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I have the same problem with lemon.
Anytime I start drinking it in the morning,
gives me a sore throat.
Guess I will try it with salt.
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honey with warm water first thing in the morning is really good for skin and body.
lemons in green tea minus sugar is good after meals and helps reduce bloating.
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sajal, yes it is as good at the night as it is in the morning. honey doesnt make u fat, exess of it can, i guess, may have effect but honey is recomended to be taken daily every day one or two tea spoons. its one of those few things that are also recomended in Quran along with olive, dates etc, i think ( i am not sure though, might wanna consult a scholar, its just something i've heard).
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I have personally done this cleanse 9 times in the last 2 years for periods ranging from 10 to 28 days. I have counseled my wife 3 times, 27 year old son twice, and in January 2004, more than 110 people on the Master Cleanse bulletin board, which supplied most of the information for my book at the right. This January we had over 200!
Please believe me when I say that the Master Cleanse (or Lemonade Diet) by Stanley Burroughs is, in my opinion, the fastest and most effective way to regain your vitality and to feel the joy of living again, never mind that it will help you lose weight and give you astounding energy.
Click on any one of the book or CD pictures to learn more.
Below is a brief summary of points for doing the Master Cleanse, but I recommend you buy a book or CD .
Brief Summary
For a minimum of 10 days, drink:
2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice (approx. ½ lemon),
2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) organic Grade B maple syrup, not maple-flavored sugar syrup or syrup from companies that use formaldehyde to harvest their syrup,
(If you can't obtain organic maple syrup locally, there is a small organic family farm in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts that does not use any formaldehyde pellets and follows strict organic and sustainable forestry standards.),
1/10 Teaspoon or more cayenne pepper (hot red pepper), and
1 Cup (8 fluid ounces) purified or spring water, NOT fluoridated water.
For diabetics, there is a section in some editions of The Master Cleanser on using molasses rather than maple syrup in the beginning of the cleanse. Any diabetic should read the book and consult their doctor before beginning the cleanse.
Drink six to twelve glasses of this lemonade mixture daily. No food is eaten nor any vitamin supplements taken during the cleanse. If you get hungry, have another glass of lemonade. After all, this is also called the "Lemonade Diet."
If you are overweight, you may use less maple syrup. If you are underweight, use more maple syrup if you wish.
If you are worried about losing weight, Burroughs says, "The only things you can possibly lose are mucus, waste, and disease. Healthy tissue will not be eliminated."
Do not vary the amount of lemon juice per glass and be sure to drink at least six glasses of lemonade a day. You can drink more water, if you want.
Enhance Your Elimination
This is a cleanse as opposed to a weight loss diet. So, you need to ensure you are eliminating the toxins that are being loosened in your system. Cravings, aches, pains, mental irritability and tiredness will turn on as your toxins are mobilized. To eliminate these unpleasant sensations, you need to be sure you have two, three, or more bowel movements a day.
Drink a laxative herb tea each evening. You can find it in your local health food store. I recommend senna tea blend with senna being about half of it by weight. (Senna is an herb that promotes bowel movement.) The kind I've bought warn you not to drink more than two cups per day.
Each morning on an empty stomach, add two teaspoons of non-iodized sea salt to a full quart of water. Do not use ordinary iodized salt as it will not work properly. Drink the entire quart of salt water first thing in the morning. "Chug" this — drink it as fast as possible. Within an hour several bowel movements will likely occur. (You'll need to be by a toilet for half an hour to an hour.) If you do not have several bowel movements, try a little more salt in the water the next day until it works.
Drink the herb laxative tea at night to loosen and the salt water each morning to wash it out. If you can't drink the salt water in the morning, drink the herb laxative tea at night and in the morning.
Breaking Your Fast
Breaking a long fast is very, very important. You should ease your way back to solid food after one or two additional days of juices, orange or grapefruit. If you are going back to raw fruits and vegetables, you may do so on the afternoon of the second day.
If you have been a meat eater and/or milk products consumer, shift to cooked vegetable soup on the afternoon of the second day and a salad for dinner. Keep the lemonade drink as your breakfast drink after that. Of course, you would do better with the least amount of meat and no milk products as they are very productive of mucus and hinder digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Detox Symptoms
Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from your body. Once these poisons are gone, you will feel energetic, vital, happy and healthy. It is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable, unhappy, depressed and ill. Consequently you should look forward to detoxification.
