legitimacy of liver flush highly doubtful

I just finished a 14 day Master Cleanse and had great results. In the process of web-searching for information I ran across many testimonials re. the Clark-style “flush” and the so-called " liver stones " that it purported to flush from the liver. I had not heard of it before but after looking at many pictures of these it made little sense and seemed rather far-fetched that hard objects of this size could possibly be passed through ducts in the liver and into the bowel; especially “5 hundred to 2 or 3 thousand” and without pain.

So my first thought was that these “stones” must really be some kind of residue that was flushed or released from the bowel. Then I read that even people who had done an extensive Bowel Cleanse would “flush liver stones ” after The Clark Flush . The only remaining answer that made any sense for me then was that these were somehow a result of what was ingested in the process of the flush itself.

Well sure enough, more searching revealed a write up (cited in this very forum in 2005)
in the respected medical journal “The Lancet” that made it clear that these stones were indeed produced by the very ingredients of the so-called “flush.” You can read it here
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=413022#i
or go to The Lancet itself (Volume 365, Number 9468 16 April 2005)

This article is convincing in its revelation that these are not stones by any definition but rather the result of combining oleic acid (olive oil) with lemon (or grapefruit) juice.
They are not crystalline. They don’t have cholesterol, bilirubin, or calcium in them, just olive oil. They melt after 10 min at 40 degrees C. It is obvious that these “ liver stones ” are nothing of the sort but are simply manufactured in the digestive system by the contents of the recipe that is ingested.

I shake my head at the image of hundreds (thousands?) of people eagerly putting themselves through this preposterous regime, carefully straining and picking through the contents of their bowel movements for “live or gall stones” and claiming that they feel better because their “Liver is Cleansed.”

I don’t know if Hulda Clark was the originator of this “treatment” but one might wonder why someone who attaches their name to it and promotes it has been charged, arrested, sued, and shut-down in several states and three countries. (See:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/clark.html
or
http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Hulda_Clark/index.html
or do a search yourself.)


And “The Clark Liver Flush” seems to be the tip of the iceberg. How about her claim that all cancers (including all those in North Americans) are caused by a parasite that is only found in Asia; a “ parasite Zapper” that is nothing more than a Radio Shack galvanometer; telling people they had AIDS or cancer when they didn’t or claiming they were cured when they were not. The list goes on and on and the claims of horrific abuses are extensive.

Five hundred years ago, people like this made fortunes selling the equipment needed to turn lead into gold. Wake up folks. Your health is too important.
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