Re: Dieting for Epilepsy + My Most Recommended book for Nutritional Healing

I developed petit mal epilepsy when I was 6 years old (grew out of it in my teens).

I developed epilepsy after trying to balance on a park fence and fell (I guess it was my head that hit the ground, no recollection of 46 years ago). Young people don't know how to protect themselves from serious injury when they fall (by putting their arms in front of them), so that might be something your child should be made aware of.

The doctor put me on dilantin and phenobarbitol 3 times a day. I took that faithfully for 5 years (except a few times I forgot). The times that I forgot my pills, my body went limp. There was one time (I was about 8), that I was leaving school walking down the stairs and suddenly my body went limp (petit mal seizures are only a "limp body"). I tried to sit down on the stairs, but my whole body was limp, so I slid down a whole flight with my head bobbing up and down on each stair. Since it was winter and I was dressed up in a windbreaker with my hood up, my head was cushioned and there was no problem, it was just an adventure (kids have rubber bones).

After 5 years, the doctor took me off the phenobarb because it didn't affect me anymore. I also became very sloppy/careless in taking my meds (took them 2 or 3 times a week once or twice a day) and I took them with milk, coffee, soda, beer, wine, etc., anything but water. I figured (without doctor consultation or knowledge) that I'm growing out of epilepsy. I experienced light seizures maybe once every other week for about a minute when my right arm would go limp. Pretty soon, I took one pill a month or every other month (for good measure, "teenager's guilt") and decided not to believe that I have epilepsy anymore. I never again had epilepsy.

I always had confidence/faith that human beings are only as weak, vulnerable, and susceptible as we choose to believe, and that we allow ourselves to be convinced by doctors and "science" that we should be dependent on them FOREVER. No doubt, the whole world thinks that is "crazy talk" and wishes to remain being validated by the medical establishments of this world (so, pardon my "freedom"/"power to the people" talk), but I'd like to present to you the option of disbelieving that a "biological discrepancy" of childhood (or at any age) automatically translates into lifelong slavery to the pharmaceutical and medical industries and their "science". It is everybody's God given right to live as a "clinical object" if they so choose, and limit themselves to treatment/healing as though they are chemical/mathematical formula (we are HUMAN BEINGS, not formulas), but the initial treatment for epilepsy in childhood can very well only be temporarily necessary (instead of a lifelong sentence). A child's inner strength to have faith/confidence in themselves may be the best lesson they could ever learn.

There is something called "Psychoneuroimmunology" that could be considered meaningful in what I say (and "Psychobiology").

There are many "biological discrepancies" that cause problems and require medical/nutritional attention, but we must realize that the pharm/med industry is really no different than the government with it's disinformation to manipulate society and convince us to be life-long slaves.

When I had epilepsy, I had to remember not to stare at blinking lights...traffic lights, etc. Today, there are many more that must be avoided by the patient with epilepsy,...such as the VCR if the time hasn't been set, hard drive lights, etc. (doctors don't always explain these cautions), maybe even television's "flashes" of light.

So, restoring your child to health with these certain diets and nutrients/herbs might be sufficient (the worst thing you can do is panic and convince her or think it will be necessary forever).

I heard that putting the wallet in the mouth when the person is lying down is so the person doesn't SWALLOW their tongue (so always be aware of that when she has seizures).