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Before drinking any lemonade, each day of the cleanse, drink a quart of water with two teaspoons of non-iodized sea salt. Drink it all at once or as close to that as you can. Non-iodized sea salt is sea salt that does not say “Iodine added” or “Iodized.” It is easier to drink than bleached pure white table salt. The other reason to use non-iodized sea salt is that it contains vital trace minerals that your body needs. Non-iodized sea salt does not mean no iodine. It means no additional iodine has been added. Any brand will do. I personally recommend Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt, which can be found at most health food stores. Do not drink any lemonade or take any prescribed medications for a half hour after drinking the salt water.

This should produce several urgent and intense eliminations within an hour. If it does not, gradually increase the amount of sea salt. If that does not work, try a little less sea salt. These urgent eliminations generally take place for forty-five to sixty minutes. Plan two hours before you leave the house after drinking the salt water flush. After a couple days of salt water flushes, you can gauge how much time you need, but two hours is generally safe.

Some people have trouble with drinking the salt water. Be sure you stir the salt water so the salt is evenly distributed in the drink just before you drink it. It will be easier to drink and it is more effective. I believe it is very important to include it. So try everything you can. My wife found it helpful to drink it through a straw or to count the number of swallows as you drink it. Do not add anything to the salt water to make it taste better. Stay with the program. If you find that you absolutely cannot drink the salt water, Burroughs says you can drink another cup of herbal laxative tea in the morning instead. However, the laxative stimulates the muscles of the intestinal wall to contract and mechanically move the waste through. The salt water flushes whatever loose waste is in the digestive tract and the salt also helps to dissolve the mucus and waste.

Many people have noticed that it is much easier to drink the salt water flush on later days of a cleanse. I believe this may be because the body reacts more dramatically when it has more mucus in the system and, as that gets cleaned out, the body has less reaction to the salt water flush.

The reason for two teaspoons of salt is to increase the weight (specific gravity) of the salt water until it matches the weight of blood. Specific gravity is how heavy the substance is compared to an equal volume of water. When the salt water and the blood are the same weight, the body will treat the salt water as though it were blood, not absorb the salt from the digestive system, and will just “flush” the salt water through the system instead of absorbing it.

People who have recently been on the Atkins diet or any heavy meat and dairy diet may need two or three days before the flush produces eliminations. This is because meat and dairy are frequently hard to digest and build up waste that clogs the colon.

After the Master Cleanse, you may do the salt water flush whenever you want to clean your intestines. Just be sure to do it on an empty stomach.