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It is a pleasure for me to be introduced to this group and I would shake hands with all of you if I could. Let me first of all introduce myself. My name is Mariuccia Fiorani and I am from Italy. I got the name of this group from Barbara Patterson, and I thank her, after sending a message to another newsgroup dealing with herbs and natural remedies. The question I had put to that group was basically whether anybody knew about any natural remedy that might be of help to a far relative of mine who suffers from PD. Now, I must confess that I know nothing at all about this illness, except that whenever this relative comes and visits us, I feel as if I had to stop his hand from shaking and give him some more positive help than just kind words of sympathy. I was registered only yesterday and I have already received stacks of messages. I must admit that I have not read all of them, but I have quickly gone through and saved all of them in a floppy disk. No doubt they will turn out to be useful as soon as I slowly come to understand the meaning of all scientific words of symptoms and remedies. I am grateful for telling your personal experiences. The thing is, that whenever I see my relative, we never enter into the scientific side of the story, I don't know which medicines he takes and I try to cheer him up and keep his hand in mines and try to transmit some kind of warmth which is both physical and of the soul. Anyway, since I personally dislike medicines (I must say I do not suffer from any serious disease, that I know of), I always tell him that there must be a more natural way to recover. I also asked him to keep a track of his illness and see if there might be some signal of worsening at the various hours. He apparently feels worse after he take meals. Also I tried to see if any improvements might come from massaging his hand and neck. he says he feels in some way better, his hand shivers a bit less and it becomes warmer, but of course this is a temporary relief. One of your messages, from Arthur Hirsch, today was going near my point of question. He mentioned having caught part a TV broadcasting about some sort of natural dopamine. (now I know that this is the name for a remedy!). I think it is worth enquiring into this. As far as religion is concerned, I reserve it for my prayers and I hope this remedy turns out to be a real one. I apologize for having written such a long story, but I promise I shall be more concise next time. In the meantime, please do send me your advice especially if it entails natural remedies (for the moment I can grab only simple things). A nice evening to all of you Mariuccia ([log in to unmask])