Das Heilfasten nach Dr. Otto Buchinger

Journal/Book: Ärztezeitschrift für Naturheilverfahren. 1994; 35/4: 278-285.

Abstract: Otto Buchinger found only though his own severe suffering to fasting. By tehn men of classical medicine as incurable disabled due to a chronic infecion arthritis the the 41 years old Otto Buchinger upon the advice of a layman risked a zerocalories period of fastinf of 3 wks with Gustav Riedlin and few years later of of 4 wks with Siegfried Möller because of a continuously existing cholangits and cholecystitis; and that both times with temendous success. In this way Otto Buchinger became an ethusiastic and others inspiring physician for fasting who ager few years developed the zero-calories water resp. tea fasting of his teachers to the remedial fasting with its adjutory methods as biological way for the meanwhile world-wide renowned Buchinger's method. The both preventive and therapeutical wide array of indications of fasting reaches from the at present dominating risk factors over all diseases that depend on the nutrition up to the chronic diseases. The meanwhile scientifically founded change to internal nutrition and digestion during fasting provides and founds the understanding for it. Like with every therapy also here contra-indications have to be observed. Remedial fasting does not follow any rigid scheme; on the contrary, prerequisite for successful fasting is a diagnostically founded adjustment with respect to period and intensity of the abstension from food to the patient's respecitive initial state and his individual requirements.

Keyword(s): Heilfasten, Nulldiät, Präventivmedizin

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