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restless leg

Someone was asking about restless leg syndrome. The allopathic approach for restless legs is to use the same drugs that are used for parkinson's disease, Levodopa/carbidopa. Sometimes they help and sometimes they don't. These drugs work for those who are depleted in dopamine. However they work for a 10 year period and then the person is usually left in a sitaution worse than before because underlying cause of the disease was not addressed and dopamine was replaced artificially. I first saw a connection between legs and parkinson's when I was researching Parkinson's disease and found a website http://www.pdrecovery.org/ that was an online book written by a doctor of chinese medicine. She was treating many parkinson's patients and found that many of them had had a foot injury and that the liver meridians were compromized. This made me think that it was the blockage of energy flow to the legs that was creating the restless legs and that is was a neurological disorder ...