Under the term fasting, the traditional total fasting (full fasting) as well as the ideological healing cures (fasting cures) are understood. As motivation for fasting weight loss but also “detoxification of the body” are in the foreground. The partly propagated opinion that by means of chamfering cures many civilization diseases can be healed, is not scientifically justified. Examples of chamfering cures are the total chamfering (full chamfering), juice chamfering/Heilfasten after Buchinger and the Schroth cure.
If a person fasts, then he does without solid food for a certain time and takes instead vegetable and fruit juices as well as vegetable broths, herbal teas with honey and in addition about two liters of water to itself. The origin of fasting and various forms of therapeutic fasting dates back more than 4,000 years, and it is regarded as a religious act and spiritual discipline – for example, Christians fast for 40 days before Easter Sunday – as well as a health-promoting measure. Even in modern times, fasting serves to support the elimination of harmful substances and to detoxify as well as cleanse the body.
It is important to accustom the organism to the actual fasting by using raw fruits and vegetables, mineral water and herbal tea to gradually wean the body from food. In the following days – five are recommended – unsweetened liquid food should be taken. After this strict period, our organism must first be reintroduced to solid food in the form of small fruit and vegetable meals, since during fasting the secretion of all digestive glands, from oral saliva to intestinal glands, is significantly reduced. If large meals are eaten immediately after the cessation of fasting, there is a danger that the food will not be fully absorbed by the stomach and will be immediately excreted because of the decreased responsiveness of the digestive glands.