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Multiple Sclerosis
When
I think of MS I think of Roger MacDougall. Roger was a play-writer best known
for his films "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Mouse that Roared". In the
1940’s Roger was confined to a wheelchair by Multiple Sclerosis. He put together
a diet for himself - one that even today, fifty years later, most naturopaths
would little to disagree with or to add to - and slowly recovered. When I met
him in the mid 1950’s he was out of his wheelchair, though still walking with
a cane. Later he would throw his cane away and do cartwheels. He lived to be a
healthy old man. His diet has been written of more than once in the prestigious
medical journal "The Lancet", and he has written of his struggle with MS in a
pamphlet, "My Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis"
I give Roger’s pamphlet to all my MS patients, and to others, not only
for the obvious reasons, but most specifically because of his observation
that after he started his gluten-free diet it was fully four years before
he began to see any marked improvement. Patients and perseverance is the
name of the game.
Click here to read Roger MacDougall’s pamphlet,
"My Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis"
updated?
https://www.flaxfarm.co.uk/my-fight-against-multiple-sclerosis/#.W4a_D85Kjcs
There are several papers in the literature reporting beneficial effects
with MS from acupuncture. Though the reports I have seen all use different
points and approaches, acupuncture may be worth trying.
St. Johnswort, which is a nervine vulnerary (a healer for the nervous
system) may also be of value.
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