Solar Biology

FASTING TO OVERCOME DISEASE. 261
article of food :
fasting serves to strengthen the stora
ach rather than to weaken it, and such a regime would
cure very severe cases of dyspepsia. If it should not at
first make a cure, repeating the same formula after the
lapse of a month would complete the cure. This would
be also effectual in the case of scrofula or eczema ;
but
in cases of a more extreme character, after the person
has gone through with the five days' regime, they
should wait one or two months, then fast about ten
or fourteen days ;
after which time the most stubborn
diseases will be entirely eradicated from the system.
The best time to begin a fast would be about the
time of a person's birthday then
; during the fast the
person should drink nothing but pure cold water, and
should put nothing into the mouth that would excite
the flow of gastric juice for ; anything that would carry
the gastric juice to the stomach would create a gnawing
sensation, and somewhat endanger dissolving the particles
of the stomach. If any person should transgress
this rule, or take into the stomach any fermented liquor,
our advice would be to immediately commence eating.
Persons whose stomachs are not very sensitive to the
use of spices, peppers, etc. (the most sensitive stomachs
are those born in Virgo, or characterized by it), after
fasting five days, should take about a quarter of a teaspoonful
of cayenne pepper be taken in a small
:
it may
quantity of milk, or mixed with a small portion of flour
and made into pills. "Where the stomach is sensitive,
we will suggest the following: take a small pinch of
baking -sod a dissolved in a tablespoonful of water,
squeeze a lemon into about three tablespoonfuls of
water, then pour together, and drink while effervescing.