HubHip: Health: Alternative: Fasting and Cleansing (57)

DescriptionProponents of fasting and cleansing believe that by giving the body a "break" from the daily chores of digesting foodstuffs, you give the body an opportunity to spend its energy to repair, detoxify, or rejuvenate itself. Certain exercises and herbs have also been traditionally used to encourage detoxification.

Fasting and Cleansing

Healthier Living Through Fasting (Site) - The benefits of fasting, referencing the effects seen during religious fasting.
Detoxification (Site) - High-content site on detoxification with special emphasis on techniques for cleansing particular systems. Chapter on probiotics.
Dr. Richard Anderson (Site) - Information on natural health through internal cleansing, herbs, and spiritual growth. Articles and FAQs.
HealthWorld Online: General Detoxification & Cleansing (Site) - Elson Haas (M.D.) presents a primer in detoxification.
International Association For Colon Hydrotherapy (Site) - Referrals, information, schools, membership information, recommended equipment manufacturers.
HPS-Online: Helping People Survive online (Site) - Content on fasting, colon cleansing, intestinal health care, auto urine therapy, and other preventive and alternative health care therapies.
Pure Inside Out (Site) - Presents information on body and mind detox methods. Includes articles on baths, essential oils, water issues, mental detoxification.
HealthWorld Online: Fasting (Site) - Elson Haas (M.D.) talks about the benefits and possible hazards of fasting. How to fast; how to time your fast; how to break your fast. Section on juice fasts.
Ayurvedic Cleansing (Site) - Method of cleansing used by Indian royalty to clean mind and body. Diagnosis, do's and don'ts, recipes and lifestyle changes.
Health and Beyond Online (Site) - Collection of natural health articles devoted to detoxification through diet and/or fasting.
Fasting (Site) - Internal organ cleansing information. Fasting, colon cleansing, juice fasting and semi fasting.
Triumph over Disease by Fasting and Natural Diet (Site) - A personal story of a young man who, though receiving treatment for ulcerative colitis, was approaching death. He fasted for over 40 days and recovered health and enjoyment of life. By Dr. Jack Goldstein.
Master Cleanse Journal (Site) - Read a personal journal of a woman who detoxified her body by following the instructions in "The Master Cleanse."
NCAHF - Position Paper on Colonic Irrigation (Site) - National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF): "Colonics has no real health benefits, but does have a number of serious hazards."
Tissue Cleansing (Site) - Information on the role of colon problems in other diseases. Historical perspective on colon cleansing.
The Miracles of Islamic Fasting (Site) - Offers information and the advantages.
Colon Cleansing: Money Down the Toilet (Site) - Alternative, skeptical view of colon cleansing. Contains a good history of the development of cleansing.
Arnold Ehret Health Club (Site) - Fasting for physical, mental and spiritual rejuvenation. Includes a free online book.
Colonic International Association (Site) - Colon hydrotherapy a healthy move. List of registered colonic therapists in the UK.
Freedomyou (Site) - An online library on fasting, health, and spiritual living. Offers articles, recipes, and books.
The Colon and Colon Cleansing (Site) - Describes functions of the digestive tract, the impact of diet, and the symptoms of a malfunctioning colon.