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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)Treatment
By
Using
Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill Series Medicine
The General
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disease of
the nervous system, affecting the brain cells (motor neurons) that
carry impulses from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles. This
disorder generally affects both upper and lower motor neurons resulting
in muscular weakness and the progressive wasting of muscles that
have lost their nerve supply. Degeneration of these neurons causes
muscle weakness, and muscle loss, usually starting in the hands
and arms and then spreading to other parts of the body. Difficulty
with speaking, swallowing, and breathing ensues, and death usually
follows within 3 to 5 years. Onset commonly occurs between the ages
of 35 and 65, slightly more frequently in men than in women. ALS
is also called Lou Gehrig's disease after the baseball star who
died of it. There are a number of different forms of Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis and other motor neuron diseases with similar symptoms.
The first signs of ALS are often arm and leg weakness, muscle wasting
and faint muscle rippling. These symptoms occur because muscles
are no longer receiving the nutrient signals they need for growth
and maintenance -- a result of motor neurons dying. ALS nerve degeneration
may also cause muscle cramps and vague pains, or problems with speech
and swallowing. Some people with the disease may lose some control
over their emotional responses. They may laugh or cry much more
easily than in the past. Eventually, all voluntary muscle action
is affected.
What Are the Symptoms?
The first signs of ALS are often arm and leg weakness, muscle wasting and faint muscle rippling. These symptoms occur because muscles are no longer receiving the nutrient signals they need for growth and maintenance -- a result of motor neurons dying. ALS nerve degeneration may also cause muscle cramps and vague pains, or problems with speech and swallowing. Some people with the disease may lose some control over their emotional responses. They may laugh or cry much more easily than in the past. Eventually, all voluntary muscle action is affected.
What Causes ALS?
The exact cause of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is unknown. Allergic responses, infectious and/or viral agents have been proposed as possible causes of this disorder, but none has been proven. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of all cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are hereditary.
For most people with ALS, the vast majority of their children are not at any greater risk to develop this disease than the general population. This type of ALS is often called "sporadic ALS" due to its unpredictable nature. ALS researchers have found no difference between the symptoms and disease progression in the sporadic and genetic forms of ALS. Therefore, since the genetic and acquired forms of ALS appear to be similar, an understanding of the cause of the genetic form could lead to treatment for all forms of the disease.
Treatment by Western Medicine
- Riluzole
At present, Riluzole is the only drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of ALS. It is also the only drug shown to extend the survival of ALS patients. Although the exact cause of ALS is unknown, glutamic acid, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, may play a major role in disease etiology.
- Sanofi
Sanofi is a nonpeptide compound which possesses neurotrophin-like activity at nanomolar concentrations in vitro, and after administration of low oral doses in vivo. The compound reduces the histological, neurochemical and functional deficits produced in widely divergent models of experimental neurodegeneration.
- Myotrophin
A recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I (rhIGF-I). Myotrophin is a man-made form of the natural protein insulin-like growth factor-I. This protein is important for normal human growth and development. Studies have shown the drug to slow down the progression on ALS symptoms.
- Vitamins
Many investigators believe that nerve cells may die as a result of oxidation injury. Although there have been no proven benefits to anti-oxidant therapy, interest has been somewhat renewed since the discovery of "the ALS gene,"
- Creatine
An over-the-counter supplement popular as a muscle builder among athletes is also available for treating Lou Gehrig's disease.
Chinese Medicine Treatment
The following are main diagnosis points summed up by TCM :
- Dryness-heat damaging liquid
Main symptoms:
forceless fingers, palm muscle atrophy, weakness with upper limbs(accompanied with muscle trembling), dry skin, thirsty, deranged speech, vexation, dry stool, red tougue, tongue fur dry yellow, fine pulse.
Therapeutic principle:
 Clearing away pathogenic heat, moisten the dryness, nourish yi and engender liquid.
Herbal Medicine Formula:Sha Shen Mai Dong Decoction
Composition:
Sha Shen 30g, Yu Zhu 12g, Shang Ye 12g, Mai Dong 30g, Sheng Bian Dou 12g, Hua Fen 15g, Shi Gao 24g, Shang Zhi 30g, Shi Gua Luo 10g, Xi Yang Shen 6g
Administration:
Decocted with water, one time every day.
