Is There Any Ayurvedic Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease?
Question by Pepper: is there any ayurvedic treatment for parkinson’s disease?
My 75 year old mother has started bending towards one side due to this problem
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Answer by greekhunnydip
well theres really nothing you can do their is medication for it thought you should get her a wheel chair , on the side she is leaning on put a pillow their …..and go talk to your doctor to see if he could order some type of medication ….its really importint ..I see this everyday I work in a nursing home …and when she is lieing down in bed give her a bed bolster to put on the side she is leaning so she dont fall out of bed …if you dont have a bed bolster put a pillow under the fitted sheet …but dont let her fall because I saw some bad things happen to the ederly … good luck with your grandma
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Parkinson’s disease has a specific cause that cannot be reversed. What causes it:
Your brain contains Nigral cells that are pigmented cells that are white when you are born. You get 400,000 of them at birth. When you have lost 240,000 of them, you get Parkinson’s disease. The Nigral cells produce a substance called Dopamine. Dopamine is what passes across the brain channels to receptors (we know of about 5 or 6 receptors that we have identified). When all is working properly, we have normal movement.
Through normal cell metabolism, we lose approximately 2,400 of these nigral cells each year. If you do the math, you can see that at age 100, you will get Parkinson’s. Some people get Parkinson’s earlier in life like your mother. This is due to some problem that caused the nigral cells to be killed off at a faster rate.
Drugs, both legal and illegal are a primary Nigral cell killer. You can now thank your doctor, pharmacists, and drug companies for speeding up the process. The drugs produce free radicals in the body and the free radicals kill the nigral cells. The one most responsible for this is the OH- free radical.
The problem is that once the nigral cells are dead, the body cannot regenerate them. So now the drug companies can come to the rescue and make your mother feel good, but not stop the progression of the disease.
There are things being sold today and foods you can eat that will stop the free radicals from ravaging the body. DHLA (Dihydrolipoic Acid) is the only thing I know of that will quench all known free radicals. If you take this everyday, you can slow or even stop the free radicals from damaging the nigral cells. This is not to be confused with Lipoic Acid. That form of product will not do what the DHLA will do. You could feed your mother this product and most likely slow or stop the progression.
Also, natural things that can help are all the antioxidants in foods high in antioxidants, like grape seed extracts, etc.
Good luck to you
An Ayurvedic treatment for Parkinsons Disease is Mucuna Pruriens.
When someone is starting to lean over due to the disease chiropractic treatment can also be helpful – although your mother is perhaps a bit old for this – I dont know! But physiotherapy and exercises may help.
I have parkinsons disease and have put together a site on alternative treatments at
http://discoveritonline.biz/alternative.html
Please dont hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.