DESCRIPTION  Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is characterized by the death the motor centers of the brain and of the spinal cord. |
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HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is NTS. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine. |
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CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations. During observation on 10
patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy in addition to acupuncture therapy, 1 case were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 3 cases other significant improvement, 3 cases other moderate improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 70.0%. During observation on 14
patients receiving treatment with herbal remedy in addition to
acupoint injection
therapy, 2 cases were judged as healing (full recovery and symptom free), 9 cases other significant improvement, 1 case other moderate improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 85.7%. Check the table below for details. |
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HERBAL REMEDY BEST FOR YOU The most powerful feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it allows you to easily combine multiple ingredients to form a recipe to suit the specific need of individual. The list below are to give you an idea of why you can get the herbal remedy best for you from here with us. |
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Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results. |
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Custom-made with Unique Technology: When you order a herbal remedy at this website you can figure out your symptoms by using our online questionnaire system. In this way a basic herbal recipe could be customized and optimized by adding or removing some herbs to address the individual symptoms exactly. Chinese herbs should not be used in form of standard industrial products manufactured in bulk to cope with all body issues. Only custom-made is the traditional and professional way to use Chinese herbs. All the herbal remedies available at this website are purposed to be custom-made on each single order base. With our unique technology called Low-temperature Concentration the active ingredients of herbs could be survival as much as possible while being concentrated. Eevery 8 ml of the extracts, as one dose, might equal to about 50 grams of raw herbs. |
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Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
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Easy-to-Take Dosage Form: You do NOT need to cook these herbs at all. We get everything ready for you. The herbal remedy comes with the preparation in an easy-to-take dosage form, typically an oral dosage form namely Liquid Herbal Extracts created on a single order base. If necessary other dosage forms, such as pills, capsules, tablets, powder, tea bag, agar gel, rinse, lotion, spray, tincture, liniment, ointment, suppositories, etc., might be used depending on how to use the herbs correctly. And herbal remedy kit, consisting of two different herbal formulae typically one for oral administration and another for external use, is often used for the skin conditions. |
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Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are progressive, degenerative disorders that affect nerves in the upper or lower parts of the body. Some of the diseases are inherited, while others may be acquired. Common MNDs include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive muscular atrophy, and postpolio syndrome. Generally, MNDs strike in middle age. Symptoms may include difficulty swallowing, limb weakness, slurred speech, impaired gait, facial weakness, and muscle cramps. Respiration may be affected in the later stages of these diseases. The cause(s) of most MNDs are not known, but environmental, toxic, viral, or genetic factors may be implicated. |
Motor neuron disease is one example of a class of disorders in which specific nerve cells degenerate and die. Motor neurons affect voluntary muscles, stimulating them to contract. There are two types of motor neuron cells. One cell type called "the upper motor neuron" originates in the cerebral cortex (a part of the brain) and sends fibers through the spinal cord. In a simplified way, upper motor neurons are involved in controlling lower motor neurons. As upper motor neurons degenerate, reflexes such as the knee jerk are exaggerated (brisk). |
The second cell type called "the lower motor neuron" starts in the spinal cord and sends fibers out to muscles. When a lower motor neuron degenerates, the muscle fibers it normally activates become disconnected and do not contract, causing muscle weakness and diminished reflexes. Although the affected nerve cells cannot grow back, the remaining healthy lower motor neuron fibers may send out nerve branches in the muscle and reinnervate or reconnect to the muscle fibers. This occurs to a limited degree and slows the progression of weakness. Loss of either type of neuron results in weakness, and painless weakness is the major symptom of motor neuron disease. |
Motor neuron disease is a syndrome. The term "syndrome" means that patients with the disease can show a variety of patterns of involvement, but the overall features allow for proper diagnosis. At the time of diagnosis, weakness may be noted in muscles of a single limb or several limbs, or muscles of speech and swallowing may be involved. At later times, weakness may effect speech, swallowing, or breathing. The time-course is variable, and no two people follow the same pattern of involvement or rate of progression. |
The diagnosis of motor neuron disease is made from a careful history, a physical examination, and an EMG study. There is no single test available which gives a "yes" or "no" answer. It is the pattern of findings and exclusions of other diseases which allows the neurologist to establish a diagnosis and to determine which form of the syndrome is present. Blood studies, imaging (CT, MRI), and EMG studies help to exclude other diagnoses. |
Many names have been applied to the syndrome of motor neuron disease. Among those frequently used are Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Lou Gehrig's Disease. ALS is the most common form of motor neuron disease in adults. There are rare forms such as Primary Lateral Sclerosis (affecting upper motor neurons only) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (affecting lower motor neurons only). The term Lou Gehrig's Disease describes the course in a single individual and does not accurately reflect the course in other people. Other examples of motor neuron diseases include: |
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The varied features of motor neuron disease mean that the course or prognosis is also varied. No one can predict the future of a medical condition with certainty. How fast an individual patient will develop new weakness can best be estimated by looking back at how fast strength has been lost. Because reinnervation helps to maintain strength, most patients have had motor neuron disease for a longer period than they realize. This means that for many individuals changes take place slowly, sometimes over years, and progression may be punctuated by periods of apparent stability. |
Weakness is the major symptom in motor neuron disease. Thinking and memory are unaffected. Vision, hearing, and sensation remain normal. Full control of bowel and bladder function is retained, although there may be urinary urgency. Sexual potency also is unaffected. Pain is not typical. Some people may have muscle cramps which may be briefly uncomfortable and for which medication is given. Occasionally there is pain in or about joints which is due to weak muscles (muscle imbalance). This often can be improved by physical therapy and bracing. |
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SYMPTOMS Common symptoms are: |
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Muscle wasting - This is often noticed first in one of the hands or in other muscles in a leg or arm, or sometimes in several different muscles at once.
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Muscle weakness - This is usually most noticeable in a wasted limb. Muscle weakness can cause difficulties with performing tasks like undoing a bottle top or holding heavy objects, or with walking or climbing stairs.
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Fasciculations - These are involuntary contractions of parts of a muscle just below the skin, which are sometimes felt as a little twitch under the skin. They occur because the nerve supply to the muscle is damaged.
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Difficulty swallowing and with speech - At some stage in the disease, there can be problems with swallowing and speech. For some people, they may be the first problems to become apparent. Their medical name is bulbar palsy.
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Muscle cramp or spasms - These may occur unexpectedly when a muscle is at rest, for example in bed or when it is suddenly contracted.
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These symptoms are usually progressive - so that wasting or weakness first seen in one part of the body will spread to other parts of the body with time. However, many of the symptoms can be eased by a range of treatments. |
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