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(© January,
2013: Dr. V.M.Palaniappan ,Ph.D.
Post-tsunami seizure attacks in Japan appear to have increased significantly.
The New Straits Times, published in Malaysia has presented the news today (Tues., 22 Jan.,2013, p.32), as reported by Agencies, quoting the source journal Epilepsia.
It seems some 13 patients with seizures were admitted to the hospital during the first eight weeks after tsunami, compared to one during identical time span before the tragedy.
This clearly indicates that something that had happened due to tsunami had triggered the attacks.
What could that be?
Please read this write-up, and you may find the true cause for the increased attacks at the post-tsunami period.
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What could that be?
Please read this write-up, and you may find the true cause for the increased attacks at the post-tsunami period.
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The
information I am presenting here, which I have gathered in the process of
treating a few patients during the past three decades, should prove useful for
further research, for the prevention of epileptic seizures, for rehabilitation programs,
and possibly for a complete cure of the disease.
(It may be
of interest to the Readers to know that I have been a Life Member (not as a patient) of the Epileptic
Society of Malaysia, since its inception some fifteen years ago.)
The discipline
I have been practicing is called “Ecological Healing System”, and
that comes under the umbrella of the complementary medicine called "Naturopathy".
My area of
research and practice have been further categorized and registered under what is being popularly called “Botanical Medicine”, by the
Complementary Society of Malaysia.
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I have
personally done some minor research in the area of epileptic seizures in
Malaysia and India, and have been offering some help to the sufferers, with
reasonable success.
Let me
describe what appear to be the most important risk factors that initiate or trigger
such seizures.
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Please
follow the steps I am describing here, to find the logic in my interpretations:
If we catch
our nose and close the mouth tightly, oxygen supply to the brain gets
completely cut.
After a
brief moment, the oxygen that is in various parts of the body gets totally
exhausted.
We then
feel dizzy, while at the same time, we shake our head violently, push off the
person who is catching our nose and closing our mouth, and do our best to free
ourselves so that we can breathe in some air (i.e., oxygen).
In other
words, we put up a struggle to breath-in. Failure to do so would result in comma,
followed by death.
If oxygen
availability does not resume, we faint, enter into a comma stage, and then die.
In the case
of an epileptic patient, no one catches the nose or closes the mouth.
However, an
incident that can be compared to cessation of oxygen supply to the brain
occurs.
The victim
breathes-in AIR. To that extent, it is
fine.
Yet, the
air, instead of having NORMAL quantity of OXYGEN in it, tends to have OTHER
GASES (- if not, it may contain very little oxygen that may NOT be enough for a
person to continue living).
When such a
situation occurs, the person feels DIZZY initially. Then, faints.
If the same
situation continues, the person may enter comma, and then die.
However,
the brain, in the process of struggle for existence, puts up a struggle as a
last resort.
What
happens when we run, say, 100 meters?
We pant. We
inhale abundant air to cope up with the emergency need for extra oxygen. In
that process of body shivers, and our head may shake as well.
When a person
faints, being in a unconscious state, he may not be able to voluntarily inhale
well.
Under such
circumstances, if the brain can make the body shiver violently - an act that simulates
the 100 meter-run, then the body would start panting, and that would enhance rapid
oxygen intake.
Once the
oxygen supply and its need (i.e., the Biological Oxygen Demand - the BOD) get
balanced up, the shivering - in other words, the SEIZURE, stops.
Here, we
should consider the act of seizure - the epileptic attack, as HUMAN-FRIENDLY,
rather than a disease.
This is
very much similar to cough, cold, sneezes, skin itch, and the like.
When our
the breathing holes - the alveoli, get blocked by either dust particles or
water droplets, our brain induces sneezing, and that removes the blockage, and
enhances easy air exchange for continued survival.
Cough does
identical ‘service’ to humans.
When a
mosquito stings us, it ejects into our cells some poison.
If we leave
the poison droplet in a concentrated form at one spot, the white cells in our
blood may not be able to fight it out. As a result, the tissues there die, and
the whole spot turns dark or blackish, indicating the death of tissues there.
Under
normal circumstances, when a mosquito (or any other bee, for instance) bites
us, the skin gives us an alarm in the form of an itch.
The itch
induces us to scratch the spot. In that process, the poison, instead of being
in a concentrated form in one spot, gets dispersed and diluted. This enables
the white cells to successfully combat and win. As a result, our tissues at the
affected spot would continue living in a health state.
