Therapeutic starvation - BLACK FAST, in the view of the Russian doctor IURI NIKOLAEV

Iuri Nikolaev rediscovers the therapeutic benefits of fasting

The Russian psychiatrist Yuri Nikolaev (1905-1998), doctor of medical sciences, is the author of famous works on therapeutic starvation or black fasting. Studying various books about the culture of ancient people, he discovered a common element, extremely interesting for the contemporary man: the Egyptians and Greeks regularly purified their bodies by fasting for a certain number of days. Herodotus records the Egyptian custom of fasting three days a month. The Greeks also had the tradition of fasting: the famous Pythagoras fasted for forty days. Being Russian, Nikolaev was familiar with the practice of fasting, as it is understood in the Orthodox tradition, but he also knew the principles of vegetarianism: his father, Sergei Nikolaev, had been a close friend of Count Leo Tolstoy, himself a follower of vegetarianism, and shared his principles of return to a simple life. His long experience proved to him that black fasting causes the entire human body to self-regulate. Iuri Nikolaev claimed that through the correct approach to black fasting, therapeutically, a series of serious diseases can be cured, among them are mental illnesses, problems of the digestive tract and obesity.
In the Institute of…