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Keeping warm helps
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 09:33Hi, My 24 year old son has had serious epilepsy for 6 years now after a head injury. The seizures are mainly of a night time. We have tried various remedies (mostly alternative remedies with mixed improvement). Ayurvedic diet and auveydic remedies helps the most. My son usually has night seizures and we have just had a significant reduction in his seizures by keeping him extra warm of a night time, this includes wearing a balaclava to bed and extra doonas. He doesn't seem to experience the cold but is affected by it. Since doing this he has had no gran mals.. it is only a couple of weeks now but the inprovement is noticable, he was having three gran mals a night. I have just been reading about frankincense and that is what we are going to try next. Has any one else tried this?
Our son had his first partial
Submitted by cred@ara.com on Fri, 2014-10-10 - 12:03
Our son had his first partial complex seizure when he was 18 months. By the time he was 3 1/2, he was on three different anti-seizure medications yet he was still having daily seizures. The seizures were awful, but the medications' side effects were equally as bad, and they weren't stopping the seizures. We were desperate to find a solution, so when a friend of mine asked me if we had tried Frankincense, as kooky as it sounded, we decided to give it a try. That was over 8 months ago. We applied a couple of drops of Frankincense to the front and back of his neck twice a day. Result: from day 1, no seizures. Over the next 7 months, we weaned him off all three of his anti-seizure medications. He is now medication free, oil only, for a month without a seizure. Frankincense oil has given our son his life back.