Unfortunately, when the toxins are mobilized, they will bring about those unpleasant feelings and tempt you to quit the cleanse before you are through. So, you need to understand the symptoms of detoxification and ensure that you drink your laxative tea and salt water to stimulate elimination of those toxins.
My experience with the cleanse and with various people doing it has taught me that whatever symptom I experienced one day, it would be gone the next morning with my bowel movements. It is nevertheless helpful to know when you are detoxifying because it helps you to get through that symptom to know it will be gone tomorrow.
I have grouped the detox symptoms I and others have had into five groups:
- Cravings — I have only known one or two people to be hungry on this cleanse. Drinking more lemonade or water handles that. I have, however, observed that people on the cleanse crave what they are detoxifying. Proof that this is true is that the cravings usually go away the next morning with bowel movements. You can crave anything when detoxifying, but most likely you will experience cravings for the most toxic foods, such as pizza, hamburgers, barbeque ribs, etc.
- Tiredness — When your body fights toxins, whether from detoxifying or an infection, it diverts energy into healing and away from the energy you use to work and play. On my first 20 day cleanse, I was not tired except on the fifteenth day. The next morning, I experienced heat in my bowel movements, an indication that acidic toxins were being eliminated. I also lost all sense of tiredness.
- Irritability — This includes the desire to "just chew something solid."
- Physical aches, pains, nausea, vomiting, etc. — These are the most severe reactions and only occur where a person is severely toxic, only a small percentage of people experience these. Fortunately, these have gone away after only a day or two in every case I have heard about.
- Hot bowel movements — Your body wastes are acidic and when you eliminate the most toxic ones, they actually feel anywhere from warm to burning. This experience is very infrequent, but worth mentioning because hot bowel movements after a day of heavy detox symptoms will confirm that you just eliminated significant toxins.
A Special Note on Headaches
In talking to people doing the cleanse, I've learned that people with caffeine addiction (coffee, soft drinks, etc.) may experience headaches for the first 2 to 4 days.
Final Note
I hope you will have the same wonderful increase in mental clarity, health, energy and positive mental attitude that I and others have found.
Not Your Usual Disclaimer
Of course, this information is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any diseases, and if you have a disease you should seek advice from a licensed health professional, but there is a much more important point here. We are all responsible for our own health. Licensed health professionals can diagnose and prescribe, but in the end it is ourselves who must decide to follow the prescription or not. Therefore, I urge you to learn about nutrition and health so that you can make informed decisions to preserve or regain your vibrant good health. Toward that end, this website is dedicated to your education.
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^^ too much magar much
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I started thid diet todat: hot water, half a lime, plus honey. Lets all who are trying to lose weight start and get back after a month to discuss results.
Good luck!:k:
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i sometimes mix half a lemon in a cup of green tea… limo paani is also very good 
but thats not a duiet drink..
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i have tried black tea with lemon before breakfast. it is effective but the taste is horrible.l
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Motee, tum kuch bhee kar lo, kuch naheen hona tumhara 
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Just like before we got mixed replies regarding lemon and honey.
Some say lemon works others prefer honey and a few think both should be taken together.
So again I am stuck with the decision which works better.....????
Well for now I am going to try lemon alone.
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Ok, today is the second day since I started taking lemon and hot water diet and I have been peeing a lot. I hope it’s that extra water or fat coming out.
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I'm so tempted to try this. I think i will, what's there to lose....except for the pounds.
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I started it a few days ago.
I am gonna beat you all in this weight losing game.
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^^ oh no I think I created a monster. :)
tell me how it goes.. Im going to try ina month or two right before I go to this wedding. ;)
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^^ why r u going to try in a month or two... I think it takes a couple of months at least before you could see results. So why not try now so then you will already have lost some weight by the time you go to the wedding.
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I did it for about 5 days and now my throat is hurting.
This happnes every single time I try to go on this lemon routine. :(
Isi liye kehtay hain k barra bol nahi bolna chahea. (look at post #34)
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Neera : I started the Pilates Program first.. will tell you in ten days how easy it was to follow and what the results were. Uskai baad I'll try this..
Sajal.. try more honey in it..