Another alternative therapy that may be helpful for people with ADD, is called Quantum-Touch. It is fairly simple to learn and uses a very light touch combined with various breathing techniques, body awareness meditations, and hand positions, all which are used to profoundly accelerate the body's own healing response.

There have been reports of those with ADD that have been able to reduce their medication dosage while having a gradual calming effect and a balancing of their body systems.

Those using QT should realize that the healing in the body is gradual and they should not give up. Many people have a comparatively large change at first, but the healing usually slows down later on. Just keep running the energy over time.

One thing that ADDers may not like about QT is that it takes a while to run the energy into the body for yourself or someone else. A session for children might be from 5 to 10 minutes or more, but for an adult the time for a session may be for a half hour or longer, all of which are long times for those with ADD.

Quantum-Touch can also add to the effectiveness of other healing modalities, so I believe that it is definitely worth trying.

I really like EFT and Quantum-Touch, both of which I consider to be excellent healing modalities. Hope this helps!

To the best of my knowledge, there's no research supporting either of those as valid treatments for ADHD.

I do appreciate the post though.

This stimulated my curiosity.

Going to grad school at UC Berkeley, I knew someone attending the Psychic Institute of Berkeley (http://www.berkeleypsychic.com). I watched her do several healings, (hands on and hands off) with inconclusive results.

Here's an article that vaguely describes energy healing and mentions case reports (descriptive only, with no epidemiological or statistical evidence of benefit). It is presents the subject ethnographicly. I fail to understand what quantum (atomic scale) effects have to do with person to person healing techniques, except as metaphor :

The path to becoming an energy healer.
Starn JR., Nurse Pract Forum. 1998 Dec;9(4):209-16.
AW International Center for Health and Healing Education, School of Nursing, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.

The 4-year curriculum of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing prepares energy healers to facilitate client healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Energy healing is an integrative therapy dating back 5,000 years. Psychoneuroimmunology and quantum physics are beginning to reveal what Eastern cultures, spiritual leaders, and indigenous peoples have known about healing through the ages. Case studies illustrate energy healing as an integrative modality. Nurse practitioners need to better understand integrative therapeutic modalities such as energy healing, to treat and communicate with clients who may be using these therapies.

Quantum touch makes me wonder about the placebo effect, which is an example of the brain's spontaneous ability to, at least, dull pain.

So, there are a couple of review articles regarding many studies done on the placebo effect, neurotransmitters and pain, depression and parkinsons disease.

Recently published in that odd online journal, Medical Science Monitor, a review article by one of the editors:

Placebo neural systems: nitric oxide, morphine and the dopamine brain reward and motivation circuitries.

Med Sci Monit. 2005 May;11(5):MS54-65. Epub 2005 Apr 28. Fricchione G, Stefano GB.
http://www.medscimonit.com/pub/vol_11/no_5/7202.pdf
Evidence suggests that the placebo response is related to the tonic effects of constitutive nitric oxide in neural, vascular and immune tissues. Constitutive nitric oxide levels play a role in the modulation of dopamine outflow in the nigrostriatal movement and the mesolimbic and mesocortical reward and motivation circuitries. Endogenous morphine, which stimulates constitutive nitric oxide, may be an important signal molecule working at mu receptors on gamma aminobutyric acid B interneurons to disinhibit nigral and tegmental dopamine output. We surmise that placebo induced belief will activate the prefrontal cortex with downstream stimulatory effects on these dopamine systems as well as on periaqueductal grey opioid output neurons. Placebo responses in Parkinson's disease, depression and pain disorder may result. In addition, mesolimbic/mesocortical control of the stress response systems may provide a way for the placebo response to benefit other medical conditions.

Similar suggested kitchen sink mechanisms for the placebo effect:

Mechanisms of the placebo effect and of conditioning. Neuroimmunomodulation. 2005;12(4):195-200. Haour F.

A placebo is a sham treatment, such as a pill, liquid, or injection without biological activity, used in pharmacology to control for the activity of a drug. However, in many cases this placebo induces biological or psychological effects in the human. Two theories have been proposed to explain the placebo effect: the conditioning theory, which states that the placebo effect is a conditioned response, and the mentalistic theory, which sees the patient's expectation as the primary cause of the placebo effect. The mechanisms involved in these processes are beginning to be understood through new techniques of investigation in neuroscience. Dopamine and the endorphins have been clearly shown to be mediators of placebo effects. Brain imaging has demonstrated that placebos can mimic the effect of the active drugs and activate the same brain areas. This is the case for placebo-dopamine in Parkinson's disease, for placebo-analgesics or antidepressants, and for placebo-caffeine in the healthy subject. It remains to be understood how conditioning and expectation are able to activate memory loops in the brain that reproduce the expected biological responses.

Seems miles away from a conclusive mechanism of action,and the effect measures are soft. But dopamine (the neurtransmitter of choice for ADHD research) may be involved.

