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Oct. 9th, 2007 07:00 amI ate some bad nachos for lunch yesterday. That I made myself with stale tortilla chips, but I didn't realize HOW bad. I thought they just weren't very tasty and ruined my appetite for a bit. But then I started lots of digestive gurgling last night at work, and this morning at 5 am I was awoken by cramping and had to hurry off to the bathroom. [Don't worry, I'm not going to go into any major detail here about bodily functions, though if you read my journal, you know I maybe I'm not always the standard measure of what is "overshare", so consider yourself duly warned, I suppose.]
So I decided to do a salt water flush, where you drink a quart of water in one sitting, that has two teaspoons of sea salt added to it. I attempted this when I did the "Master Clease" about a year ago, but after one sip, I gagged and dumped it out and never tried it again. I might have oversalted it. This time it wasn't as bad. I mean, it wasn't yummy or even pleasant, but no wretching occured and I finished the whole quart. Maybe I've used my neti pot so much, I'm more used to exposing my muscous membranes to warm saline. Now I'm at the computer which is approximately 6 feet from the bathroom because I have been in there several times already and will be in there some more. Because as one ritual for the salt water flush indicated, a main ingredient for the process is "toilet paper". But of course now I'm reading more and more about various cleansing, flushes, etc. etc. and have come across some amazing gems. One is from a woman who cured herself from candida illnesses with her colon cleanses, which ok, cool, sure, I can get behind this. And now she is selling the combination of herbs/supplements that she used to others so they can heal themselves. Her site includes directions for cleanses, including the salt water flush, and she doesn't give instructions for anything that odd, but her explanations for why they work are sort of hilarious. The principal of salt water flushes is really about the osmosis (in the scientific meaning, not the metaphoric one) and the idea that the salted water is ph-balanced with blood so that it doesn't get absorbed into our system, it instead passes through quickly, taking bad things in the intestines with it. Except according to her, salt water flushes work because of "gravity". Um, ok.
Then there are the people who started a website for their book called "Cleansing or Surgery?" which is pretty awesome title, and about in-line with the general "Master Cleanse" way of seeing the world and the body. I read about their salt water flush procedure, which is standard, but there's a great line of advice that says "don't pass gas at this time unless you're on the toilet because it might be liquid". I appreciate such forthright information, because otherwise you learn it the hard way. I start clicking around to see their other cleanses, and they have a "tooth cleanse", which intrigued me even more when I came upon this quote: We don't have to be dependent on dentists. There is another way. The Lord Jesus has led us to a daily tooth cleansing plan that has kept our family's teeth healthy.
I love people. And I'm totally going to find some Sanguinaria root for making these specific people's mouthwash, whether it came directly from Lord Jesus or not.
So I decided to do a salt water flush, where you drink a quart of water in one sitting, that has two teaspoons of sea salt added to it. I attempted this when I did the "Master Clease" about a year ago, but after one sip, I gagged and dumped it out and never tried it again. I might have oversalted it. This time it wasn't as bad. I mean, it wasn't yummy or even pleasant, but no wretching occured and I finished the whole quart. Maybe I've used my neti pot so much, I'm more used to exposing my muscous membranes to warm saline. Now I'm at the computer which is approximately 6 feet from the bathroom because I have been in there several times already and will be in there some more. Because as one ritual for the salt water flush indicated, a main ingredient for the process is "toilet paper". But of course now I'm reading more and more about various cleansing, flushes, etc. etc. and have come across some amazing gems. One is from a woman who cured herself from candida illnesses with her colon cleanses, which ok, cool, sure, I can get behind this. And now she is selling the combination of herbs/supplements that she used to others so they can heal themselves. Her site includes directions for cleanses, including the salt water flush, and she doesn't give instructions for anything that odd, but her explanations for why they work are sort of hilarious. The principal of salt water flushes is really about the osmosis (in the scientific meaning, not the metaphoric one) and the idea that the salted water is ph-balanced with blood so that it doesn't get absorbed into our system, it instead passes through quickly, taking bad things in the intestines with it. Except according to her, salt water flushes work because of "gravity". Um, ok.
Then there are the people who started a website for their book called "Cleansing or Surgery?" which is pretty awesome title, and about in-line with the general "Master Cleanse" way of seeing the world and the body. I read about their salt water flush procedure, which is standard, but there's a great line of advice that says "don't pass gas at this time unless you're on the toilet because it might be liquid". I appreciate such forthright information, because otherwise you learn it the hard way. I start clicking around to see their other cleanses, and they have a "tooth cleanse", which intrigued me even more when I came upon this quote: We don't have to be dependent on dentists. There is another way. The Lord Jesus has led us to a daily tooth cleansing plan that has kept our family's teeth healthy.
I love people. And I'm totally going to find some Sanguinaria root for making these specific people's mouthwash, whether it came directly from Lord Jesus or not.
