Allergies [35] Allergy is a disorder of the immune system often also referred to as atopy.
Antidepressants [36] An antidepressant is a psychiatric medication used to alleviate mood disorders, such as major depression and dysthymia.
Arthritis [7] Arthritis is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body.
Cancer [36] Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth
Cardio & Blood [20] Risk factors for heart disease: infections
Cholesterol [1] A fat-like substance called a lipid. It is used to build cell membranes, hormones and bile acids
Diabetes [15] The inability of the body to produce, or the inability to metabolize, the human hormone insulin; Diabetes insipidus, usually a disorder of the ...
Epilepsy [2] Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures
Gastrointestinal [1] The digestive tract is the system of organs within multicellular animals that takes in food...
General Health [144] The infant, child or young person?s current health condition
Herbal [36] Herbal tea, herbal medicine
Hormonal [20] Hormones - Proteins produced by organs of the body that trigger activity in other locations.
Men's Health [1] For men on fitness, health, sex, caree
Pain relief [36] Pain management is the medical discipline concerned with the relief of pain.
Skin care [36] The skin is the outer covering of the body
Weight Loss [36] Loss of body weight by dieting or due to various easting disorders or medical conditions.
Women's Health [36] Find information on women's health issues, and lifestyle at the Women's Health
Awaiting moderation 9604 Article |
High blood pressure and fasting HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND FASTING
Fasting is considered by most biological medical doctors as the fastest and the most effective therapeutic method of remedying high blood pressure. At the Buchinger Clinic in Bad Pyrmont, Dr. Otto Buchinger stated that high blood pressure is the one ailment for which fasting practically never fails to bring about a complete cure.
He stressed, however, that tobacco is highly injurious to the patient with high blood pressure and advised a total abstinence from smoking.
In Swedish biological clinics practitioners have had the same experience. Ebba Waerland has supervised hundreds of fast cures and reports that high blood pressure is "cured automatically" through fasting and Waerland dietetic therapy.
A case history of lowered blood pressure
Here is one case from Sweden. Mrs. E. P., 44, suffered from high blood pressure for 15 years. In spite of various medical treatments, her pressure continued to climb, and in 1966 it was up to 240. She started her biological treatments in July, 1966, with a ten-day fast on the alkaline juices of fruits and vegetables and vegetable broth.* While fasting she was given an enema morning and evening, plus colonic irrigation twice a week. After ten days of fasting, she was given a salt-free diet of fresh fruits for breakfast, and raw vegetable salad with homemade soured milk and boiled potatoes for lunch and dinner. Bread, butter and cheese were not allowed, except small amounts of fresh homemade cottage cheese. After two weeks on this diet she was again put on juice fasting for ten more days. I met Mrs. E. P. on the ninth day of the second fast. Her blood pressure had been checked the day before and was down to 137. It had been at that level a whole week. She told me that she felt great, and planned to leave the clinic and go home the following week. She enjoyed her new lacto-vegetarian diet and planned to continue with it at home.
Also in the United States many clinics and nature-cure practitioners have employed fasting very successfully in the treatment of high blood pressure. At Pawling Health Manor, in New York, Dr. R. Cross reported 54 high blood pressure cases treated by fasts between 1957 and 1963. Of these, 38 cases recovered completely and 16 improved. Dr. James McEachen, of Escondido, California, has supervised 141 fasts on patients with high blood pressure at his sanatorium, and reported that all 141 cases were remedied or improved— also a 100 percent result. Similar results are reported from Herbert M. Shelton's Clinic in Texas and Dr. W. L. Esser's Clinic in Florida. Dr. Shelton reported one case in which three weeks of fasting dropped the systolic pressure from 295 to 115.
The general opinion of all practitioners who employ fasting in the treatment of high blood pressure, is that patients who do not respond to the customary treatments, do respond to fasting. Moreover, the cures accomplished by fasting tend to be lasting—provided that good nutritional habits are maintained after the fast.
*94\58\2*
General Health
«Mexican Pharmacy»
Print Viewed: 178
| Keywords for this page: High blood pressure and fasting |
|
|