Everyone tries to maintain healthy body by eating right things. But everything you eat, drink and breathe does not have good effects over your body. Chemicals in your food, water or environment may accumulate inside your body causing toxicity.
This toxicity needs to be dealt with as it leads to further diseases. After all, toxins inside body have nothing good to do!
Toxins usually cause headaches, memory loss, brittle nails, unhealthy hair and allergies. Various medications are available for detoxification of body which pull out all the cash from your pocket and no one knows if they are really safe. Why go for heavy budget treatments when you can detoxify your body at home by using certain simple home remedies. These would help in cleaning your body naturally without any side effects.
Best Home Remedies For Detoxing The Body
Drink Water
Water is the basic requirement for cleaning anything. When you take bath, you use water. Similarly when you wish to clean the inside of your body, you need to bathe it in water. Water is already known to keep body clean, it dissolves all the impurities inside body and shows them a way out through urination. The more you drink water, more you urinate and the cleaner is your body. All those who manage to survive on one or two glasses of water a day should be very particular about increasing the consumption to atleast 8 glasses. Make a point to have a full glass of water as you wake up in morning. This helps in easy flushing of all the impurities and acids released overnight.
Exercise
Exercising would cause your body to release toxins naturally. Everyone knows that the best way to release toxins from body is either by excretion or skin. Skin flushes out toxic materials in the form of sweat. So the more you sweat, cleaner will be your body. The easiest way of sweating is by exercising.
Do whatever type of exercise you like, be it swimming, running, jogging, cycling, basketball, football or anything else in this world, just make sure that you sweat. Exercising twice a day, early in the morning and in evening would work well to keep your body healthy. Make sure you drink ample of water throughout the day because to sweat out water, you would need water inside your body.
Apples
An apple a day keep the doctor away, how true! An apple is a full package of all the essential nutrients that your body needs. It is a rich source of vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin A, iron, potassium and the list continues. But what works for detoxification is a fibre called pectin. Pecting is a natural binding agent which sticks to it all the unwanted waste materials present in body. The advantage of having an apple instead of any other fibrous fruit is that the fibre in apple flushes out heavy metals from body along with all other impurities.
Tomatoes
Having two or three servings of tomatoes in a day will help in getting all the toxins out of your body. Tomatoes contain ascorbic acid which causes your liver to secrete an antioxidant called glutathione.
This antioxidant is responsible for flushing out toxic materials. If you are not a tomato lover, you can go for any other ascorbic acid source such as broccoli, orange, guava, Kiwi fruit, red pepper or india gooseberry.
Green Tea
Green tea contains catechin which is a type of flavonoid. It is an antioxidant and thus helps in reducing toxicity in body. It also works against free radicals which accumulate inside body and cause serious damage. If not worked upon, free radicals lead to clotting of blood, cancer, ageing and atherosclerosis. In order to fight against these radicals and detoxify body, it is adviced to have around three cups of green tea daily.
Garlic
Garlic is one of the best body cleansers known till now. It works just like tomatoes by enhancing the activity of liver and allowing it to secrete glutathione. This antioxidant is body’s natural agent to flush out all the toxic materials. Garlic is also known to have anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-parasitic and anti-viral properties which make is the most amazing cleasing agent.
It not only flushes out all the impurities, but also cleans body of all harmful micro-organisms. Having garlic once in a day would help in detoxification of your body. For better results, consume it two to three times a day. If you find it difficult to eat garlic directly, you can introduce it in your meals. It would provide you with all the benefits and enhance the flavour of food.
Ginger
You might have had ginger alot of times to cure common cold. But, a little of it in your bathtub can free you from all the toxins inside your body. Fill your bathtub with hot water and add one-third cup of grated ginger in it. Mix the water in bathtub with your hand so that the benefits of ginger enter into every drop of the water. Let the water rest for 10 minutes. Finally, go inside the tub for a ginger bath and there for around 20 minutes. Ginger in the water increases the temperature causing you to sweat alot.
The body would loose the toxins through this sweat. Ginger works hard enough to keep you sweating for next one hour and continues the process of detoxification. In case you have sensitive skin, ginger may cause redness. To make sure that the process works well for you, start by using a tablespoon of crushed ginger in bathtub. If you feel that it did not cause any rashes or redness, you can increase amount the next time.
Avoid Toxic Food
While you plan to detoxify your body, make sure you do not include any of the toxic materials in your diet. Stay on organic food such as fruits and vegetables. Infact, fruits help in detoxification of body. They include fibers which stick with the impurities and show them a way out of your body. Make sure not to prey on processed food, deep fried snacks, alcohol, tobacco and alike edibles.
It would be best to start your morning with lemon water which helps in flushing out toxins from your body. Follow a complete fruit diet for two days for best results. Eat as much as you want but, only fruits! Make sure you do not have to work hard for the two days as sudden change in diet may reduce energy level. Keeping food fast for two days in every fortnight would work wonders for our body.
Caution: Please use Remedies after Proper Research and Guidance. You accept that you are following any advice at your own risk and will properly research or consult healthcare professional.
