Anatomy of the Liver
The liver is the second largest organ (after skin) in the body, weighing nearly two kgs in an adult. The size of the liver corresponds with the size of the human body.
The liver is situated in the upper abdomen on the right side, beneath (and loosely attached to) the diaphragm. It is nearly 21-22 cm across at its widest point, 15-17 cm at its greatest vertical height and 10-12 cm across front and back. The liver is composed of soft, red brown tissues, divided into lobes and enclosed by a tough fibrous capsule.
The liver has an intricate and complex system of blood vessels. If we were to build a factory to perform all chemical functions that a man's liver could perform, it would spread over a few acres. The circulatory system of the liver is unlike that of any other organ. It receives 25% blood supply from the hepatic artery. The major portion of 75% is received from the portal vein. This blood contains the final products of digestion.
All of the venous blood, returning from the pancreas, stomach, small intestine and spleen, converges into the portal vein. The liver gets first pickings of everything absorbed in the small intestine, where all nutrients are re-absorbed. So, it is the liver's job to process all food that your intestines absorb.
Functions of the liver
- The liver is the main organ that processes foreign substances and make them friendly. Its primary secretion, the bile, is poured into the gallbladder and then, the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine), through the common bile duct. Everyday, the liver produces upto 400 ml of bile. Bile is important for fat digestion. The liver is full of tubes (biliary tubing) that deliver the bile to a large tube, the common bile duct.
- In addition, it has other important functions, similar to that of a ductless gland in the metabolism of carbohydrates and nitrogenous waste products.
- From the venous blood, the liver removes glucose, turns it into glycogen and stores it. When the body needs energy, the liver converts this glycogen back to glucose, which then travels through the bloodstream to the cells, where it is needed.
- The liver converts amino acids into proteins, such as albumin, prothrombin components, fibrinogen, transferrin and glycoprotein.
- It excretes the bile pigments, bilirubin and biliverdin, formed in the cells of the reticulo-endothelial system, from haemoglobin.
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Briefly, the functions of the liver are: it is the chemical factory of the body; it produces bile; it processes all food; it converts amino acids into proteins; it is instrumental in clearing out harmful drugs and other chemicals from the body.
Gallstones: How They Form
The gallbladder acts as a storage reservoir for bile in concentrated form and is attached to the common bile duct.
The pear shaped gallbladder stores bile, which is released into the small intestine in optimum quantities, as and when needed. Eating fat or protein triggers the gallbladder to squeeze itself empty after about twenty minutes and the stored bile travels down the common bile duct to the intestines. Without your gallbladder (when it is removed by surgery for instance) the liver will still produce bile, but since the bile can no longer be stored, it is directly released into the intestine. This may result in indigestion of fat. Bile is designed to remove toxins, fat and sludge from the liver and flush out fatty and calcified deposits called gallstones. The longer the bile remains in the gallbladder, the thicker this bitter greenish liquid becomes and the greater the likelihood of stone formation. These stones are also formed when too little bile is produced. They, in turn, decrease the ability of the liver to make bile, and as a result, less cholesterol and toxins are removed from the body.
Stones can form anywhere in the body, where there is a liquid containing mineral salts that can be crystallised, and where the fluid is held for a while in a hollow organ, such as the gallbladder. The stones may be large or small and may grow together causing extra large stones. Small stones are often excreted along with the bile and eliminated with no problem. Larger ones, however, can get lodged in the ducts, causing gallstone colic, one of the most painful illnesses. At other times, gallstones may be silent, and may not cause any pain or symptoms. In autopsies, examiners often find gallbladders full of gallstones.
Often, a gallstone is not a true stone. They are rather rubbery and soft. Most gallstones float. Only a few sink. They are mostly green. The size varies from that of rice grains to golf balls. Even large gallstones slip out easily through the anus. Pathological analysis of a stone sample after a Liver Cleanse was found to be 91% cholesterol and 9% bile salts, water and inert ingredients.
In many people, including children, the biliary tubes are choked with gallstones. Some people develop allergies or hives, but others exhibit no symptoms. When the gallbladder is scanned or X-rayed, nothing is visible. Typically, gallstones are not only in the gallbladder, but also in the bile duct and liver. More ever, most are too small and not calcified, a prerequisite for visibility in an ultrasound.
