Detoxify : clean up your body naturally .
Give your body a good spring cleaning? A dream that we all cherish without knowing how to do it.
Your body does frown? You feel tired, you lack enthusiasm, you sometimes have trouble sleeping? You have pimples, bags under the eyes or cellulite? Many signals that show your body is overwhelmed. This is hardly surprising, caught in the middle as we are between a diet too rich, a sedentary lifestyle and a steady increase in air pollution ...
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11 Ways To Detoxify Your Body Naturally : |
As Tessa Thomas points out in "Lifting natural" (Flammarion, 2001), "are as sophisticated as the liver and lymphatic system, they are faced nowadays with an overabundance of toxins to which they are often unable to cope." The solution? Enjoying the spring to follow a "cure detoxification." Specifically, it is to rid the blood and lymph of all toxic sediments accumulated.
You can choose between group care that follow ten days to cure an express or spread smoothly over a month. The express treatment is recommended if you have performed a detoxification cure the previous year (one-year program is more than enough) or if you have an excellent lifestyle everyday. Anyway, remember that the first day will not necessarily be a pleasure, and do not worry, fatigue, mood swings, headaches and minor skin problems will sometimes visit you. They are a sign that toxins are being eliminated. Beware, however, this type of program is for people in good general health. Do not hesitate to consult your doctor if you have any doubt about your ability to undertake it.
- Summary :
- Lemon to stimulate the liver :
- Dandelion to relieve the kidneys :
- Rice expel toxins :
- Bath salt magnesium sweat :
- Scrubs to brighten the skin :
- A cream to protect it from pollution :
- Lymphatic drainage to eliminate :
- A colonic irrigation to regenerate :
- A tea to purify :
- Purify, why ?
- Movement to promote circulation :
- Eat plenty of detoxifying foods and herbs, such as :
1 - Lemon to stimulate the liver :
The liver is a priority element in the process of detoxification. Because if its many functions, it is mainly responsible for eliminating waste and neutralize toxins circulating in the body. To stimulate, Jane Scrivner, author of "Detox, how to" (Marabout 2001), advises to start your day by drinking fresh lemon juice mixed with warm water. If stimulant and antiseptic lemon is known, it is less known is remarkably effective to boost congested livers.
2 - Dandelion to relieve the kidneys :
The kidneys filter the blood at a rate of seven liters per hour, eliminating through urine, useless or harmful substances. Dandelion, nicknamed the "big cleaning" function facilitates their removal. You can, of course, eat a salad. Maurice Messegué, herbalist, recommends to prepare herbal tea, together with the fumeterre, rosemary and nettle (four pinches each in half a liter of water) to drink throughout the day. Dandelion is also available in the form of powder capsules "freeze-ground" (in pharmacies).
3 - Rice expel toxins :
If it is necessary to "unclog" the liver and kidneys, it is also important to give them a break by avoiding the absorption of new toxins. Will you wish to remove, during curing, meat, cheese (except the sheep, more digestible), eggs, coffee, chocolate, alcohol, not to mention the bread and milk? These foods require in effect the body more effort to be digested. To compensate, put the dishes in the large and fun to prepare fruits and vegetables, raw or cooked, associated with fish, grains, nuts ...
Other preferred food: rice. Thanks to its high potassium levels, it stimulates the expulsion of toxins. To treat you, inspire you recipes from the book "Detox without penalty" (DNA, 2001) Angelika Ilies.
4 - Bath salt magnesium sweat :
Rediscover the virtues of Epsom salt, formerly called "salt doctor." This magnesium salt (in pharmacies and health food stores) is deemed to activate the process of sweating and detoxification of the body. Mix one pound of salt in a hot bath; relax fifteen minutes in water, then massage in with a washcloth.
At the end of the bath, wrap yourself in a terry bathrobe. Profuse sweating and high fatigue can follow so you'd better take this bath at the end of the day, at a rate of twice a week (except during the menstrual period).
5 - Scrubs to brighten the skin :
When the liver and kidneys are overstretched, the skin ends up serving discharge the overflow of waste accumulated in the blood. Not only do these toxins produce free radicals that accelerate aging, but they impede blood circulation, guaranteeing smooth skin, firm and bright.
Good gesture on dry skin before washing, you rub a few minutes with a firm bristle brush or loofah (vegetable sponge). Always start with the feet and then up towards the upper body. Each gesture is performed to the heart, without moving back and forth. For the face, use a glove dry toilet. Finally, every three days, perform a scrub with a suitable cream.