Thus,
itches are human-friendly.
Likewise,
seizures should be considered human-friendly - and not a disease, as
pointed out above.
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Now, the
next question arises:
What
displaces the oxygen content in the air that is inhaled by the victim?
To understand
this, we have to trace the composition of the air in the immediate environment
that prevails at the time of a seizure attack, or just before that moment.
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I have
traced some of the details.
I have seen
many Dispatch Boys (whose job is to ride on motorbikes within the city and
deliver letter, parcels, and the like to the addressees) getting this problem.
They often
ride motorbikes during peak traffic periods. The often need to stop at every
traffic light.
While
awaiting for the green light, they have no choice except to inhale the ‘terribly’
polluted air.
Often, such
air tends to contain abundant carbon monoxide and several other poisonous
emissions.
Such ‘filthy’
air tends to contain much less oxygen, and a lot more of the poisonous gases.
This
creates a heavy demand for oxygen (- the BOD) in the Dispatch Boy.
Prolonged
inhalation of such a bad air can give the boy dizziness and headaches.
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When one
eats food, its digestion and utilization in the digestive tract and elsewhere
in the body require oxygen.
Oxygen
dissolved in the normal cool water provides some of such needs.
(If
aquarium fish is allowed to live in such water, it would die soon for want of
oxygen. Of course, if air-bubbles are created, the water gets back it oxygen,
and the fish can continue living, using the dissolved oxygen.)
The above
being the case, if the Dispatch Boy drinks BOILED water while taking his lunch,
another BOD would arise in him.
This can
worsen the situation.
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In the
process of offering prayers, some people burn JOSS STICKS, CAMPHOR, and INCENSE.
From time
immemorial, the incense is burnt in temples and homes with proper
ventilation.
They are burnt
in small quantities that are not harmful to humans.
In fact,
these fumes are believed to eradicate many disease-causing microorganisms,
besides being a deodorant that drives away foul smell.
The incense
(called ‘sambirani’ in Tamil) is an insecticide. The smoke is capable of
killing all kinds of small insects, including head lice, mosquitoes, cockroaches,
and the like.
I burn a
little of this daily morning in a specially-designed mud container, keep it in front
of the alter, pray for a short while, and then carry it in hand to all parts of
the house. Finally, I keep it in the store room where I keep all my groceries.
As a result
of the above practice, my house is totally devoid of lizards, cockroaches,
spiders, mosquitoes, and the like. My
groceries too are clean all the time, devoid of the normal pests.
I have seen
some strong and well-built people wanting to enter into a trance, often inhale
this fume intensely. The weaker ones, if
they did so, may even faint.
The usage
can become dangerous only when these are burnt in large quantities. They begin
to emit plenty of fumes and fill the room - often displacing the oxygen content
that was there.
Apart from
this, burning of camphor, if the windows are closed, can deplete rapidly the little
oxygen content present in the already stale air.
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Among
Indians, I have very often seen the following to happen:
People have
been made to believe that there is no cure for epilepsy.
Therefore,
the parents of these victims, wanting to seek the Divine help, let their
suffering ‘children’ sleep in the prayer rooms where they have their deities. Then,
they burn the joss sticks, camphor, and also incense.
Wanting to
conserve the fumes, with the false believe that the fumes would do good to
their children, they close the windows.
Some may do so with a view to keep away the mosquitoes, or even cold
air.
If a person
sleeps in that environment, without any doubt, his brain would end up severely
poisoned. Lack of oxygen to the brain
makes it worse.
As a result
of all the above, the body starts shivering. That is brain’s way of enhancing
panting for increased oxygen uptake, as described earlier in this article.
Needless to
say that this results in EPILEPTIC SEIZURE.
Such an
attack would remain for a prolonged period until adequate oxygen gets back to
the brain.
Every
person getting a seizure would regain consciousness after a while - especially
after the oxygen input becomes normalized.
Quick
recovery would become possible if the widows are opened, crowd is dispersed,
pollutants are kept aloof, and the clothes worn by victim are loosened.
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One thing
appears to be clear: inhalation of poisonous air and depletion of oxygen appear
to be the major risk factor for this disease.
People
working in chemical stores can become victims.
People
entering into under-ground sewerage ducts can get seizures, and can even die of
such poisonous gases.
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In the
process of trying to cure epileptic patients, I have traced a few more risk
factors that appear to play important roles in giving this disease.
