Hildegard of Bingen
The abbess Hildegard of Bingen is not only known for numerous alternative medicines, but also for her concept of therapeutic fasting, which was already practiced in the Middle Ages. Also with the cure after Hildegard of Bingen is to be done without “loading” food and the body cleaned and strengthened from the cure to come out. After one or more days of relief and the intestine cleaning the actual chamfering cure begins, which can last between six and ten days: The food is limited here mainly to spelt products, fruit and vegetables, in addition much water and tea is taken to itself.
A day of the therapeutic fasting cure starts for example with a spelt coffee, which may be sweetened with honey, or a portion of cooked spelt meal with dried fruits and spices. At noon, a spelt vegetable soup is prepared according to the abbess’s instructions, and soup is also allowed in the evening. For the drinks, one should especially take fennel tea or fasting tea and still water.
In addition, daily exercise in nature is recommended, so the fasting experience should also be spiritually enriching. Also here some structure days follow to the chamfering days, in order to accustom the body again to food. A further well-known chamfering cure is that after Mayr.
It concerns here a substantially longer chamfering time than with the chamfering method after Buchinger. All in all there are 21 chamfering days, which it applies to go through. There are not written out discharge days at the beginning as well as structure days at the end thereby.
Each morning of the 21 days deals mainly with the intestine cleaning with the same aids can be used, as with the method after Buchinger. With the Mayr method solid food does not have to be completely renounced during the chamfering time. Beside chamfering tea also milk, Semmel and 30g protein extra pay stands on the morning menu.
At noon, in addition to vegetable broth, milk and bread roll as well as 50g protein supplement is allowed. In the evening, in addition to vegetable broth and fasting tea, you can choose between rolls and 2-3 slices of crispbread. The Mayr method is therefore not a strict fasting cure with liquids but also with regular solid food.
Another very well-known fasting cure is named after its inventor Hildegard von Bingen. Her claim to a fasting cure was not exclusively the physical and physical recovery, but her emphasis lay in the balancing of the psyche and in coming clean with the own soul. According to her concept, man should not practice a radical, but rather a gentle fasting.
To it belong several times on the day the consumption of a chamfering soup, which contains spelt grains, fresh grains and spices as components. The patient should cleanse his bowels with a ginger granulate. The main drink of this cure is fennel tea, from time to time drinking of spelt coffee is allowed. Furthermore, von Bingen recommends drinking parsley–honey-wine in crisis situations during Lent.
