Epilepsey

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Shannon

1- I would first check on any maintaining causes. One of these can be Aspartame (found in anything that is 'diet', 'reduced sugar' or 'sugar free' and branded products such as Equal and Nutrasweet etc - It is in almost 9,000 different foods so labels need to be check VERY carefully)
[In the original experiments on 7 Rh monkeys, one died and 6 developed seizures which stopped when the aspartame was withdrawn.]

Check on anything that may have changed recently.
2- So far as I know, there is no proving of Tegretol, so it is not a homoeopathic remedy. Working on basis of symptom similarity, one can only work on proven remedies.

3- If a drug causes adverse reactions, even small doses would do the same, this is only logical and her Dr is talking out of her hat when she says Teg is not causing the problem. Just read the side effects listed by the manufacturers!

4- Allopathic drugs, especially those that can affect one's life and or consciousness should not be increased or decreased rapidly. In fact you can produce seizures by the administration of anti-epileptic drugs!
The only way to reduce is VERY slowly. My teacher Sheilagh Creasy always recommends that a fresh nail file be allocated and used for this purpose. On first day of reduction, the tablet is reduced by one stroke against the nail file, one day 2, two stokes and so on ....

Allopaths will increase the dosage very rapidly and this can in itself cause major problems and set back. Slowly is name of the game.

5- As she is taking allopathic drugs, my recommendation is that you evaluate the case carefully and you may consider that she should take two or more doses per day. If that is the case, I would start by 2 doses morning and at night where she makes up the dose at night in a glass, takes a dose out of the glass, leaves covered in fridge till morning, plusses it and then takes another dose, throws the contents out.
If you (And any one else) have not had my LM instructions for the patient, do let me know and I will email it to you privately.

6- She needs to educate herself about epilepsy and also what hom can do for her.

Good luck + hang in there.

Soroush
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