STOPPING Seizures with Sniffing Jasmine During Aura - Works!

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SchoolieMom

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Hey All - Our daughter (18) has cluster seizures before her period (catamenial epilepsy). We’ve tried many treatments and nothing worked - until now.

DD has TLE with visual/spatial auras - she does NOT have smell auras. I had read that waving jasmine essential oil under the nose during an aura will stop a seizure. The person does not need to actively smell it, just breathing the smell in, works. Anyway, every single time we’ve used the jasmine during an aura/as soon as a seizure onset, we’ve completely stopped the seizures - including grand mals! There are essential oil bracelets you can buy to put a drop of jasmine into to wear during the day, and when an episode is coming on, you can also just smell your bracelet. DD smells the oil even just to calm her brain down during the day.

Incidentally, for centuries in impoverished areas, people would routinely smell the sole of their shoes when an aura was happening. When we don’t happen to have jasmine handy, we’ve tried the “smelling the sole” trick and it’s stopped the seizures too!

I wanted to share this as it’s an exciting discovery since our daughter has drug resistant epilepsy and a form of pyridoxine dependent epilepsy with the monthly hormonal seizures that have been difficult. To have something that consistently stops seizures and is easy and affordable is a God send!

Hope this info can help others!

Jen
 
Hi Jen,

I was just like your daughter having seizures every month due to hormones changing and I am also drug resistant.
If you daughter isn't allergic to nuts or almonds have her eat them when it gets near that time of the month because
the nuts have progesterone oil in them that helps calm the nervous system and in turn it reduces seizures.
This may sound crazy but what really stopped my seizures is when I would take 2 Tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
with mother in it every morning and then drink some juice. The mother is a good bacteria and protein and on YouTube
another girl did this and it stopped her seizures completely.
Wishing you and your daughter only the best and May God Bless the Both of You!

Sue
 
Thank you Porkette! I’m always open to new ideas. Unfortunately, DD is quite allergic to nuts… And, we did try ACV at one point, but will try again using your recommendation. We also tried RX progesterone (compounding pharmacy) and then estrogen. Strangely, both hormones worsened seizures. Frustrating for sure!

And, thanks for the link Bernard. We have been one of those people who once had a terrible reaction after using an essential oil. When DD was younger, we tried a bit of lavender or something stronger under her nose. It was scary and immediately triggered a weird seizure. So, we completely avoided the oils. Until the Jasmine. And, it’s definitely not a placebo in our case since I was the first one to wave a small jar of jasmine under DD nose while she was going into a seizure and I witnessed it completely stop. DD didn’t even know enough to react in a placebo type of way. And, since that first trial of jasmine, we’ve been able to stop every seizure. It’s been astonishing!

It’s true, though, what works for one person may not work for another. :)

Jen
 
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