Cure implies a disease. However, epilepsy is not viewed as a disease, but a long-term disorder with an underlying cause, which may be controlled, not cured, by drugs. I have tried diverse alternative, but I have never stopped taking my medication. Acupuncture, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, flower remedies, color therapy, homeopathy, reflexology, yoga and meditation are some of therapies that may help those who suffer epilepsy. Beside taking my medication, now I am doing yoga and meditation and after almost a year and half, they have helped me to relax, to approach as a mental and spiritual discipline and to reduce stress and have more ability to halt a seizure by focusing on my breathing and other mental techniques.

Don't stop taking your medication by yourself. It's dangerous and it may cause disasters. Do you want to try other therapies? Try them but don't stop your medication. Take care.
Edy

When I first tried acupuncture, in Singapore, a few years ago, I was having 5-10 absence/simple partial seizures per week. After ten days of, initially daily, treatment the seizures stopped and I remained seizure-free for the three further months I lived there, having one session a fortnight by the time I left. Back in the UK, my experience has been mixed: some practitioners are clearly better than others. Each course of treatment had a positive effect but some were more successful than others.

That was some time ago; since when I have found a drug that controls my epi very well – and its side-effects are tolerable (it is also ‘free’, under the UK’s National Health Service: acupuncture treatment is rarely so). However I would re-start the acupuncture immediately if I felt it was not working.

The British Acupuncture Council is the national body that regulates and registers practitioners in the UK and, if you happen to live here, it is important to use one who is so registered. Many other countries have similar organisations.

I do not pretend to understand how acupuncture works but a ‘seizure-count’ is about as objective a scorecard as I could invent.

Chris

I understand people's frustration when usual therapies don't work, but keep in mind that there is very little research on many of the alternative therapies still. While some appear very promising, some sound good but don't work. Do your homework just like you would do it for medicines.

I'll try to pull up some of the latest work on these topics but in the meantime, look around the site. There's also a book out called Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Epilepsy that will help. It also has a section on what questions people should be asking about different therapies. You can get this through the Shopping area of the site.

Hope this helps!

Epi_help

I have definitely wanted to get away from shoving pills down my throat all day long but I have never even known where to start looking. I've seen how acupuncture is done but it looks painful and just out of curiosity, how would that help with epilepsy? Kim

Look into Neurofeedback can be very helpful. there is diets to try. I have not tried acupuncture but I plan to in the near future.

also check out my site in links has alot of info about all these.
Lisa
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/epilepsyapproach1/
http://www.sleep-safe.co.uk/id90.htm