These antitoxins block the skin pores and prevent the cooling process of the body through sweating. Replying in the negative, Dr. Ramakrishna said that by fasting enzymes get rejunevated and toxins eaten up by them. Many animals hibernate for months together and sick animals and birds do not touch food, but for man, meals and food area continous routine. Fasting conserves not only energy but food too. In a country like ours, this function is of vital importance.
Fasts have another function.
Just as eating together binds people, fasting together too brings them closer.