Gaucher disease

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Dear Merilette,

Is there a PH treatment for Gaucher's disease?

I didn't find it in any of the books.

your help is very appreciated.

warm regards,

orna.

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Dear Orna,

 

Namaste.

 

Thank you for your email.

 

Medical Background:

 

IN 1882, PHILLIPE GAUCHER, A French physician,

described the clinical disorder that now bears his

name. Since his original description, many

investigators have contributed to our understanding of

Gaucher Disease. In the early 1900's, American

physicians were the first to recognize its familial

transmission and to characterize further the pathology

of the disease. Although early investigations

suggested that the disease was due to a metabolic

disorder, it was not until 1965 that the specific

metabolic defect, a deficiency in the enzyme

glucocerebrosidase, was identified. We now recognize

that the disease has three subtypes: Type I, II and

III.

 

All three types of Gaucher Disease are inherited

storage diseases, and all result from the deficiency

of an enzyme called glucocerebrosidase, which is

necessary for the breakdown of a particular fatty

substance, glucocerebroside. This fatty substance is

normally present in very small amounts in all body

cells, but in patients with Gaucher Disease,

glucocerebroside is not broken down as it should be

and becomes abnormally stored, primarily in unique

cells called Gaucher cells.

 

The major disease manifestations are due to the

progressive storage of glucocerebroside in Gaucher

cells in the bone marrow, spleen and liver. Gaucher

cells in the bone marrow can cause bone and joint

pain, fractures and other orthopedic problems.

Accumulation of Gaucher cells in the spleen and liver

causes enlargement of these organs as well as blood

abnormalities such as anemia, easy bruising and

impaired blood clotting. In a small number of persons

with Gaucher Disease, glucocerebroside also

accumulates in the central nervous system, leading to

neurological damage.

 

The three types of Gaucher Disease are distinguished

by their clinical severity and course, and by the

presence or absence of neurological complications.

 

Type I is the most common form and does not have

mental or neurological involvement. This disease

primarily affects Jewish individuals of central and

eastern European ancestry (Ashkenazi Jews), although

it is also seen in people of other ethnic groups.

 

Type II has its onset in infancy and is a fatal

neuro-degenerative disorder with death occurring in

the first or second year of life. It is an extremely

rare type and does not occur with a higher frequency

in any particular ethnic or demographic group.

 

Type III begins in early childhood, has mild to severe

neurological involvement, and is very rare, except in

Sweden, where most patients have been found. Each of

these three types of Gaucher Disease is genetically

distinct and " breeds true " in affected families - that

is, no two types of Gaucher Disease occur in the same

family. This overview focuses on Type I Gaucher

Disease, the most common form of the disease.

 

Fact: Unlike many more severe recessive disorders,

most people with Type I Gaucher Disease can have

children.

 

The clinical manifestations of Type I Gaucher Disease

usually become apparent in childhood or early

adulthood, but some persons remain asymptomatic into

their 50's and 60's. Common early symptoms include an

enlarged spleen and hematologic or orthopedic

problems. Since there is marked variability in the

severity of Type 1 Gaucher Disease even within a

family, it is difficult to predict the future severity

and extent of complications in individual patients.

Although there is no classic, predictable disease

course, prognosis generally depends on the severity at

the time of diagnosis and the intervals between the

onset of new disease complications in each affected

individual.

 

Gaucher Disease, like Tay-Sachs, is an autosomal

recessive disorder. Affected individuals have one copy

of the altered gene. As in other recessive disorders,

a couple where both people are carriers of the Gaucher

Disease gene faces a 25% chance in each pregnancy that

their child will inherit two copies of the altered

gene and, in all probability, have the disease.

 

Unlike many more severe recessive disorders, most

people with Type I Gaucher Disease (with two altered

copies of the gene) will, of course, pass one of those

nonfunctional genes on to each of his or her children.

Therefore, all children of a person with Gaucher

Disease will carry at least one altered copy of the

Gaucher Disease gene. Thus, the children will be

carriers, they will not have the disease unless the

other parent is also a Gaucher carrier and passes his

or her inactive gene on to the child.

 

The gene responsible for Gaucher Disease, called the

glucocerebrosidase gene, is located on chromosome 1.

Mutations in this gene cause Gaucher Disease symptoms

in most individuals; however, some individuals with

mutations in both copies of this gene show no symptoms

whatsoever. Nine mutations are seen with some

frequency in patients with Type I Gaucher Disease, and

attempts have been made to correlate the mutations

with the clinical presentation of the disease. Some

correlations have been made between specific mutations

and expression of clinical symptoms, but it is not

possible to predict with certainty how severely an

individual with a given pair of mutations will be

affected.

