In preparation for the fast, eat only raw vegetables and fruits for two days. This helps make the fast less of a shock to the body’s system.
While on the fast, consume at least eight 8-ounce glasses of steam-distilled water a day, plus pure juices and up to 2 cups of herbal tea a day. Dilute all juices with the water, adding approximately 1 part water to 3 parts juice. Do not drink orange or tomato juice, and avoid all juices made with sweeteners or other additives. These will only serve to upset your stomach and bring on headaches. If you have a juicer, this would be a good time to take it out of the kitchen cupboard and use it. It is an excellent tool for extracting the juice out of vegetables and fruits that do not have a high fluid content, such as cabbage and carrots.
The best juice to use during your fast is fresh lemon juice. Add the juice of one lemon to a cup of warm water. Fresh apple, beet, cabbage, carrot, celery and grape juices are also good, as are “green drinks,” which are made from green leafy vegetables. These green drinks are excellent detoxifiers. Raw cabbage juice is particularly good for ulcers, cancer, and all colon problems. Just make sure you drink the cabbage juice as soon as it is prepared. As this juice sits, it loses its vitamin content.
Follow the juice-water-and-tea fast with a two-day diet of raw fruits and vegetables. Eating cooked foods immediately afterward can ruin the desired effects of the fast. The first meals after a fast should be frequent and small due to the fact that the size of the stomach and the amount of secreted digestive juices may decrease during fasting.
An Excellent Juice to Try
Juice together:
3 carrots
3 kale leaves
2 stalks of celery
2 beets
1 turnip
¼ pound of spinach
½ head of cabbage
¼ bunch of parsley
½ clove of garlic
Note- if you do not have a juicer, don’t despair! Place the vegetables in a pure vegetable broth and gently boil them, adding no seasonings. A cup of this juice may be substituted for any other juice while fasting. Save the vegetables from the broth to eat after your fast. Remember that no solid food is allowed during the fast.