Dr Otto Buchinger, the internationally famous authority on fasting, cured himself of severe rheumatic fever by fasting for nineteen days and a liver disorder after fasting for twenty-eight days.
He was convinced that only a medical doctor who had fasted himself could understand and give fasting therapy successfully.
Dr Buchinger's work is now continued by his daughter, the author of this book. She is the principal of the two Buchinger clinics in Germany and another in Marbella, Spain.