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 citrus fruit (lemons, oranges, satsumas, grapefruit etc) and put in a big jug together with any or all of the following:

ginger root cut up

chopped garlic

whiskey (or whatever your favourite tipple may be)

a big lump 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 cold and flu recipe acts like magic. I highly recommend it.

Wonderful Garlic

Garlic is the first item in my list of best foods for detox. Garlic cleanses and sterilises the gut from mouth to anus. It creates a harmonious environment therein. It is cooling and cleansing and soothing. It removes unpleasant fats and cholesterols and cleans the liver, encouraging the liver to health and settling all the other secondary organs of digestion. Garlic also cleans the arteries, thereby improving your skin, your overall health and the balance of your mind.

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.