Thread: Herbs to Detox Kidney and Liver

Detoxification involves getting rid of toxins so that the body is able to be cleansed more easily. This is particularly important for cleansing the liver, kidneys and lungs. Most people find that it makes them feel healthier and more energetic. While most forms of detoxification involve sticking to a diet that rids the body of toxins, this does not fully cleanse the body. The most effective way to cleanse the liver, lungs and kidneys is to use herbal detoxification as well. Herbal detoxification tends to be quicker and more effective than a detoxification diet alone. In addition, it is usually more direct, as you can use specific herbs to cleanse the different organs in the body. These herbs should be readily available in health stores.

Herbs that can cleanse the liver include red beet, parsley, horsetail, birch leaves, chamomile and goldenrod. Herbs that can cleanse the lungs include slippery elm, marshmallow and Chinese ephedra. Herbs that can cleanse the kidneys include parsley, marshmallow, ginger, goldenseal and cedar berries. Some of these herbs can be used to cleanse more than one organ. For example, parsley can cleanse both the liver and the kidneys, while marshmallow can cleanse both the lungs and the kidneys.

For herbal detoxification purposes, the herbs can be ingested in several different ways. Herbs are available in a powder form that can added to meals. Alternatively, herbal tea is a good way to detox using herbs. Herb extracts are also a possibility but these can defeat the object of a herbal detoxification if they have been extracted using alcohol.

I think we all need to detoxify at some point to make sure that we cleanse our organs and get rid of toxins that are harmful to out body. This is a great way to stay ever healthier aside from keeping a balanced diet and exercising.

Herbal detoxification is great for people with kidney failure and lung condition. It is another way of cleaning up the affected organs. However I still think that it has to be approved by the doctor first to make sure that this is done in a safe manner.

I agree that detoxification is important for our organs and systems to effectively do their job. It reduces the amount of toxins and pollution into our body to lessen the burden against the detoxification organs. It also promotes healthy eating, nutrition and supplementation to help our body effectively clear the toxins.

Some of the benefits of detoxifying our organs are:

• Improved Immune Function
• Scavenge free radicals and eliminate toxins
• Strengthen body’s fight against cancer cells and generate healthy cells in our body
• Cleanses mucous, congestion, fermentation, inflammation in our digestive tract
• Purifies our blood
• Reforms our lifestyle addictions for sugar, salt, high glycemic carbohydrates, alcohol, junk foods, nicotine, etc

Toxins are inevitable in our lives but we have to limit our exposure to it. To detox your body and let it function optimally, adequate nutrition is important to fuel our organ and body system to prevent toxin from build up and be expelled out. Besides all these external-related toxins, the other reasons to detox is to fight free radicals. These are small molecules lacking an electron and they consistently steal electrons from other molecules to stabilize themselves. All these stealing result in wounding many cells as they also become unstable when their electrons are stolen. So it grows the number of free radicals within our bodies and starts a chain of damages to our cells as well as our DNA structure. This affects the function of our system and organs that is why detoxification is important.

Our body needs detoxification as our skin needs cleansing to remove the dirt and unclog the pores. Sometimes washing it is not enough as our organs cannot be cleansed by water alone.

Right... that is a simple explanation of how our body needs to detoxify too. It will make our organs function better for a better health.