What is the fasting therapy?
The fasting therapy is a method of non-pharmaceutical treatment, body filtration and health improvement. This method includes 3 stages. The first stage is a preparatory one, the second is the fasting or the fasting therapy itself and the third stage is a recovering one. The length of each stage a doctor appoints during the initial consultation.
During the second stage only pure water is allowed. Quantity and the rate of water consumption are appointed beforehand. Food consumption and drinking of other liquids than water are not allowed. Using a rose hips infusion or other herbal infusions is talked over beforehand.
Treatment efficacy is greatly depended on the regularity of water drinking as well as on following the regimen and doctor’s recommendations. During the course of the fasting therapy purificatory procedures, massage, therapeutic physical training, bathes, walking tours are offered.
It is obligatory to follow the activity and rest regimen assigned by a doctor.
The first 2-4 days of fasting are characterized by the higher than normal hunger, headaches, anxiety, increase or decrease of arterial blood pressure. Then your body moves to endogenic feeding. During this period the hunger becomes blunt, breath odor appears as well as coated tongue, also there is a reasonable brachycardia or tachycardia, increase or decrease of arterial blood pressure, vomiting, orthostatic reactions. During this period all sudden body position changes are not allowed. A doctor can cease the procedures that fasten the heartbeat. On the 4-5th day of fasting the acidotic crisis occurs and can be accompanied with little vomiting.
The acidotic crisis is a crucial moment during the fasting process because after this crisis the processes of health improvement start.
During the period of the third stage all the procedure are cancelled and the consumption of food begins. The food consumption starts according to one of three recommended schemes. The recovery scheme is planned beforehand and takes into account all existing diseases. Five meals are appointed. The first food after fasting is better to get when you sit or lie taking one teaspoon in 10 minutes. Further on, the broaden of food ingredients takes place.
Smoking and alcohol drinking during fasting and recovery stage is prohibited.
During the recovery stage salt, sweet, strong beverages, preserves, smoke products, pickled products, rich and fried food should be eliminated.
The recovery stage takes no less than ⅔ of the fasting period. The period of full rehabilitation lasts for about a month after the beginning of recovery stage.