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According to Dr. Aschner:

1. The three-week fast gives very good results in anti-arthritic treatment, especially where fingers are involved--swollen, stiff, etc. A little stale bread and a cup of prune juice is allowed per day. Heavy blankets on a sheet-wrapped body to produce perspiration are used at night.

2. Chronic indigestion through hyperacidity is treated by bitter tonic herbs--alkalizers are not enough. The best are gentian on empty stomach, vermouth, cinchona.

3. Breakfast: Fruit juices create heartburn; ban them; cereals slow digestion; toast is better. Boiled rice is easiest to digest.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 4 : Fasting > # 59