Hunger Bungs Health.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 November 1914, Page 3

Hunger Bungs Health.

FASTING AS A CI!RI<> FOR MANY TROUBLESOME COMPLAINTS. A famous London physician states: "That fasting should cure stomach and liver troubles seems natural. But how many of us make use of the remedy? Next time you are bil-' ious or have bad indigestion try the remedy of abstinence from food, and you won't be disappointed. '■Deafness, resulting from ( catarrh of the air passages* is another matter. You would scarcely try fasting to cure it. But I have known the hearing of such a person .to be completely restored by a seven-teen-day fast. "if a, man feels dull, heavy, and stupid, nothing can cure him like a fast. ■ "Here are a dozen cases in one — a real example of the marvellous virtues of fasting. A patient suffered- all at .the same time from rheumatism, kidney disease, eczema, loss of power in his limbs, and several other affections. "He sampled half the drifts in the pharmacopoeia, and then, in despair, tried a- long fast. In forty (lays he was perfectly cured of every trouble. "In reality we are only, obeying Nature when we fast to cure diseases. What course do all animals follow when ill ? They drink a great deal, but, as a rule, they eat nothing. This measure, combined with rest and sleep, is usually successful, "Of course, no sensible person will undertake- a long fast of '-ten days ' and upward without medical supervision. Unless properly conducted it might wreck even, an apparently strong man. "How is the fast to be carried out ? There are many ways. One is to omit breakfast for a week, and then live on one meal a day until cured. "Another is to fast two or three ('ays, than eat a couple of light meals—milk, rice, etc.—and then fast again. "Nature,^- ill toll you when to -end the treatment. The tongue clears, he spirits become buoyant, and the iippetite becomes ravenous. "You may, of course, while fasting • ii'ink as much water, lemonade, etc., s you like, and you may also eat .juicy fruits, such as oranges and ,'.rapes."