Spleen

Your spleen

• Acts as a filter for your blood
• Cleansing it of bacteria, viruses and other debris
• Blood flows through your spleen
• White blood cells attack and remove any foreign invaders
• This keeps your blood clean and helps protect you against infection
• Old red-blood cells are destroyed by the spleen
• The lifespan of red blood cells is around 120 days, then the spleen breaks them down. The debris is transported elsewhere within your body. Here they are excreted/recycled for the purposes of manufacturing new red blood cells.
• Produces blood cells 

Before the birthing of an individual, their foetus produce red and white blood cells in their spleens. Shortly before birth the spleen loses its ability to make red blood cells and bone marrow takes over this job.

Living without a spleen is possible however, people without their spleens are more vulnerable as they are susceptible to all kinds of infections.

Cleansing your spleen

• Drink between eight to twelve cups of water each day accompanied with a sliced lemon wedge. The water cleans the blood and the spleen, while the lemon helps in cleaning the system of the lymph together with the liver.
• Go for a massage as it is very useful in lymphatic system cleansing and providing leverage for lymphatic drainage. Make sure you use a base oil for  massaging should have some drops of lemon essential oil added to it; this will further aid cleansing of the spleen.
• Try stretching your body every day, yoga is good for this. Stretching is excellent in helping the lymph cleanse, it assists in lymphatic drainage.
• After stretching, you should take some goldenseal tea; goldenseal can also comes as a capsule or as a tincture.This helps the entire system of the lymph and also aids the lymphatic cleansing. Always ensure you seek medical advice from qualified professionals before using any herbs, food supplements or drugs.
• Finally, make sure you add vegetables and fruits to your diet, a vegitarian diet is best..
• In addition to this, also drink vegetable juice and or fruit juice on an empty stomach. As these food substances and juices contain enzymes and acids that are extremely good for removing toxic substances, wastes and other undesirable elements from the lymphatic system.
• Drinking natural water is very good to assist your process.