Criticism
"It is important that the treatment that I recommend is a beneficial COMPLEMENT to current medical treatments."(4)
Dr. Kousmine herself stated many times that eating Budwig Cream and taking vitamin pills weren't the magic bullet to cure a disease like cancer. Contrary to what some critics have said, she always insisted that her method was a complement to, and not a substitute for mainstream treatments. Advocates of her method claim that it dramatically improves the results of chemotherapy and reduces its side-effects.
Some cancer specialists stated that their critically ill patients who followed her treatment and then went into complete remission, some of them for more than thirty years, had been simply "misdiagnosed". Today, physicians who treat patients with her method are still not well viewed by the orthodox medical community. Dr. Kousmine repeatedly stated that the dramatic results (long - term remission, dramatic improvement of the quality of life for the most desperate patients) were not miraculous, but instead the result of a holistic approach to the disease, compared to the limited approach in orthodox medicine that focuses on the symptoms of the disease, providing the patients only with palliative treatments.
At the time of her death, criticism included that the benefits of raw, whole foods and cold pressed vegetable oils were not supported by scientific literature at all and that her theory has never been scientifically proven. Other critics say that her monitoring of patients with MS was not scientific. Her study rested on no control group nor did she ever test her diet on healthy people to determine any protective effect.(5)
But her method starts to be well-acknowledged by some mainstream scientists: “I have a lot of respect for what she has done. I know that Kousmine has been an incredible precursor and that a lot of things she had recommended are found today in scientific literature, things that have been validated ever since…” said David Servan-Schreiber (7), M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Pittsburgh School of Medicine, himself a cancer survivor for 19 years and a New York Times best-seller author with Anticancer, A New Way Of Life.
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