Otto Buchinger
| Otto Buchinger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 February 1878 Darmstadt, Germany |
| Died |
April 16, 1966 Überlingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | physician |
Otto Buchinger, (Darmstadt, Germany, 1878. Feb 16. - Überlingen, Germany, 1966. Apr. 16.) was a German physician, credited with being the first to systematically document the beneficial effects of fasting on a number of diseases.[1]
He have served in the German Navy as an army physician, but decommissioned in 1918 due to his ill health. The advice of a physician colleague, the fasting doctor Gustav Riedlin, he began a fasting. After the 19th day on fasting his condition started to improve rapidly. His crippled fingers could straighten again. He then turned with full interest and enthusiasm to the fasting as a therapy. In 1920 he founded his small fasting clinic in Witzenhausen in Germany. The therapy achieved a huge success, so that later in 1935 he founded in Bad Pyrmont his first real sanatorium. He developed the fasting method and described it in his book, "The Therapeutic Fasting Cure", published in the same year. In 1953 he founded a new clinic at Überlingen, together with his daughter Maria and son-in-law Helmut Wilhelmi.
References
- ↑ Boschmann, Michael (December 16, 2013). "Fasting Therapy – Old and New Perspectives". Forsch Komplementmed. 20 (6): 410. doi:10.1159/000357828. Retrieved 5 January 2015.