Mullein Tea
Smoking can cause many health problems, including heart disease and lung cancer. Quitting smoking is the first step to cleansing your body of nicotine, the addictive chemical in tobacco products. Even after quitting cigarettes, nicotine remains in the blood for 20-30 days. In addition, many people use aids nicotine quit smoking such as nicotine patches or gum. If you are concerned about the toxicity of nicotine, follow these tips to clean your body.
Fresh citrus or apple juice are good choices, as well as blackcurrant juice. Carrot juice is recommended as a vegetable juice and beet and asparagus juice. They must be freshly prepared juice to get the best out of them.
Accelerate the elimination of toxins from your body through juice fasting. Consult a doctor or nutritionist before starting a fast.
Follow an anti-oxidant therapy. Smoking significantly depletes your body of vitamin C in order to replenish your body with this antioxidant for your nicotine addiction.
The liver is important for detoxification processes.Also, vitamin-E helps protect your cells and organs from damage caused by smoking and nicotine toxicity.
Coenzyme Q - 10 is another antioxidant needed to protect cells and lungs. It also protects damaged by smoking and nicotine in the blood cardiac tissue.
Take herbs like catnip, lobelia or valerian root. Nicotine is a highly addictive chemical with dependence than cocaine or heroin. When your body does not get this toxic chemical, you may experience withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, nervousness and tremors, and cravings.
Herbs can calm you down and help reduce these symptoms. They can be taken as a tea, which is also relaxing, or supplement.
Ginger can help the body to sweat, which in turn clean the toxins from the body. Other foods that work similarly are garlic and cayenne pepper.
Take grape seed extract, which is also a powerful antioxidant.
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Mullein helps remove any 'gunk' from with the lungs via its gentle yet thorough expectorant abilities. It helps the lungs purge themselves of mucous and phlegm that have taken their fill of toxins, pollutants, and foreign matter so that it can be given healthy replacements.
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