When we eat
chocolates, pastries, biscuits (any kind), peanuts, over-ripe papaya (or any
other excessively ripe fruits), our faeces becomes soft, shapeless and slimy,
and we may defecate twice or more number of times small quantities of the faecal
matter, often feeling improper or inadequate ‘evacuation’. Such a state would
be accompanied by frequent releases of foul-smelling flatulence.
(Any smell
that makes us feel uneasy, or repulsive as it occurs in the case of flatulence,
should be considered a poison to our body!
In other
words, all poisonous gasses smell repulsive / unbearable.)
(I have
been calling the occurrence of slimy stools as “Chronic Constipation” in all my
books. Whereas, the medical fraternity calls it diarrhea.)
When such a
condition occurs, the wall all along the lower part of the intestine,
especially the colo-rectal region, absorbs the toxic substances.
I have found
in ALL the epileptic patients, without exception, the occurrence of Chronic
Constipation.
The
poisonous gasses that develop from the decomposing slimy faecal matter in this
group of people get reabsorbed into the body, thus poisoning the brain!
This
worsens the health status of the victim, and he develops severe seizure attack.
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A few more
practices that are invariably common among the seizure patients include the
following:
They
tend to cover their faces with blankets while asleep.
Keeping
away mosquitoes or cold air, or even bright light could be the reason for such
a practice. Unfortunately, during this process, fresh air too keeps off.
When they
do this, they begin to breathe in repeatedly only the stale air that is rich in
its carbon dioxide content.
Most of
the victims keep their bedroom windows closed all the time, thus preventing ventilation to a
significant extent.
As a result
of these bad habits, the patient ends up with oxygen shortage. Needless to
repeat that such a situation would inevitably give severe and frequent seizure
attacks.
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I should
not miss stating another fact here that is closely linked to epileptic attacks.
We know
very well that carbohydrates and fats digest relatively easily in our digestive
system. Whereas, proteins take much
longer time to break down.
Some of the
proteins (such as dhor dhal, some of the dried bean seeds, etc.) which can be
termed as “bad proteins” tend to release plenty of gasses even before they can
get digested.
These
gasses too appear to be disturbing the body physiology of the epileptic
patients.
A point,
worthy of noting is, that most of the epileptic patients seem to be consuming
far too much of such high and bad protein diets.
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Some of the
epileptic patients, I have traced, were even inhaling the volatile gasses that
evolve while pumping petrol to vehicles. They seem to like it.
It should
be worthwhile remembering that even the smell that comes out of eraser white
markers can trigger an attack if the person happens to be prone to seizures.
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Talking of
the epileptics and seizures, it may be of interest to know that nearly ALL
humans have traces of epilepsy in them.
Let me make
you recognize the ‘fault’ in you:
Try to
recollect this:
Some time
back, could be a few months ago, or even a few years ago, either frequently, or
very occasionally, have you not JERKED suddenly while you were fast asleep?
Such a jerk
could have lasted only for a second or two.
After such
a jerk, you could continued sleeping, forgetting altogether the next morning that
you had such an ‘attack’ the previous night.
You cannot
deny this. You must have experienced the jerk, except that you never
recollected its occurrence until this moment.
Would you
accept it?
Well, that
is seizure! A ‘mini’ attack!
What could
have give you that?
It occurs due
to the accumulation of poisonous gasses in your brain! It is almost identical
to epileptic attacks. The jerks tend to indicate the release of such poisonous
gasses.
While
conducting Group Therapy sessions, I make everybody release their poison
accumulations so that the efficiency of their brain becomes excellent.
In that
process, they would realize the release of such gasses, and they would never
again get such nocturnal jerks. They would never ever develop any epileptic
seizures.
Here, the
RATIO between Carbon dioxide and Oxygen becomes NARROW, and that gives them
some likeable momentary dizziness - as if they are drunk!
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Well
friends, if you sum up all the above, you will end up developing a program for
the total prevention or even a curative procedure for epileptic seizures. You can cure them without the use of drugs!
I have
given a short, but vivid description of these details in my book “HUMAN
DISEASES”, wherein I have re-defined 101 common diseases people suffer from, with
reasons, curative procedures, etc.
If you
happen to be in Malaysia, you can order for a printed copy of the book. If not,
you may want to kindly wait until my e-book is posted in our BLOG / WEBSITE.
With best
wishes,
