A lot of people use Smooth Move or Smooth Move Chocolate. I've tried both and prefer the non-chocolate (although I am typically a chocolate lover). There's also one called Dieter's Tea. I've seen all of these in the health food section of grocery store chains and at my local health food stores. Any senna tea should do, but you'll want to find one that you like the flavor of.

Yes, the Master-Cleanse will be effective without the salt water flush, but you should drink the tea in the morning to replace the SWF (Salt-Water-Flush) as at night.

You want to try to get organic non-irradiated cayenne, which you MAY be able to find at a regular grocery store and at a health food store.

You can also buy all of these items online, but they most likely wouldn't arrive before Saturday. :)

HTH,
Tiffany

My husband and I are on day 4, and we do an iced version of the tea, because it is so hot where we live. We use the regular Smooth Move tea, but we make a large pitcher of it with one of those iced tea makers, and we use two Smooth Move bags and two Numi brand Organic Simply Mint bags with it. It not only tastes amazing, but the mint helps to sooth the stomach and helps with the cramping. Without the mint, the cramping is pretty uncomfortable for us. We still get some action too!

Also, one of the things that makes the tea taste better is using filtered ice cubes as well as filtered or distilled water. We used to use our RO water, with refrigerator ice cubes. Well, with these very inexpensive iced tea makers, you use way more ice than water. We'd end up with a tea that resembled the unfiltered fridge ice cubes, rather than the smooth, clean, and silky RO water taste. Just a note.

We bought our iced tea maker for $18 at Linen's N Things, and I recently saw them at Cosco for $16. I'm sure you can get them at any drug store too. The Numi tea, we got from our local grocery store, Safeway, in the health foods section. Good Luck!

I use Laci Le Beau Super Dieters Tea from GNC (General Nutritional Center). You can also get at Amazon.com. Some people use the Smooth Move... but not me. I get great results with Laci Le Beau. You need to try the flavors and see what you like. You will also have to experiment with the STEEPING TIME!

I did a 17 day Master-Cleanse (Lost 13 pounds)and never used the SW Flush. I felt I didn't NEED it. The tea at night and in the morning gave me lots of action. The ocen water makes my violently ill if I swallow it, (I lived in Florida for over 50 years) so I wasn't going to make this Cleanse a nightmare and not enjoy it.

I really enjoyed the light feeling and no upset tummy and no HEAVY tired feeling that eating even my VEGGIE SOUP makes me feel.

ANYHOW...

I tend to order the stuff I need from the internet rather than go on a HUNT for it from store to store at $3.60 a gallon for gas and I work EVERYDAY.

I even get my Grade B Mable syrup at:

http://valuenutritionstore.stores.yahoo.net/masy64flozor.html

It is $17.52 a half gallon (64 fl oz.)which is pretty reasonable. I also get $100.00 worth of it to get the free shipping.

I am a fatty, so I make the Lemonade and use it to keep my food intake down even when NOT ON the MC!

I found the MCCORMIC Ground Cayenne RED PEPPER at the grocery store - with great difficulty I might add. It is in a SHORT SMALL Squatty plastic seasoning bottle with a RED CAP and Black Label. Mine was hiding behind other seasonings and I really played hell finding it.

The lemons I find are never the same price TWICE. I get them at the grocery store as well as the Spring Water.

I think I got a good and effective cleanse without the SWF. I don't know why so many people are stuck on the SWF. I guess they feel it is necessary, but I never got that message from the BOOK.

Also, if you suffer from EDEMA (I DO) or retain fluids in your feet, ankles, legs... I would not advise the SWF. That's just common sence. I don't even salt my food and I'm gonna drink a quart of salt water???? I don't think so!

You should really stick to the BOOK and only do the MC. Things will get complicated if you let all the talk about Liver Flush and Kidney Flush and parasite Cleanse and B&P shakes, etc get to you.

I suggest you get through at least one or two MC's before you even consider "getting creative" and even then I don't advise it.

You can also have durng this MC, herbal tea. But do not confuse it with the Laxative or Dieters Tea... it is not to be used "in Place Of!"

If you get a real bad hunger surge... go swig about a tablespoon of just Maple Syrup.

Watch out for TV Commercials... they can sabotage you in a heart beat... especially late at night. I watch only HBO, Cinamax and Showtime or DVD Movies and even then, sometimes in a Movie THEY ARE EATING! KILLER!

Don't forget to drink half your weight in qunces of WATER on TOP OF the 10 - 12, 10 oz glasses of Lemonade. You need to FLUSH and Keep on Flushing.

PS... Don't CHEW anything... it makes your tummy hungry & use a straw so the Lemon doesn't erode the enamel of your teeth.

Well good Luck on this Master-Cleanse and Happy Cleansing!