 

Type I Gaucher Disease occurs primarily, but not

exclusively, in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish

ancestry. It is estimated that about one in every 10

Jewish individuals of central and eastern European

ancestry is a carrier of a Type I Gaucher Disease gene

ant that one in every 450 Ashkenazi Jews has two

altered copies of the gene. Although some of these

people show no symptoms of Gaucher Disease, most do.

Gaucher Disease is, therefore, one of the most common

genetic diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

 

 

Fact: More recently, enzyme replacement therapy has

become commercially available and has been successful

in slowing and reversing the progression of many

symptoms of Gaucher Disease.

 

Treatment for Type I Gaucher Disease has traditionally

included periodic blood transfusions, partial or total

spleen removal, and the use of pain relievers. More

recently, enzyme replacement therapy has become

commercially available and has been successful in

slowing and reversing the progression of many symptoms

of the disease. The treatment involves infusions of

Cerezyme tm, a chemically modified enzyme derived from

glucocerebrosidase that has been specifically targeted

to Gaucher cells. The disadvantages of this therapy

are its high cost and the need for repeated infusions

of the enzyme. In patients with severe clinical

symptoms, bone marrow transplantation is sometimes

performed; if successful, it provides a lifelong cure.

It is possible that in the future, gene therapy using

a patient's own bone marrow stem cells may be

available to provide a permanent cure without the

immunological complications of bone marrow

transplantation from a donor.

 

Pranic Healing:

 

1. Invoke and scan before, during and after

treatment.

 

2. If there are no other medical conditions that

prevent the proper practice of the Meditation on Twin

Hearts, play the Meditation on Twin Hearts cd and

instruct the patient to follow the guided meditation

during the PH treatment.

 

3. General sweeping.

 

4. Localized thorough sweeping on the front and back

heart chakra alternately with LWG and ordinary LWV.

Energize the heart chakra through the back heart

chakra with LEV.

 

5. Localized thorough sweeping on the front, sides

and back of the lungs. Energize through the back of

the lungs with LWG then LWO. Point your fingers away

from the patient's head when energizing with O.

 

5. Localized thorough sweeping on the crown,

forehead, ajna, backhead and throat chakras

alternately with LWG and ordinary LWV. Energize them

with LEV.

 

The emphasis is on the ajna chakra. While energizing

the ajna chakra, gently and firmly instruct the ajna

to normalize and harmonize all the organs and major

chakras.

 

6. Localized thorough sweeping on the front and back

spleen chakra alternately with LWG and ordinary LWV.

 

Form the intention of disintegrating and cleansing all

abnormal cells from the spleen. Simultaneously

energize the spleen chakra with LEV. This has to be

done with caution.

 

Rescan the spleen chakra.

 

For the not very proficient pranic healers, simply

energize with LWG then with ordinary LWV. This has to

be done with caution.

Rescan the spleen.

 

7. Localized thorough sweeping on the spine

alternately with LWG and LWO. Do not apply O on the

head or anywhere above the neck.

 

8. Localized thorough sweeping on the basic chakra

alternately with LWG and LWO, 50 to 100 times.

 

9. For proficient advance pranic healers: Energize the

basic with LEV with the intention of disinegrating the

abnormal cells. Visualize the EV going into the

skeletal system: spine, ribs, breast bone, hip bones,

bones of the arms and the legs. Will the EV to

disintegrate the abnormal cells.

 

For less proficient advance pranic healers, energize

the basioc chakra with LWR.

 

10. Localized thorough sweeping on the front and back

solar plexus chakra and on the liver alternately with

LWG and LWO. Energize the solar plexus with LWB, LWG

then LWO.

 

11. Localized thorough sweeping on the meng mein

chakra, sex chakra, and navel chakra and on the lower

abdominal area. Energize the sex and navel chakras

with W.

 

12. Stabilize and release projected pranic energy.

 

13. Repeat treatment 3 times per week for as long as

needed.

 

14. Encourage patient to continue the practice of the

Meditation on Twin Hearts daily with both feet in a

basin of water with salt. Alterante the MTH for

physical healing with the MTH for psychological well

being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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complement it. If symptoms persist or the ailment is severe, please consult

immediately a medical doctor and a Certified Pranic Healer . ~ Master Choa Kok

Sui

 

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