Buchinger's therapeutic fasting is the classic among fasting methods and has inspired an immense following for more than 50 years. Simplicity and conscious renunciation is the key to the flight of the soul, discovery of new impulses, and last but not least, a healthy slim body. But this book offers more than that: The original Buchinger method: Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, physician specializing in fasting, co-owner of the renowned Buchinger clinics in Überlingen, Germany and Marbella, Spain, and wife of Otto Buchinger's grandson, enriches every fasting cure by contributing her personal fasting The physician Dr. Otto Buchinger developed this therapeutic fasting method, which comprises not only the medical - physical base but also a spiritual - humane dimension. His successors formed a group of 20 experts and previously published the guidelines for therapeutic fasting, which this book builds on.