Do you spring clean?  I have to admit, I do not.  My mother still does – she literally scrubs the entire house, the walls, the ceiling, the curtains, everything!  Sounds like way too much work, but her house does feel really clean.  Spring cleaning is an old tradition, one most of us modern folks no longer bother with.  Granted, we don’t have coal stoves and furnaces that belch oodles of soot all over the place, but we do have ductwork that spews out dust.  Hmmm…  maybe I need to re-think that one.

In any case, this post is about spring cleaning our insides, getting rid of some of the accumulated soot and dust so that our bodies can function better, can feel clean inside and out, like my mom’s house.

If you haven’t done any cleanses in the past, let’s start you off with some simple, easy ones.  If you’re up for something more intense, reply via the comment section, and we’ll get you a more vigorous recipe.  Here are four to consider:

~ End your day on a sour note!  Squeeze the juice of a lemon into warm water and drink before going to bed.

~ Black looks good IN you!  Activated charcoal:  Effective, gentle, and inexpensive, what’s not to like?  Charcoal is commonly used to purify water and for chemical poison victims.  The reason is it has the remarkable capacity to act as a sponge in our digestive systems, sucking up debris and carrying it away with it – even LDL.  Just stir a tablespoon into a glass of water, and you’ve done some scrubbing – 30,000 square feet worth!  Rather than wait for a disaster, make it a daily habit and your body will be singing.

~ Act like a Nobel Prize winner!  Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of not one but two undivided Nobel Prizes was a huge proponent of vitamin C, so consider a vitamin C flush safe territory.  There are many variations on this theme, so here is the simplest: use powdered vitamin C (ascorbic acid) by adding it to water.  Start with one tsp every 15 minutes until you have a liquid bowel movement.  This will actually be lymph flushing; lymph acts as our sewage system, and giving this a good regular scrubbing makes all the other systems work better.  As I said, there are many versions, you can also do it at night, work up to high doses, etc.  This is a great remedy for anyone new to supplementing who feels uneasy, as C is water soluble and therefore will not build up in the body – you can’t overdose.

~ Seashells by the Seaside!  Just kidding, I just couldn’t think of anything more clever to highlight the salt water flush.  This is done when you get up in the morning.  Add two level tablespoons of uniodized sea salt plus the juice of one lemon to a quart of lukewarm water; shake; drink.  Yum.  Kidding, again.  Have a designated bathroom.  Seriously.  You are not gonna want anything to get between you and the toilet; you will be eliminating all kinds of stuff and likely more than once.

Be a baby!  I’m gonna let you in on a secret:  cleanses can make your bottom sore.  The first two I cited won’t likely do it, but the last two probably will.  And what do babies do for their sore bottoms?  They use diaper cream, of course!  Having a spray bottle to rinse off your bottom rather than wiping with toilet paper will also help in the comfort department.

There you go, some spring cleaning ideas.  Hope you like how your house (you know, the one you walk around in) looks afterwards!

As always, I love to hear how you do, so please use the comment section below and share how your holistic healing journey is going.

FYI – I swiped the photo from a homeschooling website; I hope they don’t mind, especially since I left their link in.