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Hints & Tips When Eliminating Certain FoodsCoffee | Tea | Alcohol | Wheat | Sugar |
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Coffee |
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| Emotional Effects | Coffee is a strong masker of flagging energies, and these will now be felt, sometimes making it hard to concentrate. You may feel sad, depressed, or angry as the liver starts to detoxify. You can also feel dizzy, anxious, or nervous. Irritability, insomnia, and depression can be other results. |
| Physical Effects | The bowel wil become more lazy because of a lack of morning peristaltic stimlation provided by the coffee. Headaches (throbbing, pressure), nausea (vomiting), and other such 'liverish' side effects may be felt. |
| Tips and Procedures to help the detoxification process | Reduce the number of cups and gradually decrease the strength of the coffee used. Decaffeinated coffee can be an intermediate crutch, but only briefly. for energy lows that come through lack of coffee's stimulating effects, take rosemary leaf tea and tincture of prickly ash berry and bark until the crisis is over. Ensure the bowels are moving daily and that the liver is supported via liver drinks once or twice a week. Drink plenty of water and herb teas - dandelion root, chamomile flower and burdock root - in order to flush the body out. St John's wort flower can help some people with depression (and valerian root will aid sleep if needed). Dance or some other form of exercise will speed the release of toxins from the body. Saunas will help. |
Tea |
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| Emotional Effects | Tea is a stimulant like coffee, but it doesn't kick the adrenal glands quite so hard, so in some ways it's a little gentler on the body and of course, the emotions. |
| Physical Effects | Lack of tea will slow down bowel function to a degree, and low energy will be a problem. Because tea contains a lot of tannin, you will gradually benefit from improved digestion and iron absorption. |
| Tips and Procedures to help the detoxification process | The body won't feel as toxic as when coming off coffee. Please follow suggestions for coffee, as many of them will apply. Try green tea for a greater flavonoid - an antioxidant-rich alternative to help flagging energy. Finally, switch to herbal teas. Those that will be stimulative are rosemary leaf and flower, lavender flower, peppermint leaf, and prickly ash berry - alternate daily. |
Alcohol |
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| Emotional Effects | (People with a recognised problem will need to attend AA or another similar programme.) |
| Physical Effects | You may feel vulnerable, craving, depressed, sad, angry, and low; anxious, paranoid and irritable; fuzzy-headed and generally emotional or aggressive. |
| Tips and Procedures to help the detoxification process | Comon signs of alcohol withdrawal are shakiness and low blood sugar froma lack of alcohol sugars. The liver will be reflecting gastrointestinal difficulties, headaches, nausea (vomiting). You may get fevers, chills, and cramps, or hallucinations and seizures at worst. Read the information on coffee - most of it will apply. Use St. John's Wort to help with depression if it is appropriate. Milk thistle seed will help to protect the liver cells and encourage their regrowth. Support nutrition. Drink Superfood daily because heavy drinkers are used to 'empty' calories, and nutritional defeciency is probably present. |
Wheat |
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| Emotional Effects | Irritability and muddleheadedness can emerge as the various allergies manifest from the wheat intolerance. |
| Physical Effects | A relative feeling of relief predominates as the symptoms slowly subside. |
| Tips and Procedures to help the detoxification process | Try sourdough and rye bread, rice, quinoa, sweet corn, and so on instead of pasta. Read the information on coffee for extra tips. Use herbs to help increase digestive powers, including gentian root and liquorice root. |
Sugar |
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| Emotional Effects | When sugar is eaten, an instant high will ensue. However, afterward the level of sugar in the blood drops, leaving you feeling vulnerable, weepy, angry or chaotic, depending on the individual. Hyperactivity and poor concentration can also result. |
| Physical Effects | You will probably have low energy. YOu might also suffer blackouts if weakness in the pancreas and spleen is critical. |
| Tips and Procedures to help the detoxification process | Read the information on coffee, and use the applicable suggestions. Always keep blood sugar as balanced as possible; use liquorice tincture or tea, or chew a liquorice stick. Chew on bitter foods to redirect taste and to 'strengthen' such as dandelion leaf, dandelion coffee, olives and chicory coffee. Support nutritionally to provide plenty of zinc, B vitamins, vitamin C, chromium, calcium, magnesium, and the amino acid L-glutamine. |
