Red Clover and Water Fasting

One of the oldest fasting methods is simply drink lots of water for a while - one to ten days. Starve the body into detoxifying. This was undoubtedly discovered at a time when there was nothing to eat. Now we have rediscovered it when there is little that is fit to eat. Recently, many folks have used the method.

For myself, it is not my favorite. I think that the poisons we have eaten/ breathed are so many and so complex that the body needs help to get the s--t out.

Red Clover blossom tea is a very nice assistant. Put a big handful, about a quart, of fresh or dried Red Clover blossoms in a glass gallon jar. Fill it with good water and sit it in the sunshine for four hours. Stir occasionally.

Drink lots of this.

One person I met did this for forty days. He also did yoga for 12 hours a day!! At the end of 40 days his gut had shrunk from 40 feet to 4 feet!! He couldn't eat!! So he became a Breatharian: one who lives on air. He also did a type of energy healing where he took the excess Chi out of his clients and kept it for himself. (This was lunch of a different kind!!) And 12 hours of yoga a day, A Breathairian.

He was also a HUNK!! Muscles everywhere. Built like a brick shithouse with every brick in place. Quite amazing!!

He was also living in San Francisco where being odd is common. He was becoming a yogi who travels from household to household, staying only a few weeks in any one place, just as yogis do in India. That was 20 years ago. By now he must have become enlightened and holy.

Three to ten days of this kind of fasting is enough for me.

Written March '07