On Saturday 18 November 2000 I did the one-day liver cleanse detailed in Dr Hulda Clark's book. I'd wanted to do it since hearing about it some years ago. She recommends doing it twice a year so I was 49 years overdue. I consider my health and fitness above average. I've done martial arts most of my life, still work out with weights or jog or swim, eat `normally' and drink alcohol at weekends. I've enjoyed impressive results on myself and others with various therapies from self clearing to chi kung and absent healing. However, nothing was resolving a sore elbow I'd traced back to a martial arts injury received earlier this year. Then recently I picked up The Cure For All Diseases in a bookshop. It almost fell open to a page about curing `tennis elbow'. My partner, ever supportive, agreed we must buy the book so we did. (I embarrassed her by obtaining a discount for the `shop-soiled' copy). At home I dusted off my `zapper' purchased years previously and started zapping. Ten days later there was noticable improvement in the elbow but now I wanted my liver cleansed. I thought the book's stories of people passing gall stones without surgery must be wildly exaggerated but I had to try it. Another coincidence - arriving home with the ingredients as outlined in the book we enquired after a neighbour's health. He said he was recovering from `keyhole surgery' for gall stone removal and due for further surgery in a month. We already knew his wife had a kidney removed some years ago. I showed him the book and informed him I was doing the cleanse the next day and would let him know the result. I violated some cleansing rules, as I discovered later. The book says no fatty breakfast but we'd had McDonald's. I also had five beers the night before. Anyway, I began the program. The Epsom Salts tasted vile. The olive oil tasted good in comparison. Contrary to Dr Clark's promise I DID feel hungry but stuck to the program anyway, finally retiring wondering if tomorrow would bring much more than plain old-fashioned diaorrhea. I went (quickly) to the loo upon awakening. Glancing at the result I noticed small green thingies floating on top. This was now as exciting as my first tooth coming out which I'd kept for months. I had a plastic fork and jar on standby and did some careful fishing. Each dropped with a clunk into the jar. Rinsing them in the laundry I couldn't wait to show my partner when she woke. This was EXACTLY the result claimed in the book. Further loo visits furnished more each time. The biggest measured half an inch. I stopped collecting after counting thirty but photographed them with the computer camera. We celebrated that night with more beers. Next morning's results included a light brown stone twice as big as the largest green one from the previous day. There'd also been bits of plastic and other unidentifiable substances. I'd always assumed such things passed straight through the body undigested. How long had this stuff been there??? I could hardly believe what was now in my jar. I could literally count my blessings.  (R)