Alternative Medicine Hepatitis C: Milk Thistle Liver Detox
Hepatitis C Diet
This article will explore alternative medicine hepatitis c treatments. Many hepatitis c individuals live for years and don’t even know they have the disease. The best alternative care for this illness is staying healthy through eating right, exercise, and liver detoxification. Hepatitis c is a liver disease so cleansing the toxins from the liver is an absolute must. Fortunately for us, the liver is a very resilient organ of the body. A partially damaged liver can rejuvenate when given the proper atmosphere and continue working as intended.
Alternative Medicine Hepatitis C: Liver Cleanse
The liver’s function is to detoxify the body, but if the liver is not working properly how can it do its job properly? The liver cleanse should be done at least once a year. The basic liver cleanse is a four day juice fast.
This cleanse requires you to drink only pure, organic apple juice or juiced organic apples for three days. On the third evening of the cleanse you drink ½ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil and lay on your right side.
The liver cleanse will also clean the gallbladder and kidney’s. It will release gall stones from your system. Once you do this cleanse, a good oriental tonic can be taken for the liver every three months as a general maintenance, or you can simply drink detoxifying herbal teas.
Teas made with dandelion and or milk thistle are especially good for the liver, and it will benefit greatly.
Alternative Medicine Hepatitis C: Whole Foods
If you have hepatitis c, you need nutritious foods that will not overtax the liver. Whole foods with very little amounts of animal fats are appropriate for the hepatitis c individual. A diet of grains, steamed vegetables and fruits, and some beans and legumes is fine.
Protein rich foods should not be eaten if you have hepatitis c because it overworks the already weak liver. Once you have rebuilt the strength of the liver back up through cleansing and diet, you can resume eating protein foods again.
Alternative Medicine Hepatitis C: Exercise
Exercise is essential to overall health and wellbeing. The more we sit and do nothing with our body, the harder it will be to get on a good exercise program.
Practicing daily light to moderate activity is paramount for hepatitis c individuals as well as anyone who is in poor health. People who have desk jobs absolutely need to get some daily exercise throughout the day.
A good example of light activity is walking a couple of miles a day, yoga, or light Pilate exercises. Eventually you can work yourself up to doing moderate activity, which is good for your cardiovascular health.
Walking briskly two or three miles a day, water aerobics and regular aerobics are all excellent activities. Exercise also makes you feel better emotionally, mentally as well as physically.
Alternative Medicine Hepatitis C: Herbal Supplements and Greens
Conventional medicine has little to offer for hepatitis c individuals. Alternative practitioners maintain that eating a diet of heavy greens, such as dark leafy greens, sprouts, and wheat grass juice will detoxify the liver and reduce recovery time drastically.
Two herbal supplements that are very effective in treating hepatitis c are milk thistle and yellow dock.
The recovery of hepatitis c should look something like this:
- Cleanse the liver
- Eat only whole foods
- Exercise - light to moderate activity
- Herbal supplements and greens
Sources:
Liver Cleanse: Cleaning or Surgery by Embassy of Heaven Church
Natures Pharmacy by Dr. Lynn Paige Walker and Ellen Hodgson Brown, J. D
http://www.agelessherbs.com/NaturalHerbDetox.html
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