Some Simple Detox Treatments

1) Lemon treatment: This treatment is conducted over a two-week period. The first day one drinks the juice of one lemon diluted in water one-half hour before breakfast. On consequent days one lemon is added up to seven. From that point the order is reversed back down to one lemon on the last day.

Note: it is important to include the peel (if pesticide-free) because many of the aromatic terpenes, which have great medicinal value, are concentrated in it. The most abundant of these is d-limonene with its proven detoxifying effects.

Warning: the use of more than one lemon a day on a continued basis should be avoided in the case of gastroduodenal ulcers, chronic constipation, or anemia.

2) Grapefruit treatment: This may be done with the whole fruit or the juice. This treatment begins by eating a grapefruit on an empty stomach (whole fruit or juice), two the next day, and so forth up to five. When five a day has been reached, reduce the dose by one each day down to one.
For the next five days continue eating one grapefruit a day until completing the two-week course of the treatment.

Note: it is advantageous to eat the whole grapefruit including the white layer just beneath the peel and between the sections with its pectin-rich fiber.

Warning: certain phytochemicals of the flavonoid group found in grapefruit, particularly naringine, act to inhibit the activity of enzymes responsible for metabolizing certain medications. Two known types of drugs that interact with grapefruit are calcium channel blocking agents, (nifedipine and similar drugs) used in cases of coronary heart disease and hypertension, and cyclosporine, an immunsuppressant used in organ transplant cases, particularly of the kidney.

3) Grapefruit juice treatment: A glass of grapefruit juice on an empty stomach each morning. The best results are obtained by following this regime for a month, resting one or two days a week.

4) Lifetime treatment: Juice from one freshly squeezed lemon in one quart of warm water drunk on an empty stomach one half-hour before breakfast.