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for all practical purposes, the disease may be
considered to have been cured completely.
Treatment in the acute phase should begin with
a fast or at least an approach to a fast for a period
of three days to a week. Tender cocoanut water/
diluted fruit juice/ or thin vegetable soup taken
about jtwo to four times in a day will constitute
an approach to a fast- After the fast, pass on to
an exclusive diet of vegetables and/or fruits for
another week or so. As the condition improves,
slowly increase the ration and come to the one-
substantial-meal-a-day plan and stick to it till the
disease is cured, or till another acute phase of the
disease comes up, when again/ you must resort to
a fast. This time the fast may be of a shorter
duration/ say, one to three days.
If the disease is in the .chronic phase/ start on
the one-substantial-meal-a-day plan and stick to it
till you are cured or till an acute phase comes up.
I do not advise a long fast for anybody. Apart
from the fact that a long fast needs the attendance
of an expert, it is questionable whether a long fast
will do good to all chronic sufferers; it may even
do harm to some.
The kind of fast which will do immense good to
all people/ both healthy and sick/ is the Instal mental
Fast. The instalmental fast, is a series of short fasts
with longer intervals of reformed dieting along lines
Indicated earlier. This instalmental fast is of two
Jkinds:
1. Fasting for a few hours every day;
2. Fasting for a few days every month.
Of these-two/ the first is the more important, and is
provided for in the reformed dieting itself. . The
second one will be very helpful in hastening the
cure.