Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Epilepsy

Hijikata, Yasuyo; Yasuhara, Akihiro; Yoshida, Yuka; Sento, Seishiro

doi:10.1089/acm.2006.12.673

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“…Patients Suffering from Intractable Diseases Treated Effectively with Medicines of Kampo and TCM http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/60573 81 improvement in the frequency and severity of seizures. This treatment will rely on the resolution of blood stagnation in cerebrovascular systems [36].…”

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Patients Suffering from Intractable Diseases Treated Effectively with Medicines of Kampo and TCM

Hijikata¹

2015

Complementary Therapies for the Body, Mind and Soul

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There are diseases that cannot be cured by conventional therapies.In Japan, more than 90% of medical practitioners treat patients with alternative medicines such as Kampo medicine (herbal medicine based on Japanese Kampo theory) or traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that do not respond to conventional treatments.The author also treated these patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases, vasculitis diseases, nephrosis, hyperlipidemia, and female disorders including menstruation disorders, incurable pain diseases such as glossodynia and herpes zoster or herpes virus infectious diseases, and other diseases such as female-related ones and diseases that need five-face theory to cure and the administration of gui-zhi-fu-ling-wan (桂枝茯苓丸) before aspiration biopsy, in breast cancer patient, to raise the detection rate of cancer cells.Interestingly, diseases specified as "intractable diseases" by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare sometimes respond to TCM treatment quite successfully, probably because TCM and Kampo medicine systems have their own theories and their own medicines quite different from that of conventional therapies.Finally, I often experienced plural number of prescriptions for the problematic organs (based on five element theory) administered simultaneously often lead to dramatical improvement. This will mean problematic organs treated simultaneously will lead to quick recovery through synergistic actions among organs. The successfully treated clinical courses after the administration of TCM or Kampo medicines are described here.

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Patients Suffering from Intractable Diseases Treated Effectively with Medicines of Kampo and TCM

Hijikata¹

2015

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“…Only one clinical epilepsy study of an herbal extract has been published since 2005 in the English literature. 54 …”

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Botanicals and Herbs: A Traditional Approach to Treating Epilepsy

Schachter

2009

Neurotherapeutics

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“…Hijikata et al [34] reported on three cases in which patients with refractory epilepsy showed substantial improvement with the use of the traditional herbal formulation Bu-yang-huan-wu-tang. Tyagi and Delanty [24] cited several compelling open-label studies of Chinese herbal remedies, including Qingyangsen and Zhenxianling, suggesting that these medications may have anticonvulsant effects, with fewer side effects than standard antiepileptic drugs.…”

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Alternative approaches to epilepsy treatment

McElroy-Cox

2009

Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a diverse group of health care practices and products that fall outside the realm of traditional Western medical theory and practice and that are used to complement or replace conventional medical therapies. The use of CAM has increased over the past two decades, and surveys have shown that up to 44% of patients with epilepsy are using some form of CAM treatment. This article reviews the CAM modalities of meditation, yoga, relaxation techniques, biofeedback, nutritional and herbal supplements, dietary measures, chiropractic care, acupuncture, Reiki, and homeopathy and what is known about their potential efficacy in patients with epilepsy.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Epilepsy

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Patients Suffering from Intractable Diseases Treated Effectively with Medicines of Kampo and TCM

Patients Suffering from Intractable Diseases Treated Effectively with Medicines of Kampo and TCM

Botanicals and Herbs: A Traditional Approach to Treating Epilepsy

Alternative approaches to epilepsy treatment

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