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The Complete Home Guide todiHseerabsse, Nsatural Healing, and Nutrition  
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Temporarily, at least, use sources of protein other than meat or dairy  
products.  
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f Daily burdock root, dandelion root, red clover f ower, and nettle leaf  
tea will all help; try rotating them. Dandelion is one of the best day-  
to-day treatments for cooling and strengthening the liver. Both the  
roots and the leaves can be used.  
f Use equal amounts of barberry root bark, milk thistle seed, dandelion  
root, burdock root, yellow dock root, gentian root, and turmeric rhi-  
zome as a tincture daily.  
f If the immune system is weak, use echinacea root or olive leaf.  
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You will need to do a liver cleanse and eventually a bowel cleanse.  
Chicory root enemas and castor-oil packs over the liver accompanied  
by hot and then cold showers with the water spray aimed directly  
over the area may help and reduce the bile.  
kidney stones  
The incidence of kidney stones has risen dramatically over the past  
century alongside a huge increase in the consumption of animal fats and  
proteins. Stones can be found in the kidneys, bladder, and ureter and can  
vary in size tremendously. They are generally composed of calcium  
oxalate. Normally the body controls the pH level of urine, and any  
deleterious components remain suspended in solution. With imbalanced  
pH levels or with lowered immunity, however, these mechanisms fail, the  
compounds crystallize, and the crystals start clumping together. The pain  
of stones, which radiates from the upper back down to the groin, is  
excruciating. Other symptoms include fever or a chill, or blood in the  
urine. The composition of the stones can vary; for instance, they may  
contain cystine (an amino acid). If diagnosis shows what type of stone or  
gravel composition you have, then a more exact diet can be tailored to  
your particular needs; but this is not easy to detect, nor do hospitals have  
the time or technology to do it very often, so general guidelines usually  
have to do.  
Often people are unaware of stones until they have passed one, which  
is an incredibly excruciating experience. Where there has been one,  
however, it is likely that there will be more, so start treating them at f rst  
occurrence.  
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Avoid tea, coffee, chocolate, peanuts, rhubarb, Swiss chard, spinach,  
tomatoes, strawberries, and beet, as well as any other foods contain-  
ing oxalic acid.  


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