Re: Water fasting, and cannot walk, stand up, work. Help!

Hello VeganJenny,
each and every fast that you undergo can have entirely different symptom-complexes, but the more you have fasted, then the less severe these symptoms become, as toxemia is lowered, if not eradicated altogether.
A 30 day juice fast will not nearly have the same cleansing capabilities as a 30 day water fast, so your present symptoms of potential fainting and dizziness on your water-fast are quite common as cleansing commences..............

"Crises developing during the fast are not different from those developing at other times and are not to be cared for any differently. They are all orthopathic in character and, although often disagreeable, should be welcomed.
The increase in symptoms previously noted should be considered as critical action. Fever, dizziness, headache, vomiting, nausea, backache, skin eruptions of various kinds, but particularly urticaria (nettle rash), jaundice, diarrhea, etc., may develop.
Since they are always followed by improved health, it seems certain that these symptoms are necessary parts of an essentially beneficial process that the fast has enabled the body to institute and consummate.

Dizziness: This is a very frequent symptom and manifests chiefly in the early part of the fast, or when one arises suddenly. It lasts but a few seconds and may be prevented by rising slowly. It is a common development during the fast and arises out of the sudden withdrawal of blood from the brain. If the faster will "take it easy," he will rarely experience any dizziness.

Fainting: This may occur in the early days of a fast. It should occasion no alarm or apprehension, and the patient should be cared for merely by stretching him, or her out and loosening all tight clothing and admitting plenty of fresh air to the patient.
Although relatively few fasters faint, many of them do at some time or other during a fast. Often this may occur on the first or second day and not again thereafter. Carrington mentions a case in which "a practical suspension of all consciousness resulted from the ingestion of the first meal, after the breaking of the fast, and lasted some hours." He emphasizes the fact that such occurrences are merely rare curiosities rather than "pathological phenomena likely to occur." He says that "it is doubtful if precisely the same effects will ever again be observed in fasting patients--being due, in every case, to a peculiar combination of causes, all but impossible to duplicate again."
When a fasting patient faints he should be cared for precisely as if he fainted while eating three square meals a day. All he needs is fresh air and time. He should not be set up, but should be left in a prone position. No stimulants or smelling salts need be given. Let him alone and he will soon open his eyes and look around, then get up and go about his business. Dashing cold water in his face is equally unnecessary. Rest, not shock, is the need of the person who has fainted."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch28.htm

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It is vital that you rest during periods of "crises" and allow your body to devote all of its energies into this cleansing and healing process, but they will soon pass as the fast progresses. Nature cannot be hurried.

A poster in this thread quoted Upton Sinclair's book with a reference to chapter XVIII which concerns the unity of mind and body, where enemas were used. However, it is the experience of almost all Natural Hygienic fasting supervisors not to employ the enema, as this has been shown to be enervating and debilitating to the faster, and therefore draining of one lifes energies.
I would not recommend it for that reason.

Regards

chrisb1.