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Role for Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Epilepsy
Joseph Scheller, MD
Arch Neurol. 2005;62:1471-1472.
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There is very little information available in the medical literature regarding the benefits or lack thereof of alternative treatments for epilepsy. These treatments are offered by herbologists, homeopaths, nutritionists, practitioners of Oriental medicine, aromatherapists, chiropractors, and others. Their recommendations are often used by patients who have epilepsy. In a recent California survey, 56% of adults with epilepsy were found to use vitamin or mineral supplements, herbal products, or natural remedies (garlic and others).1 In a survey of parents who had children with epilepsy, chiropractic and massage therapies were commonly used as well.2
Alternative therapies are not thoroughly studied for 3 reasons. First, practitioners of traditional Western medicine are skeptical of the alternative treatments’ chances of providing demonstrable benefits. Second, few organizations or corporations in the alternative-therapy sphere have the financial means to organize and implement scientific trials to attempt to prove the effectiveness of alternative therapies. Companies . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliation: Department of Neurology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC.
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