This year in January and February I did a long orange juice fast but
unfortunately my computer crashed and the files were lost. I lost a
lot of weight and ended up with a severe outbreak of candida.
Professor Arnold Ehret
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RATIONAL
FASTING
[Translated from original German text.]
for...
Physical, Mental and Spiritual
Rejuvenation
By ARNOLD EHRET
also
Health and Happiness Through
Fasting
By FRED S. HIRSCH
Published by
EHRET LITERATURE PUBLISHING CO.
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA 92223
1965
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Foreword
Rational Fasting
IT'S EASY TO FAST
Many health teachers and disciples of
fasting have long
expounded this "wonder cure" — but it remained for Arnold
Ehret, considered by many the greatest exponent of fasting,
to give suffering humanity the complete knowledge of "how
to conduct and complete" a successful fast.
There are many types of a Fast and most
of them are more
or less effective. But the TOTAL fast — NO food of any kind
whatsoever — simply water as desired, is the most commonly
practiced. A restricted diet of one kind of fruit alone such as
grapes, watermelon, cherries, oranges, apples, etc. and the
so-called "milk diet" are also often known as fasting. Dried
fruits, with liquids of all kinds restricted, is a form of fasting
known as the Schroth cure.
Above all else, the individual who has
decided to take a
fast must have the courage of his convictions. To know "how
long one should fast" and especially "how to break a fast"
is
of utmost importance. Arnold Ehret was perhaps the first of
the great health teachers to recognize that "Fasiers who died
from too long a fast actually suffocated in their own filth,
and NOT from lack of food". The Faster must know that
physical conditions change rapidly during a fast. "Waste"
when in the circulation makes you feel miserable but as soon
as It is eliminated you feel fine.
Longevity is a natural desire of all
mankind — but only if
one is free from aches and pains. Arnold Ehret now contributes
the necessary knowledge which if followed will enable
a long suffering humanity to enjoy the full life of a
centenarian, mentally alert and physically virile.
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Preface
Are you one of the thousands of present
age persons
discouraged and disheartened on account of ill-health;
is your
faith in so-called cures shattered after having tried them
without results; are you only able to use a small percent of
the vitality that good Mother Nature endows her beloved
ones with? Probably you have been told that only an operation
will save you. Somehow, when we suffer organic trouble
we fail to think clearly and permit ourselves to be easily
persuaded into operations. If you are one of these unfortunates
DON'T GIVE UP HOPE. For "he that hath health hath hope,
and he that hath hope, hath everything."
"Since man degenerated through civilization,
he no longer
knows what to do when he becomes sick". The genuine principles
of healing are simple and few. The very lack of appetite
which occurs when we are sick is Nature's method of
teaching her children. One might properly call this a "forced
fast". These are but a few of the truisms taught by Arnold
Ehret's Rational Fasting and his many writings.
Our greatest possession is health.
This Drugless Healing is not limited
in its scope; but thru
its proper application and use it restores normal functioning
and cures practically all ailments to which the human family
is subject.
"TRUTH WEARS NO MASK; BOWS AT NO
HUMAN
SHRINE: SEEKS NEITHER PLACE NOR APPLAUSE: SHE
ASKS ONLY A HEARING." — Redfield.
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Contents
Part I
Rational Fasting
The Fundamental Cause in the Nature of
Disease - - - -9—
Remedies for the Removal of Fundamental
Causes
and Prevention of Their Re-occurrence
- - - - --26—
The Fundamental Cause of Growing Old
----- --31—
The Preservation of the Hair --------
--35—
Increasing Longevity ------ ----- —40—
Part II
Complete Instructions for Rational Fasting ------- --43—
Rational Fasting for Physical, Mental
and Spiritual
Rejuvenation --------------44—
Building a Perfect Body Thru Fasting
------ --49—
Important Rules for the Faster ----------53—
Rules During Fast ------------- -55—
Short Fasts and the Non-Breakfast Plan
-------58—
Fasting for Spiritual Rebirth -----------62—
Conclusion --------- ------ -64—
Part III
Health & Happiness Thru Fasting
When - Why - Where and How - To Fast
- - - - -67-
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The Common Fundamental Cause
in the Nature of Diseases...
and Cure: Rational Fasting
All the phases of the process of development
of the medical
science, including those of the earliest periods of civilization,
have in their way of understanding the casual nature
of diseases that one thing in common that the diseases, owing
to external causes, enter into the human body and thus, by
force of a necessary or at least unavoidable law, disturb it in
its existence, cause it pain and at last destroy it. Even modern
medical science, no matter how scientifically enlightened it
pretends to be, has not quite turned away from this basic
note of demoniac interpretation. In fact, the most modem
achievement, bacteriology, rejoices over every newly
discovered bacillus as a further addition to the army of beings
whose accepted task it is to endanger the life of man.
Looking at it from a philosophical standpoint,
this
interpretation differs from the mediaeval superstition and the
period of fetishism only in the supplemental name. Formerly
it was an "evil spirit," which imagination went so far as
to
believe in "satonic personages"; now this same dangerous
monster is a microscopically visible being whose existence has
been proven beyond any doubt.
The matter, it is true, has still a great
drawback in the
so-called "disposition"—a fine word!—But what
we really are
to understand by it, nobody has ever told us. All the tests on
animals, with their symptom-reactions, do not prove anything
sure, because these occur only by means of injection into the
blood-circulation and never by introduction into the digestive
channel through the mouth.
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There is something true in the conception
of "external
invasion" of a disease, as well as in heredity, however not in
the sense that the invader is a spirit (demon) hostile to life,
or a microscopic being (bacillus); but all diseases without
exception, even the hereditary, are caused—disregarding a
few other hygienic causes—by biologically wrong, "unnatural"
food and by each ounce of over-nourishment,
only and exclusively.
First of all I maintain that in all diseases
without exception
there exists a tendency by the organism to secrete mucus,
and in case of a more advanced stage—pus (decomposed
blood). Of course every healthy organism must also contain
a certain mucus—lymph, a fatty substance of the bowels, etc.,
of a mucus nature. Every expert will admit this in all catarrhalic
cases, from a harmless cold in the nose to inflammation
of the lungs and consumption, as well as in epilepsy (attacks
showing froth at the mouth, mucus). Where this secretion
of mucus does not show freely and openly, as in cases of
ear, eye, skin or stomach trouble, heart diseases, rheumatism,
gout, etc., even in all degrees of insanity, is mucus the main
factor of the illness, the natural secretive-organs not being
able to cope with it any longer, the mucus entering the blood
and causing at the respective spot where the vessel-system is
probably contracted owing to an over-cooling (cold), etc.,
heat, inflammation, pain, fever.
We need only to give a patient of any
kind nothing but
"mucusless" food, for instance fruit or even nothing but
water or lemonade; we then find that the entire digestive
energy, freed for the first time, throws itself upon the mucus-
matters, accumulated since childhood and frequently hardened,
as well as on the "pathologic beds" formed therefrom.
Other free online books by Arnold Ehret:
http://www.arnoldehret.org/healthclub/library.htm
including, Mucusless Diet and Healing System.
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