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Old 11-20-2010, 06:11 PM
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Smile Treatign ET with Homeopathy

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Originally Posted by fireflysinmyjar View Post
My essential tremor is being controlled pretty good with Inderal, but I still have times where my hands shake, I use Sign Language with my deaf friends which causes me problems with my shaky hands.
I was wondering if anyone has had success's with some homeopathic treatments for ET.
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Hello, I realize this is a older post but if you have had success with your treatment I wold love to hear from you, please post. I have had ET since early childhood and have learned a few things since then, I am now 47.
First in terms of directly answering your question, we would have to come to a consensus on Homeopthy, usually this is meant to discern true homeopathic treatment which the principle states that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people.
However many people use the term to mean non tradidional or herbal treatment. My first point really fits both sides.
I found a study years back in JAMA that demonstrated that theophyline from tea can be used to treat ET. All natrual sources of caffine produce the 3 major forms, theozanthine, theophyline, and theobromine (sorry on spelling), but usually make far more of one than the other. Tea produces mostly theoophyline. I tried this and noticed immediate help!!! Black tea seams to work the best for me, green tea seems to be too strong for me. I always have to be carefull not to overdue it about two cups of tea a day does the trick for me. Regular caffine from coffee makes my ET much more pronounced, which is too bad since I love coffee.
Also on the non medical side, Vitamin D about 1000 units per day is supposed to give some relief as well as B12, both seem to give mild help to me as well, especially the Vit. D.
Finally as a personally observation I was on a true low carb diet for about 4 years and my ET almost stopped completely durring that time, no sure why I have never seen anything on this.
Good luck to you please post with any success you have had.
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