Even after surgical removal of the gallbladder, a little pocket remains where stones can accumulate. The Liver Cleanse will flush out the area and expel gallstones that may have formed post surgery.
Symptoms of gallstones problem may include
- Cramping and gas in the stomach or intestine
- Abdominal pain, which could transmit to the right shoulder
- If a gallstone remains lodged in the bile duct for a long time, there will be a build-up of bile behind it. This can result in obstructive jaundice
- Cholecystitis, an inflammation and possible infection in the gall bladder due to high levels of cholesterol
Important
You can survive without a gallbladder, but you are more prone to developing certain health problems. A gallbladder performs several important roles, such as fat digestion and absorption, removal of cholesterol and other toxins from the body. When a gallbladder is removed, a new pathway for the bile is created. The trouble with this new pathway is that the bile irritates the pancreas. When a cell gets irritated, it performs its function irrationally. In this case, the pancreas cannot produce insulin normally. This may lead to diabetes. You are at a greater risk of developing a fatty liver, experiencing indigestion and developing deficiencies of essential fatty acids and fat soluble nutrients.
How Bile Is Made, What It Does
Our body is a wonderful system. It even uses worn out blood cells. The spleen breaks down haemoglobin in the worn out red blood cells into bile salts and other substances. Bile salts are safe for the body in normal amounts. The liver removes excess bile salts and wastes, and sends them to the gallbladder for storage, from where they are released into the small intestine for digestion.
When bile is released into the intestine, it performs the following functions
- When you eat a meal with fats, the gallbladder releases a large amount of bile to digest them. Bile is essential in the digestion of fats. The concept of emulsifying fats is similar to that of washing greasy dishes. Without adding soap, it is almost impossible to clean the grease. The same way, the gallbladder stores bile that emulsifies fat, so that it can be properly transported by the intestines into the bloodstream
- It neutralises the acid from the stomach
- It is a natural laxative for the colon
A Second Path to Diabetes
When bile ducts get blocked with gallstones, the bile may take another route and end up in the pancreas. Here, the bile attacks the pancreas, causes inflammation and destroys insulin secreting cells. This results in lack of insulin supply, leading to high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia), and disability of the liver and muscles to pick up glucose from the blood and store it. A Liver Cleanse gives relief to patients suffering from this type of diabetes.
What the Liver Cleanse Does
Cleansing the liver dramatically improves digestion, which is the basis of your complete health. You can expect your allergies to be reduced by upto 40%, immediately after the first cleanse. The benefits increase with each subsequent cleanse, wherein you will notice a reduction in the frequency and intensity of the allergy.
A Liver Cleanse also ensures a heart attack free life for at least six months following the cleanse, by removing cholesterol and fat deposited in the arteries and blood.
Incredibly, it also eliminates shoulder, upper arm and upper back pain, along with many other ailments. You will have more energy and an increased sense of well-being.
I suggest everyone to do a Liver Cleanse as soon as possible. Within 18 hours of this painless process, anyone can confirm that this Cleansing Therapy is very powerful.
What the Stones Are Made Of
Due to environmental pollutants and consumption of cooked food, toxins accumulate in the capillaries of the liver. To visualise this condition, imagine your garden hose with marbles in it. Very little water will be able to flow, which will not have the ability to flush out the marbles. With gallstones, very little cholesterol is able to leave the body and its levels rise. If you remove the marbles from the garden hose, water will flow freely. Similarly, once you do a Liver Cleanse, your cholesterol levels come down and the performance of the liver is improved.
There are over half a dozen varieties of gallstones, most of which have cholesterol crystals in them. They can be black, red, white, green or tan coloured. The green ones get their colour from a coating of bile. Other stones are composites, made of many smaller ones, indicating that they regrouped in the bile ducts sometime after the last cleanse.
Important
Gallstones, being porous, can pick up all bacteria, cysts, viruses and parasites passing through the liver. At the very centre of each stone, a lump of bacteria can be found. This is suggestive of a dead parasite that might have initiated the stone formation. In this way, nests of infection are formed, forever supplying the body with fresh bacteria. No stomach problem, such as ulcers and intestinal bloating, can be cured permanently without removing these gallstones from the liver. As the stones grow and become numerous, the back pressure on the liver causes it to make less bile.
