Herbal Cleanse Finale

I officially finished my herbal cleanse regimen last week ... and like the idiot I am, I added another week. I had the feeling that I should continue with three of the four pills for one more week, so I'm REALLY finishing today. Seriously. For real this time.

I had the feeling that the blood cleanser supplements may have been filling my bloodstream with garbage from surrounding tissues and the other three were helping my body to dispose of that junk. I also caught the flu about two weeks ago and I was feeling really awful at the time I should have been stopping the pills. I felt like those herbs might help my body process everything it was fighting a little better.

Oddly enough, the symptoms I've had with this flu have been exactly the same as I had when I caught the flu about 10 months ago. I've had the flu three times in my life ... twice in the last year? Maybe the herbs knocked loose a virus that lay dormant in my body? I have no idea, but it's a little too weird not to suspect something like that.

Near the end of my cleanse, I noticed some bumps forming on my head. Similar bumps had formed on my legs and arms earlier and then had faded. I thought maybe the head was finally getting the good stuff after having the lower parts worked on for a few weeks. About the same time, that old itchy pre-dandruff feeling hit me. I have fought dandruff for years and have tried several times to get off dandruff shampoo without success ... so I'm familiar with that itchy feeling that comes before my scalp falls apart. So far, the itch has come and gone ... and come again, but so far, no flakes. And it has been 2-3 months since I used any of that shampoo. The shampoo has a chemical in it that I decided wouldn't really be in keeping with the whole idea of cleansing, so I stopped using it. So far so good ...

I've maintained about a 15 pound loss and it feels stable. Except for the flu symptoms which have flared up, died down, and flared up again, I feel really healthy. I'm going to give my body a week or two to rest from all those herbs and then I've got a few cleansing and immune boosting herbs I want to try to see if I can reduce my allergic reactions. All in all, I'm pretty happy with how this cleansing experiment has turned out. If any of you out there have done something similar, I'd love to hear about it. If you decide to try what I tried, feel free to contact me with questions. I'd be happy to share more of my experiences.