CHAPTER IX
Special Instructions For Fasting
When we are fasting we throw all our physical machinery out of normal action. We must therefore give it more attention than we would otherwise.
Assimilation–Nutrition–Digestion–Elimination, all struggle under an abnormal condition; for as soon as we cease eating we lose the stimulation which food gives the system and by which it takes care of these things.
Our physical food cells die by the thousands, and must be eliminated quickly or the blood stream will become filled with decaying substance which carries with it the touch of ptomain poisoning. There is no poison more deadly than ptomain and unless we throw out the waste of our own flesh we soon become saturated with it.
A systemic cathartic on the day we do not eat is imperative: there is no use saying “Oh I don’t need it.” “Yes! you do!” and a local enema will not do the work. This will only unload the lower bowel and the need of the system is for the cleansing of the blood stream, as well as the intestinal tract. There are plenty of cathartics which will do the work quietly without disturbing effects.
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