We, humans take rest when we are tired and when the Sun sets in the horizon. However, some of our body parts are always functioning round-the-clock such as stomach and its vital parts.
‘If you have a proper digestive system, then you can live a healthy and happy life.’
How true! Imagine you are suffering from acidity and you may have to burp in the midst of a conversation. Get to know about the importance of the vital body part in this article of Intestinal cleansing. Information has been given on the importance of intestine, the foods to be selected during the cleansing process as well as the seven day cleaning plan.
Intestinal Toxins
If all the digested food is eliminated properly from the body, there will be no toxins. If some of the food remains in the digestive tract, then accumulation can result in toxicity. Lack of sleep in the night and consumption of food at irregular intervals might cause acidity which may lead to acid reflux and formation of toxins.
Intestinal Parasites
When it comes to harmful organisms in the intestines, mention has to be made of tapeworms. The most common method of people getting infected is when they consume undercooked meat in infected animals.
Nutritional Requirements Of A Daily Diet
There are some who eat three meals per day and some who partake seven little meals in perfect duration. Let us look into the nutritional requirements of every day as per the recommendations of the Food and Development Authority (FDA) as per the calorie specifications.
Although fat is despised, you need 65 grams of total fat and 300 mg of cholesterol and dietary fiber. With reference to vitamins, you need Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, riboflavin (Vitamin B2), thiamine (Vitamin B1), niacin (Vitamin B3), pyridoxine (Vitamin B6), folate (Vitamin B9), vitamin b12 (cobalamin), biotin (Vitamin H) and pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5)..
Plan for Conquering Cravings
A proper plan has to be kept in place for keeping cravings at bay. You can try these few pointers:
- You can drink water.
- Walking can be termed as the best form of mild exercise during cleansing. Ensure that you do this activity in a green garden.
- If you are an avid reader, do not opt for books which has lengthy description of meals.
Colon cleansing is important for a good body functioning. Even medical procedures involve cleaning the colon to being with. Maintaining a healthy colon will help the body in effectively removing toxins and unwanted deposits inside the body. Waste build-up inside our body (mixes with the blood) will result in bloating, fatigue, skin problems, allergies etc. so periodic colon cleansing is important. For full 24 Hrs. Fasting or observing a juice/water fast is good way for body to self-repair and cleanse the internal organs.
Day 1
1. Breakfast
You can start the plan with a juice so that the consumption is made easy.
Have vegetable and fruits ready.
Option 1: You can prepare a banana and apple juice for consumption – breakfast.
Option 2: You can have gluten free oats boiled in water (required) along with blue berries or cashew nuts
Option 3: Fruit salad of five strawberries, one apple, twenty raisins and one guava)
Option 4: Salad of fresh basil or thyme leaves, pieces of watermelon, one avocado and raspberries.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- You can have a relishing fruit salad of pineapple, kiwi, grapes and watermelon.
- Smoothies – Banana and apple with water
2. Lunch
Since your body needs energy for its day-to-day activities, it is advisable you consume fruits and vegetables which have Vitamin A and C. For Vitamin C, you can have oranges, lemon and for Vitamin A you can include apples in the juice.
Option 1: Fruit salad of mango (if available), pineapple, banana, apple, and papaya
Option 2: Greeny leaf salad with vegetables. Steamed potatoes with spinach, kale, coconut milk and rosemary.
Option 3: Salad of fine sautéed onions, fresh cut and boiled lettuces, pumpkin seeds and one kiwi fruit. Feeling more hungry, you can opt for a banana or apple or a cup of gooseberries.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks:
- The fruit salad you can make is of orange, coconut pieces, blue berries, bananas and mango).
- Salad – Mashed potatoes, garlic, steamed flax seeds, spinach or Swiss Chard
3. Dinner
You can take two tomatoes, one entire cucumber and two handful of parsley leaves.
Option 1
Cut the tomatoes and cucumber to tiny pieces and put them in a blender along with two handfuls of parsley leaves. Consume the mixture at 8 pm and by 9 pm go to sleep.
Option 2: You can also make a juice of one celery, two beetroots, fresh minced thyme, egg plant and one avocado.
Option 3: One bowl of broccoli sprouts, banana and orange smoothie with one fresh sliced beetroot.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Parsley salad with cucumber and tomato. You can include a fruit such as guava or watermelon.
