Treatment for PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY ( PSP)?

Question

I am from Kerala in India. My beloved father aged 81 years was diagnosed to be having PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY (PSP) about one and half years back.This is a Parkinson Plus movement disorder in Pakinsonism (variant of Parkinson disease) group of diseases.His body balance is lost and cannot stand on his foot,his speech is not legible,he has swallowing difficulty which might result in choking or aspiration of food into lungs, his eye ball movement is restrained etc. etc....Allopathy says this is due to progressive degeneration of brain cells (nuerons) controlling movements in the body and there is practically no treatment for this disease. They have been giving him Syndopa Plus(100+25) 11/2 Tabs 3 times daily. Is there any treatment in any system of medicine? Please help!This is an appeal from a son to save his very very affectionate father.

Answer 1

Sorry to hear your dad is ill, I guess this isn't really what you want to hear but this is what I came up with.

There is currently no effective treatment for PSP, although scientists are searching for better ways to manage the disease. In some patients the slowness, stiffness, and balance problems of PSP may respond to antiparkinsonian agents such as levodopa, or levodopa combined with anticholinergic agents, but the effect is usually temporary. The speech, vision, and swallowing difficulties usually do not respond to any drug treatment.. Another group of drugs that has been of some modest success in PSP are antidepressant medications. The most commonly used of these drugs are Prozac, Elavil, and Tofranil. The anti-PSP benefit of these drugs seems not to be related to their ability to relieve depression. Non-drug treatment for PSP can take many forms. Patients frequently use weighted walking aids because of their tendency to fall backward. Bifocals or special glasses called prisms are sometimes prescribed for PSP patients to remedy the difficulty of looking down. Formal physical therapy is of no proven benefit in PSP, but certain exercises can be done to keep the joints limber. A surgical procedure, a gastrostomy, may be necessary when there are swallowing disturbances. This surgery involves the placement of a tube through the skin of the abdomen into the stomach (intestine) for feeding purposes.

Good wishes to you and your family

Answer 2

People are talking about antibiotics, 3 months treatment and all that stuff to make a patient fool without any medical knowledge. I think none of you have gone through last 5 years medical research on various diseases and all over the world it has been established that Turmeric (Haldi) can cure not only ulcer but colon cancer and many other diseases. Take following medicine for 3 days then continue for few more days that is a) for three days and if you feel little better then take a) + b) both for few days. In maximum 15 days you will be cured. a) Amla juice : 20 ml., Aloe vera juice 20 ml., Haldi juice 20 ml. (buy fresh haldi from vegetable vender's clean and crush it and strain juice) mix Satva Giloy 5g. and water 250 ml. = this is one dose. Take one dose empty stomach in the morning and one dose at bed time, night. b) Swarna Soot Shekhar Ras : 1 tab thrice a day after meals. Kaam Dudha Ras : 2 tabs thrice a day after meals. Mulethi Churna : 1 tsp. twice a day Jaggery (Gud) : a piece of about 10g. after meals. Try and get cured.

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