Fasting therapy!
"Fasting" is not a new word. Some people want to lose weight, some want to protest, and some want to experience it. In fact, fasting and hunger strike are different. It has positive and positive significance. Fasting gives our body, mind and spirit a healthy and comfortable new life.
◆ The history of fasting therapy
Fasting therapy has a long history, about 7000 years. For example, in Buddhism, there are six fasts and ten fasts, and you don't eat in the afternoon and meditate. In late summer and early autumn, it makes sense for children not to eat two or three meals.
As we all know, the bane of modern civilization lies in environmental pollution, pesticides, fertilizers, lead and other toxins. Because people eat three meals a day and openly enter the body, over time, many a mickle makes a mickle, which poses a serious threat to people's health.
There is a saying in Taoism: People who don't eat are gods and live long. Many Taoist books and Confucius' letters also say: "People who eat gas live long." . Fasting is one of the oldest natural therapies.
Every animal will instinctively stop eating when it is sick, but we humans have lost too far from nature. So when we are sick, instead of going against our appetite, we don't clean our bodies by stopping eating, but we want to fill more food and increase our physical strength.
Ancient sages often stopped eating, not only for health, but also for spiritual and spiritual improvement.
Because they say, "you can't think when you are full." The great Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato often stop eating because they know that stopping eating can stimulate spiritual strength. When Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and mathematician, went to Egypt to study mysteries and deep spirituality, he had to go through forty days of fasting, because the Egyptian master told him, "Forty days is necessary for you to understand what we want to teach you." The Bible repeatedly mentions the practice of fasting, saying, "When fasting, don't frown, be clean and be happy." "In this way, your eyes will shine like the morning light, and your health will leap forward faster." Buddha often fasted to reach a higher level of consciousness. After his longest fasting, he was awakened.
Therefore, it is obvious that fasting is of great benefit to body and mind, which was known by ancient wise men but forgotten by modern people.
◆ The role of fasting
The main function of fasting is detoxification. On the earth, no animal is full of undigested, fermented, spoiled and unnatural food because of overeating, like the so-called civilized human beings.
Preservatives, pigments, seasonings and other chemicals are added to the food we eat, which adds more toxins to our bodies. Every day, we breathe in the exhaust gas from factories and cars, cooking gas, and ingest a lot of drugs in the air of cities. Whenever we are in some kind of emotional tension or extreme depression, especially negative emotions, such as fear and hatred, our glands will produce a lot of strong hormones and enzymes, which will make our body more nervous. Some of these toxic wastes will be excreted from the skin through the kidneys, intestines or when sweating. But many toxins attach to cells, organs, glands, arteries and veins, and flow in the blood. These toxins are not easy to eliminate.
Both Chinese and western medicine regard constipation as the source of all diseases. If you want to cure a disease, you must first remove the feces. However, neither enema nor laxative can be removed. Only through fasting therapy and general cleaning can it be effective. After fasting for a week, the stool will be completely excreted. The discharge volume varies from 360 ml to 1800 ml. Cleaning the intestines and stomach not only enhances the absorption of the intestines and stomach, improves the working efficiency of the digestive system, but also absorbs nutrients vigorously. The disease is naturally cured and the body is naturally strong.
When the human body stops eating, that is, the day when the toxin entrance stops, the large intestine and small intestine on the other side are easy to shake and rub the intestinal wall because of the reduced peristalsis, forcing the "stool" accumulated for many years to fall off and be excreted one after another.
Don't underestimate this effect. "defecation" is a toxic substance (such as hydrogen sulfide) that rots in the intestine, which is very toxic and closely related to colorectal cancer. Some of these toxins are easily absorbed by the intestinal wall, causing various diseases. And fasting is to cleanse the intestines and keep fit.
Doctors believe that these toxins accumulated in the body are the main cause of disease, not foreign dangerous bacteria. Only when our bodies are weakened by too much pollution can bacteria and pathogens affect us. Bacteria and pathogens always exist in the air around us, in the food we eat, and in our bodies. Only when the body gets dirty and gives them a chance to grow and reproduce in the body will they give in. This explains why people are exposed to the same germs, but only some people will be infected.
