Trouble Afoot: Tracking down the Causes and Cures of Parkinson’s Disease
As of August, 2008, a completely overhauled edition of Trouble Afoot: Tracking down the Causes and Cures of Parkinson’s Disease, was posted on this website. The book is nearly completed. Those chapters that are finished are available for free download from this website. This book includes the theory, treatment techniques, and treatment plan that we use in successfully treating Parkinson's disease.
Click here to go to Trouble Afoot: Tracking down the Causes and Cures of Parkinson’s Disease.
NEW PUBLICATION- Tracking the Dragon
Tracking the Dragon, a textbook of advanced channel theory.
Excerpts from this book are downloadable, here, for free. We are pleased to make available the chapters of this book that address the subjects of learning how to feel channel Qi, maps of the acupoints and the channels, and an introduction that explains just what “channel Qi” is.
Introduction- Click this link to download
Tracking the Dragon- Chapter One- Click this link to download
Tracking the Dragon- Appendix- Click this link to download
“I can’t find a health practitioner who can feel what the channels are doing!” This is the most common reason that people with Parkinson’s give for wanting to come to our clinic in Santa Cruz.
The other written materials presented on this website explain, in great detail, what a person needs to do to recover from Parkinson’s disease. There are two steps. Step one: getting rid of the mental tendency towards dissociation. This is very much a do-it-yourself project. No one can help a person with Parkinson’s change his own mental posture. He must do it himself. Step two: the supportive holding, FSR treatment, of the unhealed injury. Anyone – a spouse, a friend, a neighbor – can learn how to do FSR. Full instructions are included in the material on this site.
FSR treatment may require months worth of sessions, lasting anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour. It is impractical to come to our clinic to receive this care – it is best done in the comfort of one’s home town.
But many people with Parkinson’s feel they must visit our clinic, because they want to know what their channel Qi is doing.
Therefore, we are posting on this site, for free download, the pertinent chapters for learning to feel the flow of channel Qi. The chapters come from an acupuncture text on advanced channel theory. This site offers, at no cost, the book’s introduction, the first chapter of the book (the chapter that teaches everything one needs to know to feel channel Qi), and the appendix, which includes maps of all the channels, and maps of all the acupuncture points.
(The rest of the book provides information about channel Qi diagnostics, the channel Qi patterns in the various autonomic states (parasympathetic, sympathetic, dissociative, and sleep), and instructions on acupuncture needling from a channel Qi perspective – information not necessary for a person who only wants to recover from Parkinson’s disease.)
Hopefully, with this additional information, recovery from Parkinson’s disease can be, to an even greater degree, a do-it-yourself outpatient project.
For those who do wish to buy the whole book, it is available directly from the publishers: fastpencil.com. Be aware that this text is a print-on-demand (POD) book: a bone fide book that is professionally printed and bound one copy at a time, when ordered. This new kind of publishing prevents the inherent waste of traditional, mega-copy printing jobs, thus saving paper and money. However, up to a week can be required to get your book produced.
This link takes you to the page where you can order the book:
http://www.fastpencil.com/publications/1487-Tracking-the-Dragon
The Medications of Parkinson's Disease – or – Once Upon A Pill, is the result of four years of research on the various medications of Parkinson's disease and explains how the medications work, how they are supposed to be prescribed (they are rarely prescribed correctly), what happens to people who are taking anti-parkinson's medications if they begin to recover, and our reasons for our recent (2003) decision to not work with anyone who has ever taken anti-parkinson's medications for longer than three weeks. Click here to learn more about this decision. This medications book also has a tremendous amount of material about Parkinson's disease that we learned as a result of observing the changes that occurred in medicated patients during their recovery. Many unmedicated PDers have said that they learned as much about Parkinson's disease from reading the medication book as they did from reading the Recovery from Parkinson's. The various roles of dopamine in regulating attitude, mood, movement, temperature regulation, social stress, illness, and more, is addressed in this book on medication. In general, western style physiology and chemistry of Parkinson's is addressed in the Medication book, and Asian theory about treating channel disorders is in the Practitioner's Handbook. Together, these two books provide an in depth look at the western and Asian understandings of Parkinson's, and the chemical and energetic processes that contribute to this syndrome. Click here to go to The Medications of Parkinson’s – or – Once Upon a Pill.
Click the link below to get updated information on Parkinson's Meds-
Update: Determining whether or not a new antiparkinson's medication is "dopamine-enhancing" |
