Health farming experts will admit : “Any fool can fast. But only a wise man knows how to break it”. There is a reason for this. During fast the digestive system tends to reduce digestive juices. Now just as you would to a toddler, you will have to coax your digestive system into the processes of digestion. This is done slowly. Generally, it takes an equal number of days as fasting to come to a normal diet.
In the beginning, the fasting person should take easily digestible things where hardly any digestive juices are required. For second day take one orange every two hours. The third day have one peach or one pear or one handful of grapes three times a day.The fourth day have 2 pieces of fruit for breakfast and 3 pieces for lunch and dinner.
The fifth day have two varieties of fruit at a time for breakfast and lunch and boiled vegetables at dinner. The sixth day have vegetable soup, for lunch and dinner. The seventh day have fruits for breakfast, soup at lunch and boiled vegetables for dinner. The eighth day have fruits for breakfast and one chapati with boiled vegetables at lunch and dinner. The ninth day add a cup of milk with fruits for breakfast, boiled vegetables plus two chapatis for lunch and dinner.
The tenth day add small portion of dal for lunch and dinner. Gradually, add a little fat in your meals, ghee or oil while cooking vegetables or apply a little ghee to your chapatis. The assimilation power of the body increases after fast. After the food is properly digested and absorbed by the body, changes begin occurring in the blood. The number of red blood corpuscles increase after fasting. It has been mentioned that in one case the R.B.C. count increased from 1 million to 5 million after the fast.
The iron and other elements which are stored in the body are taken and used by the body. Assimilation after fast is at its highest level. Rabbits were put on fast for 17 days. They slowly gained 56% of the body weight to the normal level after fasting. Broken bones and wound heal more rapidly during fasting. Inflammation subsides faster and the body tends to become youthful. Fasting gives the body organs a complete rest.
The work load that organs normally do is reduced. As no food is taken in no digestion or assimilation takes place. So all energy required is saved and utilised for eliminating the morbid matter from the body. organs get rest, they recuperate and regain their vital powers. The elementary canal becomes free of unfriendly bacteria.
More nourishment is derived from less essential tissues. The effusion, swelling, fat, infiltration etc. is absorbed with great rapidly. So the body gradually frees itself from surplus waste material.