Note:
The formula ingredients should change a little according to patients' practical sydromes.
- Liver-kidney Yin vacuity
Main symptoms:
Fatigue, muscle atrophy and trembling, sluggish movement, vexing heat in the five hearts, dry mouth and thirst, insomina, night sweat, dry stool, seminal emission or efflux, red tongue, feeble tongue body, fine and deep pulse.
Therapeutic principle
Nourish liver and kidney, strengthen sinew and bone
Herbal Medicine Formula: Hu Qian Variant Pill
Composition:
Shu Di 12g, Gui Ban Jiao 10g, huang Bai 12g, Zhi Mu 15g, Guo Gu 15g, Shuo Yang 10g, Niu Qi 15g, Du Zhong 10g, Chen Pi 10g, Bai Shao 30g, Dang Shen 30g
Administration:
Decocted with water, one time every day.
Note:
The formula ingredients should change a little according to patients' practical sydromes.
- Spleen-kidney Yang Vacuity
Main symptoms:
F atigue and thin, muscle trembleing, bad appetite, reduced food intake, short breath, pale complexion, fear of cold and cold limbs, clear-food diarrhea, urinary incontinence, impotence, pale tender-soft enlarged tongue, fine deep or slow deep pulse.
 Therapeutic principle:
Warm and nourish spleen and kidney, strengthen sinew and bone
Herbal Formula: Lu Jiao Jiao Variant Pill
Composition:
Lu Jiao Jiao 10g, Tu Shi Zi 12g, Niu Qi 15g, Du Zong 12g, Shu Di 6g, Huang Qi 30g, Dang Shen 15g, Fu Ling 15g, Fu Zi 10g, Ji Xue Teng 30g, Sha Ren 5g
Administration:
Decocted with water, one time every day.
Note:
The formula ingredients should change a little according to patients' practical symptoms.
- Qi Vacuity and blood stasis
Main symptoms:
Fatigue and thin with body, painful and trembling muscle, numb muscle, tiredness and difficult speech, dark tongue body, stasis macule upon tongue fur, deep and fine and rough pulse.
Therapeutic principle
Nourish qi and quicken blood, dispel stasis and open channels
Herbal Formula: Zhen Tui Variant Pill
Composition:
Ren Shen 10g, Bai Zhu 12g, Huang Qi 15g, Dang Gui 12g, Ru Xiang 6g, Muo Yao 6g, Wu Gong 2 pieces, San Jia Zhu 6g, Ji Xue Teng 30g, Niu Qi 12g, Wei Ling Xian 12g
Administration:
Decocted with water, one time every day.
Note:
The formula ingredients should change a little according to patients' practical symptoms.
Effective Chinese Herbal Formulas
- Modified Jian Bu Hu Qian Pill
Composition:
Huang Qi, Xian Ling Pi, Hai Long, Hai Ma, Ren Shen, Gui Ban, Dang Gui, Bai Shao, Gou Qi Zi, Du Zong, Chuan Duan, Tu Shi Zi, Shuo Yang, Bai Zhu, Yi Yi Ren, Chen Pi, Niu Qi, Mu Gua, Qin Jiao, Qi She, Bao Gu, Bu Gu Zhi, Zhi Mu, Huang Bai, Gui Zhi, Du Huo, Fang Feng.
Administration:
Grind the herbs into powder to make water pill. 3g to 9g every time, 2 to 3 times daily.
Formula Source:
Shanghai Chinese Medicine 1985:11:32
- Marrow Engendering and Atrophy Recovering Pill
Composition:
Shi Di, Shang Ji Sheng, Yin Yang Huo, Shuo Yang, Ba Ji, Gui Zhi, Chi Shao, Huang Qi, Zhi Shou Wu, Bu Gu Zhi, Gu Shui Bu, Xu Duan, Dang Shen, Bai Zhu, Wu Gong, Lu Jiao, Ma Qian Zi.
Administration:
Grind the herbs into powder, with which to make 300 honey pills. One pill every time, 2 times daily.
- Marrow Nourishing Pill
Composition:
Huang Qi, Shu Di, Ji Xue Teng, Tai Shen, Bai Zhu, Dang Gui, Lu Jiao Jiao, Bu Gu Zhi, Chuan Duan, Niu Qi, Gan Cao, Gui Ban, Gou Qi, Tu Shi Zi, Yan Zhi Mu, Yan Huang Bai.
