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9-day Cleansing Diet Recipe

This fruit and vegetable cleansing recipe, developed by the Indian master Paramhansa Yogananda, is ideal for ridding the system of poisons.

Its benefits can include:

• Deeper, more inspired meditations
• Deepening sense of joy
• Vitalization and healing of the body
• Breaking of bad eating habits and psychological dependency on food
• Weight loss
• Improved health for a period of months following
• Increased energy level and less sleep needed
• Increased clarity of mind
• Greater awareness of the subtle flow of life forces

We explore this diet in-depth, and provide tools to magnify its spiritual growth and physical benefit, during the cleansing retreat.

The Cleansing Diet Recipe

• 1½ grapefruit
• 1½ lemons, 5 oranges, and 1 glass of orange juice with 1 teaspoon Senna Leaves or new Original Swiss Kriss (both of these are laxatives)
• 1 cooked vegetable with juice (quantity optional) 3 cups vitality beverage (one at each meal)
• 1 raw vegetable salad

While on this fruit and veggie cleansing diet, strictly abstain from spices, candies, pastries, meat, eggs, fish, cheese, milk, butter, bread, fried foods, oil, beans – in fact, all other foods not mentioned above.

If one feels the need of additional nourishment, one may take a tablespoonful of thoroughly ground nuts in a half glass of water or a glass of orange juice.

Vitality Beverage

This beverage can be quite time-consuming to prepare, and thus provides one of the great reasons for taking the cleansing retreat.

• 2 stalks chopped celery
• ½ quart chopped dandelion or 5 carrots (chopped) including part of stem turnip greens or spinach
• 1 bunch chopped parsley  1 qt. Water

The beverage may be prepared in two ways, the first being preferable:

1. After putting celery and carrots through meat chopper, lightly boil them in the water for ten minutes. Then add selected greens and parsley and boil ten minutes more. Strain by squeezing through cheesecloth.
2. Use the same ingredients, but do not cook them. After putting them through meat chopper, strain as above. Drink one cup of the beverage, prepared by either method, at each of the three meals.

This vitality beverage has been found to be a blood tonic and very effective in rheumatism, various stomach disorders (including acute indigestion) , chronic catarrh, bronchitis, and nervous “breakdown.”

Directions for Following the Diet

Following the 9-day diet, one should be especially careful in the selection and quantity of one’s food intake the first day and resume a normal diet gradually.

If one is not successful in ridding the body of all poisons during the initial attempt, the cleansing diet may be repeated after an interval of two or three weeks.

While on the cleansing diet, it has been found beneficial to use two pounds of some good bath salts in one-fourth tub of warm water every night just before going to bed, and also very helpful to take a bath-salts bath every now and then for several weeks after finishing the cleansing diet.

For more about the diet and its beneficial effects, see the Restorative 9-day Cleansing Diet Retreat.