-IBIS-1.5.0-
tx
nervous system
seizure disorders/epilepsy
nutrition

dietary guidelines

therapeutic foods:
• foods that rid internal Wind, clear Heat
• foods rich in Vitamin B6, mg
• for patients using Dilantin, folic acid-rich foods
• increase foods rich in Calcium, Phosphorus, Manganese, Sulfur, Iodine, tryptophan (Jensen, p. 63)
• egg yolk, kale, celery, fish, raw goat's milk, veal joint broth, cod roe, rice polishings, brewer's yeast, nutritional yeast (Jensen, p. 63)

fresh juices:
• celery, carrot, prune (Jensen, p. 63)
• prune and rice polishings (Jensen, p. 63)
• raw goat's milk and 1 tsp. sesame, sunflower, or almond butter, 1 tsp. honey and sliver of avocado (Jensen, p. 63)
• black cherry and egg yolk (Jensen, p. 63)
• carrot celery, spinach, and parsley (Walker, p. 136)
• spinach (Walker, p. 136)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 136)
• carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 136)

specific remedies:
• boil tea from cucumber vines and drink (Ni, p. 35)

avoid:
• meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, alcohol, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, meat, ice cream, shellfish


supplements

• taurine 500-3000 mg per day in divided doses
• Magnesium 800-1200 mg per day
• Vitamin B6
• Zinc
• folic acid (Bastyr); esp. in patients on phenytoin (see below), during pregnancy to prevent neural tube defects (Biale and Lewenthal, 1984; 18: p. 211); pregnancy dose: 400-800 mcg per day minimum; however, avoid large doses (10 mg) as this may increase the incidence of seizures in patients taking phenytoin (Dilantin)
• Calcium 1500 mg per day
• Vitamin E: may reduce the incidence of seizures in patients on phenytoin (Dilantin) (Sullivan, et al., 1990; 152: p. 613-614)
• Vitamin K: 1 mg per day in patients using phenytoin (Dilantin), due to drug-induced depletion
• carnitine: 50 mg/kg leads to reduced hyperammonemia and may reduce hepatotoxicity in patients taking valproic acid (Depa, Depakene, Depakote, Deproic) (Nurge, et al., 1991; 11: p. 949-960); see below

» drug interactions:
• Folic acid and phenobarbital and phenytoin (Dilantin): phenobarbital reduces absorption of folic acid
• Vitamin D, Vitamin K and phenytoin (Dilantin): enzyme induction causes depletion of both Vitamin D and K
• Vitamin E and phenytoin (Dilantin): causes reduced serum levels of Vitamin E (Sullivan, et al., 1990; 152: p. 613-614)


footnotes