The Complete Master Cleanse Review

In 1976, Stanley Burroughs published his health guide, Healing for the Age of Enlightenment, in which he presents vitaflex, color healing, and his piece of immortality: the lemon cleanse or "master cleanse." Although the lemon cleanse has been used and debated in health circles for many years, little has been done to update it or expand on it in print until the recent release of The Complete Master Cleanse (Ulysses Press, 2007).

Written by a student of Burroughs, Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse is a clear, helpful guide to the lemon cleanse. Woloshyn takes everything good in Burroughs' work, builds upon and clarifies it, while delving into science and medicine in ways that Burroughs only touched upon in his book.

The Best Possible Experience with the Lemon Cleanse

Woloshyn does an admirable job in The Complete Master Cleanse of clarifying the instructions for the cleanse and troubleshooting elements that were not fully explained in Burrough's original text.

Woloshyn describes the ingredients of the lemon cleanse in detail, along with their roles in the cleansing process. He spends a great deal of time on additional supplements and approaches that may be useful during a cleanse – such as essential oils, herbs, color therapy and vitaflex - as well as delineating which approaches, supplements and medication will interfere.

He also devotes a chapter each to the importance of parasite cleansing and emotional work to release thoughts and patterns that interfere with health.

Woloshyn stresses the importance of doing the master cleanse properly, citing the number of people who approach him with complaints or problems when they simply have not followed the directions.

Most Common Master Cleanse Mistakes

According to Woloshyn, who has been practicing and teaching the master cleanse for over 25 years, the three most common mistakes made during the master cleanse are:

1. Premixing the lemonade, when each glass should be made fresh
2. Not using the laxative properly, and
3. Drinking too little of the lemonade mixture

People may experience discomfort and want to go off the cleanse, or declare that "the cleanse doesn't work!" when the problem, Woloshyn says, is simply in following the master cleanse directions to the letter – including the right way to return to normal eating after the cleanse.

Additional Aids to Cleansing

The Complete Master Cleanse suggests several aids to cleansing that can be added without interfering with the lemon cleanse. The following cleansing aids are "allowed" during the master cleanse because they do not require digestion and they speed the rate of cleansing:

• herbs
• herbal teas
• essential oils
• enzymes

Troubleshooting the Master Cleanse

One of the most enjoyable aspects of this book is the range of solutions it offers to those with specific concerns about elements of the master cleanse. Woloshyn presents:

• Alternatives to orange juice for coming off the cleanse, but he counsels that even people allergic to cayenne pepper or lemons are usually fine on the cleanse itself.
• Advice for dealing with cleansing reactions, if they occur, though he says, "These symptoms are, in fact, caused not by the master cleanse but by what you have done to your body in the past."
• The connection between emotional and physical cleansing which some may find challenging during their first cleanse.
• A personal, first-hand look at the experience of the master cleanse, from someone who has done the cleanse dozens of times.

For further details, see The Master Cleanse and What is Cleansing?

The Complete Master Cleanse by Tom Woloshyn

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