Cure of Ilnesses
Rational Fasting

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Professor Arnold Ehret was born on the 29 of July in 1866.

He received his degrees at the age of 21 and taught college until he went to military service. Nine months after he was released due to heart trouble. He stopped teaching at the age of 31 although he was experiencing chronic disease, suffering from Bright’s disease.

After going through several physicians, he turned to natural methods, vegetarianism and mental healing, but he still believed in a complete recovery. In a journey to France he experienced living on a radical raw milk and fruit diet, which helped a lot.

Later he travelled to Algiers, where he lived almost exclusively on plentiful native fruits. He rapidly improved his condition and tried fasting to help nature clean his body. He obtained good health, energy, strength and endurance. He discovered a new form of living.

After continuous experimentation on himself and others he developed his Mucusless Diet Healing System and later developed his system of Rational Fasting. He taught many people the methods to regain health in what he called his “Fruit Fasting” Sanatorium in Switzerland.

Professor Arnold Ehret wrote that fasting is a process of elimination to relieve the body from obstructions of solid unnatural foods; tissues are contracted, mucus is pressed out, friction and obstruction is caused in the circulation;

He believed that by fasting all food intake should be discontinued with the exception of water during a certain period of time and that the best time to fast is in the spring, since the body’s resistance to cold weather is lowered during the fast. It is more pleasant to fast during the warm weather, but this does not mean that fasting cannot be done in colder days.

According to Professor Arnold Ehret, when you fast you eliminate the primary obstructions of wrong and to much eating. By fasting we unclog obstructions from our own waste in the circulation and this for sometime will make you feel miserable.

He defended that it could result in a sensation of well being possibly even better than when eating.

He also explains that there is a tendency to blame this feeling due to the lack of food but this is not true.

As long as the waste is in the circulation you feel miserable during a fast; as soon as it is threw the kidneys you feel fine.

He says that two or three days later the same process repeats itself. Changes can happen often.

He believes that if the body is too clogged up by waste and medication the fast must not be too long because the body will have a bad reaction. Drugs can clog onto the body for many years and be released during the fast so if there is too much poisoning the fast must not be too long.

In order to avoid complications, Professor Arnold believed that the following steps could be taken:

      1-    Prepare for an easier fast by a changing diet.

2-     Make shorter fasts periodically.

3 -    If the patient has been on to many drugs it is wiser to make first a long diet to gradually help clean the body.

Rules to be followed during and after the fast recommended by professor Arnold

      1-       Clean the lower intestines as well as you can with enemas, at least every other day.

2-       Before starting a longer fast, take a laxative occasionally, and especially the day before you start the fast.

3-       If possible, remain in the fresh air day and night.

4-       Take a walk, exercise, or some other physical work only when you feel strong enough to do it;

5-       If you are tired and weak rest and sleep as much as you can.

6-       On days when you feel weak, and you will experience such days when the waste in the circulation, you will find that your sleep is restless and disturbed and you may experience bad dreams. This is caused by the poisons passing through the brain.

7-       Whenever you arise after lying down, do it slowly, otherwise you become dizzy. The latter condition is not serious, but it is better to avoid.

 After the fast

 The first meal and the menus for a few days after a fast must be of a laxative effect, not of nourishing value.

The sooner the first meal passes through the body the more efficiently it carries out the loosened mucus and poisons of the intestines and the stomach. If no good stool is experienced after two or three hours – help with laxatives and enemas.

The longer the fast the more efficiently the bowels perform after it is over.

     The best laxative foods after a fast are fresh sweet         fruits, best of all cherries and grapes, then a little soaked or stewed prunes.

       These fruits must not be used after a meateater’s fast, but only for people who have lived for a certain time on mucus poor foods.

In the average case it is better to break the fast with raw and cooked starchless vegetables;(stewed spinach has an especially good effect);

If the first meal does not cause any unpleasantness, you may eat as much as you can.

If you are in the proper condition so that you can start eating with fruits, and you have no bowl movement, after about an hour, then eat more or eat a vegetable meal as suggested above. Eat until you bring out the waste accumulated during the fast with your stool, after eating the first meal.