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{{short description|Russian physician and alternative cancer treatment advocate}} |
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| name = Catherine Kousmine |
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| birth_date = 17 September 1904 |
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| birth_place = [[Khvalynsk|Hvalynsky]] |
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| death_date = {{d-da|24 August 1992|17 September 1904}} |
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| death_place = [[Lutry]] |
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| occupation = Physician}} |
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Kousmine devised a restrictive diet for treating many human ailments including [[multiple sclerosis]] and [[cancer]]. There is, however, no scientific evidence |
Kousmine devised a restrictive diet for treating many human ailments including [[multiple sclerosis]] and [[cancer]]. There is, however, no scientific evidence that it is effective.<ref name=tot>{{cite book|author1=Simon Singh|author2=Edzard Ernst|title=Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5m6CKTEr3I0C&pg=PA295|date=17 August 2008|publisher=W. W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-06661-6|page=295}}</ref> |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
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Kousmine advocated a restrictive diet as a basis for treating a number of human ailments, especially cancer. The diet, that Dr. Kousmine provided as an alternative to mainstream medicine emphasizes first of all to put off saturated fats, totally for very ill people, to eat fruits, vegetables and a lot of whole grains and particularly advocates a no cooked grain- and no cooked seed-based breakfast;<ref name=abgrall>{{cite book|author=Jean-Marie Abgrall|title=Healing Or Stealing?: Medical Charlatans in the New Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kel6_1aN5JwC&pg=PA83|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Algora Publishing|isbn=978-1-892941-28-2|pages=82–83}}</ref> vitamins supplements are also incorporated.<ref name=fh>{{cite book|author1=Committee on Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future|author2=Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health|author3=Institute of Medicine|title=Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UudMz742BwC&pg=PA405|date=10 July 2001|publisher=National Academies Press|isbn=978-0-309-17130-4|page=405}}</ref> |
Kousmine advocated a restrictive diet as a basis for treating a number of human ailments, especially cancer. The diet, that Dr. Kousmine provided as an alternative to mainstream medicine emphasizes first of all to put off saturated fats, totally for very ill people, to eat fruits, vegetables and a lot of whole grains and particularly advocates a no cooked grain- and no cooked seed-based breakfast;<ref name=abgrall>{{cite book|author=Jean-Marie Abgrall|title=Healing Or Stealing?: Medical Charlatans in the New Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kel6_1aN5JwC&pg=PA83|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Algora Publishing|isbn=978-1-892941-28-2|pages=82–83}}</ref> vitamins supplements are also incorporated.<ref name=fh>{{cite book|author1=Committee on Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future|author2=Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health|author3=Institute of Medicine|title=Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UudMz742BwC&pg=PA405|date=10 July 2001|publisher=National Academies Press|isbn=978-0-309-17130-4|page=405}}</ref> |
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She decided to conduct research not only in cancer, mostly because of the death from cancer of two children in her care while she was working as a general practitioner. For seventeen years, working in a makeshift laboratory in her kitchen, she studied a special breed of mice that develop mammal cancer at four months of age and had very good clinical results. She believed she discovered a correlation between this diet and a [[Remission (medicine)|remission]] of their cancer and became convinced that the cure for diseases sometimes labeled "incurable" involves the return to a healthy feeding habit - one that provides all the nutrients that the organism needs to function properly but not only. She claimed that unhealthy nutrition change the microscopic structures of the gut wall and the gut being porous allowed the entry of bacteries in the blood and lymph stream and their negative effect on the body and a immune system permanent activation and then depletion. Consequently, she focused her attention on healthy diet. In 1949, she claimed to have treated with success her first of many cancer patients, this one suffering from [[reticulo-sarcoma]], thanks in part to the use of a healthy diet.She used too vitamins metals like iron in very small doses bacterial vaccinations and sometimes chimiotherapy in very low doses.In her book "Soyez bien dans votre assiette jusqu a 80 ans et plus"she tells about other diseases like acne ,recurrent infections, polyarthritis that she helps a lot with this diet.She was not at all opposing to surgery or other orthodox cancer therapy like chimio or radiotherapy . By the use of bacterial vaccination it is possible to say she was a pionnier in immunologic treatment for cancer. |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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*In 1985, the [[Société d'Encouragement au Progrès]] |
*In 1985, the [[Société d'Encouragement au Progrès]] gave her the Médaille de Vermeil<ref>[http://dr.ceria.free.fr/spip.php?article96&lang=fr Alternative Therapies website, ''Doctor Catherine Kousmine'', article by J P Ceria, published on 31 October 2007]</ref> for her outstanding accomplishment with multiple sclerosis.<ref>[https://www.lapajareramagazine.com/catherine-kousmine La Pajarera Magazine website, ''Catherine Kousmine'', article by Maria Toca dated July 24th, 2018]</ref> |
