mommyof2 Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 wanted to share what i read about in our usa weekend.... it is about the herb turmeric... they say it has been used by the Chinese and helps with lots of things from cancer to parkinsons... i think of these tics my son has like the movements of parkinsons... says it is safe to consume. might be interesting to try... here is a link of what it can help http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=f...ice&dbid=78 mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faith Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 mary, I think turmeric is touted for anti-inflammatory. We were given the supplement "curcumin" by our DAN doctor a while back when we were seeing him, but I wound up not really giving it to my son as it was a large pill (he was out of the liquid) that i was supposed to crush up and hide in apple sauce I guess, but it was a mess, stained my hands and countertop all yellow, so I got disgusted, I couldn't get it into him, it was just too messy. I think the reason he gave us that was because he wanted to try my son on a med called "actos" that is a diabetes med that is was being used in autistic patients to try and repair the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve cells, and supposedly the Dan docs think autism and tics are an autoimune disease and this was one of the things they were trying for that. I did not want to give him a drug nevertheless, and so I think the curcumin was supposed to be an alternative to that.... I think Chemar touts turmeric as useful for her son's crohns (I think). She'll know more about this than me...... Faith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy123 Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 wanted to share what i read about in our usa weekend.... it is about the herb turmeric... they say it has been used by the Chinese and helps with lots of things from cancer to parkinsons... i think of these tics my son has like the movements of parkinsons... says it is safe to consume. might be interesting to try... here is a link of what it can helphttp://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=f...ice&dbid=78 mary (this may be incorrect) I believe tics and Parkinson's are kind of opposites. Parkinsons is lack of dopamine. Tics are too much dopamine or normal amounts of dopamine but overly sensitive dopamine receptors. There might be other causes for tics, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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