Are there any herbs, foods, or food supplements which may help to reduce or relieve symptoms of peripheral neuropathy??? Physician suggested, woman tested!

Updated: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:14:38 PM

Generally, these suggestions required 3-12 weeks for an improvement to be noticed. These items can easily be found at health food or Wal-Mart type drug stores.

• One 400 mg of chondroitin sulfate daily and 500 glucosamine sulfate 2-3 times daily. These are normally used for arthritis.
• Herbal Ginko Baloba let one woman play the piano again!
• One gelatin capsule (10 grains each) with each meal.
• Drinking Tonic Water with Quinine or Tonic Water with juice.
• A drink made of 1 drop of nutritional iodine in a glass of water or juice every day.
• While on Hexalen, taking blue-green algae tablets didn't reverse the neuropathy that remained after Taxol and Carboplatin, but she has not experienced any further neuropathy, even with nine rounds of Hexalen.
• Extra physician prescribed potassium and calcium tablets. Note: Orange juice and bananas are high in natural potassium.
• Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) reverses nerve damage in diabetics. http://www.hnbreakthroughs.com/nov97/doctorsinsight.cfm.
• Two German studies found that alpha-lipoic acid reduced the effects of diabetic neuropathy. One study gave 600 mg IV and the other gave 800 mg orally for four months (Let's Live 11/99, p27-8).
• Primrose oil and other sources of gamma-linolenic acid, such as borage or black current seed oil, help reduce inflammation in diabetic nerve damage, thus reversing neuropathy associated with diabetes.
• A tincture called Collinsonia and Horse Chestnut Compound by Herb Farm was prescribed by an acupuncturist. One should take the drops with fluid daily.
• A high protein/low carbohydrate diet (Atkins Diet), which one woman used to control her hypoglycemia, also helped her neuropathy.
• Glucosamine/chondroitin (500mg/400mg), which is a popular non-prescription arthritis combination, three times a day helped with one woman's neuropathy.
• A diet high in a nutrient called inositol (found in cantaloupe, peanuts, grapefruit, and whole grains) helps with diabetic neuropathy.

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