Preparation
- Plan to do your first Liver Cleanse at the earliest. To get the best results in the second round, do a Kidney, Parasite and Acidity Cleanse, before the second Liver Cleanse. You should have your kidneys, bladder and urinary tract in top working condition so that they can efficiently remove any undesirable substances absorbed from the intestine.
- Choose a Saturday (or a day before a holiday) for the cleanse, so that you can rest the next day.
- Eat a light breakfast and simple lunch, easy to digest. This allows the bile to build up, since less bile is required for digestion of light food. This develops pressure in the liver. The added pressure pushes out more stones. When you are on a fruit diet, you can pass out the maximum number of stones. The reason is simple. Fruits do not need bile for digestion and the bile remains stored, resulting in more pressure that releases more stones.
- If you are doing any of the other cleanses, such as Kidney Cleanse, Acidity Cleanse or Parasite Cleanse, stop these cleanses by 2 pm, i.e., four hours before the scheduled Liver Cleanse. If you are taking regular medication for blood pressure, diabetes etc., you can continue to take it as usual.
Ingredients
- Extra virgin olive oil (250 ml) for a person of 70 kgs or more, 175 ml for people weighing less than 70 kgs and 150 ml for people who weigh less than 55 kgs (remember that only extra virgin olive oil is needed, not olive oil or virgin olive oil).
- Fresh juice of orange, sweet lime, tangerine or pineapple approximately in the same quantity as the oil. Tetra pack juices can also be used.
- Epsom salt or magnesium sulphate (MgSO4.7H2O), four sachets of 20 gms each per person per Liver Cleanse, for a person weighing 70 kgs or more. People who suffer from hypertension or weigh any less, should have 15 gms of epsom salt. Those who are on regular medication to control hypertension, should take the regular dose of 20 gms. People suffering from hypotension should take a reduced dose of 15 gms, since epsom salt sometimes tends to marginally lower blood pressure.
- Water (800 ml); to dissolve epsom salt. You can substitute water with orange/sweet lime, pineapple or apple juice, to avoid the unpleasant taste of epsom salt. However, for best results, have salt with water and observe better cleansing, by way of increased number of stones in stool.
The Eighteen-Hour Schedule
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You may postpone the entire schedule by a few hours if you go to bed late, around midnight, instead of 10 pm. Also, the interval between the doses may be increased or decreased up to an hour or a little more, to suit individual requirements.
What Results Look Like
Loose motions may start any time after the first dose of epsom salt, due to the dilating action of the salt. However, stones come out only after taking the third/fourth dose of epsom salt. They may continue until 2-4 pm.
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During diarrhoea, the body loses some essential mineral and nutrients. As a result, it takes some time to recover the lost nutrients. Hence, we need a gap of at least two weeks between two Liver Cleanses. Repeat the Liver Cleanse until all the stones are removed. Afterwards, it is sufficient to do it once in six months.
If possible, use a European toilet, so that you can see the stones float. In Indian toilets, they will be washed away. If you are using an Indian toilet, use a strainer or a net to collect stones, otherwise you will not believe that all this was inside you.
Traditional Viewpoints, and the Book's Response
This procedure contradicts many traditional medical viewpoints. Gallstones are thought to be formed in the gallbladder, not the liver. They are not linked to pains, other than that of gallbladder attacks. They are thought to be few, not thousands. It is easy to understand why this thought is prevalent. Only when you have acute pain attacks, some stones in the gallbladder, big enough and sufficiently calcified, can be seen on an X-ray or radiography, bringing down their numbers.
When the gallbladder is removed, the acute pain attacks subside, but bursitis, other pains and digestive problems remain. People who have had their gallbladder removed surgically still get plenty of green, bile coated stones and anyone who dissects these stones can see that the concentric circles and crystals of cholesterol exactly match textbook pictures of gallstones. Such gallstones are from bile ducts.
Sometimes, the bile ducts are full of cholesterol crystals that did not turn into round stones. They appear as chaff, floating on the toilet bowl water. They may be tan coloured, harbouring hundreds of tiny white crystals. Cleansing this chaff is just as important as purging the stones.
