In order to reach her most stylish wedding day, Tamara Falcó has spent a few days at the Marbella clinic created by the daughter and successor of the German doctor who, after testing the benefits of not eating on himself, developed this therapy .
Otto Hermann Ferdinand Buchinger was born in Darmstadt (Germany) on February 16, 1878. The son of Johann Buchinger and his wife, Amalie Busch, Otto contravened his father’s wish that he study law in order to study medicine. After receiving his doctorate and having married a young woman named Else in 1908, Buchinger participated in the First World War as a doctor in the German Army, until, in 1917, a year after he was the father of his daughter Maria, a severe polyarthritis of a character rheumatic disease made him have to leave the Army, since in a very short time the disease affected his mobility so seriously that they gave him total disability.
Otto Buchinger had a most intense life.
He undertook a first 20-day fast
His personal suffering led him to try all kinds of alternative therapies because traditional medicine did not provide an answer to his disease until, evicted by his colleagues, the doctor and naturopath Gustav Riedlin suggested that he fast. With nothing to lose, Buchinger accepted and, in 1919, underwent his first cure in Freiburg, where he lived.
At the end of the 20-day fast that he underwent under medical supervision, the result was spectacular: he was practically cured of his ailment. Struck by his life-saving results, Buchinger devoted all his efforts to promoting the benefits of fasting, developing a method of fasting therapy.
He focused all his attention on the study of integrative medicine, while exploring the connection between physical and psychic self-healing forces. Thus he arrived at the formulation of the Buchinger therapeutic fast, which he began to apply in 1920 at the Doctor Otto Buchinger Sanatorium in Witzenhausen.
The plan implied that, after a day of preparation and a purge of the intestines, the fasting people could only ingest infusions, vegetable broths, natural fruit juices and a little honey, which added up to a maximum of 200 calories a day.
Buchinger when he was in the Navy. On the right, with his daughter and his son-in-law.
A larger and more modern clinic
Coinciding with the publication, in 1935, of his book ‘Therapeutic Fasting’, which is still a reference work today, Buchinger moved to Bad Pyrmont, where he continued to practice fasting therapy in a larger and more modern clinic. To care for the patients who came there, Buchinger hired doctors, physiotherapists and artists because, a spiritual man, with a calm character and a great lover of nature, he did not understand fasting as deprivation, but rather as an absence of needs that opened the doors to healing at all levels.
The fasting clinic on the shores of Lake Constance.
Thus, to help the fasting, Buchinger held “collective consultations” in which music was performed or poetry was recited. Fond of aphorisms, he coined the phrase “when the body fasts, the soul feels hungry” and had to be fed with artistic stimuli. For Buchinger, the goal was not just to cure diseases, but to guide patients towards a more conscious lifestyle, in contact with their own self-healing forces.
For all this, in 1953 he received the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and, together with his daughter Maria and his son-in-law, Helmut Wilhelmi, that same year he founded a new clinic in the German town of Überlingen, which stood next to from Lake Constance. There, Buchinger, who throughout his life continued to practice fasting regularly, served as medical director before passing away on April 16, 1966, at the age of 88.
In love with the beautiful Marbella
Tamara has spent a few days at Buchinger in Marbella, where fasting is complemented by meditation, rest and other therapies.
The Buchinger Clinic has all kinds of services.
Therapeutic fasting began to be known in Spain in 1973, when María and Helmut opened a new clinic in Marbella, a town on the Costa del Sol in Malaga where the international jet set and luxury tourism began to flock, with which they fell in love. .
There were many who predicted that this clinic was going to be a resounding failure in a country where being overweight was a symbol of status and good health and no one believed that someone could pay for not eating.
However, time proved this visionary woman right who, without a marketing plan, turned this clinic-hotel into a secret retreat for royals, celebrities and millionaires such as Carmen Sevilla, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Cristina Onassis, Isabel Preysler, Mario Vargas Llosa, Chenoa, Sean Connery, Isabel Sartorius, Brian Ferry, Jesús Gil, Phillip Stark and Isak Antic, among many others.
Famous patients. Above, Maria Buchinger with the recently deceased Carmen Sevilla, a regular at the clinic. Below, the current address of the center.
Tamara Falcó, who went to the clinic for a few days to “set up” for her wedding, has updated Buchinger Wilhelmi, which is still run by the family. After the death in 2010 of Maria Buchinger, whom the press dubbed “the great lady of fasting”, a foundation was created with her name that promotes scientific research on the benefits of therapeutic fasting and her children (grandchildren of the founder ) assumed the continuity of the company, to which a fourth generation has already joined.
2023-07-09 15:00:51
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