The world is filled with toxins—in the food, we eat, in the air, we breathe, and in the water, we drink. Many of our foods are loaded with toxic pesticides and preservatives to keep the food on the supermarket shelves and to grow large quantities of foods, usually imported from foreign countries that don’t have strict laws on what types of pesticides to use on growing foods.

People have increasingly turned to fasting and detoxification programs to clean out the body, especially the colon and to return the body to a natural, healthy state.

However, detoxification programs and fasting is not the same thing, even though many people use these terms interchangeably. Continue reading →

People in developed countries such as in Europe and the USA are in need of body detoxification more than you might suspect. Many of the foods we eat are loaded with preservatives and many vegetables are grown outside of the country with pesticides that aren’t really healthy for you. The air we breathe and our general environment is also filled with toxins.

There are many ways to detoxify the body, including eating detoxifying foods, fasting for several days and using herbal detoxifiers.

Herbs are some of the most wonderful and medicinally useful plants in nature. They have been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and are still widely used in modern times for a variety of ailments and health conditions. Continue reading →