Revolutionary Treatment for Parkinson’s

07.07.10 / Parkinson Treatment / Author: Alex
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This minimally invasive procedure connects electrodes to the brain and places a pacemaker-like device under the skin. When activated, electrical impulses minimize shaking due to “dyskinesia syndrome” in patients with Parkinson’s disease. ~ Detroit Medical Center

Parkinson’s Disease Natural Treatment

Parkinson’s disease is also known as PD. This disorder occurs in the central nervous system. It often impairs the persons: motor skills, speech, muscle coordination, and other functions. As these symptoms escalate they lead to difficulty with walking, talking, and other simple tasks. No person is usually affected under the age of 50. Depending on the person it progresses more quickly.

Symptoms are normally restricted on a single limb in the first phases of the disease. But they eventually affect the other half of the body. Most patients are aware of this nature of the disease, and this knowledge makes the condition even more unbearable (both physically and psychologically) which often leads to over-monitoring of their cases.http://www.ayurvedicherbalcure.com/health-products/mentat-syrup.html

•    Tremor (shaking) is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease. Most often, a hand or arm shakes on one or both sides of the body. Tremor may also affect other areas of the body, such as a leg, a foot, or the chin. Shaking usually lessens when the affected part is used. It usually worsens when at rest.
•    Rigidity (stiffness), or muscle tightness, happens because the muscles don’t get the signal to relax. Rigidity may cause muscle pain and a stooped posture.
•    Bradykinesia means “slow movement.” Starting to move takes extra effort, causing problems with actions such as getting out of chairs and beds. Walking may be limited to short, shuffling steps. Blinking, facial expressions, swinging of arms when walking and other “unconscious movements” are also slowed down.
•    Problems with balance can lead to falls, often forward or backward.
•    Other symptoms may include speaking too softly and in a monotone, writing that gets shaky and smaller across the page, and sometimes trouble swallowing. Constipation is a common problem for people with Parkinson’s disease. Symptoms may also include oily skin, sweating, and changes in blood pressure. Memory loss and other problems with thinking may also be present.

Early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease include muscular stiffness, a tendency to tire more easily than usual, and trembling that usually begins with a slight tremor in one hand, arm, or leg.

Parkinson’s Disease Natural Treatment: –

•    Vitamin B6 is essential to stimulate the conversion of L-dopa to dopamine. This and the other B-group vitamins may become deficient in people taking L-dopa drugs for long periods, and so a supplement of 50-100mg of vitamin B6 a day (in a B-complex formulation) is recommended.
•    The patient should avoid tea, coffee, chocolate, salt, spices, condiments, pickles, flesh foods, white flour and white sugar and all processed, tinned, canned and frozen foods. The short juice fast followed by an all-fruit diet should IJP, repeated at monthly intervals till condition improves.
•    Vitamin E and folic acid (found in seeds, whole grains and dark green vegetables) are important as they are involved in the conversion of phenylalanine (an amino acid) to L-dopa in your brain. Some scientists believe Parkinson’s disease may be linked to a deficiency of these nutrients in early life.

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Question by shosh272: Is there a new treatment for Parkinson and back pain?
I just saw the doctors show and there was a women who suffered from back pain and she barley moves so they had to do for her a surgery and inject her with something..
I really don’t know what they injection is..but they took something from her body and inject it again somewhere else!
I also heared that it can help ppl who can’t work or move!
Please If someone can help me find what the surgery name is or something!
(P.S: my father have parkinson)

Best answer:

Answer by Chicken Heart
About Parkinsonism:
After medical therapy, surgery can be done. Pallidotomy, thalamotomy this surgeries are now common.

Slightly new is deep brain stimulation. This is a functional surgery & this works fine.

Coming new is transplant with stem cell. But due to the ethical debate & 8 years ban on funding during Bush administration, this promising treatment is lagging 8 years behind now.

I am a neurosurgery student.

I have not much idea about back pain surgery.
You can visit the 3rd link for back pain surgery.

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Passionflower


Image by Big Grey Mare ~ Please help me I’m falling–behind
Other Names: Maypops, Apricot-vine, Passiflore rouge, Passionsblume, Purple Passion-flower, Passion Vine

Habitat
Eastern N. American native perennial vine. Virginia and Kentucky, south to Florida and Texas. Found growing in sandy thickets and open fields, roadsides, fence rows and waste places. Cultivation: Passionflower is easily cultivated through root division or by seed, transplants from the wild do well, it requires a well-drained soil, sandy slightly acid soil in full sun. A trellis should be provided, since it is a tendril climbing vine. Passionflower has many beautiful large and aromatic flowers, it grows very quickly and produces edible fruit and medicinal uses. It has large three lobed serrated leaves with beautifully intricate purple and white sweet-scented flowers that are from 2 to 3 inches across. Flowers bloom from June to August. The passion fruit, when ripe is yellow-green and the size of a small hen’s egg. The yellow pulp is sweet and edible. Gather the herb, above ground after some of the fruit have matured, dry for later use. Gather edible fresh, juicy, fruit when soft and light yellow-green.

Properties
Passionflower is edible and medicinal. edible , The delicious fruit and flowers can be eaten raw or cooked in jellies, jams, young leaves are used as a cooked vegetable or eaten in salads. There is scientific evidence of the medicinal constituents of this herb. Recent studies have pointed to the flavonoids in passion flower as the primary constituents responsible for its relaxing and antianxiety effects. Some of the plants constituents, Apigenin, Luteolin, Kaempferol, and Quercetin, are being studied and showing promise in fighting Parkinson’s Disease, Cancer, HIV, Leukemia, and more. The leaves and stems are medicinal used as antispasmodic, astringent, diaphoretic, hypnotic, narcotic, sedative, vasodilator and are also used in the treatment of women’s complaints. Passionflower is used as an alternative medicine in the treatment of insomnia, nervous tension, irritability, neuralgia, irritable bowel syndrome, premenstrual tension and vaginal discharges. An infusion of the plant depresses the motor nerves of the spinal cord, making it very valuable in the treatment of back pain. The infusion is also sedative, slightly reduces blood pressure and increases respiratory rate. The herb contains alkaloids and flavonoids that are an effective non-addictive sedative that does not cause drowsiness. It is of great service in epilepsy. The plant is not recommended for use during pregnancy. The dried herb is much exported from America to Europe for use as an alternative medicine.

Folklore
The name Passionflower refers to the passion of Christ: the 3 stamens represent his wounds, and the 12 petals represent the apostles. Passion fruit is sweet and aromatic, in fact, the fruit is used in Hawaiian Punch for flavor.

Recipe
Medicinal tea: To 1 tbsp. dried herb add 1 cup boiling water steep for 10 min. drink at bedtime for restlessness. Quite flavorful and aromatic.