Cayenne Pepper Diet - Master Herb for the Master Cleanse

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Cayenne Pepper – The Master Herb of The Lemonade Diet
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Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by harbour in Blog, Lemonade Diet, The Master Cleanse

Cayenne Pepper is so critical to The Master Cleanse and Lemonade Diet that it is sometimes called the Cayenne Pepper Diet.

Cayenne Pepper is a Super Food. There are many so-called “Super Foods” and, in my estimation, Cayenne Pepper is one of them. A few others that immediately spring to mind include: Acai Berry, Goji Berry, Almonds, Avocados, Cocoa, Flax, Garlic, Ginger, Olive Oil and many more. These are all different kinds of food, from nuts, to fruit, to herbs and oils. Come to think of it, one day I ought to research and write a piece on classifying Super Foods.

Cayenne Pepper – The Herb

Cayenne Pepper is a herb, and as such might not be referred to as a Super Food by some, but I will. In fact, herbologist and herbalists say that Cayenne Pepper is The Master Herb. Perhaps this is where Stanley Burroughs came up with the name “The Master Cleanser”.

Cayenne Pepper is also, of course, a vegetable and we get our powder for The Lemonade Diet from grinding up a dried specific type of red pepper. Still, many refer to cayenne pepper as a herb. This is something I don’t understand clearly. Maybe someone can leave me a comment and enlighten me as to why this is.

Capsaicin – The Cayenne Pepper Secret Weapon

Capsaicin is the most active compound in Cayenne Pepper. It is what gives it the heat we taste –a heat so powerful that handling the ground cayenne requires gloves. The ‘hotness’ of the Cayenne Pepper is measured in a unit called Scoville ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 IU’s.

As is usually suggested with many things in life, start slow and build up. Try the 40,000-unit version in your lemonade before moving up to the 100,000. The more cayenne pepper in your lemonade the better. Use it to taste. If the package isn’t marked with a unit measure, then it is likely 40,000.

Why Cayenne Pepper is great for The Lemonade Diet

Cayenne Pepper has many wonderful properties. It is a stimulant which raises the metabolism (something that is important when not digesting food). It increases circulation, which is very helpful when cleansing because one often feels slightly cool, likely due to the low metabolism which results from not digesting food. Cayenne Pepper also acts as a blood thinner and purifier, which can help with digestion.

Perhaps most importantly, Cayenne Pepper, like the Fresh Lemon Juice, helps to break up the mucous in our bodies. Mucous is where all our illness causing substances get trapped. This is why we get stuffed up, congested, sneeze and cough. Breaking up and eliminating this mucous is one of the major benefits of The Master Cleanse.

The Cayenne Pepper Diet

Like Fresh Lemon Juice, Cayenne Pepper is vitamin rich and alkalizing to the body. Sometimes people even refer to The Master Cleanse or Lemonade Diet as the Cayenne Pepper Diet.

Whether you call Cayenne Pepper a herb or a food, you might now realize how essential it is to The Master Cleanse. It might even have lent the name to the “Master Cleanser” as Stanley Burroughs called it. He also called this cleanse The Lemonade Diet. Clearly two key ingredients in The Lemonade Diet are Fresh Lemon Juice and Cayenne Pepper (although the Rich Maple Syrup and Pure Water are equally important).

Have you ever done the Master Cleanse without using Cayenne Pepper? Maybe you used a substitute? Or have you used an alternative measure to take it if it was too hot for you (like gel-caps)?

25 Responses to “Cayenne Pepper – The Master Herb of The Lemonade Diet”

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Jessica

23. Jul, 2010

I am on day 3 of the Mater Cleanse and I cannot stand the taste of the lemonade with the cayenne in it so I take it as a shot before the lemonade. I put the cayenne in a shot glass with a few drops of lemon juice and a little bit of water. Drink that and then wash the taste down with my lemonade/maple syrup drink. It burns the throat for a second, but it has helped me make it through the glasses of lemonade daily. Plus i am using more cayenne(closer to the recommended amount), than I was when I just mixed a small amount in my drink. Day 1 I mixed it with the lemonade and I couldn’t hardly drink the minimum 6 glasses, now I can drink the 6+ without a worry that I’m not getting enough of something.

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Jen

06. Jun, 2010

I am currently taking meds for high blood pressure and anti cancer meds which is causing me to gain weight. Can I do the Master Clense?

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Jen

06. Jun, 2010

I am currently taking meds for high blood pressure and anti cancer meds which is causing me to gain weight. Can I use the Master Clense

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SML

04. Jun, 2010

Can I use Cayenne pepper pills instead of mixing the powder substance in my Lemon juice?

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mark b

01. Jun, 2010

i was taking to an auraologist who told me that because my pulse was so hot naturally (because of where i was born, raised and currently live) that i should use rosemary instead of cayenne pepper because rosemary is a natural cooling agent where as cayenne will just make me hotter. any thoughts? from this article it seems like cayenne is pretty important. what would be the effect of substituting rosemary?

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jen

19. May, 2010

I am on day five of the Master Cleanse. I have a very high Pitta constitution. In Ayurveda, Pitta people tend to run hot, have short tempers and generallyl need to use cooling foods in their diets. The last two nights I have awaken at 4:40 am and then 3 am last night, fired up and unable to go back to sleep. I am going to cut back on the amount of cayenne and see if it makes a difference. Has anyone else had this experience?

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- Sarah Graf
  
  19. Jun, 2010
  
  I have just started the diet, so I’m wondering if decreasing the cayenne pepper made a diference for you.
  
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Lauren

18. May, 2010

I saw above they mention gel-caps. So you can put the Cayenne Pepper in a gel-cap and swallow it and it will have the same affect?

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nancy

22. Apr, 2010

is it a medicine to increase spermcount for men?

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tatis

01. Apr, 2010

is there any alternatives for cayenne pepper?

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- Steve
  
  19. Apr, 2010
  
  Yes, I am on day 4 of the cleanse and I’m using ‘Cayenne Fruit Extract’, which i assume is cayenne pepper in liquid form. It is pretty hot! Only three or four eye-drops is enough to feel it!
  
  But I don’t know if ‘Cayenne Fruit Extract’ is a correct substitute for ground cayenne pepper, so I’m going to start using ground pepper after reading this site just how important it is.
  
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