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Apple cider vinegar has been hitting many health food store shelves recently. Often used for weight loss, apple cider vinegar strongly increases the flow of bile, the fatty, oily substance made by the liver, and stored in the gall bladder to help you digest fats. Since bile is also a fatty oily substance, draining bile from the liver to the small intestine pulls fats out of the blood. Bile is actually one of the main pathways of cholesterol metabolism. And according to Ayurvedic thought, since the liver detoxifies the blood, bile often contains toxic metabolic by-products. Draining bile thus cleanses...

Brewing a great cup of tea doesn't take much . . . just good quality tea and filtered water, brewed at the right temperature for the right amount of time. Really, it's simple! And amazing, once you've brewed it the right way; you'll never go back to the bitter, badly flavored tea of your past. So here you go . . . everything you need to know about brewing tea for its optimal flavor and health benefits! Loose Leaf Tea Just like coffee purists proclaim freshly ground coffee to be the best, loose leaf teas really do make a good...

You may not know this, but dry brushing the skin has long been a part of Ayurveda's cleansing philosophies. Ayurveda believes that your skin is an organ of elimination, just like your kidneys, liver, and colon, especially because it is so porous. In this way, dry skin brushing helps keep the pores clear and the skin active to assist the body in this natural cleansing process. Dry brushing also helps to increase blood circulation. Plus, it exfoliates the skin's outer layer while stimulating the inner sweat and oil glands, providing more needed moisture for the skin. So how do you...

This powerful daily detox tea is often nicknamed CCF tea because of it's easy key 3 ingredients. Cumin, Coriander and Fennel. Yup, that's it. This tea is one of the simplest and highly effective formulas for detoxification, weight loss, and burning up that excess of spring moisture. It is revitalizing yet mild and truly gets right to the point: it helps to warm up your circulation and clear out water retention. Because of this flushing action, it simultaneously cleanses the urinary tract and reduces water weight. It is really great for the current season, as well. The wetness around springtime,...

1. Eat the food nature provides you with, naturally. This may sound simple, but if you walk into an ordinary grocery store you will be hard-pressed to find real food, i.e. food that is grown by the forces of sun, soil, wind, and water. By eating nature's produce, as fresh and as close to the source as possible, the food retains its living intelligence and energy, its prana / life force.   2. Eat according to the seasons. When you eat locally grown and with the seasons, you benefit from the intelligence in nature that sustains seasonal balance.  For instance,...