6 - A cream to protect themselves from pollution :
Exposed to pollution, our skin eventually run out of breath. Come cascading warm, tightness, redness, haggard ...
Two solutions: offer her skin means to defend themselves through the intake of antioxidants that help fight against free radicals (cream with green tea or vitamin E); or focus on assets that can capture and neutralize polluting edge molecules. Difficult to keep the pollutants being multiple promise. Waiting to have a protection factor of pollution on your products, turn to laboratories that warrant specific studies such
Biotherm (cream Hydra-Detox) Helena Rubinstein (Urban Active) or Clarins (Multi-Active Day).
7-Lymphatic drainage to eliminate :
Lymph nodes secrete what the Greeks called "white blood." Lymph indeed contains white blood cells, which are responsible for picking up dead cells and toxins to eliminate them. Lymphatic drainage is a form of massage designed to give a boost to a sluggish lymphatic system by stimulating the glands in the neck, armpits, groin, back of the knees and arms. It is normally performed by a physiotherapist (about 43 euros). Count to ten for a "visible" result.
8 - A colonic irrigation to regenerate :
This is a sort of washing of the intestine, performed using filtered water injected through a pipe via the rectum and for eliminating any waste in the colon. This colonic irrigation (or hydrotherapy) provides a pleasant feeling of well-being, while eliminating the problems of constipation and flatulence.
"It is not a miracle solution and must be accompanied by an overhaul of healthy lifestyle, warns Alain Rousseau, naturopath. His practice is not justified when the patient is very tired, he suffers from colitis, or abdominal musculature is too weak to cope with the internal pressure of the water. "
The colon hydrotherapy is practiced by a physician, physical therapist or naturopath.
9 - Herbal tea for cleaning :
If your body craves purity, drink water priority (not less than one and a half liters per day). Also try infusions (one cup per day) or birch orthosiphon two queens plants disposal. The first, diuretic and "filters out" is recommended against water retention. The second great draining of the body, helps to lower cholesterol.
Purify, why?
Can we achieve a better life through a purification of body and soul? Or counteract the violence of the world by a form of inner purity? Questions that we ask to face the multitude of books and products extolling the virtues of detoxification. American and English go further, praising the "mind detox" and "detox home" (detoxification of the mind and of the house) in many books and websites devoted to the subject ...
"There is currently an awareness of the risks to our environment and our food, says Claude degrese, ethnopsychologue. Everyone tries to compensate and to reassure its limited resources, the action is a valve anxiety. That is why we see the emergence of programs detoxification, Spas, the significance of the theme of water, the booming market of essential oils diffusers or air ionizers. Many gestures to resist. "
10 - Movement to promote circulation :
No wellness program without physical activity. Because the movement is the best way to activate blood circulation, it helps to eliminate toxins through the lungs (respiration) and transpiration, and that this exercise benefits the lymphatic system. In contrast to the blood, lymph does not have a pump which propels it into the organism, so its movement is based only on the body movement. You do not have a choice: move ... thirty minutes a day.
In the end, bright, cellulite skin gently sloping, increased energy, sleep found reward you for your efforts.
11 - Eat plenty of detoxifying foods and herbs, such as :
it helps eliminate toxins from the body and has other beneficial properties (it has an anti-inflammatory effect, reduces blood sugar and regulates the amount of water retention by the body) .
Artichoke is great if you want to detoxify the liver. In addition, it acts as a diuretic and helps to control high cholesterol. Other good options are: cucumber, carrot, and cherries. Cucumber: it is excellent for detoxification of the kidneys .
Cucumber is 90% water and hydrate the skin and helps to detoxify the liver and kidneys. Other good options are: cabbage, watermelon and green tea .
- Aloe vera : Draining liver .
The liver is the main actor of metabolism, often a silent actor because the body is not provided with sensory innervation. Its dysfunction is therefore almost always occur indirectly: digestive disorders, constipation, chronic fatigue, lack of energy. Prevention, it is good to make a cure aloe vera 3 to 6 months in the spring and fall for a sustainable detox. The skin takes over a sluggish liver.
Aloe vera helps eliminate toxins. Immediate result? A purer skin brighter. Try acne often associated with intestinal laziness in case. Aloe Vera is incredibly beneficial for intestinal function and intestinal transit is more efficient and easier. The gel often eliminates transit disorders such as pain caused by colic.
Note: I remind you that in case of a real health problem, you should consult a doctor or other specialist. The remedies that are presented to you are brought to your attention and only indicative.