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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / March 2006Should tinnitus patients try gingko biloba?
Assuming the cause of your tinnitus is unknown after the most scientific check-ups by your certified doctors, and you are still having problems with your tinnitus, I would suggest you to at least try gingko biloba. I tried it, being prescribed by a doctor who graduated from Cambridge University of England. The use of gingko biloba transformed my ear ring into drum ring or ringing on the ear drum instead of ringing at the centre of my brain! My doctor was delighted because according to him the use of gingko biloba had helped some nerve in my head recover. It is my amateurish view that tinnitus in many, but not all, cases, is a nerve ill! Nerve is in our head, and the way to help nerve recover is through improved blood circulation in the head. Gingko biloba has the property of improving blood circulation in the head, which in turn helps tinnitus provided the later is related to the nerve in the head. Talk to your local pharmacist about the quantity used. They have the experience with many users of this product. Don't get scared by all that alarming talks about brain bleeding. Too much of anything causes harm. Thus the key is in moderation. I am using the gingko pills made by Century 21 manufacturer in Arizona. They are excellent products. The recommended dosage is 2 a day for one month and then one a day. When I first started, I used 2 a day for ONE day and then 1 a day up to now. But talk to those who have prescribed it or used it. Buy the ones made of leafs. You may find some help there. After all, if it does not help you, you can always drop it. It is totally non-addictive at all! FP [snip] > It is my amateurish view that tinnitus in many, but not all, cases, is > a nerve ill! Nerve is in our head, and the way to help nerve recover is > through improved blood circulation in the head. Gingko biloba has the > property of improving blood circulation in the head, which in turn > helps tinnitus provided the later is related to the nerve in the head. [snip] > FP I tend to agree with you. I have constant tinnitus and the "sound" seems to be emanating from my head, not like its some external sound that my ears are picking up. I feel very fortunate that I have adapted to this sound. It does not cause me any tremendous discomfort nor do I have sleeping disorders. Unless I think about it, I'm mostly unaware of it. The two things that effect me most are ... 1) I *do* prefer white noise of some sort when going to sleep. A dead silent room is less comforting than one with a air conditioner or a fan in the background. Yet, I *can* sleep in a completely quiet room - I just prefer not to. 2) Although a hearing test indicated that I have normal hearing capability (i.e. no hearing loss), I am not very good at picking out words in a conversation when there is any kind of background noise. For example, when at a party and trying to carry on a conversation, the background noise causes me to miss much of what a person is saying to me, although they are standing right next to me. I can tell that others in the participating in the conversation are not experience the difficulty I am in hearing the speaker. I simply cannot tune out background noise as well as I could in the days BEFORE tinnitus. Going to a bar or nightclub with a band and sitting at a table and trying to have a conversation? ... FORGET IT! David Emerling Thank you, David, for having shared your thoughts. It is my humble view that, albeit you have adopted to your t, your t is not yet well treated. By having t well treated, I liternally mean that you either don't hear anything or hear some very small sound when you DELIBERATELY listen to it. You may want to try sleeping WITHOUT a pillow for a few days and see if it makes a difference. 1/3 of our time is devoted to sleeping, which means 1/3 of the time your body is lying FLAT! 1/3 of a day given to improved blood circulation in your head should be a lot of help to your nerve. Try that and see if your t improves. Sound masking is good and I wish I had done more of it in the beginning. In the beginning I suffered from the discomfort at the centre of my brain too. It was very very horrible. It felt as someone blew a whistle at the centre of my head right at the middle of the night. With gingko, it lessened the problem. The reason in my view has been better blood circulation in the head. I wish more participants in this group can try gingko with the supervision of their doctors. Unfortunately, gingko is too much of an 'alien' med to the 'orthodoz' doctors and it is not in their professional interests to have this very cheap 'unconventional' med prescribed to their patients. FP > [snip] > > It is my amateurish view that tinnitus in many, but not all, cases, is [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > David Emerling > Thank you, David, for having shared your thoughts. > [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] >> >> David Emerling it's a bit late but san nin faai lohk. Try it first before coming to that conclusion. It's easy for Dr Grossan to talk about substance based therapy, while knowing his protocol is biofeedback based and not organic, therefore there will be no side effects. Gok yahn gok louh. > It's easy for Dr Grossan to talk about substance based therapy, while > knowing his protocol is biofeedback based and not organic, therefore there > will be no side effects. Gok yahn gok louh. essentially each to his own way of getting relief. On 3/19/06 5:17 PM, in article 441e02b4$0$6989$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net, "William Nunn" <guangs@yorkie123.plus.com> wrote: > It's easy for Dr Grossan to talk about substance based therapy, while > knowing his protocol is biofeedback based and not organic, therefore there > will be no side effects. Gok yahn gok louh. Anyone know what that means?? Not organic???? What is that? Does that refer to my not buying organic foods? Substance based therapy?? Does that refer to my substance abuse - chocolate? No side effects? Actually Biofeedback can be dangerous for persons taking heavy sedatives and blood pressure medications. With BF the anxiety and BP drop and then the medication can become dangerous.
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