THIS IS A STORY OF A FRIEND WHO IS RECOVERED FROM IT :)
Ayurvedic treatment of Schizophrenia -- my experience so far
Hello Everyone:
I am not sure if you recall from my earlier postings on the group
that I have been a patient of schizophrenia for over 12 years. After
I received some advice from the group, I found an Ayurvedic
therapist in India who invited me to come over and receive in-
patient treatment for about a month. Almost at the verge of loosing
my job because the disease was getting worse every day and was
coming in the way of performing my tasks and maintaining
relationships at work, I decided to take a medical leave and try out
the Ayurvedic treatment. I just wanted to share the story of my
recovery so far and what it took to accomplish that.
I have always held the belief as all others who have fallen victim
to the allopathic psychiatry, that Schizophrenia is not a disease
that you can ever get rid of completely (well, they claim that about
24% get cured in 5 years if they are the " lucky " ones, I am not sure
how much of that claim is true) -- you just have to remember to take
the prescribed dose of your antipsychotics day after day for the
rest of your life. For first 6-7 years, my symptoms were somewhat
manageable with the use of antipsychotics so that I could hold a job
and maintain relationships like anyone else. In last 5-6 years,
things started to take a turn for the worse. Not only my mental
symptoms got worse gradually, but I also developed additional
symptoms that were rather physical in nature. I started burping
vigorously and frequently. I developed really bad allergies. And, I
had a mouth full of mucus all the time. First I thought that the
allergies were because I had recently moved to Florida from up
north -- so, I went to see my PCP who ran the standard allergy tests
on me -- test results indicated that I was allergic to pretty much
everything on the planet earth! I had no choice but to take the anti-
allergy pills every day without fail and then like many others, keep
switching from this pill to a stronger one year after year.
That is when I started looking for other possibilities -- good God
showed me the way when I located a newsletter on alternative
medicine while I was waiting for my turn at my PCP's. From that
point until now has been a long journey full of changes -- changes
in diet, lifestyle, medicine, and above all the way I look at the
world now. I first tried Homeopathy to treat my allergies, which did
not work at all. Then I came in contact with an Ayurvedic therapist
in Chicago who prescribed me some Tulsi tea and asked me to stop
taking milk. That was it -- the allergy problems were gone! Since
then I read numerous books on Ayurveda -- the most relevant of them
all that I recommend to the mental patients is by Dr. David Frawley
called " Ayurveda and the Mind " -- it is a must read for those who
don't just want to get cured, but stay cured. Despite my readings
and trying out numerous Ayurvedic advices and lifestyle changes
like eating organic only, eating Khichari only, treating candida
problem assuming that was the underlying cause of my mental
problems, etc., it was not until I joined " ayurvedaonline " last year
that I found the right Vaidya and started on a long term treatment
plan.
The treatment took about 2 months. I was in-patient throughout. The
vaidya has a unique 8-day detox program that was repeated four times
with one week gaps in between two detoxes. All this while, I also
got started on Panchagavya medicines as well as several nervine
herbs like Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Jatamansi, etc. The detox program
featured prescribed diet, oils, and herbs for 6 days followed by two
Basti sessions on the 7th and 8th day. I was also asked to do
advanced breathing exercises called " Tantrik Pranayama " . In
particular, I practiced tantrik versions of alternate-nostril and
kapaal-bhati Pranayama. Since the detox sessions, I have continued
with the breathing exercises, diet prescription, and the herbs.
Going through the detoxes was like riding a roller-coaster as my
condition, mental and physical, was always in a flux due to various
toxins getting released into the bloodstream. When the body is
trying to get rid of the toxins, it tries every possible means to
expel them -- through urine, feces, mucus, sweat, rashes, etc. So,
you can expect a lot of them every day. There were times when I got
constipated due to toxins, sometimes diarrhea, sometimes severe
headaches, etc. The primary goal of the detoxes was to clean the
liver and other internal organs so that they start working properly
in their full capacity. While the detoxes are going on, those organs
obviously do not start working properly right away -- it takes time.
So, the 2 in-patient months were challenging in the least. I lost a
lot of weight, about 15 pounds, as well.
Since the detoxes got over, I started feeling better almost every
day (on average). It has been almost a month since then and now I
feel a lot better -- my mental symptoms have started to fade away.
The physical symptoms have gotten a lot better as well. In the past
week, I have had days when I felt like I never had any problems
before! I have cut the dose of the allopathic drug to one-third. I
am taking only 100 mg of Amisulpride now -- and that too to avoid
the withdrawal symptoms. Tantrik Pranayama is really a blessing -- I
have also tried Ramdev Baba versions of alternate-nostril and Kapaal-
Bhati Pranayama, but my experience so far has been that what you can
achieve with less than 20 minutes of doing tantrik Pranayama, you
have to do Pantanjali ones for over an hour!
It all looks positive from here -- I do not fear a relapse due to
the fact that I have reduced the dosage of the allopathic drug. In
fact, I am looking forward to weaning the drug further out so that I
eventually stop taking it in next 5-6 months. I will keep the group
posted.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my postings for showing me the
way! I sincerely wish that more and more sufferers of mental
diseases consider pursuing Ayurveda and Yoga as a cure. What God has
given to us, we humans can never find the same on our own! There is
an ascending process of gaining/discovering knowledge and there is a
descending one -- ascending one being that of research and
development, that of trial and error, that of confusion and
hipocrisy, that of struggle and wastage of resources; and descending
one is the one that comes as a gift of love and caring from God
himself in form of age-old scriptures written by the saints and the
hermits. It will take a long long time to unfathom the same truth
that is revealed in the scriptures.
Regards,
Matt
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