Foreign elements in the Body
When you are suffering from disease, fasting means feed¬ing in a sense, because it gives rest to overworked organs and enables the entire organism to adjust itself more perfectly. When the stomach is given food after it has had a rest of this kind it receives and creates a superior quality of blood. The blood-making process begins in the stbmaeh and. since it is by no means completed here, it continues throughout the small intestine. When the contents of these important organs are foul and putrescent the whole body is poisoned. If your habits of life are such that the body becomes overloaded with impurities, the time is sure to come when you must have a physical hmiseeleaning.
There is a limit to the amount of foreign elements the body can harbor and still retain sufficient strength to go about its ordinary daily duties. When you feel sluggish, tired and lazy and work of any kind is an effort, you most likely are suffering from what might be termed the first symptoms of bodily poisoning. In such cases blood does not contain the elements essential to vita! and vigorous life, or it contains such an excess of toxins or poisons as to neutralize the value of the needed elements.
If self-questioning gives you the usual reply that the trouble comes from your alimentary canal, then what is the first instruction to start you on the way to a cure?
In most cases it would be rigorous abstinence from food. especially solid food. Generally fruit /juices may be allowed, especially if acid fruits are craved.
In many cases of illness acid fruit helps to cleanse and antisepticize the alimentary canal. It especially cleanses the stomach, gives one a comfortable feeling, and encourages one to take more liquid. Such a course, followed for a day or two, or longer in many instances, will prevent much serious illness. But while it may be considered a novel method of therapy, it is, as a matter of fact, just exactly what the majority of sick people would naturally do for themselves if they followed their own normal impulses.