I don't see how a placebo-type effect, if it exists for ADHD, could have specific long-term benefits for such a chronic condition.

Though, I must admit, meditation techniques, and mindfulness or breathing excercises can be beneficial in their own right, without the need to invoke health benefits.

How about if you use Quantum Touch (ok, that title is really asking for all kinds of blurts, on my end....so I'm going to hurry up and write this and take off before I get in trouble) techniques, in conjunction to psychotherapy and psychotropics ?

That satisfies my scientific/research half as well as the 'wellness' side also, McT and Stan.

I know they're not proven to be effective, but sometimes a healing/holistic massage just feels great, boys...ya know....and helps alleviate some of the stress/frustration involved with having ADD/HD.

Especially with aromatherapy, sound effect, and candles included.

If anything..it, at least will relax you, for the half hour that you are there,
receiving it (0;

Nova

Thanks for the posts.

Perhaps my plans for world domination thru placebo stimulants, marketed under the BFD brand, has "scientific" merit.

Insert creepy organ music and..."Muuuuhhhaaa" here.:)

Thanks for the posts.

Perhaps my plans for world domination thru placebo stimulants, marketed under the BFD brand, has "scientific" merit.

Insert creepy organ music and..."Muuuuhhhaaa" here.:)
I think you should insert U2's 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'
Include me in that category, Sugar ! I'm the Narcissist, remember ?
But I am a pretty one...lol !!!

Nova

Tears For Fears...... "Music From the Big Chair".:) (1985...I think)


Excellent video w/ an Austin -Healy in it to boot

I know they're not proven to be effective, but sometimes a healing/holistic massage just feels great, boys...ya know....and helps alleviate some of the stress/frustration involved with having ADD/HD.
Nova, I've got no problem with that. In fact, what's missing (the big fat doughnut hole) in Western medicine is the human touch!

Busy, busy, busy.

Alternate practicioners spend a lot of time with patients. Not a bad thing, atoll.

Especially with aromatherapy, sound effect, and candles included.
Eeeek! I guess I'm still a New York black leather and dark sunglasses Ramones Johnny Rotten Strummer kinda guy. The Berkeleyness-of-it-all hasn't penetrated yet.

I wanna pigfoot and a bottle of beer
Send me daddy, cos I don't care
I feel just like I wanna clown
Give the piano player a drink
Cause he brought me down . . .
Opps, no beer for me these days. :eek:
And that pigfoot's made entirely of tofu --yikes!

Help, I'm morphing into Sting.



Now, I don't mind a nice massage, ever' now and again. Good for whatever ails ya. I can leave the World Dominos to the Dominatrix.


Wadda ya say -- U2 McT?

Its bloody Sunday, again.

Tears For Fears...... "Music From the Big Chair".:) (1985...I think)
"Songs from the Big Chair". Geez, am I dated! :eek:

If the both of you, badas*es, would go get a secret massage, with aromatherapy and candles....you'd come out grinning like the dickens (0:

And Stan..you can put your shades and your leather back on afterwards..
And McT..your Beav&Butts world will still remain intact after you leave there, LMAO !!!

You 'twos' aren't actually gonna become 'pansified' if you get one of those massages...

'S ok...tho....practitioners of that technique *waving*...
will just save it for real guys... (0;


Gotcha !

You two are so adorable !!!
Nova

Though, I must admit, meditation techniques, and mindfulness or breathing excercises can be beneficial in their own right, without the need to invoke health benefits.
I don't think I'd put meditation, etc. in with this stuff. Nor would I consider it placebo, even though there's really no way to test it.

Meditation & hypnosis DO result in physical changes in the brain. I don't know if there are any benefits, even short term, but I keep telling myself I'm going to start meditating again!!!

McT, I've often thought of how easy it would be to put a lot of my psychological knowledge to use pulling the wool over people's eyes! When I cover social psych in my intro classes, a big part of that is persuasion. I tell them I'm training them to win friends and influence people; the secrets to manipulation! But.... I'm too direct and "self-righteous" for deception.

Stan, the placebo effect is the one thing that (SOMETIMES) keeps me from shouting from the rooftops, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!"

:D;)

One great idea I've heard put forth for a book title, and this is not my idea, so I'm not taking credit is:

GET A DAMN GRIP

One great idea I've heard put forth for a book title, and this is not my idea, so I'm not taking credit is:

GET A DAMN GRIPOh...this coming from the King of the Butts himself (0:

I'm curtseying as I say this...so stop throwing crapppp at me already !!!!!!!!!
I meant stop throwing invisible objects at me, lol !

Not meaning that your research is crapppp, McT...just in case that gets lost in translation by anyone who reads our bantering.
Your research is profound, you know I believe that, and believe in you, always.

I just love making you grin on here !

Moi

GET A DAMN GRIP
Oh, I love it. How about:

IF I GIVE YOU A QUARTER, WILL YOU BUY A CLUE?