Treatment principle: The essence of epilepsy is the abnormal discharge of neural tissue in the brain. Most patients with epilepsy have a very fixed point of origin for their abnormal discharges, but this point of origin is hidden and cannot be seen by ordinary detection techniques. For example, it is like a volcano at the bottom of the sea, but when there is no seizure, the sea is calm and undetectable. Modern epilepsy specialists may be able to find this latent epileptic origin in the brain through some special techniques. For patients who find the point of origin, we will arrange for surgical treatment. The epilepsy surgeon removes the “root” of the abnormal discharges that first occur each time, just like draining the volcanic magma under the earth’s crust, and the epilepsy is naturally cured. However, due to the limitations of technology, modern medical technology cannot detect the origin of epilepsy in the brain of all patients. For those patients who cannot detect the point of origin, they are not suitable for surgical treatment. Neurologists will give them antiepileptic drugs. The principle of these drugs is to paralyze the nerves and make the nerve cells that are restless and prone to firing tame and docile. To use an analogy, it’s like not being able to find the crater of a volcano, but shoring up the entire crust of the earth can also reduce the risk of an eruption. Of course, existing epilepsy medications are short-acting, typically lasting 8-12 hours, and to get continuous medication protection, one has to take medications for life without interruption.