- Watermelon and cucumber salad. You can add a little amount of herbs such as mint or basil for taste.
Day 2
The most important rule in any cleansing program – always stay hydrated. And the next point is flushing out of parasites and toxins from the human body.
1. Breakfast
Option 1: Prepare a fresh juice made of aloe vera gel, blue berries, pomegranate, pineapple and onion. The aloe vera juice can flush out parasites where as the guava and pomegranate seeds will make a cocoon around a tapeworm to be eliminated easily.
Option 2: Prepare a fruit/vegetable salad consisting of garlic, coconut pieces, pumpkin seeds, pineapple and unshelled sunflower seeds.
Option 3: Coconut milk mixed with apple and banana juice.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Fruit salad ingredients – watermelon, apple, guava, raisins, pineapple
- Smoothies – Banana and apple with water
2. Lunch
Option 1: To carry forward the process of intestine cleansing, you can opt for papaya, stonefruit and pear juice. More appetite, you can have beetroot and carrot salad.
Option 2: Prepare a soup of horseradish, onion, garlic and tomatoes. Give a gap of thirty minutes and have a apple, papaya and banana salad.
Option 3: Consume three papaya seeds and give a gap of fifteen minutes. Have a smoothie consisting of pineapple, guava, pomegranate and banana.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Watermelon and cucumber salad. You can add a little amount of herbs such as mint or basil for taste.
- Mashed potatoes, garlic, steamed flax seeds, spinach or Swiss Chard
3. Dinner
Option 1: The best remedy for removal of intestinal parasites and all diseases. You can take neem leaves (or neem flowers), crush them to extract the juice and consume with hot water.
It is very difficult to drink the juice, agreed. But take the initiative, have two tablespoons of juice; give a gap of ten minutes. Then consume a fruit salad consisting of strawberries, avocado, amla, papaya and other fruits.
Option 2: Prepare an herbal soup consisting of thyme leaves, basil leaves, cayenne pepper and garlic. After a gap of ten minutes, consume a fruit salad of beetroot, kale and watercress. Also have a raw banana.
Option 3: You can prepare a juice of unripe papaya with hot water. Consume the mixture and give duration of ten minutes. Have a salad consisting of guava, flax seeds, sesame seeds along with jackfruit.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Steamed tomatoes with half-onion, watercress, steamed sesame seeds, thyme, coriander leaves
- Salad – Raspberries, lemon juice, banana and straw berries.
Day 3
This day can be referred as the day of transition from one phase to another. The vital organs of the body would have adjusted themselves to the intestine cleansing process and you would not suffer from nausea or other symptoms.
Although the adaptation would have taken place, it is essential to opt for the diet which has the required nutrients as you would rely only on raw food.
For the third day, for a change, you can include boiled potatoes in the diet.
1. Breakfast
Option 1: Take six potatoes and wash them thoroughly. Have a bowl of water ready. Boil the potatoes along with water for fifteen minutes. Take off the peels and have the potatoes for hearty breakfast.
Option 2: You can have avocado fruit salad with mint leaves, walnuts and flax seeds. A tomato juice with a cup of burnt peanuts would come in handy.
Option 3: Two bowls of gluten free oats boiled in water along with sesame seeds. You can also have two pears.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Salad ingredients – Mashed potatoes, garlic, steamed flax seeds, spinach or Swiss Chard
- Smoothies – Blue berries and banana
2. Lunch
Option 1: You can have mashed potatoes with onions and boiled parsley.
Option 2: Have a small cup of unshelled sunflower seeds and three stone fruits.
Option 3: Fruit salad of watermelon with pumpkin seeds. More hungry, you can include a bowl of cashew nuts and raisins.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Parsley salad with cucumber and tomato. You can include a fruit such as guava or watermelon.
- Fruit salad ingredients – watermelon, apple, guava, raisins, pineapple
3. Dinner
Option 1: You can have a pure vegetable diet. The ingredients can be boiled potatoes, broccoli sprouts, beet roots, greens such as Swiss Chard, kale and collard greens.
Option 2: Prepare a simple but effective diet of beans, artichokes (the process may be long), peas, and broccoli.
