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Master Cleanse Ingredients Kit

Here's the minimum one person needs to do a 10-day Master Cleanse:

• 64 oz. of certified organic grade B maple syrup (the minimum 6 drinks a day for 10 days),

• cayenne pepper (enough for more than 100 drinks!),

• non-iodized sea salt (enough for 28 days),

• herbal laxative tea (enough for 16 nights), and

• herbal mint tea (enough for more than 10 days).

• Suppliers sometimes run short, so the brands of maple syrup, tea, and/or cayenne pepper may be different from those pictured above.

(You'll have to supply your own lemons, of course.)

Instructions for the Master Cleanse are not included in this kit.

If you do not have a book, I recommend you get Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days. It was specifically written to make the cleanse easier, answer all your questions and "hold your hand."

In it, you'll learn:

• what to expect based on others' day to day experiences,

• which days are the worst,

• what detox symptoms are and what to do about them,

• what NOT to do, and

• the answers to the 70 most frequently asked questions.

I also strongly recommend you take probiotics AFTER the cleanse after you begin eating solid food to replace the good bacteria you lose when you clean your colon thoroughly. These good bacteria manufacture vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B12, and K and help control bad bacteria, such as Candida. By the way, don't waste your money taking probiotics during the cleanse. They'll just get washed out. Do it after the cleanse.

You might also want a drink bottle with the ounces marked for easy mixing and carrying your lemonade when you go out or to work.

I have not included the book, bottle or probiotics as part of every kit as some people already have them and it is not my purpose to force second and third copies of books or unnecessary bottles on people repeating the Master Cleanse--although they do make excellent presents!

Some people suggest psyllium husk and bentonite clay shakes during the cleanse. I don't recommend it. Part of the power of the Master Cleanse is not eating any solid food so your body doesn't have to digest anything. This frees the body to use that energy to repair the body. That's one of the reasons most people have tremendous energy on the cleanse.

Also, some people sell cayenne pepper capsules. I don't recommend them either. Master Herbalist, Dr. Richard Schulze, said that cayenne affects nerve endings in the mouth when taken and that taking capsules bypasses those beneficial effects. He said that people who take capsules don't get the same results.

If you don't like cayenne, it's probably because you took too much at one time. So, start on a gradient. Take a little. Take as much as you can tolerate and still want to drink the lemonade. Then increase it.

The other thing you should know about cayenne is that not all cayenne is the same degree of hot! Some kinds of cayenne are very hot (90,000 HU--heat units). I include 30 - 40,000 HU cayenne powder.

As for salt, non-iodized sea salt is healthier as it contains more than 70 trace elements as opposed to just sodium and cloride in table salt. But more important, non-iodized sea salt is easier to drink in the salt water flush!

Celtic Sea Salt® is naturally harvested by a cooperative of farmers in Brittany, France. The method used for gathering the nutritional salt follows a 2,000 year-old Celtic tradition and is supported by modern quality control standards. The French Government prides itself in this unique resource and has preserved thousands of acres of pristine wild marsh, as a "National Treasure" and "Protected Site" so that these areas will continue to produce Celtic Sea Salt for centuries more. In 1991, the French Ministry of Forests and Agriculture gave its most honorable "Superior Quality Food" mention to Celtic Sea Salt.

$64.95

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64 oz. Certified Organic Grade B Maple Syrup

The Master Cleanse calls for a minimum of six drinks per day for 10 days. Since the recipe calls for 2 tablespoons per drink (which equals one ounce) you will need a minimum of 60 oz. If you drink one additional drink per day only 4 times on the cleanse, you will finish the bottle. If two people are on the Master Cleanse, you will need a minimum of one of these bottles for each person. (If you are planning to do more than 10 days or drink more than the minimum lemonades per day, you can buy additional maple syrup by the half gallon (64 oz.) or the quart (32 oz.).

Don't worry about having any left over, maple syrup is delicious on oatmeal, pancakes or even on steamed rice! For those who enjoy raw food, you can soak your oatmeal in spring water for 10 to 15 minutes and it will be just as delicious as though it was cooked. Then add some raisins if you like or fresh fruit!

Maple syrup will keep for a long time without refrigeration as long as you don't open the bottle. As an all natural sweetener with no preservatives, once opened, maple syrup must be kept refrigerated.

