Bircher-Benner 1 Manual for patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The structure of the central nervous system
The cerebrum
The thalamic nucleus
The cerebellum
The limbic system
The hormone-producing glands of the brain
The anterior lobe of the hypophysis (adenohypophysis)
The posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis)
The epiphysis and melatonin
The nerve cell (neuron)
The potential for action
The synapses
Messenger substances of the nervous system (neurotransmitters)
The importance of the glial cells in the brain
The spaces of the brain and the fluid in the brain and spinal cord
The blood-brain barrier
Transport through the blood-brain barrier
The behaviour of the blood-brain barrier in substance transport into
and out of the brain
The effect of alcohol consumption on the blood-brain barrier
The effect of smoking on the blood-brain barrier
The effect of electromagnetic radiation on the human brain
and the blood-brain barrier
The myelin marrow sheaths - a sensitive substance
Demyelinating diseases
Remyelination
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
Diseases from storage of degenerative proteins
The TAU proteins
Amyloidosis
The effect of nutrition on the central nervous system
Two kinds of food energy
The basic regulation system of the soft connective tissue
in the central nervous system
Oxidative stress at the centre of the causes of neurodegenerative
diseases
The influence of environmental stress from pollutants as the cause
of neurodegenerative diseases
The neurotoxic effect of mercury
Organic tin compounds and neurodegeneration
Chlorine and neurodegenerative diseases
The neurotoxic effect of volatile organic hydrocarbons
Insecticides and neurodegenerative diseases
Wood protection agents and neuro degenerative diseases
Neurotoxic medicines and neuro degeneration
Legal and prohibited drugs and neurodegenerative diseases
Cannabis
Amphetamines
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
Heroin, morphine, other opiates

Dr.med. Andres Bircher is Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner's grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich University Hospitals at senior Level, Training Analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy. Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in Food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center.