I want to share this amazing elixir with all of you. It has been a standby throughout my life whenever I’ve come down with colds or flus. The recipe was handed down from my mother.

Cut up some oranges, mandarins, satsumas, lemons, grapefruit or any other citrus fruit you like. Transfer it all to a big jug and add any or all of the following ingredients:

ginger root cut up

garlic chopped

whisky (or whatever other alcoholic drink you like)

a generous gob of honey

You could also add herbs and spices, as the fancy takes you, and then pour boiling water over the lot, brew as a tea, and drink as much as you can as hot as you can manage until you feel better. You can top up the pot with fresh boiling water until the ingredients are exhausted, and then you need to chop up a few more ingredients and start again!

This recipe will literally act like magic whenever you are ill. I cannot recommend it highly enough!

The Magic of Garlic

Of all the culinary items that’s best for a detox, garlic comes top of the list. It cleanses the gastro-intestinal system, sterilizing it and creating a harmonious environment throughout. It has a cooling and cleansing action and is very soothing. It removes harmful globs of cholesterols and fats and cleanses the liver, encouraging it to health. It settles other secondary organs of the digestive system. Garlic is also good for the cardiovascular system, cleansing the arteries, improving the health of the skin, the balance of the mind and one’s overall health.

One clove a day is the recommended ingestion. Although most use it in their cooking, such as frying it with onions, this destroys the benefits of garlic. If you would like to add it to food that’s cooked, introduce it once the food is at the end of its cooking time. Then you will reap the benefits and get garlic’s full health effect.

If you find that there is a strong smell coming away from your skin after you’ve eaten garlic, then this demonstrates how much you needed to detox. This is in fact a real indicator of your requirement to detox your body. The thing is to just keep going. Get one garlic clove down you every day and you’ll find that in no time at all the smell will disappear. This will meant that the garlic is doing its job in getting rid of all those nasty toxins.