Effect on Allergies and Asthma
Allergies and asthma are due to a disabled liver and extreme allergies are due to an extremely disabled liver. Allergies occur when a persons immune system reacts to substances in the environment that are harmless for most people.
Food has natural chemicals that need detoxification. Different parts of the liver have different detoxifying jobs. One part detoxifies plastics and solvents, the other detoxifies perfumes, another detoxifies newsprint ink and so on. By constantly changing our food, we avoid overburdening any one of our detoxifying mechanisms.
Anything that gets lodged in the bile duct obstructs the flow of bile. This causes pressure in that part of the liver and it produces less bile. The bile duct system is like a gigantic tree with a lot of interconnecting branches. When one is obstructed, others take over its job. However, when a whole section of the liver gets obstructed and cannot detoxify the chemicals, they cause allergy.
Asthma patients will find a lot of relief as well. They can endure indoor air again, sit on plastic chairs, read newspapers, eat seafood, breathe in polluted air, wear nylon or woollen clothing and leather shoes without any adverse reaction. This sounds unbelievable, but is true.
Who Should Take Extra Care
Important
If you have any of the following ailments with major discomfort, then you should preferably do a Liver Cleanse under the supervision of someone who has already done it: cancer; diabetes (with five years or more on medication); cirrhosis of the liver; tumour in the liver; a major surgery in the past four months; recovered from a long ailment; elderly, and physically weak; big ulcers in the stomach/intestine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Opinions, Allegations and Clarifications
Time and again, many opinions of allopathic practitioners and other doomsayers have indicated that gallbladder stones cannot be cured by a Liver Cleanse. They say that it is a sick joke and an experiment by a quack. People experience cramping, diarrhoea, sweating, nausea or general sickness, but exult after they complete the Liver Cleanse. They feel much better after getting rid of 100 to 200 gallstones (sometimes even more) from their gallbladder! The opponents of Liver Cleanse say that we, the doers of Liver Cleanse, without any proof of having gallstones in the first place, shout out that we have gotten rid of those stones. They say that what we see in the toilet is actually just saponified oil (oil coagulated with apple or other juices), because the body cannot digest too much oil at one time, and to get rid of it, saponification takes place.
They cite the gallbladder example. The gallbladder is a tiny structure and does not have room to hold bile, hundreds of gallstones and the common bile duct. The number of stones observed in the stool would require a gallbladder the size of a football to hold them!
In view of the above allegations, I would like them to just type Liver Cleanse on Google search. More than 10 lakh search results appear. None of these sites are promoted by professional medical practitioners, who charge, directly or indirectly, hefty fee from patients. All of these sites are promoted by common people, like me, who have done a Liver Cleanse and so have their family members. Most of us do not charge any fee and mainly propagate it for a greater social cause.
I accept that bile duct is too thin to pass a stone, but epsom salt dilates it for a short while and, as a result, the gallbladder passes stones smoothly. Also, we, the practitioners of Liver Cleanse, have always maintained that gallbladder stones are not only in the gall bladder, but are also scattered in the liver and bile ducts. Most of them are not actual stones, but are soft cholesterol chaffs.
People claim that there is no proof, through ultrasound and pathological reports, that gallstones are passed in diarrhoea after a Liver Cleanse. This is a blatant lie. In fact, whenever a test is done after a proper Liver Cleanse, the ultrasound reports confirm reduction in number of stones.
The theory of saponified oil, i.e., oil coagulated with fruit juice, is again a negative approach toward Liver Cleanse. Olive oil solidifies at refrigerator temperatures, roughly 3°C. Water is a pure substance, so it freezes at an exact temperature. On the other hand, olive oil is a complex mixture of oils and waxes. The temperature of our body is 37°C, thus, freezing of oil is ruled out. The LDL Cholesterol in the gall bladder stones melts at nearly 55°C. The stones in the Liver Cleanse diarrhoea melt at the same temperature when exposed to the sun. No chemical technique can create solid soft stones by coagulating oil with apple or citrus juice.
Above all, these opponents of Liver Cleanse, in the first place, have never done a Liver Cleanse. We have done it, felt it and propagate it for the benefit of human kind without any monetary benefit. Do you need any more evidence to justify Liver Cleanse?
