Juniper : cleanses the body and the blood via the kidneys.

Celandine : cleanses the whole body via the liver

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Juniper & Celandine Cleanse

~ The Dose 

Unless advised otherwise in person, start with taking 6 Juniper berries and 6 drops of Celandine extract. Each day you take one extra Juniper berry and one extra drop of Celandine, i.e on day two you take 7 berries and 7 drops. On the third day you take 8 berries and 8 drops and so on. Increase the dose by one berry and one drop every day either until you reach a total of 20 berries and 20 drops and then continue at that level until the course has finished or you are advised otherwise in person.

~ When to take them?

First thing in the morning, before breakfast, is ideal. If for any reason you can't do that then the 2nd best time to take them is an hour or two after dinner in the evening.

~ How to take them?

Take the Celandine drops directly onto your tongue or place them in a little water. It is definitely ok to dilute the Celandine in water but I would also encourage you to try getting used to taking them straight. The taste will no doubt be strong but it will help your body to recognise and understand what it is supposed to do with this medicine. Believe it or not, your liver knows what is good for it!

The Juniper berries require a little more work and I would suggest you take them before the Celandine. You need to lightly chew the Juniper berries and then wash them down with a little water. Ideally you will chew them enough times to get them into a good pulp because this releases the herb into your bloodstream very quickly but if, like many people, you find this increasingly challenging then do not hesitate to quickly wash them down after you start to break them down.

It is vital that you drink two full glasses of water in the process of taking these two medicines. Through the day you also need to make sure that you do not get dehydrated and that you are regularly going to the toilet. Failure to make sure of this means you will feel a lot worse on this treatment than you need to.

~ What will they do to me?

Juniper and Celandine are justifiably famous in all the old cultures of medicine. They are powerful cleansing herbs that work through the liver and the kidneys to help the body remove impurities from the blood and from the tissues. The process will start being activated from the first dose and the reason we build up slowly is to lessen the chance of an excessively disruptive cleansing reaction, something that is called a ‘healing crisis’. Even still, most people will have some cleansing reactions at some points in the treatment but they are should be mild enough or transient enough to cope with well.

Do not stop the treatment once you have started it, drink plenty of water and rest as much as you need.

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