Administration:
Take decocted every day. One time every day.
- Effective Formula By Doctor Lin
 Composition:
Fu Pian, Wu Shao She, Rou Gui, Dang Gui, Chuan Xiong, Chi Shao, Tao ren, Hong Hua, Jie Gen, Zhi Ke, Gou Qi, Huang Qi, San Yu, Wu Gong, Quan Xie, Hu Gu, Lu Rong, She Xiang, Ma Qian Zi
Administration:
Grind the herbs into powder and make pills with honey, each pill weighs 9g. Take one pill every time, 2 times daily.
Formula Source:
Guangxi Chinese Medicine 1983:2:22
- Agile Strode Decoction
Composition:
Gui Ban, Shu Di, Zhi Mu, Huang Bai, Chen Pi, Bai Shao, Niu Qi, Hu Gu, Du Zhong, Chuan Duan, Tu Shi Zi, Dang Gui, Yun Ling, Bai Zhu, Gan Cao.
Administration:
Take decocted with water. One time every day.
- Formula By Doc. Shang Er Shou
Part 1: Powder: Tian Ma, Quan Xie, Wu Gong
Administration:
Grind them into powder and take the powder three times in one day.
Part 2: Decoction: Chang Pu, Mai Dong, Gou Teng, Fu Shou, Mu Li, Long Gu, Bai Zhu, Tao Ren, Chi Shao, Hong Hua, Shen Qu, Mai Ya, San Zha, Gan Chao, Shen Jin Cao, Zhen Zhu Mu.
Administration:
Take decocted with water, one time every day
Chinese Herbal Medicine:
Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill Series
Ghangcheng Myelophathy Hospital has long been involved in the study of ALS. After more than  13 years of clinical experiments Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill Series medicine has been verified to be veru effective in treating ALS. For effectively treating ALS, most patients are advised to use 2 kinds or 3 kinds of medicine together to treat the disease. For severe cases assistant pill should be added for support in addition to the two. Till now the out-patients with ALS amounted to 846 and among them 592 are male and 254 female. The oldest patient aged 73, the youngest is 12 years old. The effective rate (improvement rate) is 86.9%. Such attainment brough lot of praise and honor to Ghangcheng Myelophathy Hospital. Here we list two cases for study:
Case One
Li Dacheng, male, Langfang town, Hebei Province. Appeared with symptoms as four limb weakness, muscular atrophy of upper extremities in 1984. From the Autumn of 1990 on, he began to have speech difficulty, hoarseness, dinking bucking, suffering falls when walking. On May 3, 1993 his conditions got worse and admissioned into our hospital. Then he lost the ability of self-care, very thinness, blurred speech, atrophy found with lingualis and muscle of hypothenar, wagging when walking, suffered falls often. Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill series medicine were prescribed for him to take, On July 17, 1993 he came to see doctor here in our hospital again and found to be much of spirits, clear speech than before, the bucking when drinking water disappears, no falls when walking. On September 3, 1993. He came again and from his own description we knew he was able to support himself in daily life, red complexion, weight increased, clear speech. No recurrence happened till now.
Case Two
Wang Qian, femael, 15 years old. Taxation Beauru of Tangshan City, Hebei Province. On March 21, 1990 patient found the atrophy with left side on lingualis and the amyostasia of lingualis. Also, found signs of atrophy along the thenar eminence and hypothenar. Began to take Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill series medicine and 40 days later the location when there was atrophy with lingualis found normal lingualis and the wrinkle began to disappear. Two months later, fully recovered.
Feedback From Foreign Patients
Case 1:
Dear Dr LEE,
clean you for you remércié, for your assistance, thanks to you and your drugs an improvement was noticed on the level of the hand of the patient these finger starts also has ouvrire on the level of the foot takes place an improvement, before the patient had evil réspiré it today réspire better .
thank you still for all your help all my greetings .
Mr Bachara
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Dear sir
>
> I am glad to write to you again. I want to thank you
> for the medecines; and want to ask you again to
> prepare us another medecines; necessary for two
> months.Please tell me the date when the medecines will
> be ready.I will send you the money as soon as possible
>
> as he feels better after taking these medecines;the
> patient wants to know if there is a possibility to
> make you see him;as he thinks that this will help you
> to know more about hese case (this will certainly make
> him feel better) if it's possible just tell us the
> way.
