Mark Toomey, PhD the director of Ayurvedic programs at The Raj Ayurveda Health Spa in Fairfield, Iowa offers ayurvedic products to help you safely detox at home.

Self-detoxes are very easy to do at home. And thats because the body doesn't want to make ama (toxins) so if you treat it correctly, and you follow a good routine and dietary habits then the body has mechanisms to detox itself.

There are many good herbs available from Maharishi Ayurveda to help enhance that process. In my practice, I often use certain herbs like Elim-Tox, Elim-Tox-O, Herbal Cleanse, Digest Tone (Triphala Plus), and Genitrac. These are the big four in terms of safe, very effective, simple herbs to use at home.

So let's talk about the first one, Elim-Tox is a combination of herbs that are really good for the liver. The liver is the main site for detoxification in the body. It's just an amazing organ. Did you know your liver can expand and retract up to 40% every day? It has so many functions that it is just innumerable. Its one of the main sights of detoxification. But in general we don't want to focus on detoxing just one organ -- but it is helpful to the overall process.

The other herb, Elim-Tox-O is more for Pitta types. Those who might be sensitive to hot spices who may have too much Pitta in their body -- this is more cooling and nourishing. It is also really effective for Garavish Ama, which is the environmental toxins. Because environmental toxins tend to be quite reactive with the different tissues so we have to be very careful with those type of procedures.

When we detox we don't want to focus on just one organ -- the liver, we want to focus on many areas. The body detoxes in many ways, through the urinary tract, through elimination, the alimentary tract, through breathing, through sweat. Another herb that can help is Genitrac. It helps purify through the kidneys. Urination in terms of detox is very important. It helps strengthen the kidneys the bladder, the urinary tract. It's slightly diuretic so it might make you urinate a little more but it is also very effective in helping along with the detox process, through the sweat glands as well.

Another herb that we often use is Digest Tone (Triphala Plus). Digest Tone is based on a very traditional ayurvedic formula called Triphala. Tri means three and phala means three fruits. These are very famous Ayurvedic herbs: Amalaki, Bibataki, and Hiraki. It's a very famous formula, you can find it in most shops because it is effective, its gentle, its safe. Its a gentle laxative but it also supports the liver, the heart, the digestive tract, its good for the eyes, its something you can take all your life. So MAPI's (Maharishi Ayurveda Products International) Digest Tone is a slight modification in that in some cases Triphala but itself can be a little bit drying so Digest Tone is safe for everyone it is usually used as effective, safe, gentle laxative.

And then we have Herbal Cleanse which is generally if people tend to have a little more constipation. Herbal Cleanse is more effective. It has a very rare form of senna in it and these herbs are very gentle and effective for cleansing the bowel and the colon. In general, we don't want to use senna for too long but for detox, using it for a couple of weeks is very effective.

Self-detox can be very effective with these type of products. There is a lot of information on these products and how to use them on the MAPI website (www.mapi.com). I suggest that if you go and browse through the MAPI information there is some very good information on certain types of teas and spice mixtures that you can also use during detox.

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