HOW FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE FASTS WORK FOR YOU

If we analize all these cures we will find that the paramount feature in all of them is fasting: total, partial or modified—but nevertheless fasting. When you do not consume anything but grapes, or apples, or carrot juice for prolonged periods of time, your system, deprived of its “normal” heavy diet of proteins, fats and grains, etc., and receiving only easily-assimilated fruits or vegetable juices with virtually no digestive effort required, will soon institute the process of autolysis. This is the essential health-restoring activity which the healing powers of the body institute in order to restore health. By autolysis, or the process of self-digestion and absorption, the body breaks down the diseased tissues and burns and excretes the toxic, morbid matter from the system.

This process of autolysis is to be credited for the miraculous healing effect of fasting—be it with water, juices, grapes or apples.

People of all ages and in various parts of the world have used cures with this or that fruit or vegetable without actually realizing why these cures were so effective. They naturally gave the whole credit for the cure to the particular fruit, vegetable or drink used. With the present knowledge of nutrition, biochemistry and the metabolic and healing processes of the body, it is possible to determine more accurately the exact function of these substances in the healing processes and give proper credit. The majority of the experienced authorities on fasting agree that although such therapies as Grape Cure, Apple Cure, Carrot Juice Cure, etc. can be very effective, a more scientific modern fasting on a combination of special vegetable or fruit juices and mineral-rich, alkaline vegetable broth gives even better results. For example, in the Buchinger Sanatorium in Germany, which has the experience of over 70,000 therapeutic fasts, the intake of juices, broths and herb teas is closely supervised by doctors in each individual case. Each condition requires a different regime and a different supply of enzymes, vitamins and minerals for the maximum curative effect. Special attention is given to mineral metabolism, Thus, patients with acidosis, or a condition where there are not enough alkali in the blood, are given alkaline cabbage broth or other vegetable broths. In cases of mineral deficiency, mineral waters and mineral-rich herb teas are used. In vitamin and enzyme deficiency, raw fruit juices are advised. Various herb teas with particular medicinal properties for different diseases are prescribed individually. This kind of scientific, controlled fasting will, of course, result in faster and more complete recovery.

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