Esquizofrenia: tratamentos alternativos (links)

(Esquizofrenia e não só.)

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacinreviews.html

http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/a_hoffer_schizophrenia.php

"When we were conducting the double blind experiments to test vitamin B-3 for treating schizophrenics, I discovered that for a while we were no longer admitting any schizophrenic patients to the Munro Wing, the psychiatric ward of the General Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan. However, as the study ran for several years this dearth of patients that I could enter into the study was replaced by a shower of patients. I soon realized that there was enough resistance among the clinical staff to allowing their patients to be included in the study that they initially preferred to diagnose them depression or anxiety or psychopathy. But since these patients did not recover and relapsed after discharge, on readmission they were forced to make the correct diagnosis."

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During my first interview, she complained she had been depressed and agitated for four years. She was less depressed while on Prozac but was still having problems with her eating disorder. A mental state examination revealed a large variety of perceptual symptoms including hearing voices and seeing visions. There were voices of several men. There was also a change in taste perception. She could not tell the difference from the hallucinations and real phenomena. She was also very paranoid and suspicious of her family and friends. I disregarded all the previous diagnoses which totally ignored her main symptoms and diagnosed her schizophrenia. The mean score for schizophrenia is around 65. Few patients with other diagnoses score over 30 and all normal people score less than 20. On the HOD test she scored extremely high, as follows Total 152, Perceptual 36, paranoid 9, depression 16 and short form 14. The odds she was schizophrenic were over 90%. I started her on niacin 500 mg tid, ascorbic acid 1 g tid, pyridoxine 250 mg od and zinc citrate 50 mg od. Orthomolecular therapy includes the combined use of diet, nutrients in optimum amounts, and drugs as needed.
Three months later she was free of voices. A month later I heard from the referring physician who expressed his pleasure at seeing how well she now was. He added, "She is almost unrecognizably improved". June 11, 1996 she and I estimated she was 80% better. She stated that she felt normal for the first time in five years. In July she continued her improvement. She had visited her mother with her three children and had enjoyed the visit. When she had been depressed and paranoid her psychiatrist had stated that she had a poor relationship with her parents. This was apparently not the case. Her HOD scores were now normal. She was still on niacin 4.5 g od, prozac 20 mg od, and the rest of the vitamin regimen."

"I started her on niacinamide 1 gram after each meal, the same amount of vitamin C, pyridoxine 250 mg each day and zinc gluconate 50 mg each day. Six months later her skin was normal, she was less depressed, had more confidence in herself and found it easier to communicate. She was no longer paranoid. But during July 1988 she had to be admitted to hospital. This time she complained about hearing the voices of her father or mother when they were not present. I re-diagnosed her chronic schizophrenic.
She was started on small doses of thioridazine and in a few days discharged. She was admitted again in March 1990 after her mother had advised her to stop the tranquilizer. She was admitted for the last time March 1990 for 7 days. She was discharged on the same vitamin program with thioridazine 300 mg daily. This is the average dose for this tranquilizer. She no longer heard the voices of her parents. By the end of 1990 I was able to reduce the drug to 100 mg daily. By the end of 1991 she was getting along well and working part time. She had been free of the voices. April 1992 the drug was decreased to 75 mg. She was cheerful, on the same job, getting along well with her fellow workers. January 1993 she was on 25 mg of the drug plus the same vitamins. She was less sleepy, cheerful, and much more communicative. I kept on reducing the drug but in the end of 1994 had to increase it back to 50 mg. Early in 1996 the drug was down to 25 mg. She came to see me July 1996 very excited. She was free of all symptoms. She brought along her math test results and had made 100 percent. She proudly showed me the certificate she had received for her scholastic performance. She was a better reader than the other patients in her class and she was not afraid to read in front of them. She told me that she was very happy because for the first time in many years her parents, who had not been getting along, had reconciled and they were enjoying each other's company again.
The woman I had seen 8 years earlier no longer existed. She had been transformed from a sick looking woman who had the appearance of a retarded person as used to be portrayed in old textbooks of psychiatry, to a young woman who dressed well and spoke freely to me."

"Lena is one out of several thousand I have seen. Why are chronic patients elsewhere denied the opportunity to get well?"

Pois, boa pergunta!

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Outro link: http://abram-hoffer.blogspot.pt/2012/07/dr-abram-hoffer-what-vitamins-minerals.html