By the way, you might be interested to know that it takes about 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of maple syrup!

Suppliers sometimes run short, so the brand of maple syrup may be different than that pictured above.

Black & Decker CitrusMate Plus Juicer

Considering you're going to squeeze about 40 lemons (or 80 limes), during a 10-day Master Cleanse, you'll be happy you spent an extra $20 on this juicer.

It's the same kind of juicer I use at home. I finally decided to get an electric juicer after I'd hand-squeezed more than 150 lemons for 3 Master Cleanses! It's inexpensive, has lasted me two and a half years and is easy to use and clean.

It occasionally sounds like it's grinding its internal plastic gears, but it's done that the whole time I've had it and doesn't seem to be any problem. (It just sounds funny sometimes when you hold the fruit down too hard. I can't imagine paying $50 for a steel citrus juicer just so it's occasionally quieter.)

• Large, 1-liter (quart-size) pitcher

• Adjustable pulp control

• Automatic self-reversing reamer with stirrer

• Strainer separates seeds from juice

• Easy-pour spout

• Small & large cones for lemons/lines & oranges/grapefruit
  

$21.95

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Ingredients for Another Person

If you already have one kit, you only need additional maple syrup and laxative tea for another person. There's enough of the sea salt and cayenne for two people.

So, this kit contains:

• 64 oz. of certified organic grade B maple syrup (enough for the minimum 6 drinks a day for 10 days), and

• herbal laxative tea (enough for 16 nights).

(You'll have to supply additional lemons, of course.)

I also strongly recommend you take probiotics AFTER the cleanse to replace the good bacteria you lose when you clean your colon thoroughly. These good bacteria help control bad bacteria, such as Candida. They also manufacture vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B12, and K.

Don't waste your money taking probiotics during the cleanse. They'll just get washed out. Do it after the cleanse.

You might also want a drink bottle with the ounces marked for easy mixing and carrying your lemonade when you go out or to work.

Suppliers sometimes run short, so the brands of maple syrup and/or tea may be different than those pictured above.

$50.95

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32 oz. Certified Organic Grade B Maple Syrup

The Master Cleanse calls for a minimum of six drinks per day for 10 days. Since the recipe calls for 2 tablespoons per drink (which equals one ounce) you will need a minimum of 60 oz. So, you should always get the 64 oz. bottle.

However, if you drink three additional drinks per day and are on the cleanse only 10 days (the minimum), then you will need another 30 oz. of maple syrup. You will also need it if you intend to go 15 days and only drink the minimum 6 drinks a day (5 additional days times 6 drinks per day = 30 oz.).

Maple syrup will keep for a long time without refrigeration as long as you don't open the bottle. As an all natural sweetener with no preservatives, once opened, maple syrup must be kept refrigerated.

Sugar Maple trees only grow where spring time day temperatures are in the mid-40s and overnight temperatures are in the 20s. This alternation of temperature causes a freeze-and-thaw cycle, and is what makes the slightly sweet sap flow.

Sugar maples store sugar in their roots in the fall in the form of starch. Then the trees convert the starch to sugar in late winter and early spring to feed and nourish new growth. It is the internal tree pressure, caused by temperatures alternating between freezing and thawing, that forces the sweet maple sap out the tap hole (the opening made in the tree to drain it). The sap is then gathered and boiled down to make pure maple syrup.

Suppliers sometimes run short, so the brand of maple syrup may be different from that pictured above.

$24.95

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Probiotics

Probiotics are the good bacteria in your intestines that:

• Produce vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, B12, and K;

• Kill some of the disease-causing germs in your intestines;

• Prevent bad bacteria (the bacteria that cause Candida, for example) from getting out of control;

• And some recent studies report lower cholesterol and help in cases of irritable bowel syndrome (diarrhea, pain, and heightened food sensitivities).

Antibiotics, while they are good for curing infections, destroy both good and bad bacteria and people while on, or after, a course of antibiotics should take probiotics to re-establish the good bacteria so necessary to health.

Since the Master Cleanse does such an effective job of cleansing the colon, I believe it also eliminates large quantities of probiotics. Therefore, I recommend people completing the Master Cleanse take probiotics AFTER transitioning back to regular food.

$21.95

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