> if it's not possible than we will try to send you a
> video of him using yahoo..but as we have never do
> it.we don't know if the yahoo will help us send you a
> video in your email.
>
> With congratulations
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Case 2:
> Subject: (none)
> Sent: 13 Sep '05 10:28
>
> DEAR DR LEE,
>
> I wanted to inform you that the sarou patient, goes much better because he can walk(work) with a person has his(her,its) side and a stick, him(it) pourais to be only standing up all, it holds the straight(right) head, but he cannot pronounce sentences yet. What is what this progress means something roughly what is what it is on the good way for the cure. I thank you for treatment a lot because grace has have him(her) has espoire maid and grace has too.
>
> Mr BACHARA DRISS.
> Dear dr /lee
> By the way I am glade to tell you that the patient has filled some
> improvement in his way speaking than before using your medicine my be
> this is indication to you ,
> Please send to us the medicine to the same address which is
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> Best regards
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Combination Treatment: Qigong Practice
1. Mechanism
Qigong, an ancient science and art of health, is a traditional form of Chinese
energy excise and healing art for the body, mind, and spirit. Qigong is
ideal for establishing emotional balance in today's stressful lifestyle
and for helping to heal seriously ill people--those struggling with chronic
degenerative conditions such as paralysis, cancer, asthma, cardiovascular and so on.
 People will ask us what the mechanism of qigong is. Generally speaking,
like in a rice field, western medicine always have the trend of using all
their means to kill the weeds. But in the meantime the rice shoots incur
damage, more or less. Most patients know what the results is when they receive
radiotherapy and chemotherapy. But for qigong practice, at beginning
it will directly strengthen patients immune system and more deep concerning
inner energy system. In a word, it seeks to harmonize the relationship of
all internal organs and drop the idea to distinguish which is friend and
which is enemy. How to achieve such aim, you may ask? For a tree, at the
very beginning there is no division of which is normal and which abnormal
for it stays at initiative stage of the very root. But later different branches
develop into various forms, and good, bad, long, short, etc. come into being.
By adopting special means we can reverse the process of growing up and take
the course of sailing against the life current to return back to the very
beginning. Once we reach that state there should be no any "branches"
possibly existing to wield effects upon our physical existence. Qigong is
just the method of how to take the reversing course.
As like to let the rice shoots get stronger and stronger, the weeds will
have less and less effects upon the rice shoots. As the process continues,
sometime the weeds will have no effect upon the rice shoots. Later the time
will come of the rice shoots overpowering weeds. And people naturally know
why qigong can prolong patients' life expectancy, at least. If patients
can properly proceed with the practice, qigong can bring them much more
than they could expect, especially the serene happiness general people could
never have the chance to experience throughout their life time. Qigong is the study of practice
rather than just a theory.
2. Qigong Course in DVD Format
We'd like to offer free DVD training course to patients who buy our medicine and have interest
in practicing the art. Also, people should know before hand that such practice is for the patients who cannot sit cross-legged and cannot stretch their arms. Such materials can be sent by emails and is easy
to get. We'd like to offer suggestion to practitoners when they encounter
any problem with such self practice. They are advised to practice the art
every day, together with the Amyotrophy Convalescence Pill Series medicine prescribed by doctors. For more information regarding I-Chi Qigong practice please click HERE
3 Correspondence Course
For patients who are able to move their arms and sit cross-legged please try DaMo Qigong Correspondence Course. Such correspondence course contains 4
DVDs (MPEG format, can play at most DVD Player and computers with Windows system or OS),
the book The Way To Eternity and Correspondence Course. The video discs
contain qigong master's teaching for 49 postures which is the first step
of Laying Foundation and it is a very complicated series practice. Follow
the practical teaching practitioners can personally know how to proceed
with the practice, step by step. For more information please click HERE.
Address:
Ghangcheng Myelophathy Hospital
189 Dongfeng Road
LiChuan District, Enshi City
Hubei Province, China
445000
Tel: 0086-135-9165-0476 (foreign)
Fax: 0086-139-988-62461 |
