The Ginger Detox Compress Recipe and Instructions

The Ginger Compress
Items required:

1. A large pot with a lid filled approx. ¾ with water (tap water is fine). 
2. One quarter of a cup finely grated-by hand-fresh, unpeeled ginger root (non-organic is fine) wrapped in the cheesecloth, or other natural fiber cloth, to make a bag of grated ginger. This bag should be roughly the size of your fist.  A ginger root, which fits in the palm of your hand, will suffice for the amount of grated ginger needed.
3.  Two, one foot wide terry cloth towels three feet long (hand towels). Also good are cotton baby diapers. They need to cover from just above the belly button, to the pelvic bone, and from one hip to the other hip.
4. One cotton bath towel (for trapping heat)
5. One bath towel, sheet, etc. to lay on top of during your treatment

Preliminaries.
The treatment has to be done on an empty stomach, either an hour before you eat or two hours after you eat.  It can be done at any time of day.  However, a practical tip is to do the treatment 

before you go to bed, and after doing it, leave all the materials where they are in the kitchen, and go to bed.   First thing in the morning, before eating breakfast, reheat the ginger water pot, making sure you do not boil the water, and you can do the treatment again.  Thus you can use one pot of ginger water for two detox sessions.

Making Ginger compress Instructions.

1. Place the container of water on the stove to bring to a boil.  As the water is heating, grate the unpeeled ginger root using a fine tooth grater (do not use a blender) until you have approximately one quarter cup of grated ginger; 

• the easiest way to assure you do not lose any ginger root is to place the cheesecloth you’re using to wrap the ginger in a bowl and grate the ginger directly onto the cloth in the bowl.

 

1. When you have grated enough ginger, bring the four corners of the cloth in the bowl together to enclose the grated ginger in the cloth; twirl to make a neck and wrap a rubber band or tie around the neck to hold the four corners together.  You now have a bag of ginger. 

• There will be ginger juice in the bowl. Keep the juice, we will be using it.

 

1. By now the water in the pot will be near to boiling, if it has not already reached boiling.  Then, and this is the most important point, once the water has reached boiling point, switch your heat source off and let the water stop boiling before taking the bag of ginger and squeezing it over the hot water to release excess juice to the pot, then  placing the bag of ginger in the pot, and adding the remaining ginger juice from the grating bowl. 
   

You are now ready to do the compress.
Place an old blanket or sheet on your couch, carpet, or bed, wherever you choose to do the compress and set up the pot of ginger water on a wood cutting board or something that will keep the hot pot from damaging whatever it is resting on. Keep the pot within easy reach of where you lie down on your back (do not use plastic in any shape or form). 

Expose the skin of your abdomen, and place the bath towel, also folded so it can cover your abdomen, on your lap.

Now, remove the lid of the pot, place it on the floor, and take up one of the ginger towels (hand towels) and dip in the pot holding the two dry ends of the towel so you do not burn yourself. (if you’re lying on the floor you need to sit up to do this), ring out the excess liquid into the pot, then replace the lid on the pot to keep the heat in.

Taking the wrung-out ginger towel, open it up so it is flat (it will remain folded if you have sewn the loose edges together), lie down if you had to sit up, and raise and lower the ginger towel over the skin of your abdomen, close to but not actually touching the skin to begin with, until you can tolerate the ginger towel laid directly on the skin.  After you have placed the hot ginger towel directly on the skin of your abdomen, cover it with the bath towel, which has been lying on your lap, to keep the heat in.

After 2- 5 minutes the ginger towel on your abdomen will start to cool down.  Then, lift up the bath towel covering the ginger towel; remove the cooled ginger towel, leaving the bath towel so it covers the abdomen to keep it warm.  
Remove the lid from the ginger water pot and dip the just used wet, cooled ginger towel back in to reheat it.  Thoroughly ring out the excess ginger water back into the container, replace the lid and repeat the procedure.  Do this for half an hour.  This constitutes one treatment.

Treatment instructions.
    We recommend the compress be done 64 times, two to four times a week.  This constitutes one round of compresses; this may not be, and is generally not, enough to complete the rehabilitation of our intestines.

If you determine your intestines need more work, we suggest waiting 6-8 weeks and then do another round or 64 compresses.  It takes three rounds of 64 compresses each, generally speaking, to complete the rehabilitation of our intestines.  We also recommend that the three rounds of 64 compresses each be done over a one to two-year period.

 It must not be assumed that doing more ginger compresses more often is better than we recommend here.  The intestines undergo their rehabilitation in their own good time, so we must show patience in allowing them to do so.  In our experience it takes a minimum of two years for the intestines to rehabilitate themselves and a maximum of seven years.  It is also important to point out that the 64 compresses per round doing 2-4 compresses a week is not mandatory.  It is important to do the 64 compresses per round.  However, it is not always possible to do the compresses every week because you may be on vacation, or for work or some other reason you do not have the time in a particular week or two.  Therefore, it is fine to miss doing it for one or two weeks; just taking up where you left off, keeping track of the amount of compresses you have already done.  

The reason it takes so many compresses to complete the rehabilitation of the intestines is the Chronic Intestinal Stagnation has developed over many, many years, even decades.  The older we are when we discover our Chronic Intestinal Stagnation, the longer it has been going on.  And the longer it has been going on, the more tenaciously hardened and impacted it is in our intestinal walls.  Therefore the more ginger compresses we’ll have to do, more consistently and with perseverance, in order for the compresses to have their desired effects.  
    
​We also recommend that once you are satisfied your intestines are back in shape again, it is a good idea to do ten to twenty compresses every few years, although this will depend upon you doing your facial diagnosis to determine the condition of your intestines.  With regard to children it is better to wait until they are seven years old before doing the ginger compress regimen on them.