Dry therapeutic fasting according to Filonov

Fasting without water seems so unnatural to many that it is hard to believe that such a practice can be supported by doctors of traditional medicine. In fact, there are such people. One of them is Sergei Ivanovich Filonov (author of the book "Treating the Body with Your Own Efforts"), who developed his own method of fractional dry fasting.

According to Sergei Ivanovich himself, he was born and raised in a family of doctors, but as a child he did not dream of becoming a doctor, although such a fate was predicted for him. But when he encountered a serious illness of a barely familiar person, and later read a book that told about the miraculous healing of a cancer patient who was helped to recover by herbs and hunger, Filonov consciously decided to become a doctor. But, as he himself admits, he wanted to become not the doctor who sits in a clinic and prescribes pills to patients, but a specialist with broad knowledge in the field of hidden powers of the body and the possibilities of its healing.

Having encountered a patient in person in his 4th year of college who had practically recovered from asthma thanks to fasting, and having read Nikolaev's book on therapeutic fasting, Filonov decided to test the miraculous power of this method on himself. He and his fellow students fasted on juices and water.

Sergei Ivanovich first heard about dry fasting in detail in the second year of independent work. The results of such fasting were much better than medium-term wet fasting. Having tested the dry fasting method on himself, Filonov was still afraid to increase its duration to 7 days, until fate brought him together with Leonid Aleksandrovich Shchennikov, who, through his experience and the results of his patients, demonstrated the hidden capabilities of his body (at that time Shchennikov already had personal experience of 21-day dry fasting).

Sergei Ivanovich Filonov tested the method on himself, fasting for 7 and 10 days, after which he concluded that such health improvement is more effective in nature, away from megacities (ideally, in Altai).

Having studied many methods in his life and having settled on dry fasting systems, Filonov, taking into account all the advantages and disadvantages of these systems, developed his own therapeutic fasting scheme, which he has been implementing for more than 20 years.

The scheme itself somewhat resembles cyclic therapeutic fasting on water according to Voroshilov, but here we are talking about dry fasting, and the cycles (fractions) of fasting have different durations. The fasting scheme provides for 2 or 3 consecutive fractions of fasting: the first - approximately 5-7 days, the second - 7-9 days, the third - 9-11 days. In the period between fractions, special restorative nutrition and intake of Altai herbs are introduced.

The first fraction of fasting is considered cleansing. This is a kind of preparation of the body for therapeutic fasting. The duration of refusal of food and water at this stage is individual (how long the patient can withstand). For this stage of fasting, water procedures are especially important, promoting intensive cleansing of the body.

The second fraction is already considered to be therapeutic, but it is much easier to survive, since a person already knows what to expect, and the body is already prepared for the tests. The third fraction (enhancing and consolidating the therapeutic effect) is carried out infrequently and only in cases of serious illnesses.

Filonov's fractional treatment can be used for various diseases, but the most indicative is the treatment of obesity with its help. Patients not only intensively lose weight, but are also not inclined to gain it back later.

Close to Filonov's method is considered to be Lavrova's cascade fasting. But in this case we are talking about the same periods of fasting and exiting from fasting. The method provides for drytherapeutic fasting every other day, fasting for 2 or 5 days in a row. But at the same time, you need to adhere to a certain scheme (2 days of therapeutic fasting should precede 2 days of normal nutrition, if you decide to fast for 5 days, then they should be followed by 5 days of rest).

Filonov claims that such fasting is also effective, but it does not allow for 2 or more consecutive acidotic crises to be achieved in a short time, after which the body is completely rebuilt to endogenous nutrition and starts regenerative processes. With fractional fasting, the body is in a state of combat readiness during the entire course, consisting of 2-3 fasting cycles, which enhances the effect. Each time, the acidotic crisis occurs faster and is tolerated more easily, their strength is potentiated, which gives a remarkable therapeutic effect.

It should be noted that S.I. Filonov recommends fractional treatment in a clinic, and not at home without the supervision of specialists, but he does not consider fasting itself a medicine. In his opinion, fasting is a biological law of nature, helping the body switch from digesting food to removing from its depths all unnecessary things that have accumulated in the process of human life.