe drawing this drawing last night, influenced my subconscious enough to actually work really well with the liver: Another victory!
Many stones come out again! ANd this time, I have about 3 which are very big! Well, one is as big as a hazelnut (a bit bigger) and is very yellow-martian looking. The other big ones are bright green. I am very excited and happy, happy to see that even though I was not in a peaceful state and did many wrong things I shouldn't have done, my body is letting go of much heavy matter!!! Youpi!!!

Unfortunately, Robert's not as successful stones wise, this time, though his is toxically similar as in, he seems to be getting out quite a lot of thin matter which is very strong. But, as said above, it often happens that way on first liver flushes. The firs ones often don't give many stones. The ones following do, because the liver, seeing its ducts are being freed from clutter, move forward older stones so they can come out at the next liver flush. (is the body intelligent enough to know we will do another flush in a month or so?)

Regarding bowel movements, it is quite normal the evening of the flush, to go to the toilet a couple of times like it happened to me yesterday evening, as the Epsom salts chase out anything in the intestines. Moritz also says to add some anti-parasitic plant extracts to the olive oil mix, which I do, adding grapefruit seed extract and walnut husk in case there are some unwanted guests about. I have been taking some of that on and off, since the last flush, as well as taking some liver cleansing plant extract (and having done my kidney flush during which I thought I had kidney stones and a urinary track infection etc... It is really intersting to observe and learn different things from our body!)

I have other toilets today, number 4 and 5 give fewer stones, and mostly liquid. It is funny as never in the past had I had stones on the first toilet trip, they usually only come out during the 2d and 3d toilet trip.
I am not expecting many more stones to come out now, I feel quite energized, (and healthier than last month) and feel I have learned some knowledge about how my body works and what makes it happier or makes it work with me rather than against me. It has been very interesting.

Right now, other than monthly uncomfortabilities, I feel emotionally steady, even though slightly tired (and got chocolate cravings earlier). I don't feel sad, don't feel like dwelling on the past nor the future.
I look forward to going ahead with psychotherapy sessions, which something is pushing me to do, very strongly, and also looking forward to friendly times coming this week, as well as catching up with some friends on email.
Enough blog-like blog now, it's getting too predictable, so I m off to go and find those stones pictures for the blog so all who look can be utterly disgusted or think they would love to do one themselves.

Nothing more to add to the liver flush right now. I doubt there will be any questions from anyone!!!

Ps: my weight is the lightest I have ever been, at 43.9kg or was it 6st13? I have been eating much lunch today and lots of chocolate, so it doesn't make sense. That scales are crap.

PPS: Joyeux annniversaire a Toi qui es un peu plus pres bien que plus loin de moi.


PPPS: Next morning after having felt very displeased and lost yesterday evening: For the first time in my liver flushes history, when I went to the toilet this morning, some more stones came out!!!
I have never had stones come out the next day!
And to make it a happy ending for everybody, Robert has had some amazingly big stones come out this morning too. Not many, but they were the biggest stones I have ever seen. Not quite the golf balls that they say on the net can come out at liver flushes, but well, (hopefully it won't need to get there) not that far from it!

PPPPS:
Here is the links to the other liver flushes that ended up on this poor blog
5th liver flush, June 09

4th liver flush: no photos neither and it was a missed one anyway since it was done at boyfriend's house and I was all agitated and didn't do the flush properly as I was too concerned about him. ONly a couple of crappy looking stones came out.

3d liver flush: No photos though it was the best flush ever, I had lots come out, though probably not as much as during this flush. But I can't remember and I have no proof of it!

Second flush, January 2008


First flush ever: November 2007

Robert's enormous stones photos can be seen here.