Disease is the body's efforts to remove waste, mucus and toxins that hinder normal function. The body must treat and eliminate all toxins accumulated from childhood, not diseases. Careful observation of some of the most common diseases can illustrate this fact.
We often clean the house and get rid of waste and accumulated rubbish, but we never want to clean the inside of our bodies. The best way to clean the inside of our bodies is to stop eating. No one will try to clean the urban water supply system and remove all the clogged filters before cutting off the water supply first. The same is true of fasting, which prevents food from flowing into the body and gives the body a chance to clean itself automatically. All body cells have the function of absorbing nutrients and excreting wastes. When fasting, you force your body to continue working, digest accumulated and surplus waste (bacteria and viruses that cause diseases), and live on air, food and water. By fasting, you can cut off your living conditions. Both bacteria and viruses have subtle vitality, such as tuberculosis, which dies in the sun 10 minutes. Bacteria will starve to death after 3~7 days of fasting. So a week's fasting can cure many diseases. ) and then excrete them, thus purifying the whole body. If this function is blocked, the cells in the body will degenerate and weaken, and the organs that depend on the cells will also degenerate and weaken.
Many people are afraid of fasting. They think that fasting means hunger. This idea is completely incorrect. Proper fasting is never harmful. In fact, this is the only way to conserve energy and let nature concentrate on fighting diseases. But we must use the correct fasting methods and steps, otherwise it will become a hunger strike, which is not desirable.
The correct way to fast:
People used to go without food for many days, sometimes for 30 or 40 days at a time. But at that time, people lived in nature, ate purer food and did more exercise, and were not affected by mental stress and anxiety. Therefore, their bodies are purer and can endure long-term fasting. The most suitable fasting method for us today is short and regular fasting. Nutritionists advise us to fast for 3-7 days according to the body. Eat a specific nutritious meal every day during fasting. People who fast should not eat rice, pasta, meat, cooked food and non-vegetarian food for at least a few days. Fasting therapy can treat and prevent many diseases.
Drinking freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice can protect human immune system, which is the guardian of cancer in human body. Cooked food can increase white blood cells in the human body and damage the immune system. People eat cooked food for three meals instead of fruits and raw vegetables, and white blood cells are often on alert. As time goes on, fatigue will damage the human immune system. Drinking fruit and vegetable juice can absorb more nutrients and enhance the body's disease resistance. Fruits and vegetables suitable for juicing are: apples, carrots, cucumbers, celery and so on. In addition, chlorophyll has anti-cancer effect. Eating more green leafy vegetables can absorb more chlorophyll. Experiments show that 95% of chlorophyll in human intestine will not be destroyed by acid and alkali substances.
The correct way to restore diet:
How to eat after fasting is as important as fasting itself. After fasting, we rest and purify the whole system of the body. If we put a lot of coarse and greasy food into the stomach and overload the gastrointestinal tract, the benefits of fasting will be destroyed. So in the morning after fasting, drink a glass of lemon juice (the ratio is about 500 cc of water plus half a lemon and some salt). Lemon is very alkaline and is the best fruit to purify the body. Have another nutritious breakfast with high protein. It is best to eat some digestible foods, such as fruits and vegetables, on the first day of resuming eating, and avoid spicy foods.
The help of fasting to body physiology;
First, fasting can give your whole body a chance to rest and regain physical strength, so that you can work with higher efficiency after fasting, reduce diseases of these organs, and help glands to restore normal and balanced secretion.
Second, fasting can decompose and eliminate toxic wastes attached to all organs and tissues of the body, thus cleaning the whole body, making it work at the highest efficiency and preventing diseases. By burning and excreting unnecessary substances, unnatural growth can be removed from the body. Many people have cured hemorrhoids, lumps, stones and other unnatural growths by fasting.
Third, fasting makes the whole body full of vitality, rebuilds all cells, tissues and blood vessels, reduces the aging process and increases life expectancy.
Fourth, fasting makes the skin look younger and more beautiful. Blister, acne, skin infection, etc. Can be completely eliminated, and the skin becomes clean and ruddy. Eyes become clear and bright, and have obvious effects on hypertension, cold and fever, headache, migraine, insomnia, constipation, inflammation, nervousness, muscle soreness, etc.