The Nourisher - Editor’s Blog

Wes and I have decided to do a Real Raw Milk Cure or milk cleanse for the first part of Spring. A recent edition of Nourished Magazine included an article about the Real Raw Milk Cure. Since then, I’ve been keen to give it a try. Spring is the best time to detoxify, so here we go. I intend to write about it at least once a week to fill you all in on how we’re going.

Since the Real Raw Milk Cure is considered a “combination of detoxifying fast and nutrient dense feeding€ by Doctor Crewe at the Mayo Clinic, who used it for 15 years, it seems the best way to take advantage of our bodies’ natural desire to detox this time of year and continue with our Nourishing Lifestyle.

Here are some instructions I found on an Antique Site. It must be an article from an old magazine:

“It is best to stay right at home and rest. It is assumed that you are sick enough to do that. If you wish to gain in weight, stay right in bed. Nature is very busy taking care of six quarts of milk per day. There is no energy to waste.”

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Well I’m not going to do this. But my work is pretty inactive. I sit here working online most days. I will, however, continue my yoga practice. I’m not unwell per se. I just want to experience this.

“1st. Twenty-four hours before starting on the milk take a dose of castor oil.

2nd. For one day eat fruit only-all you want, and any kind except bananas. No other food.
On the second day start at once on the six quarts a day. (Don’t begin on a less quantity and work up.) A one-half pint glass of milk every half hour from seven in the morning till seven at night.”

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That’s pretty easy to remember. Boy is my supplier of raw milk going to be surprised how much I’ll be packing away. Luckily we have a spare fridge. It sounds so strange to be drinking so much milk. Are you looking at me strangely?

“4th. An enema (about two quarts of water) every night.”

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eewww. Never done that before.

“5th. A quick hot bath every night.”

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Easy. The idea apparently is to build and replace blood with the raw blood of an animal. In this case a grass fed, very contented Swiss Brown Cow. Milk is almost the same as blood, in fact it comes directly from the blood of the cow as it says in the Real Milk article “Osler (Principles and Practices of Medicine, by William Osler, MD eighth edition) speaks of milk as being nothing more than white blood. Milk resembles blood closely and is a useful agent for improving and making new and better blood. Blood is the chief agent of metabolism.” So if the cow is well, the milk will be pure and very nourishing.

Continuing the instructions…

“It is a process of elimination as well as rebuilding. After ten days or two weeks you will begin to sweat. Possibly three or four spells every night. Then the real benefit begins.

After every glass of milk take a few drops of lemon juice or a little grapefruit. Milk must curdle before digestion takes place. The lemon juice assists this.”

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Since we intend to drink most of our milk fermented, this probably won’t be necessary.

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“Drink the milk slowly, sip it. Some people take it through a straw.

You will not feel hungry-you are well nourished. But about the fourth week you will begin to feel bloated and uncomfortable. You may even have a smothered feeling and palpitation of the heart. Don’t worry. In spite of the discomfort there will be ultimate benefit. Use your will power and stick to the six quarts.”

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So we’ll need will power just like anyone going through detoxification, to stay on the diet. But I don’t think our bodies will be crying out from starvation. So what about ending the milk fast?

“Just as much care must be exercised in coming off the milk diet as in going on. You cannot go back on a mixed diet immediately. The first day eat fruit only and two or three quarts of milk. The second day take a quart of milk and fruit (without sugar) for breakfast and another quart and fruit for lunch. For dinner (preferably in middle of day), eat only one kind of food. No mixtures. You may have whole wheat bread and fricasseed chicken, all you want, or whole wheat bread and spinach, or a baked potato with celery, etc. The second day you may add one article (a parsnip or carrot or celery with the chicken), etc. It is best to keep up the milk for the two meals for a week or two and for break-fast for some time.”

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This part seems a bit strange. Although I can understand the slowly reintroducing different foods, I can’t fathom why you would start on such a problematic food as whole wheat bread. Seems weird to me. I think I’ll start by adding coconut milk and egg yolk to my kefir smoothies.

How we will go into the fast?

We just received a new bunch of Kefir grains. So we’re eating Kefir smoothies with coconut milk, coconut oil, honey, fruit and egg yolk morning and afternoon. We’re downing about a table spoon of raw liver with the morning smoothie. Then we’re drinking real raw milk the rest of the day until dinner, when we have a proper meal.

I intend to cut everything out of the smoothies over the next few days until we only use kefir and paw paw (papaya) and then only kefir. We’ll drink mostly kefir during the day, 300ml (a large glass) every half hour and supplement with raw milk when the kefir runs out.

We won’t warm the milk as is suggested because we live in such a warm climate but will leave it to warm to room temperature.

How will we come out of the fast?

We’ll probably start eating raw liver again in the morning of the first day off and add honey and fruit to our kefir. Then the next day add coconut, the next day egg yolk. Then we’ll eat a meal in the evening of the third day. Probably a meat stew. No grains for a few days I’d say.

What would you like to know about?

We’ll let you know how we are going every few days. What we’re eating and how we feel. I guess I could record body mass and weight etc. But that’s not what we’re doing it for. It’s really just an experiment. Is there any specific information you’d like us to record?

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

About the Author...

Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine, Chief Nourisher and Mother of three is very grateful to live in Byron Bay and be able to share all she has learned about Nourishment. She has trained as an Acupuncturist (unfinished), Kinesiologist (finished) and parent (never finished). She serves the Weston A Price Foundation as a chapter leader. She loves sauerkraut, kangaroo tail stew, home made ice cream, her husband Wes and her kids Isaiah, Brynn and Ronin (in no particular order…well maybe ice cream first).