June 16, 1991, marked the passing of Stanley Burroughs, a pioneer in the field of
alternative health care. Author of Healing for the Age of Enlightenment, and
The Master Cleanser, Stanley was a man renowned for his research into the role of
toxemia in disease.
Since his research and writings have influenced my own life and work to such a great
extent, I feel compelled to share with you some of the highlights of one of his most
important therapeutic tools the Master Cleanser Lemonade Fast.
It was in 1979 that I under took a specific type of cleansing program in order to prove to
my room-mate it would not work! This program involved the Lemonade Diet,
developed by Burroughs in 1941. It initially came about in response to his need to find a
better method to treat ulcers, and it was some years later that he realized that this diet
treated many other diseases successfully, and he named it the Master Cleanser.
This cleansing program worked so well for me that I went on to study all of Stanley
Burroughs work and through 1980 I did 100 days in total of the Master Cleanser program and
never felt better in my life.
Specific Procedures
The Master Cleanser is a liquid mono-diet that cleanses and
detoxifies the body as it stimulates healthy tissue growth. It consists of fresh lime or
lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper mixed with water and drunk 6-12 times a day.
A herbal laxative tea is taken twice a day, and no other food is consumed.
This regimen that can be followed for 10 days, and may also
be safely extended to 40 or more days, depending upon a persons physical condition.
Toxemia and Disease
To understand why this therapeutic diet works its necessary to
understand what disease is from a holistic perspective. Dis-ease is simply the
accumulation of wastes, toxins, or poisons in the body, which in turn creates the myriad
of symptomatic illnesses we are seeing so prevalent in people to day.
The glands and organs of our eliminative systems can easily become
overwhelmed by wastes from poor diet, lack of exercise, tension, air and water pollution
etc. As much as several pounds of waste can literally become impacted in the colon,
adhering to the walls. Over time, the waste will then begin to leach into the blood
stream. causing it to be re-circulated throughout the body, and settle into the tissues
and cells. This settling of toxins is the final step that acts as a precursor to disease
because its constant presence weakens the cells and eventually the entire immune system.
It stands to reason, then, that cleansing the body of this accumulated waste serves to
rejuvenate the innate healing mechanisms of the body. so that they can function at optimal
capacity to restore health and vitality, the less toxicity that is present in the
body, the greater our vital force becomes.
Physiological Process
Because the act of digesting food consumes our energy on an
ongoing basis, it follows that the elimination of solid food for short periods of time
will make the energy normally used for digestion available for the process of
detoxification. Thus the first step is to stop eating food so that the lemonade drink can
commence Is work.
Because the lemonade drink is easily assimilated, it places little
or no demand on the digestive system. Fresh squeezed lemon juice is a powerful cleanser
for the body, and is also high in vitamins. Additionally, it is the only fruit or
vegetable to contain cationic and anionic minerals.
Lemon also helps loosen and break up mucus in the body. Mucus is one of the body's
defenses to protect it self against irritations. When too much mucus settles in any one
area, dis-ease is the natural outcome.
Those of you familiar with colour therapy will also know that lemon, when consumed fresh
squeezed, releases the colour that stimulates the body to cleanse itself.
Cayenne pepper, another key ingredient of the diet, breaks up this mucous and acts as a
cleanser for the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems. It is used by herbalists
to treat a wide range of problems and to enhance the effectiveness of many other herbs.
The maple syrup provides energy from an unprocessed sugar which still contains many of its
original nutrients.
On the subject, the absence of minerals and vitamins in processed sugars makes the
digestive system rob the body of these precious nutrient stores in order to metabolize the
sugars. If too many processed foods are eaten, the pancreas seems to one of the first
organs affected, often resulting in hypoglycemia and then further deterioration of the
pancreas.
The herbal laxative tea is used to stimulate peristalsis of the
colon, since the only other way to do it is to eat a diet high in fibre. The lemonade
drink, or Master Cleanser, having no fibre, must use a laxative
to remove the waste as it is being shed from the colon wall, otherwise it will stay in the
body, leading to tiredness and any number of problems.
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