oh sorry I did not see that this was discussed before I answered

Great questions!!! Yay! I love learning, don't you?

OK, optimally, you're supposed to juice your fruits and vegetables right when you plan to drink them. I mean, it comes out the bottom of the juicer and as soon as you have a full glass, you chug it down. You've got a gallon of juice to consume in a day.

But, Uny told me another way that is totally acceptable, IF you are careful to follow the directions exactly.

You can juice whatever you plan to drink the next day (for instance, my Green Goddess Nectar, some carrot/beet juice, whatever sounds good or your body is begging you for). You keep pouring your bowl or cup that you are juicing into, into pitchers- however many pitchers you need for the amount of juices you are making, or just one pitcher, and then rinse it out after each juice is made.

You pour your freshly made juice into individual half pint mason jars- the kind that have those metal rings and good seals- you know, jelly jars. You can pick them up at WalMart and other places. You fill your jars up all the way to the top, to the point that a little juice spills over the top (so of course you are doing this over the sink). It works best for me if I have an able bodied Oompa Loompa to hold the jar while I pour, but y'all might be able to manage holding the pitcher in one hand and the jar in your other hand. Or set the jars down in the sink and pour into all of them.

As soon as the juice is poured (and spilled), you place the lid and the ring on the jar, screw it on, rinse/wipe the jar, and put it in the refrigerator. It is VERY important that you don't have ANY air in the jar when you put on the lid. That's why we let it spill over a little. Why is this so important? Because when the juice is exposed to the air, it is oxidizing (rotting). It is losing the enzymes that make live/raw food "alive." It's the enzymes in the raw food/juice that our body craves and desperately needs in order to regenerate and heal.

Once all those pretty jars of yummy, health-building juices are in your refrigerator, then the next day you just start grabbing them and drinking them throughout the day. If you need to have your juices diluted, then just get a big glass and mix your juice 50-50 with distilled water. EASY.

Now, with IF#2... I am so happy about this. You can drink it with juice. Yay!!!!! The crowd cheers! Do the Happy Puppy Dance! Yup, you can stir it into one of your jars of juice, drink it down, then fill up your same jar with distilled water, swirl it around a bit to get the leftover black stuff off the sides of the jar, drink that, and you're done.

When to take IF#2? Yes, Vernal, you are absolutely correct. You want to take it 5-6 times a day, and you want to take it 30 minutes either before or after a meal. Now, when you are on a juice fast, when is it really a "meal"??? If you want to, you could drink your juices once an hour on the hour, and then take the IF#2 with water 5-6 times a day on the half hour. When I'm on this juice fast/IP, I get lost as to where I am on the IF#2 "doses." "Have I done 5? Or just 4? I can't remember...." So what I have to do is say, "OK, after this activity, I do IF#2 + charcoal." That way it becomes a part of my daily routine.

When I did the IP a few years ago, I was on a raw vegan food plan and had set meal times. With that, I took IF#2 at each end of the day, and when I was fixing each meal. I just began each meal prep by taking IF#2, and that's how I remembered.

I've been on this juice fast for 45 days, but it hasn't been entirely strict. I went for 21 days straight, and my mind said "there's no way a person can go longer than this," and I crashed one weekend. Uny plowed into me for eating junk food on this program! I went another couple of weeks on all juices except for a piece of fruit to take my IF#1 with, and then I thought I would go bonkers if I didn't eat any solid food. Again, psychological. So I had an all vegan Chinese dinner of just mixed vegetables. Uny said she was going to personally whoop my you know what if I did it again. Then last weekend was one of my daughter's 14th birthday. We made banana splits. I tasted a bite to celebrate, but that was it. There have been days when I have panicked, telling Uny I had to have more protein!!!! She's always been a little drill sergeant, saying "Who are you going to listen to? Somebody who writes articles for running magazines, or the greatest healers of all time?" Then she'd go off on this long lecture about all the protein in Superfood, all the vitamins and minerals and fabulous goodies in it, and how I'm getting TREMENDOUS amounts of nutrients in the juices from the live food. So I press on. M'am Yes M'am!!!

