Parkinson’s disease is not incurable and it only progresses if you don’t have the right medicine.
This case study is the true story of a man with Parkinson’s disease who found healing. Instead of slowing the progression of Parkinson’s, he tried a different path. Mother Nature.
I had never cared for a person with Parkinson’s disease before and wasn’t sure what I would be able to do for him, but I did my best.
I ask a question on my intake forms intended to check a persons intuition. “What do you ‘think’ you will have to do to overcome your symptoms or condition?”
He wrote, “I need a miracle!”
That was because he had Parkinson’s disease. And the prognosis or story goes like this.
“Your disease is progressive and cannot be stopped. We can effectively slow the progression with this medicine. At some point, however, the effects of your medicine will diminish, and ‘end of life’ care will begin.”
Another True Health patient was given similarly grim news for her baby, and she said, “Thank you doctor, I’m going to ask someone else.” She asked True Health, which led to our helping the blind to see story.
Perfect. We have what he needs.
Parkinson’s Disease is described by doctors as the development of protein deposits in the area of the brain that controls motor coordination, or movement. These clumps were discovered in 1910 by Dr. Frederic Lewy, and he was honored by having brain damage named after him. The clumps that cause the shuffling and shaking tremors are now called Lewy bodies. Lol. I hope my legacy is healing!
The only theories as to why Lewy Bodies exist are:
1. Bad parents (genetics)
2. Gut inflammation
3. Autoimmunity
The first step toward healing is taking a medical history. I hate that part. It’s always so painful. His went like this.
Four years ago he started having back and neck pain. He’s a veteran, so he has free health care at the VA. His doctor prescribes Tramadol, brand name Ultram, an opioid pain medicine.
His wife is an amateur healer, which means that she doesn’t do it for a living, but has done her homework. She was concerned about her partner taking a medicine with such a long list of side effects and adverse effects. Look at this list, which includes addiction to the drug with that many side effects!
She replaced opioid pain relief, and all those side effects, with Anamu tea. It is a plant native to South America and clinical research has proven that Anamu Tea has anti-inflammatory properties.
Anamu tea decreased his pain to bearable.
As long as he drinks his tea, he can work, play, and enjoy life. Until, one day he can’t write an order at work. It looked like scribbles. When he tried to walk, he lost his balance, stumbling and bumping in to things.
Back to the VA. “Oh, I see what this is. It’s called spinal stenosis, and it causes pressure in your spinal cord. A shot of cortisone will help with the pressure, but there’s nothing we can do about the stenosis (narrowing of spinal canal).”
He waited, and waited, and waited for the relief. It never came.
At that point, one hand started shaking like he was scribbling on paper full time. He can barely function, so he checks in one more time with his VA doctor.
After a coordination test, “Oh, I see what this is. Its called Parkinson’s disease.”
I already shared “the medical prognosis” of Parkinson’s. The medical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease is made by observation, and the prognosis is hopeless.
He accepts the hopelessness of slowing down progression and a prescription of L-Dopa. He returns to the VA two more times to report that it wasn’t helping. They increase his medicine each time, because it’s their only resource for helping Parkinson’s.
On a triple dose of L-Dopa, he felt some relief. He could walk tripping and stumbling, and he could write again. But it had no effect on his tremor. His back and neck still hurt, although at a lower intensity with his Anamu tea.
And that’s where I met him. His arm was oscillating back and forth, his back ached, his brain was foggy, and his body was exhausted. Even on the triple dose of L-Dopa, he still shuffled along with the characteristic Parkinson’s gait, and his entire body was crooked and slumped.
He said he couldn’t lift his head up to look straight ahead.
That actually makes sense from the perspective of regulation, which is what I call our central nervous system. I was taught that the primary function of regulation is survival. If regulation can’t control your legs, survival forces you to watch your steps.
Struggling to walk and control movement was exhausting. I have a zero to ten scale in our intake forms for “how tired do you feel?” He put an X in the spot for 10. This is an energy scale, so the end of the scale would be dead, no energy. He was just a touch inside that.
Normally, tired has a simple solution. Sleep. But he put an X just inside 10 again, for extreme difficulty with sleep.
When I reviewed his medical records, his previous doctors appeared to agree that this guy didn’t make sense. They tested for Hepatitis C, Cancer, monitored blood glucose, and tested him for drugs.
His medical records read like doctors desperately searching to fit his pain into their box. Until he developed the tremor and failed the coordination test. By observation, they knew where he fit, “Ahh, Parkinson’s disease,” and offered him the hopeless story.
I had never cared for anyone with this condition before, so I didn’t have a plan or expectation. Whatever pain walks through the doors of True Health, I offer my best. I examine him for imbalance, and search for ways to restore balance. I look for weakness, and search for ways to provide strength.
Balance and strength can heal virtually anything, but I had never had an opportunity to give balance and strength to a patient with Parkinson’s disease.
Without expectation, I begin meeting his needs for balance and strength with a Native American healing ritual. They would kill a buffalo and eat the spleen or heart to give them strength for battle or for a boy to become a man.
I do not have a degree in history, I just know what I was told and read. I’ve learned not to assume anything I am told is completely accurate, but if it makes sense, I’ll give it a try and see for myself.
I prescribed thymus and adrenal gland extracts, and at the very least I knew they had no side effects!
