Alternative Medicine
The CUPID (Cannabinoid Use in Progressive Inflammatory brain Disease) study at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth has reached an important milestone with the news that the full cohort of 493 people with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been recruited to the study.
CUPID is a clinical trial which will evaluate whether tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of many compounds found in the in the cannabis plant (and the main active ingredient) is able to slow the progression of MS.
It's not a study, but here's a piece on some people using accupuncture to alleviate some MS symptoms.
I just received this month's Prevention Magazine. In it is a story about 3 women who used alternative therapies for their various ailments. At the end of the article Prevention is asking its readers to share stories about their alternative/unconventional therapies that they have found beneficial, via a chat. This takes place during the month of May.
Lori
Authors of "The MS Recovery Diet" extend a diet developed decades ago by Dr. Roy L. Swank, an emeritus professor of neurology at Oregon Health Science University. It severely restricts saturated fat and increases essential fatty acids like fish and vegetable oils, measures endorsed by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society as part of a healthy diet.
Besides saturated fat, Ms. Sawyer and Ms. Bachrach suggest that other potential dietary culprits include dairy, grains with gluten, legumes, eggs and yeast. “Beyond the five usual suspects, each person may have very individual food sensitivities to herbs, spices or food in any category,” they write. Each patient would have to determine personal sensitivities through trial and error.
The word on Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) seems to be getting out. Watch this TV news report on the fairly successful results of this one MS patient trying out LDN. At least it is causing some doctors to suggest it should be looked into.
You can now access the videos, audio, and slides of the presenations at The Third Annual LDN Conference (2007), held at Vanderbilt University last October. This conference brings together a collection of researchers, doctors, pharmacists, and patients to talk about Low Dose Naltrexone.
Swindon Therapy Centre for Multiple Sclerosis has hit the headlines over the years for its once-controversial use of a hyberbaric oxygen chamber. This article presents a single anecdotal case of benefit with MS.
Why don't these places conduct trials?
I have been reading about this new powerful probiotic formula that can be ingested in yogurt form.
The Australian company that makes it says it's yielding surprising results with MS sufferers. It claims dramatic improvements with a lot of the common symptoms such as low energy, tremors, bad eye sight.
I was wondering if anyone out there knows more about this product.
My mom has been living with MS for over 15 years and she wants to try it but I'm somewhat apprehensive.
Montel Williams recently gave a testimonial for a specific upper cervical chiropractic technique during his Montel show:
I'm not certain because I haven't done the scientific research on it to know if this can work for everybody else out there, but I want to tell you I suffer from MS (multiple sclerosis), I have extreme neuralgic pain in the lower extremities, I'm in pain 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year, and then I go to see this doctor, ... and there's not a person that knows me who will not confirm this, if you just ask them, everybody who sees me, I am walking differently, my pain is less, I have already regained strength in my left leg, my left leg has dropped because I found out that my pelvis was tilted, it's dropped back down, they are now the same length, it's the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me.
