What 40000 Fasting Treatments Have Taught Me
Dr. Otto Buchinger (1878–1966) was a German physician, philosopher, and pioneer of therapeutic fasting who founded the renowned Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting clinics. Click here for biography.
The Therapeutics of Fasting – text only
The text only version of The Therapeutics of Fasting.
Rational Fasting: Regeneration Diet and Natural Cure for All Diseases
There are two paperback versions issued by conflicting groups of Ehretists, each in-print version containing much addenda to the original material. In this download, as best this library can determine, is what Ehret actually wrote.
The Fasting Cure
A famous author's personal experience with the fasting cure. The main chapter of this book, "Perfect Health" is also offered in French, the translation, Parfaite Santé!, translation courtesy of Paul Barbu & Diane Hébert.
The Hygienic System, Vol. III, Fasting and Sun Bathing, Third Revised Edition
An exhaustive study of therepeutic fasting, Shelton claimed to have conducted over twenty-five thousand fasts, ranging in duration from three days to more than two months. Even if this is an overstatement, likely no one else has ever equaled his experience with fasting.
Scientific Fasting: The Ancient and Modern Key to Health
One of the wisest books ever written about natural hygiene and especially about water fasting. Dr. Hazzard had decades of personal practice. Also contains a great deal of advice about handling children.
The Philosophy of Fasting: A Message for Sufferers and Sinners
Purinton's book is mostly about the mental and spiritual benefits of fasting and the state of mind one needs to cultivate in order to fast safely and with a good result.
How And When To Be Your Own Doctor
This book was written after 25 years of clinical practice. Dr. Moser was not a rigid, doctrinaire natural hygienist. She incorporated into her practice what she considered the most useful aspects of many disciplines, including vitamins and other food supplements, protomorphogens, massage, accupressure, colonics, dietary restriction, etc.
Fasting, Hydropathy and Exercise: Nature’s Wonderful Remedies for the Cure of all Chronic and Acute Diseases
A young healer's enthusiastic encouragement to use fasting, exercise, cold water and dietary reform--especially the one meal per day plan--to cure disease. Interesting muscle pictures and daring (for the time) muscle-nudes.
Health Through New Thought and Fasting
Sleep, deep, restful sleep, recharges the vital force. This force is what runs the body and energizes it . . . not the food. How to manage the mind so as to create health. We eat far more than the body needs for nutrition.
Fasting and Grape Cure
This booklet, one of a series of many similar publications, provides Székely's take on two related subjects. The text also includes a full list of publications of the Essene School of Life.
Triumph Over Disease by Fasting and Natural Diet
A testimonial; the story of a young man whose body had been so severely damaged by conventional medical treatment for ulcerative colitis that he was near death. In the nick of time he discovered natural hygiene, fasted for over 40 days and began to recover health and enjoyment of life.
Therapeutic Fasting
A complete, sensitive and intelligent survey of fasting and of fasting literature. Arnold DeVries was an American researcher, writer and hygienist, who already in the 1950's changed from a fruitarian (Fountain of Youth, 1946) to a paleolithic diet. (See the Longevity Library for more of his books.)