After doing the traditional 40 days, you can never be the same again. For the rest of your life you medicine will be a 3 day fast. You should never know disease and when you pass on, it should be in peace, not having spent all you earned in life those last 2 painful weeks in a hospital.
Books back 120 years ago noted that the traditional 40 days was so easy, everyone was doing it,they stated you had to 6 months to get any attention in the "FASTING" world.
The medical scientist were all too busy studing those Breathairians who stopped eating and drinking for the rest of their lives, some up to 50 years.
As toxic as man makes our air, it appears we will have use for those herbs the rest of our days.