Option 3: You can prepare a preferred salad of blueberries, walnuts, collard greens, parsley or curry leaves.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Smoothies – Orange, pomegranate, pineapple, strawberries and grapes
- Salad – Raspberries, lemon juice, banana and straw berries.
Day 4
1. Breakfast
Option 1: Opt for a pineapple salad along with apple and pomegranate. Add fresh-cut garlic or ginger root (quarter teaspoon) along with banana to get maximum benefits of detoxification.
Option 2: Add five cayenne pepper and half a bowl of cleaned sesame seeds to a fruit salad of banana, guava, kiwi.
Option 3: You can also prepare a salad of figs, lettuces, two oranges in a large bowl.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Fruit salad ingredients – watermelon, apple, guava, raisins, pineapple
- Smoothies – Blue berries and banana
2. Lunch
Option 1: Salad Ingredients – ground sesame seeds (two tablespoons), spinach leaves (cleaned and fresh), strawberries, half cut onion (thin pieces). If you are feeling hungry, you can opt for the snack.
Option 2: You can slice two avocados and then mix it with lime juice for a healthy drink.
Option 3: Salad Ingredients – Collard greens, five garlic cloves and tomatoes.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Parsley salad with cucumber and tomato. You can include a fruit such as guava or watermelon.
- Watermelon and cucumber salad. You can add a little amount of herbs such as mint or basil for taste.
3. Dinner
Option 1: Fresh prepared salad of kale or lettuce, potato with seaweed. Have a bowl of blue berries or two guavas if you are feeling more hungry.
Option 2: Herbal Juice: Aloe vera gel mixed with lemon juice. More hungry, you can munch on cashew nuts and dry dates.
Option 3: Have a vegetable salad with the ingredients, beetroot, radish and broccoli.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
Smoothies – Banana and apple with water
Salad – Steamed tomatoes with half-onion, watercress, steamed sesame seeds, thyme, coriander leaves
Day 5
1. Breakfast
Option 1:You can prepare a smoothie of one banana, pineapple, peppermint and a handful of blue berries. Orange juice can be added as a supplement.
Option 2: Till the fourth day, you had only raw fruits and vegetables. Opt for a change by grating carrot in to pieces and a handful of lentil beans. You can make them into a mixture and boil them in water for ten minutes. Now cover the lid and allow the mixture to become cool. You can consume after forty minutes.
Option 3: Fruit salad of pears, apples, raspberries.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- You can have a relishing fruit salad of pineapple, kiwi, grapes and watermelon.
- Watermelon and cucumber salad. You can add a little amount of herbs such as mint or basil for taste.
2. Lunch
Option 1: The best lunch on this day will be having a bowl of half boiled carrots/tomatoes along with spinach or kale or leeks. For other essential nutrients, you can select an apple or handful of blue berries and also an orange juice.
Option 2: Prepare a healthy salad with the ingredients – Peeled and chopped avocado, chopped tomato pieces, black pepper, dried basil and banana.
Option 3: You can opt for salad with the ingredients – fresh parsley, ground black pepper, two garlic cloves, mustard greens. You can have a apple and orange smoothie if you feel more hungry.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Smoothies – Raspberries, lemon juice, banana and straw berries.
- Smoothies – Blue berries and banana
3. Dinner
Option 1: Take two beetroot, five tomatoes, walnuts and quarter cup freshly cut spinach.Cut the vegetables and beans into small pieces and put them in a bowl containing water. Boil the mixture for ten minutes at medium flame in the bowl. Cover with a lid. After fifteen minutes, switch off the flame, and allow the mixture to cool. To get maximum benefits, you can add a tinge of salt for taste and savor the soup.
Option 2: Have a healthy lunch of only fruits – orange, apple, gooseberry and watermelon.
Option 3: You can relish the dish of a fruit salad prepared from pomegranate, banana, apple and grapes.
If you feel hungry, you can have these snacks
- Smoothies – Banana and apple with water
- Salad – Steamed tomatoes with half-onion, watercress, steamed sesame seeds, thyme, coriander leaves
Day 6
1. Breakfast
Option 1: Have a cabbage soup mixed with Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts have good resources of fiber, vitamin C and also other nutrients. It also contains the required amount of protein necessary for the vital functioning of the body.