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*In 1989, she was made an honorary citizen of [[Lutry]], [[Switzerland]]. |
*In 1989, she was made an honorary citizen of [[Lutry]], [[Switzerland]]. |
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*''Soyez bien dans votre assiette jusqu'à 80 ans et plus'' (Be mindful of your diet, up to 80 and beyond), éditions Sand, 1980, {{ISBN|2-7107-0158-8}} |
*''Soyez bien dans votre assiette jusqu'à 80 ans et plus'' (Be mindful of your diet, up to 80 and beyond), éditions Sand, 1980, {{ISBN|2-7107-0158-8}} |
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*''La sclérose en plaque est guérissable'' (Multiple sclerosis is curable), éditions Delachaux et Nestlé 1983, {{ISBN|2-603-00502-2}} |
*''La sclérose en plaque est guérissable'' (Multiple sclerosis is curable), éditions Delachaux et Nestlé 1983, {{ISBN|2-603-00502-2}} |
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*''Sauvez votre corps'' (Save your body), éditions Robert Laffont, 1987, {{ISBN|2-290-33632-7}}, is a sequel to ''Soyez bien dans votre assiette'', with more cases and in-depth explanations |
*''Sauvez votre corps'' (Save your body), éditions Robert Laffont, 1987, {{ISBN|2-290-33632-7}};<ref>[https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/sauvez-corps/author/kousmine-catherine/ ABE Books website, ''Sauvez votre corps'']</ref> this is a sequel to ''Soyez bien dans votre assiette'', with more cases and in-depth explanations |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.kousmine.ch Centre médical Kousmine] |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070420010830/http://www.msif.org/en/ Multiple sclerosis international federation] |
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*[http://www.kousmine.fr kousmine.fr] |
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Latest revision as of 22:32, 3 July 2024
Catherine Kousmine | |
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| Born | 17 September 1904 |
| Died | 24 August 1992 (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Physician |
Catherine Kousmine (17 September 1904 in Hvalynsky, Russia – 24 August 1992 in Lutry, Switzerland) was a Russian physician who proposed an alternative cancer treatment.
Kousmine devised a restrictive diet for treating many human ailments including multiple sclerosis and cancer. There is, however, no scientific evidence that it is effective.[1]
Life
[edit]Born in 1904 into a well-to-do family in Russia, Catherine Kousmine and her parents fled the country in 1916 before the Russian revolution, settling in Lausanne.[2] The young Catherine went to the Ecole Supérieure of Lausanne where she graduated in sciences. She then went on to medical school. Upon graduation in 1928, she moved to Zurich, in professor Guido Fanconi's unit, to specialize in pediatrics, then worked in Vienna, Austria, where she got her degree in this discipline.
Back in Switzerland, she had to resume her work as a general practitioner because her degree in pediatrics was not recognized by Swiss authorities. Dr. Kousmine spent most of her life in Switzerland. She set up the Fondation Catherine Kousmine in Lutry, Switzerland, to promote her methods. It has sister foundations in France, Germany and Italy. There is also a Kousmine Medical Center in Vevey, Switzerland.[3]
Work
[edit]Kousmine advocated a restrictive diet as a basis for treating a number of human ailments, especially cancer. The diet, that Dr. Kousmine provided as an alternative to mainstream medicine emphasizes first of all to put off saturated fats, totally for very ill people, to eat fruits, vegetables and a lot of whole grains and particularly advocates a no cooked grain- and no cooked seed-based breakfast;[4] vitamins supplements are also incorporated.[5]
Awards
[edit]- In 1985, the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès gave her the Médaille de Vermeil[6] for her outstanding accomplishment with multiple sclerosis.[7]
- In 1989, she was made an honorary citizen of Lutry, Switzerland.
Publications
[edit]- Soyez bien dans votre assiette jusqu'à 80 ans et plus (Be mindful of your diet, up to 80 and beyond), éditions Sand, 1980, ISBN 2-7107-0158-8
- La sclérose en plaque est guérissable (Multiple sclerosis is curable), éditions Delachaux et Nestlé 1983, ISBN 2-603-00502-2
- Sauvez votre corps (Save your body), éditions Robert Laffont, 1987, ISBN 2-290-33632-7;[8] this is a sequel to Soyez bien dans votre assiette, with more cases and in-depth explanations
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Simon Singh; Edzard Ernst (17 August 2008). Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine. W. W. Norton. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-393-06661-6.
- ^ "Catherine Kousmine Obituary". The Times. 8 September 1992.
- ^ Kousmine, Fondation. "Les Centre de soins". www.solvida.org. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
- ^ Jean-Marie Abgrall (1 January 2000). Healing Or Stealing?: Medical Charlatans in the New Age. Algora Publishing. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-1-892941-28-2.
- ^ Committee on Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future; Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health; Institute of Medicine (10 July 2001). Multiple Sclerosis: Current Status and Strategies for the Future. National Academies Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-309-17130-4.
- ^ Alternative Therapies website, Doctor Catherine Kousmine, article by J P Ceria, published on 31 October 2007
- ^ La Pajarera Magazine website, Catherine Kousmine, article by Maria Toca dated July 24th, 2018
- ^ ABE Books website, Sauvez votre corps
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- Swiss general practitioners
- Women nutritionists
- 1904 births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century Swiss women scientists
- Swiss nutritionists
- Alternative cancer treatment advocates
- Biologically based therapies
- Orthomolecular medicine advocates
- Pseudoscientific diet advocates
- Russian pediatricians
- 20th-century Swiss physicians
- 20th-century women scientists
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Switzerland