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Importance of FastingFasting is equally important as a curative and recuperative means. During the process of digestion, all digestive organs have to work for the digestion of the food taken. The glands have also to keep on secreting digestive juices to help in the process of digestion. In fasting, all the digestive organs, i.e., the stomach, the pancreas, the liver, and the small and large intestines get much needed rest. We all know the value of rest, which is a tonic for the exhausted and weary organs. Just as after sleep and rest we feel more strong, fresh and energetic, so is the case with internal organs also. They also need rest as we do. Rest improves their working and lends them strength and vitality. And on their efficient working depends on our health. In fasting, the blood in our body solely devotes itself to the task of destroying germs and other poisonous wastes in our body, because the work of digestion is held in suspense. The body therefore gets more healing power during fasting than it normally possesses. The vital healing power within our body thereby becomes more active. Therefore fasting sometimes does wonders in curing chronic disease, the cure of which eludes all other means of treatment. Thousands of experiments performed by naturopaths all over the world confirm the belief that fasting has a curative effect. When all other methods of curing a disease have failed, fasting may be given a chance. But long fasts are better undertaken under the advice of an expert naturopath One or two-day fasts can be safely undertaken without any expert medical guidance by Sadhakas as well as householders, and by the patients and healthy persons all alike. |