Nervous System

Home Medicines

Cramps

Cramps are due to low calcium in your body. So your efforts should be to enhance calcium intake on the one hand and avoid those things that rob you of your existing calcium stores.

For enhancing your calcium stock, make sure you consume more calcium in the form of sprouted sesame.

Towards avoiding outgo of calcium from your existing stock, please make sure you avoid the following, which rob you of your existing calcium stock.

Excess salt and sugar intake
Antacids, if any you may be taking
Soft drinks
Smoking and chewing tobacco

To have cure from your cramps, apply clove as poultice on the affected parts

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which the neurons, the clusters of nerve cells sometimes send abnormal signals. That is, the normal pattern of neuronal activity is disturbed. When that happens, strange sensations are caused i.e in convulsions, muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. which can be seen through abnormal behavior of the patient.

Towards effecting cure, the important steps to be taken by the patients are

To feel confident that it can be cured. This kind of build up of self confidence, i.e. strengthening of one’s mental ability is very important. This improved mental ability itself would strengthen the neurons in the brain.

Then the patient has to provide additional nutrients which build up the cells needed. And that is again done by taking vitamins and minerals. These vitamins and minerals are generally given to the patient in the form of medicines. One can gainfully opt for fruit and vegetable intake which have the same good effect with no side effect whatsoever.

So treatment of this disorder requires a combination of healing the body and healing the mind.

In my younger days, my daughter was suffering from epilepsy. I consulted a very senior doctor. I was surprised that apart from medicines, he prescribed three books for reading by my daughter. The titles of these books were:

The Animal Farm,
1984 [Yes, 1984 is the name of the book] and
Gone with the Wind.

That day I felt very curious. But today I know that they were meant to increase the mental strength of the patient. Well, the home medicines that can be tried are:

1 Apply fresh lime juice on head and massage well before showering off

2 In epileptic seizures, heat ¼ tsp pepper powder in ½ tsp ghee
when cooled, use this as a nasal drop. Caution: Pepper burns!

3 Take one cup of rice and add 1 tsp latex of erukku. Dry under sun for 7 days. Repeat with a similar addition of latex three times and re-dry. When totally dry, powder thoroughly. Sieve and collect only very fine powder. Mix with this 2 tsp finely ground camphor. Use as snuff. If fits of sneeze occur, wash face well with running water

4 As a long term cure, give patient 500 ml of fresh grape juice thrice a
day for 3 months

Nervous weakness

1 Mix 2 betal leaf juice with 1 tsp honey and take daily
2 Take pinch of ash of bone setter along with a pinch of nutmerg powder and mix the powders with one tsp ghee and eat three times a day for a week
3 Take 2 pinches of calamus powder in a cup of water and take twice a day for 40 days
4 Soak 8 to 10 almonds overnight in water and have the outer skin removed. Grind the kernels with equal number of pepper corns into a thin paste. Mix in one cup of milk and take daily
5 Mix seeds of cardamom along with honey and take very day
6 Take coriander tea instead of the other tea



Damaged nerves helped by diet and exercise

SAN DIEGO, -- University of Utah scientists say exercise and diet can reduce neuropathic pain and regenerate nerve fibers in patients with impaired glucose tolerance. Impaired glucose tolerance, often called prediabetes, is found in 40 percent of patients with idiopathic neuropathy -- nerve damage with no identified secondary cause. Impaired glucose tolerance neuropathy, IGTN, is characterized by loss of nerve fibers in the skin, and is painful. It is thought IGTN represents the earliest stage of diabetic neuropathy and does not improve with currently available treatment. Patients with impaired glucose tolerance are at risk for developing diabetes, a risk which can be reduced with a program of diet and exercise counseling. To test whether the regime might improve IGTN, the University of?? Utah's Dr. A. Gordon Smith and Dr. Rob Singleton studied 32 patients while they received individualized dietary and exercise counseling for one-year. They found the number of nerve fibers improved by approxi- mately one third, although patients with the worst loss of nerve fibers in their extremities did not improve. Overall, patients had reduced pain and better functioning of their sensory nerves. The study was presented Wednesday during the American Academy of Neurology's 58th annual meeting in San Diego.