'Langhanam paramaushadham' is a well known saying in Ayurveda,
probably told by the 'Charaka.' When you are suffering with fever,
we used to be advised by grandma to fast for a few hours or days.
In India, for centuries together, this is a natural practice.
But the modern medicine has ignored this practice for a long time.
Interestingly, the modern medicine is adapting this practice to
cure diseases like, Gastro-Intestinal, Metabolic, Skin related etc.,
according to a news paper. A clinic in Germany, 'Buchinger's
Clinic'(Bad Pyrmont) adapted this technique called 'Buchinger Fasting Cure.'
Buchinger prescribes a low calaried food up to 300 calaries per day
alongside Naturopathy. They have proved that this fasting cure is
very effective in Migrane, Diabetes, Rheumatism, Psoriasis etc.
In Scandinavia also, the same method is proved in curing Artheritis.
Jayatu 'Ayus-Veda.'