Tea Tree & Tangerine Foot Scrub Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
  • 12 drops tea tree essential oil
  • 12 drops tangerine essential oil
  • 4 oz. Wide mouth glass jar

Directions:

  1. Measure sugar, grapeseed oil, and essential oils into jar. Stir contents until well mixed.
  2. To use, scoop out 1 tablespoon of mixture and massage into feet. Rinse with warm water and wipe dry with a towel.

Tip: Substitute tamanu oil for the grapeseed oil for a thicker texture.

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Detoxification Baths

Baths are especially useful for people with toxic bioaccumulation of xenobiotics. The hot water increases the blood flow and capillary action near the surface of the skin, causing a faster release of toxins. The heat also increases sweating and opens pores, allowing toxin-containing perspiration to be excreted more readily. Follow these general instructions for both the plain-water baths and the detox baths.

  1. Wash your body thoroughly with a mild soap in the shower before you take your bath and scrub with a loofa sponge, sisal mitt, skin brush or rough washcloth to remove excess body oils, dead skin, and any accumulated toxins. Rinse thoroughly.
  2. Fill the tub with water as hot as you can tolerate without burning your skin, Cover the tub’s overflow valve so the water level will be high enough to immerse your body up to your neck.
  3. Begin with a 5-minute soak in hot water. Do not exceed 5 minutes for your first bath, Gradually increase the time by 5-minute increments until you can soak for 30 minutes without experiencing symptoms,
  4. Gently massage your muscles with a skin brush while soaking to increase circulation to the skin,
  5. After soaking, take a cleansing shower. Scrub thoroughly and wash your hair. If you continue to perspire, repeat shower.
  6. Take your tolerated dose of Vitamin-C before and after each bath. If you’re taking any antioxidant supplements, take them before your bath.
  7. Drink an 8 ounces glass of filtered water before, during, and after your bath.

Take detox baths 3 times a week until your general health has improved. The use of baths once or twice a week prevents the accumulation of toxins.


Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy is the use of water, steam or ice and hot or cold temperatures.

Hydrotherapy can:

  • Increases circulation of the blood and lymph
  • Cleans the skin
  • Relieves pain; serve as a local anesthetic
  • Lower fever
  • Decrease cramps
  • Induce sleep
  • Soothes the nervous system
  • Acts as a stimulant
  • Increase physical and mental alertness

The primary reaction of the body to heat is relaxation and it is the secondary reaction to depression, sedation and atony (lack of muscle tone). Heat stimulates the nervous system and causes white blood cells to migrate from the blood vessels into the tissues, cleaning up toxins including bacteria and viruses, and eliminating waste. The primary reaction of the body to cold is stimulation and the secondary reaction is invigorating, restorative and tonic (improves muscle tone). Cold reduces inflammation by vasoconstriction also reducing inflammatory agents by making the blood vessels less permeable.

Alternating of heat and cold stimulates the adrenal and endocrine system, reduces congestion, alleviates inflammation, activates organ function, improves circulation in the digestive organs and pelvis, and helps the detox capacity of the liver.

Types of Hydrotherapy

  • Baths and Showers
  • Compresses and Packs: Compresses may be hot, cold or alternating hot and cold, and usually applied with pressure. Both compresses and packs help stimulate the immune system and increase the white blood cell count. Also to treat infections and bruises.
    • Hot compresses applied for 30 minutes or more. Change when they cool off.
    • Cold compresses applied as cold cloth wrung from ice water. Refresh as they warm up.
    • Ice packs are a very cold application, usually ice or gel packs.
    • Applied to the area for 20 minutes out of every hour for the first 24 hours.
    • Hot packs warm a local area to relieve muscle spasms and pain and encourage blood flow, Towels soaked in hot water from the tap can be used 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Sprays: Sprays are strong jets of water directly at a local or general area. Showers are a type of spray. Hot and cold alternating. Cold sprays to the breastbone or upper legs stimulate the kidneys. Cold sprays or alternating hot and cold sprays on the abdomen stimulates the liver.

Why Cleanse?

This information is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For more information pertaining to your personal needs, please see a qualified health practitioner.

