I drank the laxative tea in the evening and the quart of salt water in the morning, but didn have any bowel movements. What can I do?
A. This occasionally happens, usually to people who have been eating predominantly meat & cheese and very few vegetables. It generally occurs on the first or second mornings. If possible, drink a cup of laxative tea that morning one half hour later. Don’t worry. You just need to adjust the amount of salt in the salt water. Try increasing the amount of salt in the water. After getting the correct amount of salt for your body, I don’t know of anyone who did not have SEVERAL urgent bowel movements the next morning. Q. Last week, the lemon-maple syrup fast was recommended to me during an Ayurvedic (East Indian medicine, perhaps the oldest known system of medicine) consultation. I have one issue, in addition to fear of the unknown: too much citric acid makes me break out in terrible canker sores. Do you have any suggestions for working around such tendencies, or should I simply stop the fast when I break out and then deal with the pain? A. Stanley Burroughs, in his book the Master Cleanser,
