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The Salt Water Flush (SWF)
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Posted on 24. Nov, 2008 by Mike in Blog, The Master Cleanse

The Salt Water Flush is very important. Again, I choose to do the SWF in the evening. The process is a commitment in itself. Once you take the solution, you will have to be on guard, a bowel movement WILL be shortly coming. I don’t mean in 5 or even 15 minutes, but generally in 30-60 minutes between taking it and the first movement. The last movements will begin to wind down an hour or so after they begin. This is a, ahem… crappy process, and there is really no way to sugar-coat it. The next few paragraphs will describe in detail what you can expect.

Using one of your 1 liter chug-ables and your 1 tablespoon measure, mix a solution of sea salt and room temperature water. The original book says 2 teaspoons, but I have used 1 tablespoon almost every time and it works for me the same. The last time I did the cleanse, I tried it each way (once with 2 teaspoon and then again with 1 tablespoon), and each time I had success. NOTE: There have been many questions about this process. The fact is, however much some claim it hasn’t worked for them, it will work for absolutely everyone. The key is to adjust the amount of salt in order to create the right solution for your individual needs. Also make sure you don’t used iodized table salt. Un-iodized organic sea salt is essential.

Flush your system with the Salt Water Flush

Shake it well and move to the sink. I like to “pound it” – perhaps because I like to pretend I am still in college and the sea salt is actually a keg stand. I also move into the bathroom and stand in front of the mirror. Somehow, by watching myself, I can manage to drink the whole liter in one try, spilling very little. This too is a challenge in itself, especially once your stomach has become very small from taking no solids. Chances are, you will feel full halfway through, so just keep going. Stopping only makes you taste the salt, and will activate your gag reflex.

While it is not required to drink the solution in one go, you will find that the taste is such that you will want to get it down quickly. It is not awful, but it is not exactly pleasant, and therefore I choose to get it over with. I also enjoy the little challenge.

After you have consumed the solution, you can go about your evening until nature calls. Some suggest lying on your right hand side to aid the solution on its journey through your digestive track, although I don’t find this especially helpful and so I don’t bother.

Now – what to expect.

When you first feel the rumble in your belly and your bowels, don’t go running off to the bathroom. Give it a while. Let it brew! Yeah, I know that is weird to think about, but you should let it build up. You are going to have 3-7 movements, possibly more. Generally speaking, you will end up pushing out what you put in. The entire liter of sea salt water will be immediately expelled. This is because the solution is indigestible. You may have heard that, if you are stranded at sea, drinking sea water will only dehydrate you more. This is why. It just comes right out of you because the mixture has the same gravity as your blood and is not absorbed.

Of course, along with the sea salt, you will be expelling waste. During the first 2 days you will be moving out remaining solid matter in the digestive tract from the days prior to this. If you began your diet immediately, this will be more true than if you Eased-in, and therefore have only juice in your system. Nevertheless, for each day you will expel solid matter. Gross, to be certain, but also empowering. You really begin to understand the value of this process when you recognize the elimination of waste that has been stored in your body for months, even decades.

Once you feel you can no longer hold out, go to the bathroom. A word of warning while you wait for this moment. DO NOT FART!!! You will most certainly not pass only air – if you know what I mean. This is also true throughout the rest of your day. Don’t be fooled or you will be leaving work to change your shorts. The first movement will be rather large and fairly powerful. You will want to flush almost immediately. In order to understand the whole messy details, take a look… if you dare.

Stay close to a toilet and continue to move until the frequency eases. Once you can last 15 minutes without a serious movement, you are safe to go about your day. For this reason I choose to undergo this process in the evening, with nowhere else to go for the rest of the day. (Also, because I like to have a shower following, and truth be told, I am not exactly a morning person.)

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Jenni

09. Mar, 2010

I am going to be starting the lemonade diet tomorrow but what I’m worried about is the swf. My first day it says to start that will be Thursday so hopefully I will get a feel for what it is going to do to me before Friday when I will have to be in school in the morning for an Exam. I don’t want to have to leave the room during testing. How long before you go anywhere do you recommend taking the swf?

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natalya

08. Mar, 2010

hey is there a ready mixture to buy? im lazy in doing it myself…..
i took magnesium citrate as a laxative to see what will happen and its beensince 3pm today and no result show..

really want to try the swf.

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The Master Cleanse Lemonade

06. Mar, 2010

[...] (available at health food stores), drink an herbal laxative tea like Smooth Move or drink a sea salt water flush (2 tsp. with 32-oz. of luke warm water – listen to Jim’s recommendation in the video [...]

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sarah

03. Mar, 2010

I am curious, I’m on the third day of the cleanse. Did the SWF this morning and hardly any solid waste was expelled. It was mainly liquid. How quickly could people be “flushed out?” Im in my early 20′s so maybe i do not have as many toxins built up in my body??

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- Anne
  
  05. Mar, 2010
  
  I have been following all the rules meticulously and I still have no been able to make the SWF work for me. I even doubled the recommended dose of sea salt and still nothing… My stomach is empty before starting. What do you think is the problem?
  
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  - GEE
    
    08. Mar, 2010
    
    Take your tea at night, then in the morning do the Sea Salt Flush as soon as you get out of bed and make sure it’s the right Sea Salt. I added 2 1/2 teaspoons of Sea Salt to my water and if I don’t go within a hour I drink about 2 glasses of water and then it starts a coming. Try the water and see if that works. Good luck!
    
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Cheryl

26. Feb, 2010

I have a few questions:
1. Can the water be any temperature?
2. If I do the SWF, can I skip the laxatives?
3. Is doing the bowel movement at night instead of the morning just as effective?

thanks.

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- Courtney
  
  27. Apr, 2010
  
  Based on personal experience, luke warm water is easiest to get down so that works best for me. I take the laxative “Smooth Move” Tea at night, and that works great first thing in the morning. If by “bowl movement” you mead the swf, I have found both to work, night or morning. And once you take it, after about an hour try to stand as much as possible….it really gets thing moving!
  
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rjandam@msn.com

17. Feb, 2010

I’m on day two of the master cleanse i did the swf and it worked perfectly don’t know why it’s not working for every else but i think if you use the correct salt which is sea salt this will work for any one ! Good luck to all i’ll update and let you guys know how i’m doing in a few days.

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Tonya

15. Feb, 2010

Can i use espon salt? I’ve used that as a lavitve before.

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shayla092

15. Feb, 2010

Just started this thing, I drank the 32 ounces of salt water, everything was going well, until 25min later I threw it all up. I read the comments on here and decided I’d give it another go, but this time I used the shot method, 2 ounces of salt water and 30 ounces of pure water, MUCH easier by the way. So far it seems to be working, but we’ll see, I hope I don’t throw it up again…

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- Melody
  
  15. Feb, 2010
  
  If you puke, that means you hadn’t gone long enough on the fast prior to the flush. I did a five day fast beforehand, and although it was difficult with the pressure in my then shrunk stomach, it worked well and I didn’t puke.
  
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Chris

13. Feb, 2010

I tried my second SWF with the lemon juice in the hints, but never had a movement. What went wrong?

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risa

11. Feb, 2010

I’ve used a blender and blended the mixture with ice to have it as a frozen treat at night. Has anyone else done this? I read the book and can’t find any information on this. I’m currently on day 16.

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- suzanna
  
  16. Feb, 2010
  
  can i do the SWF in the evening, instead of mornin?
  
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