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List of Superfoods

  • Aloe Vera
  • Amla fruit
  • Apple cider vinegar (moderation)
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Blue-green algae such as Chlorella and Spirulina
  • Camu Camu
  • Cereal grasses such as wheat, barley, alfalfa, clover, Original Green Drink powder
  • Fermented products: miso, kimchee, fermented nut/seed yogurts & cheeses, sauerkraut, natto
  • Fruits: avocado, berries, Goji berries, lemons, Acai berries
  • Garlic (raw or pickled)
  • Herbs: lemongrass, rose hips, horsetails, nettles leaves and root, oat straw marshmallow root, rosemary
  • Herbs & Spices (culinary): parsley, cilantro, turmeric, ginger, sage, cayenne, edible flowers
  • Hemp seeds
  • Bee products: honey, raw, Lehua & Manuka, propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen
  • Lecithin
  • Maca
  • Millet
  • Moringa leaves
  • Noni
  • Nuts & seeds: almonds, chia seeds, coconut water, coconut oil, olive oil, flaxseed oiil and hemp seed oil
  • Oregano oil
  • Quinoa
  • Rejuvelac
  • Sea vegetables
  • Vegetables: Yacon root, gobo/burdock roots, watercress, broccoli, beets, sprouts, kale, spinach, celery, dandelion leaves & root

The information on this handout is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For more information pertaining to your personal needs, please see a qualified health practitioner.

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Green Lemon Ginger Beauty Tonic, Serves 2

Ingredients

  • 1 medium cucumber
  • 1 green apple (Granny Smith)
  • 6 celery stalks
  • 1 head romaine lettuce
  • 1/2 bunch parsley
  • ½-1 lemon peeled
  • 1-inch fresh ginger root
  • 2 teaspoons Original Green Drink

Directions:

  1. Push listed ingredients through the funnel of a juicer, use a plunger to push through. For easy processing – Alternate veggies, herbs, and roots, etc. Whisk in the Orginal Green Drink powder or place the fresh juiced ingredients into a blender, add the powder then, and blend to combine. Drink as fresh as possible.

Liver Lover’s Juice Recipe, 2 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 apples
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped pineapple
  • 1 small cucumber
  • 1-inch ginger
  • 1 bunch celery
  • 1 cup loosely packed parsley
  • 1 cup sprouts and/or microgreens
  • 4 small radishes
  • 1 cup loosely packed dandelion greens
  • 2 teaspoons Original Green Drink

Directions:

  1. Push listed ingredients through the funnel of a juicer, use a plunger to push through. For easy processing – Alternate veggies, herbs, and roots, etc. Drink as fresh as possible.

Note: Orginal Green Drink powder may be added to any juice. Power-packed with nutrients and blood cleansers. To add – whisk in or shake with fresh juice in a Mason jar to combine.

Best Alkaline Foods

  • Green vegetable juices and green vegetable smoothies
  • Leafy green vegetables and herbs like kale, spinach, watercress, lettuce, cilantro, parsley, basil, etc.
  • Adaptogen herbs
  • Cereal grasses – barley, wheatgrass
  • Micro-algae or seaweeds – dulse, arame, kelp, kombu
  • Blue-green algae such as spirulina and chlorella
  • Medicinal mushrooms
  • Certain fruits – lemons, limes, berries, grapes, melons, pears, papaya, nectarines, avocado
  • Sprouts and micro-greens – broccoli, sunflower, alfalfa, clover, etc.
  • Certain fermented foods
  • Wild edible greens and edible flowers – dandelion, Gotu kola, sorrel, violets, nasturtium, borage blossoms, Begonia, rose, etc.
  • Aloe Vera
  • Bee pollen
  • Noni

Some Quick Alkalizing Methods

  1. Fresh lemon juice in ½ glass of water
  2. Baking soda ½ – 1 teaspoon in a glass of water
  3. Chlorophyll
  4. Vitamin C
  5. Digestive enzymes with food 

This information is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For more information pertaining to your personal needs, please see a qualified health practitioner.

All rights reserved Dr. Malik Cotter, www.malikcotter.com, Copyright © 2019