Puasa di Bulan Ramadhan sungguh mengandung berkah. Ada berkah bersifat spiritual atau pun fisik. Salah satu manfaat dalam berpuasa yaitu menyembuhkan penyakit kulit.
“Karena dengan puasa kita tenang tidak stres yang berpengaruh terhadap hormonal, faktor hormonal inilah salah satu penyebab penyakit kulit seperti eksim dan jerawat,” katanya dokter spesisialis kulit dan kelamin dr Laksmi Duarsa, SpKK. Sehingga kondisi ketenangan pikiran selama berpuasa lah yang diharapkan bisa menekan munculnya penyakit kulit.
Jenis penyakit kulit yang bisa sembuh karena puasa yaitu penyakit kulit yang biasanya disebabkan stres. Salah satunya, iritasi Kulit. Sebuah penelitian yang diterbitkan oleh lembaga kajian kulit menunjukkan iritasi kulit akibat kontak dengan benda atau zat tertentu dapat diminimalisir lewat berpuasa. Pembengkakan kulit akibat kontak dengan benda atau zat tertentu dapat secara alami sembuh dengan berpuasa dengan jangka pendek hingga 48 jam.
Sedangkan gatal-gatal juga bisa diminimalisir dengan puasa, khususnya jenis urtikaria kronis. Sebuah studi yang diterbitkan dalam Journal of Dermatology merilis sejumlah gatal yang dapat disembuhkan dengan berpuasa, yakni ruam jelatang hingga urtikaria kronis yang berlangsung hingga lebih dari enam minggu. Laporan penelitian tersebut menunjukkan dalam kondisi perut kosong selama berpuasa terbukti efektif mengurangi gatal pada perempuan berusia 28 tahun selama sebelas hari. Para peneliti menunjukkan kemampuan daya tahan tubuh dalam tiga hari berpuasa menjadi lebih tahan terhadap jenis gatal tertentu.
Selain itu, puasa bisa mendukung penyembuhan jerawat dan eksim. Kondisi kulit saat berjerawat dan eksim dapat lebih cepat bersih dengan berpuasa dalam jangka pendek. Hal ini bisa terjadi karena dengan membebaskan tubuh dari proses mencerna makanan maka dapat membuatnya fokus untuk meregenerasi sistem lain, khususnya kulit.
Perlu diketahui, penyakit kulit paling besar disebabkan tiga faktor, seperti makanan dan minuman, emosi, dan polusi lingkungan. Penyakit kulit misalnya seperti jerawat dapat terjadi karena terserangnya kelenjar-kelenjar yang bertugas mengeluarkan lemak dari tubuh.
Sumber: republika.co.id
My childhood came with a long list of allergies, weekly needles in the arm to keep asthma attacks in check. I loved bananas but was severely allergic to them; throat would swell and itch every time I tested to see if I had outgrown the allergy. Other raw foods would cause this in milder forms. Red blotches of eczema often spread over my skin, even face.
During my first long fast, I watched in amazement as eczema melted away. After 20 days of fasting, lungs felt clear, I could breathe deep without wheezing. But greatest of all, my life-long hemorrhoid-curse packed their nasty bags and left. Gone! I cannot tell you how it felt. Had to contain myself from telling everyone. Not something you stand up in church and say during Praise and Prayer.
The first thing I tried eating after the fast was a banana. You guessed it, I have been eating them by the bunches ever since. The only eczema I get now is a small red spot under the left eye, the body’s friendly little reminder when my diet has slipped.
Fasting intensifies healing as deep tissue and tired organs are repaired rapidly. To heal illness the body must pull all of its resources toward cleansing and repairing by removing appetite and reducing or stopping digestion. Wounded animals will fast, emerging to eat only after their injury or broken bones have healed. There are testimonies of people’s old wounds aching during a fast for the first time in years; unnecessary scare tissue is being broken down as fuel. This is the reason why there is little desire to eat food when sick—the body wants to focus all of its resources on healing.
If you eat mainly cooked or processed food during sickness the body’s immune system is denied opportunity to operate at its full genius. Most often instead of nutritious, health-giving food, the delicate tube and membrane structure is saturated with hospital food, cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, and drugs.
Why does fasting have such a powerful effect on healing the body? In the fasting state, the body scours for dead cells, damaged tissues, fatty deposits, tumors and abscesses, all of which are burned for fuel or expelled as waste. Diseased cells are dissolved in a systematic manner, leaving healthy tissue. The result is thorough the cleansing of the tubes, membranes and cellular structures. Ingestion of mucus-forming foods clogs the body’s microscopic tubes and membranes, all of which are the highways used by the immune system. Fasting dissolves this internal mucus. During a fast it is common for the nose, throat and ears to pass sticky mucus, clogging the sinuses. Strands of mucus may be found in the stool after the first bowel movement. There is a remarkable redistribution of nutrients in the fasting body. It hangs on to precious minerals and vitamins while catabolizing on old tissue, toxins and inferior materials.
The butterfly is a magnificent example of catabolism (tearing down) and anabolism (building up). During metamorphosis the butterfly’s muscles and organs dissolve into a thick yellow solution. All internal structures are torn down and rebuilt. It emerges from the chrysalis, a new creation. The miraculous aspect of metamorphosis as it occurs while fasting. All substances needed for rebuilding come from within.
During a fast, a metamorphosis occurs. The body undergoes a tearing down and rebuilding of damaged materials. For this reason fasting is famous for its ability to rejuvenate and give the body a more youthful tone.
Little scientific research has been done on the selective cannibalization associated with fasting. Funny thing about medical research is they are able to decode DNA, but understanding how the body functions as a whole is hardly understood. Long before man was able to gaze down a microscope, “cause and effect” was the only way things like the remedial effects of garlic could be discovered and incorporated into traditional medicines. The testimonies of fasting are as ancient as the written word.
The very fact man is able to go so long without any outside source of energy and remain healthy is testimony of the body’s cunning to find internal fuel without damage to the functions of the whole system. In fact the almost accidental side effect of this cunning is cleaning out years of waste and old tissue. What a body God made for us!
Source: http://www.freedomyou.com/healing_through_fasting_freedomyou.aspx