We use muscle testing as a diagnostic resource. Using muscle testing as biofeedback, we found that the strength of his arm weakened to bacteria. His strength was restored when we added the glandular extracts. I know, people say that muscle testing is unscientific, but keep reading, I think you’ll like the results.
His arm weakened to oxidation and strengthened to Camu Camu, a berry that grows in South America. It is harvested and made into medicine for its powerful antioxidant properties.
Sloan Kettering writes, “Camu has antioxidant properties, so it may interact with certain chemotherapy drugs that rely on the generation of free radicals (oxidation) for their cytotoxic effects.”
Cytotoxic literally means cell-poisoning or destruction. So caution, only use Camu Berry if your goal is cellular life.
His arm weakened to autoimmune and strengthened to Vitamin D.
I love this case study. Doctors submit case studies to the National Library of Medicine database. A case study is presented to stimulate larger scale research.
A medical doctor from Brazil diagnosed his patient with Myasthenia Gravis, a progressive Autoimmune disease with no cure. His patient didn’t give up hope. She went to an alternative doctor who doesn’t “follow protocol.” He gave her 80,000 IUs of Vitamin D.
Her unscientific alternative doctor ran a lab tested for Vitamin D levels, and prescribed based on a lab diagnosed need. They monitored, and as her Vitamin D levels climbed, her disease went in to complete remission, including the lab measure of antibodies (which designates an autoimmune process).
Medical protocol for Myasthenia Gravis doesn’t including testing for Vitamin D levels.
I love this case study, because it is written from the perspective of medical doctor, who is excitedly describing the healing he just witnessed, and emphatically requesting for more research. I would guess than every doctor is a healer at heart, they just have to look outside “protocol,” when protocol doesn’t help. You can read his excited case report here.
The last thing my Parkinson’s patient weakened to was radiation. We have plenty of exposure these days. He was irradiated looking for his spinal stenosis, and every time he picks up his cell phone. He strengthened to a plant commonly known as Gale of the Wind.
The scientific name is Phyllanthus niruri, and Phyllanthus is double blind, placebo controlled proven (those words mean, “the highest scientific standard”) to improve outcomes for hepatitis in India. He had tested positive for Hepatitis C, and his VA doctors gave him the Hepatitis C protocol. Maybe protocol didn’t quite heal all of it? In this study, Phyllanthus and a few other plants, improved liver markers by 5 times that of placebo, and perceived weakness was decreased 22 times more than a placebo. The Indian name for Phylanthus is Bhumyamalaki, and you can read the study here.
That was my best prescription for healing a condition I had never faced. Two animal glandular extracts, a therapeutic dose of Vitamin D, a berry, and a plant. All offered from Nature.
Four weeks later, he tells me that he hasn’t had such a clear mind in well over a year. He said he notices a trend. His tremor is somewhat better, maybe 5-10%.
Here’s a healing lesson. Just do your best and carefully monitor your symptoms. Keep trying until you feel a healing trend. Maximum Effort. If you get stuck, call True Health.
Another healing lesson. If anyone tells you that “you can’t heal,” it just means “with their resources.” Mother Nature offers many, many healing resources.
With Mother Nature and True Health on his team, his tremor was decreased 60-70% by the end of his second month of care. The same tremor that was not improved a single bit by a triple dose of the number one medication prescribed for Parkinson’s disease.
It’s taken over a year to help him heal enough to wean his medicine down from 6 pills to 2. Every time he lowered the dose, the symptoms would return. Not nearly as bad as the shaking I witnessed on his first visit, but a slight increase. Every time, we would add more strength. At one point we added Frankincense, which helps with inflammation. Yes, it scientifically helps with inflammation.
In this study, German doctor’s gave Frankincense to patients receiving radiation therapy for brain cancer, and they discovered “Frankincense significantly reduced cerebral edema measured by MRI in the study population.” They were excited to discover this, because their only other resource was Prednisone, which is life saving, but has harsh side effects.
The side effects reported for Frankincense: “A quarter of the Frankincense group reported some minor gastrointestinal discomfort.” Makes perfect sense, they were eating the sap of a tree. It’s not food, its medicine.
As the inflammation decreased, his symptoms slowed back down. Now you can’t even tell that he has Parkinson’s disease, but we still have two pills to go.
Gold is favored over Frankincense in this country, and you can see that clearly in the profit of medicine and pharmaceutical sales. Frankincense is proven by medicine’s scientific standard to work just as effectively as Prednisone, at least for this problem. Why would they keep using the version that costs more and has way more side effects?
The plant medicines we used have some science to validate our results, but not enough, according to doctors. With almost no side effects, we gave them a try anyway, and found that Parkinson’s doesn’t have to be progressive, if you have the right medicine.
Now, instead of the depressing prognosis, he’s just a regular guy exploring his own limits. He pushes those limits for the people he loves, and sometimes goes too far. Maybe you can relate.
Only now, he has a resource to heal when he breaks down. No expectations, we just do our best, even if it’s an incurable, progressive, life shortening disease.
I named that resource True Health. We offer A Metabolic Tune-Up if you need help, and our medicine is available in our online store. Just click “shop” at the top of the page.
If you have Parkinson’s, please accept my help. There isn’t a “Parkinson’s medicine.” We had to give him medicine for bacterial infections, oxidation, stress, immune balance, and then inflammation. It was a process.
A second Parkinson’s patient is letting me help him, and his tremor is improving, too. I call the process meeting needs, and it seems to work every time.
