What Can I Use to Detoxify My Body?

Stress from deadlines, weight gain from overeating and one too many cocktails when you unwind. The pressure that comes from every day life can wreck havoc on your body. In a perfect world, you'd take a month off of work, lay on a beach and schedule daily massages and facials. While that is impossible for most of us, there are way to detox your own body.

Herbs as Gentle Laxatives

• Due to their high fiber content, psyllium seeds have used to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome, constipation and diarrhea. These tiny little seeds, which you should first soak in water, attach themselves to waste and toxins and flush them from your body. Team them up with cascara sagrada, which can be found in capsules, liquid form, and dried bark. Along with its laxative properties, cascara sagrada also may strengthen the muscle tone of the colon walls. However, unlike psyllium seeds which you can regularly, you should not use cascara sagrada for more than 8 days in a row.

Cleanse & Support the Liver

• Your liver is a multi-functioning organ: it stores glycogen, synthesizes plasma protein, regulates hormone production, and also is responsibility detoxification. However, too much alcohol and processed and fatty foods tax your liver, and interfere with its many tasks. Give it a break by refraining from alcohol and indulge only in organic food, free of hormones and chemicals. For extra protection, use dandelion root, which has been used for centuries by both homeopathic and traditional medical practitioners.

Take a Bath in Essentials Oil

• Using aromatherapy and essential oils is not only a fragrant and relaxing way to deal with stress, but certain combinations can be used specifically for detoxification. Use a blend of lemon, fennel and juniper. All 3 are said to strengthen the liver and the kidney. They are also very potent. For a full bath, you need to only add 2 or 3 drops of each. Breathe in deeply as you soak.