seizures and parkinsonism: an update on my wife

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Dear friends, colleagues and teachers,

 

It has been some time since I wrote to you of my wife's progress. To recap:

17 years ago, she started having seizures which have occurred cyclically, every

3-4 weeks. Four years later, she started presenting with symptoms in some ways

resembling Parkinson's disease. Yet, 5 MRIs, and other scans have all been

benign. She is also unable to take Western pharmaceutical medicine, as she has

had severe allergic reactions on multiple occasions. What has helped has been

seven years of drinking Chinese herbal decoctions. Particularly encouraging has

been that in the past year or so, sleep has been much more sound and

undisturbed, urination is no longer frequent, and constipation is no longer an

issue. But, unfortunately, she continues to have the seizures. Also, her

pulses and tongue have also changed in the past year, and she no longer has a

dry baked brown coating as before. One other significant consideration that I

have mentioned to you before, is the presence of

thick, clear phlegm particularly, during the time that seizures are either

expected or have occurred.

 

At this time I want to relate to you three significant bits of input that have

either contributed within the past 9 months, or I expect will shortly: 1)

Last fall when we were in London, we met with a Vietnamese herbal master, Thong

Tinh Nguyen. Thong felt that part of the problem was that my wife Chana was not

absorbing the nutrients in her formulas. He therefore suggested dividing the

formula in half, and since then, Chana has been taking primarily herbs to

supplement Qi and transform phlegm AM and herbs to nourish Yin and calm Shen PM.

2) about 4 months ago, we had the pleasure of spending a few hours with my dear

friend and our colleague , in San Diego. Z'ev remarked that it

seemed to him that Chana's liver was doing the work of the Kidneys as well as

its own. He suggested that I integrate into her formulas, " Da Ding Feng Zhu " to

get to the root of the liver wind: complete exhaustion of the True Kidney Yin.

3) As most of you are reading this, I

am probably in the middle of a second day of seminars with Jeffrey Yuen. (BTW,

Chana was chosen as a demonstration patient, and I will report back, G-d

willing, on how he viewed her and how it went). On the first day I attended,

Friday, he presented a plethora of information, much of which I had never heard

nor seen before. (I also had the pleasure of meeting our esteemed colleague,

). Among the details was one that hit me like a lead balloon:

Jeffrey mentioned that in the presence of heat or severe Yin deficiency, the

body produces as a reaction, pathogenic fluid. This can be seen in fluid

resulting from inflammation. But it also makes perfect sense, that the

tremendous amount of clear sticky phlegm that accompanies Chana's seizures is

probably this very pathogenic fluid resulting from severe Yin depletion. Though

it would be completely inappropriate, it would seem to me, to use herbs

transforming phlegm as we have in the past, and instead, the focus

should be on engendering Yin while at the same time moving the Qi, to prevent

stagnation and accummulation.

 

Your thoughts?

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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