The Master Cleanse

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 Grand B maple Syrup, not maple-flavored sugar syrup or syrup from Companies that use formaldehyde to harvest their syrup,

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 if the Master Cleanser on using molasses rather then maple syrup in the beginning of the cleanse. Any diabetic should read the book and consult their Doctor before beginning the cleanse.

Drink 6 to 12 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 thing 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 6 glasses of lemonade juice 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 2 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 morning. “Chug” this drink is fast
as possible. Within an hour several bowel movements will likely occur. (You’ll
need to be by a toilet for half a hour to an hour.) If you do not 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 salt water in the morning, drink the herb laxative
tea at night and in the morning.