How long do I intend to stay on the fast? I guess the honest answer is until it looks like my body is done detoxing. Just like all of us, I'm learning to trust my body's ability to heal itself. A lot of this is uncharted territory for us, but it wasn't uncharted territory for Dr.s Schulze and Christopher.

I didn't mean to write a book... but Uny knows I often do. :-p Hope this helps. Go for it, you guys!

Wings

Common sense and strong knowledge is ALWAYS the baseline, combined with the experience of the greatest (and most successful) herbalists & healers that have ever lived.

It is actually VERY rare for someone to suffer damage or adverse reactions to *natural* herbal products, when taken in conjunction with a TOTAL body/healing protocol - however it is very common for those taking isolated & standardized extracts to experience adverse reactions, especially when trying to use them as "drugs" or "bandaids".

Anything taken in extremely large amounts can be fatal, of course.

'Wings' is the doing a *full* cleansing & restoring program known as the Incurables Program (as used by Drs. Schulze & Christopher). She suggested/encouraged others to not be afraid to "up" the dosages (in her original post) from 2 capsules of IF#1 to 3 capsules, drink the required amount of juices, and be sure to take the full amount of the the IF#2 formula.

She is not taking or advocating 'herbals' in any 'toxic or overdose' quantities irresponsibly, and she WAS specific in the 'upping the dosage' message.

The dosages generally recommended and "approved as safe" by the 'authorities' in this day and age are generally SUBSTANTIALLY LESS than what herbalists, physicians and healers prescribed up until the mid part of last century.

No one on this forum (to the knowledge of THIS forum owner) will ever advocate the use of herbs in quantities that could be dangerous.

I appreciate your concern and likely well-meaning intentions. As far as posts are concerned on the Natural Healing & Herbal Solutions forum...I've got it under control. (I realize this thread is crossposted to the Dr. Schulze Forum ...but I can assure, if Dr. Schulze were replying to your post, he would have said exactly the same thing...in a MUCH more 'forceful' manner).

Here's to truth -

Unyquity

be sure to not take your herbs etc with the intestinal one especially if taking extra charcoal as it absorbs the nutrients and most are passed out of the body without absorption.

Dr Christopher said it took several Bowel Cleanses to get him from 4 big meals a day to just 2 with loads more energy and all his students cut there grocery bills in half..be patient..with time, as more mucoid plague is released, you will better absorb nutrients and lose weight.

I lost a lot of weight on the incurables and a 30 day juice fast when I went on it ten years ago and though I have noticed the yoyo effect long before that name was coined, and always gained all weight back PLUS more the weight I lost on the incurables and fast I only gained back less than half and that never happened.

Christopher had results on weight loss of people a hundred pounds overweight with his anti-obesity formula and the mucusless diet.

Schulze told Biser, it was extremely important to do the intestinal cleanse #2 five times a day when biser's wife Sandy was not getting results and was found to be fudging and doing it 3 times a day so it is good you upped that.

To save time you could use 100% frozen or bottled juice when doing your intestinal cleanse #2 if desired as most won't be absorbed anyway and use your fresh juice at other times of the day..take intestinal cleanse 1/2 hour before or 2 hours after your other herbs, juices, teas etc to not interfere with digestion.

Though it may sound gross, put a container like a thin bedpan or something under the toilet seat and catch your BMs and get some gloves and a tool and look through it to see if there are mucoid plague in there to see also if you need to up the dose of the intestinal formulas.

`there are pictures on curezone of what the mucoid plague looks like..as you void that, eventually, you will lose abdominal fat and lose weight easier as the food will be better absorbed and not robbed of nutrients that can't be easily absorbed through the rubbery plague, you will gain more benefit from less foods and also the dirty blood will not ruin one's liver as the bacteria growing in the filthy colon will not leach into the bloodstream..it took time to mess up one's health and it will take time to reverse the damage but with time, it will be reversed.

and I must add, since you mentioned it, my libido went way up when I was fasting and my climaxes were way better.