A difficult case study: my wife-seizures with Parkinsonism installment #3

[Guest guest]

Hi Ed,

 

I appreciate your intervention and have been waiting frustratedly for

their response to last post ( I am attaching our correspondences). Chana

is indeed a very yang person, with an extremely strong will. Before

becoming sick, she was a professional singer. Her coach, the late Dr.

Dean Verhines (Diva Karen Armstrong's coach) said of her that " she had a

voice of the century. " But her singing voice was symbolic for her, a

huge voice in a petite body, as if wanting to go beyond it's fixed

limits. So the foundation of herbal therapy is very sound: to calm and

cool, while nourishing, yet, because there is so much yang, so much

electricity, what this does is to a small degree, improve the quality of

her life between seizures, and hopefully slow her down, as each month we

take a deep breath in despair when the quake hits. I am convinced that

with a complementary bio-electrical approach, the benefit of the herbs

would dramatically increase, but I need partners and I am too new at

this.

 

I think that the folks at the Parkinson's recovery have got it, the

question I have is are they willing to think outside the box.

 

Sincerely,

 

Yehuda

 

 

Yehuda, if you experience logistic problems communication with the PD

group

in Santa Cruz I will be happy to shuffle any paperwork/email or thoughts

over there personally.

 

I assume Chana is a person of strong constitution type.

As I have mentioned I found Janice's ideas illuminating, however,

lacking a

herbal therapy. TCM Herbal treatment of PD still is centered around

Liver

and Kidney Yin deficiency. Although it (PD) falls under the category of

Liver Wind treatment, it defaults to deficiency of fluids and blood. This

IMO, is treating the symptoms and why PD can not be cured herbally. I

think

its a Yang Syndrome (not yin) and herbs should center on the Yang Ming /

Shao Yang. Like Si Ni San freeing the trapped Qi.

.. This is not my recommendation. Only my thoughts in exploring other

what-ifs.

 

Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist

Acupuncture is a jab well done

www.HappyHerbalist.com Santa Cruz, CA.

" When you see someone doing something wrong, realize that it was brought

before

you because you did something similar. Therefore, instead of judging

him, judge yourself. "

 

The Baal Shem Tov Hakodesh

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I can't help asking, Yehuda.....Have you tried scalp acu?

Ann

 

 

Hi Ed,

 

I appreciate your intervention and have been waiting frustratedly for

their response to last post ( I am attaching our correspondences). Chana

is indeed a very yang person, with an extremely strong will. Before

becoming sick, she was a professional singer. Her coach, the late Dr.

Dean Verhines (Diva Karen Armstrong's coach) said of her that " she had a

voice of the century. " But her singing voice was symbolic for her, a

huge voice in a petite body, as if wanting to go beyond it's fixed

limits. So the foundation of herbal therapy is very sound: to calm and

cool, while nourishing, yet, because there is so much yang, so much

electricity, what this does is to a small degree, improve the quality of

her life between seizures, and hopefully slow her down, as each month we

take a deep breath in despair when the quake hits. I am convinced that

with a complementary bio-electrical approach, the benefit of the herbs

would dramatically increase, but I need partners and I am too new at

this.

 

I think that the folks at the Parkinson's recovery have got it, the

question I have is are they willing to think outside the box.

 

Sincerely,

 

Yehuda

 

 

Yehuda, if you experience logistic problems communication with the PD

group

in Santa Cruz I will be happy to shuffle any paperwork/email or thoughts

over there personally.

 

I assume Chana is a person of strong constitution type.

As I have mentioned I found Janice's ideas illuminating, however,

lacking a

herbal therapy. TCM Herbal treatment of PD still is centered around

Liver

and Kidney Yin deficiency. Although it (PD) falls under the category of

Liver Wind treatment, it defaults to deficiency of fluids and blood. This

IMO, is treating the symptoms and why PD can not be cured herbally. I

think

its a Yang Syndrome (not yin) and herbs should center on the Yang Ming /

Shao Yang. Like Si Ni San freeing the trapped Qi.

. This is not my recommendation. Only my thoughts in exploring other

what-ifs.

 

Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist

Acupuncture is a jab well done

www.HappyHerbalist.com Santa Cruz, CA.

" When you see someone doing something wrong, realize that it was brought

before

you because you did something similar. Therefore, instead of judging

him, judge yourself. "

 

The Baal Shem Tov Hakodesh

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Ann and all,

 

Sorry about the attachment, but my computer has a weird quirk, only with

CHA, that when I reply, the previous message is only shown as an

attachment. Anyway, to answer your question if we've tried scalp

acupuncture. Absolutely, specifically the chorea and tremor control

area. The result was an exascerbation (paradoxically) of tremor activity

and an increase in seizure activity. I find, also, that when I needle

calming points above the waist, and specifically in the head and on the

scalp, post-seizure, that the seizure activity increases and that distal

points are the only one's that are effective.

 

Thanks for asking,

 

Yehuda

 

" When you see someone doing something wrong, realize that it was brought

before

you because you did something similar. Therefore, instead of judging

him, judge yourself. "

 

The Baal Shem Tov Hakodesh