Anorexia mirabilis

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Anorexia mirabilis ( Greek / Latin : about "miraculous loss of appetite") or Inedia prodigiosa is the name for fasting for spiritual reasons. The term was used by medieval doctors who considered it strange when women survived long fasts. For example, St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) fed only a few herbs.

While anorexia nervosa usually focuses on changing the body , fasting aims at a spiritual approach to God . Mostly it is in the Holy of which anorexia mirabilis is reported to mystics that a life of asceticism led that of poverty , austerities , celibacy was marked and nocturnal prayer.

The hll. Veronika , Beatrice von Nazareth , Maria von Oignies (1167–1213), Katharina von Siena (1347–1380), Columba von Rieti (1467–1501) and Rosa von Lima (1586–1617) are supposed to only eat hosts and a little food how nourished pomegranate seeds .

literature

• Dana K. Cassell, David H. Gleaves: The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders . 3. Edition. Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 0-8160-6992-1 , p. 23 .

See also

Light food