Hi, Many years ago when 3 members of my family were in a serious head on collision I found a book called The Broad Range Use of Phenytoin - Bioelectrical Modulator by The Drefus Medical Foundation. It helped with my daughters peculiar behavior after a serious head injury, my wifes head injury and shock, my sons inability to sleep and his temporary descent into psycosis and my nervous colitis brought about by the shock of seeing my bruised and battered family. As an modulator of electrical activity, Dilantin is of help in over 50 different medical conditions. I highly reccomend it as reading material especially for it's chapter on alcohol and drug withdrawal.I have it here and will quote some info from it.Adams, Journal of the American Medical Association(1971) states: "In more than 500 cases of acute alcohol withdrawal, I have yet to see a patient suffer delerium tremors or convulsions when PHT 100 mg. orally four times daily is given...Wilhott, Journal of the Florida Medical Association (1965),.....taken in the treatment of acute alcoholism.... The author also stated that with PHT treatment, by the fourth to the seventh day, ther was a marked improvement in sense of well-being, sleep pattern, appetite and motivation.Ramerez, Personal Communications (1967), described the effective use of PHT during withdrawal of patients with various forms of addiction including heroin......On PHT there was a rapid change in the over-all behavior patterns of the patients. Acting out behavior was much less frequent. Sleepiness, which is a very difficult problem with addicts, was also modified favorably. After a preliminary study with thirty patients, the author used PHT routinely, 100 mg. three times a day.Thurlow and Girvin, Canadian Medical Association Journal (1971), reported the successful treatment of two cases of flashbacks ( recurrent visual hallucinations after LSD ). In one case the patient had been suffering from flashbacks five months after the discontinuence of all hallucinogenic drugs. She was give chlorpromazine, 25 mg t.i.d., with moderate diminution in the intensity, frequency and affective component of her flashbacks. Hallucinations continued to occur, but were less terrifying. Chlorpromazine was discontinued and the previous level of flashbacks returned within twenty-four hours.PHT was instituted, 100 mg t.i.d. Within forty-eight hours she noted a very marked reduction in all types of flashbacks.In another case, 100 mg of PHT intravenously terminated a flashback while in progress. Before injecting PHT, saline was injected as a control wit no effect.There is also a section in the book called Anti-Toxic affects of PHT.I'm growing tired and am a one finger typist so I'll list a few, Alcohol withdrawal, amphetamine toxicity, cyanide toxicity in nerve, Heroin withdrawal, insecticide toxicity, LSD toxicity, Methaqualone intoxication, Morphine withdrawal and mania, spider and snake venom, steroid induced muscle weakness and skin changes, Strychnine toxicity.Some food for thought. H. P.
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