Option 2: You can prepare a juice consisting of apple and fresh ground psyllium husk. You can add ginger to avail of more benefits.
Note: After a gap of twenty minutes, consume two glasses of water so that psyllium husk can be flushed out from the body.
Option 3: Opt for avocado juice mixed with papaya.
If you feel hungry, you can satisfy your hunger by these snacks
- Parsley salad with cucumber and tomato. You can include a fruit such as guava or watermelon.
- Fruit salad ingredients – watermelon, apple, guava, raisins, pineapple
2. Lunch
Option 1: You can have a fresh salad consisting of a mixture of broccoli, kale, collard greens, leeks along with lemon juice.
Option 2: For better health, have a mixture of fresh sliced onions, dried cranberries, tomatoes and potatoes.
Option 3: You can opt for a salad of beetroot, turnips, walnuts and flax seeds.
If you feel hungry, you can satisfy your hunger by these snacks
- Smoothies – Banana and apple with water
- Smoothies – Raspberries, lemon juice, banana and straw berries.
3. Dinner
You would be feeling on top of the world as nearly all the toxins would have been eliminated from the body. However, you would be feeling pangs of hunger as your metabolism rate would have gone high. Maintain the steely resolve and do not deviate from the chosen path of intestinal cleanse.
Option 1: Herbal tea. After forty five minutes, you can have a apple and kiwi salad.
Option 2: Have a salad belonging to a combination of fruits and greens for a peaceful sleep. You can include kale, collard greens, basil leaves, pears and avocados.
Option 3: In continuation to the above option, you can opt for a vegetable and fruit salad consisting of carrot, radish, pomegranate and pineapple. The taste might be sour, but the health benefits are numerous.
If you feel hungry, you can satisfy your hunger by these snacks
- Parsley salad with cucumber and tomato. You can include a fruit such as guava or watermelon.
- The best fruit salad you can make is of orange, coconut pieces, blue berries, bananas and mango.
Day 7
Your body would have felt much lighter in weight by this day and now you can start the way to day-to-day activity.
This is the last day of the detoxification process and kudos! You have completed six days at a stretch. All you need is 18 hours more so that you can reach the scheduled mark.
1. Breakfast
Option 1: You can make a fruit salad with apples, peaches and blue berries. As supplements, you can also have three almonds and three tablespoons of cleaned flax seeds.
Option 2: Since you are already feeling elated and happy, double your pleasure in having a fruit salad in two bowls. The fruits can consist of mango, sapota, pomegranate, raisins, jackfruit (if seasonal), blueberries and apricots.
Option 3: You can have a raw apple with papaya.
2. Lunch
Option 1: You can make a salad of potatoes, carrots, papaya, beetroot, collards with cucumber.
Option 2: Though you are feeling light and full of positive feelings, it is advisable to have a diet once again made of fruits and vegetables. The mixture might be a surprise, but life has its own share of surprises as you know. For a change, you can have grated carrots mixed with grapes, guava, pears, jackfruit, raisins, pieces of onion and garlic.
Option 3: A fruit salad made of papaya , papaya seeds, guava seeds, pomegranate and flax seeds can do the trick of satisfying your hunger when intestine cleansing.
3. Dinner
Since this is the last phase, emphasis is given to herbs as well as every ingredient which can give a peaceful sleep.
Option 1: You can make a salad of boiled coriander leaves, onions, grated pumpkin, tomatoes, celery, cauliflower and curry leaves. For availing maximum benefits, you can also include a separate salad of onions, garlic for promoting immunity and digestion.
Option 2: To have a raw power packed dinner, you can have two bowls of fruit salads consisting of apricots, coconut milk, dates, grapes, pineapple and watermelon.
Option 3: You can have a salad consisting of only greens such as spinach, asparagus, broccoli, kale, green peas etc. You can also have steamed peanuts.
So we come to the last phase of intestinal cleanse. After a successful completion of the 7-day Intestine cleansing , a kind request to not rush and gulp down hard food such as meat recipes with bones. On the first day after the program have a breakfast consisting of food which can be easily digested. Remember, your body would have adapted well to only the raw food with digestive enzymes and it was totally devoid of oily food and a tap-at-the-tongue spicy food. It is true that getting back to old food is a relief, but kindly go through the changes gradually.