Gathering Your Master Cleanse Kit

Gathering your Master Cleanse Kit is an exciting time. For me it’s like packing to go on vacation (a vacation from eating ;). You’re making plans and arming yourself with the tools, services, information, equipment and ingredients you need.

Here’s a few short tips about Gathering Your Master Cleanse Kit:

1. Read the Instructions first
   1. The website has all the info you need, and the roadmap
      does too.
2. Get everything before you start
   1. There seems to be a easy reason to quit if you don’t have what you need in the middle of day 2.
3. Don’t Wait until the last minute
   1. If you don’t have lemons on Monday morning, you’ll be sure to not make it past breakfast.
4. Assume you’re normal. Don’t Vary
   1. Some people to need to vary, but not many. This kit is the standard kit. I’ll post again regarding an advanced kit or special situations.
5. Buy Local, Big Box Backup, Amazon.com to the rescue.
   1. Buy local from small health food marts if you can
   2. If not, Big Boxes like Whole Foods will definately have what you need.
   3. But Amazon.com is the best option since they deliver, most places, free, and have everything you need a great prices.

The Master Cleanse Kit Ingredients

The ingredients for the basic Master Cleanse kit are really very simple. I am going to list each here, give a brief explanation regarding each, provide a link to a more in-depth article on the ingredient as well as provide a link to the recommended item on Amazon.com (affiliate links).

1. Pure Water
2. Fresh Lemons
3. Rich Maple Syrup
4. Organic Cayenne Pepper
5. Sea Salt
6. Herbal Laxative Tea
7. Herbal Teas

Pure Water

Pure Water is a seemingly obvious choice. We’re all aware that our drinking water should be the best quality possible. But it’s funny that even knowing this, we often make the easiest choice possible for our source of water. And what’s worse, we actually don’t drink enough water in general anyway, pure or otherwise. Many of us have great quality water right out of the tap, and there are also simple water testing devices to see if there are any red flags in your source of water. Combined with a good filter/purifier, you should be able to get enough, quality water. There is lots of really exciting ideas surrounding water, like alkaline water, ionized water, kangen water, distilled water and so on. But the bottom line is that a simple, clean source is all you need.

Fresh Lemons

Fresh lemons are the most critical ingredient in your Master Cleanse Kit. It’s not just that Lemons are a true superfood, or the cleansing effect of the lemon juice. It’s not even the added calories we get. But it’s the enzymes? OK, the WHAT-zymes. Enzymes are little “machines” that are neither alive nor dead, that carry out the function of breaking apart and putting together our cells and molecules. That’s what the cleanse is all about. Getting rid of what we don’t want, and utilizing what we have. We need those enzymes for the cleansing process, and to make use of all nutrients we’re taking in during cleanse (lemon juice, maple  syrup and cayenne pepper). You MUST use fresh lemons to make your lemon juice. If you can’t get them where you live, you can order fresh lemons right from Amazon.com

Rich Maple Syrup

Rich Maple Syrup provides the majority of our source of calories. It’s a natural, raw, nutritious sugar that is a perfect choice for our calorie source. There are a handful of appropriate substitutions (most notably molasses for the diabetic), but the standard kit calls for any type of rich, pure maple syrup. A note about Grades. In the USA a grading system of Grade A, B, and C is used and in Canada it’s 1,2 and 3. In any case, what you need to know about Maple Syrup is that as long as it says “Maple Syrup”, you’re good to go. Do not get Table Syrup, masquerading as Maple Syrup. It’s just corn syrup with maple flavour (this means you Aunt Jemima). The grades refer to the darkness, and the flavour as a result of when it was harvested. The darker the better as it will have slightly more nutrients. You can buy Rich Maple Syrup in many regular groceries stores, and in Amazon.com.

Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne Pepper, a super food of the highest order, is called the Master Herb for  a reason (and is a likely leader for how The Master Cleanse got it’s name). The cayenne is a boost to your metabolism, it breaks down mucous and provides an incredible array of nutrients and vitamins to our bodies during The Master Cleanse. Many people dread or love the cayenne pepper for it’s spicy twist to their lemonade. Those who are tempted to bypass the spicy herb want to take capsules full, but as Peter Glickman helped me understand, the mouth actually is the start of digestions. And the hot spicy effect on our mouths prepares our bodies for what’s coming, allowing us to receive the full benefit of the food. For those of you who think your stomach reactions to pizza, or whatever gives you heartburn, just know, this isn’t the same. All that food is refined, combined and devitalized. Cayenne pepper can be purchased everywhere including from Amazon.com. Don’t get the super hot, but don’t get the weenie version either. 35,000 HU’s is the minimum. Go for 100,000 HU if you dare!

Herbal Laxative Tea

Both the Sea Salt (for the Salt Water Flush), and the Herbal Laxative, are needed to create a daily detox bowel movement. If the Lemonade is made to loosen the waste in our bodies, then the daily detox is required to remove that waste. For the herbal laxative you can use either the Smooth Move Tea, or a tablet form like  Swiss Kris (which is recommended by Tom Woloshyn. The laxative is commonly viewed to be mandatory, and best taken right before you’re about to fall asleep, while the Salt Water Flush is considered mandatory. As long as you have a daily movement, in any combination you’re doing good. You have to move out what we’re mixing up. I highly recommend the SWF if you can stand it. Be warned, it takes some getting used to.

Sea Salt (Salt Water Flush)

The Sea Salt must not be IODIZED, or table salt. Only sea salt will do. The Salt Water Flush really creates a challenge as the taste is not that nice to deal with. But I think its worth it, and even look forward to the feeling of the “flush” afterwards.

• Get more information on the Laxatives from this article by Tom Woloshyn.
• Learn more about the Salt Water Flush
• Buy both Sea Salt and Herbal Laxative (Smooth Move Tea and Swiss Kris Tablets)