Purifying the body allows you to feel better and face any challenge with health guarantees. These drinks help the digestive system take a breather.
There are numerous purifying cures, and the proximity of good weather usually makes them more appetizing. Whether you want to make a complete detox cure or if you are simply looking for natural ways to help your body get rid of toxins, we bring you 7 proposals for day to day.
Forget prejudices and discover the best recipes for broths, infusions, juices and smoothies to cleanse your body from within.
We propose combinations that help your health without giving up the pleasure of taste.
DETOX VEGETABLE BROTH
It is very appropriate for a depurative cure of several days in which a light diet is followed, free of meat and fish, and with fruits, vegetables and vegetables as protagonists.
Water is enriched with vegetables such as celery, a good diuretic whose ability to alkalize the blood stimulates purification, or onion, also diuretic and capable of reducing cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid.
For 1 liter of broth:
- 3 medium onions
- 1 celery branch
- 2 carrots
- half a block
- 1 liter of water.
Boil the water with the ingredients for an hour over low heat, without oil or salt.
BURDOCK
Burdock stimulates the emptying of bile from the gallbladder into the intestine (cholagogue effect), has sweating activity and is diuretic.
By facilitating the elimination of toxins through urine and skin it is a good depurative. This, together with its marked antimicrobial and antifungal effect, very effective in skin infections, makes burdock useful in the treatment of acne and oily skin.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon burdock root
- 1 cup water.
Preparation:
- The root is introduced into the water and boiled for 10 minutes.
- Let stand covered 5 and strain.
- If desired, sweeten with honey or sugar. One cup is taken every 8 hours.
PU-EHR RED TEA WITH APPLE JUICE
The only tea without theine is considered detoxifying because it stimulates the expulsion of toxins and activates the liver and spleen.
It also helps reduce cholesterol, triglyceride and uric acid levels, and makes the intestinal flora more resistant to parasites and bacteria.
After a heavy meal, it serves to digest better.
How to prepare it:
- Wash and cut 4 apples into quarters and put them in the blender.
- Bring the resulting apple juice to a boil.
- Pour it over 1 teaspoon of Pu-erh tea and half a cinnamon stick.
- Leave it to rest for 3 minutes and you can serve it.
ARTICHOKE
Both its leaves and the stem, fresh or dried, are an excellent remedy for liver and biliary diseases, as well as protecting the liver and helping in heavy digestion.
The artichoke exerts a diuretic and depurative effect, and helps to eliminate urea, so it is useful in case of kidney failure.
How to prepare it:
- Put 1 cup of water on the fire and when it boils add half a teaspoon of licorice in pieces.
- Let it cook for a few seconds and add a teaspoon of dried artichoke leaves.
- Let it stand for 10 minutes and filter the infusion.
PINEAPPLE SMOOTHIE WITH CARROT AND ORANGE
Thanks to its content in bromelain, an enzyme that helps digest proteins, pineapple facilitates the digestion of other foods, making it ideal when the stomach is fatigued.
Its mineral composition gives it diuretic and detoxifying properties. In addition, it has abundant juice, hardly any fat and a pulp very rich in fiber that helps to drag waste substances
and toxins from the body.
Ingredients:
- 2 pineapple slices
- 2 medium carrots, washed and liquefied
- The juice of 2 oranges
How to prepare it:
Simply pass the ingredients through the blender and take them right away.
HORSETAIL
The consumption of horsetail stimulates the emission of urine and the elimination of toxins from the body.
Therefore, it is very useful in case of fluid retention, excess uric acid and rheumatic and urinary system diseases.
It can be taken in simple infusion or combined with plants with related effects, such as dandelion, corn baleen, birch …
Preparation:
- A cup of water is boiled
- Add 1 teaspoon of horsetail and let it boil for a minute.
- Let stand
- It is filtered with gauze and sweetened to taste.
Three cups a day are taken.
BLUEBERRY, APPLE AND GRAPE JUICE
Picking this little bluish fruit on a walk in the mountains at the end of summer is a gift for the palate and health.
To the sweet taste with an acid point of blueberries is added its richness in antiocyanins, of great antioxidant power, as well as organic acids, which increase the acidity of urine and prevent the proliferation of bacteria.
Ingredients:
- 200 g blueberries
- half a block
- 75 g white grapes
Preparation:
Wash the fruit and put it all together in the blender to collect the juice.
