Dear Ervin: I had a very interesting visit with Dr. Paneri. He received me at the airport and I arrrived at his house in his 1959 Fiat! The darn thing still runs good; but not a great thing to look at though. That kind of tells you the character of the man himself. He lives in his ancestral house about 80-90 years old. He impressed me as a man of his words, believes very strongly in his medcations for PD, prostatites, SLE, Herpes, and you name it he has got a good medication except for cancer. He is a very unassuming gentleman, with highly orthodox values, and great conviction; he is very confident that he has the cure for PD. To cut the story short, he believes that his herbal combinations has the capacity to rejuvenate the nervous system. He showed me a video of a patient in California; this patient apparently took Dr. Paneri's medication only for eight months and then he did not need any medication. He is leading a normal and active life ever since with no symptom of PD for the past 10 or 12 years. I was talking to another one of his patients with trigemial neuralgia. He was apparently cured by Dr. Paneri and lives a very normal life ever since. This person told me, after looking at my symptoms, that I should expect to be cured in a matterof months with Dr. Paneri's herbal aproach! Dr. Paneri tells me that his herbal concoction does not contain L-dopa. He has a clinic, which is always crowded with pateints of all sorts. He works seven days a week fom 9 am to 9 pm looking at his patients, even on Sundays to attend to his patients' needs. Dr. Paneri tells me that he has visited USA and the Europe 21 times and he was again leaving for US this Monday on a two week trip on invitation to see some of his patients in US and Europe. One of his patients (lives in Orange county in CA) believes so much in his medication (since he also was cured of his PD), and therefore, he is investing $ 4.5 million to start a manufacturing plant in Ahmedabad. I am told that this facility will be up and running by July, 2003. ALL THIS IS VERY EXCITING INFORMATION. ALTHOUGH ONE CAN THINK THAT THIS WHOLE AFFAIR IS A HOAX, I HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT HIS INTEGRITY AND SINCERITY OF PURPOSE. I SUGGEST YOU SHOULD COME TO YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS BASED ON THIS AND OTHER INFO AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET. AS FOR MYSELF, I HAVE DECIDED TO GIVE HIS MEDCATION A TRY. SHALL REPORT ON MY SITUATION AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME. Hope this helps. Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions if you have. I shall try to answer if I can. Best wishes. Raj (R. Rajaraman, PhD. Dept of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology Dalhousie University, Halifax NS Canada.) ********** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn