Thanks for your validation.  I use a meditation that is based on grounding, running energy, and activating and clearing out the chakras - while also recognizing that I am spirit and so is everyone else on the planet.  My meditation posture is sitting, hands at my side in a relaxed position, feet flat on the floor uncrossed, and turning within.  I won't go into a lot of details because I don't wish to invite invalidation if it doesn't meet the expectations of other meditators.  However, if you go to the link that I provided about a woman who was incarcerated and declared insane who healed through meditation at http://intentions.wordpress.com/about/ you will find that she uses a form of meditation in which she "melts into" herself.  That's similar to what I practice except that I allow all energies that are not me to flow down my grounding (a connection you as spirit make between your first chakra and the center of the planet).  Grounding is a flow, a dumping ground, it is not static and you will only let go of things that are blocking you.

My PTSD healing was not easy and I don't in any way want to imply that it was.  My source of pain had been there for decades and I never knew it and once I got in touch with it I denied it was there until - I began to re-experience my pain all over my body in vivid detail.  I think that anyone who knows they are dealing with PTSD knows exactly what I mean.  My body did not want to meditate.  It tried every which way to turn away from my pain but I forced myself to sit and look at what really happened in my life.  It took me a long time to actually get through it, but after a month or two of facing and admitting it, the journey became easier.  It is something that I will never forget yet there are no longer any triggers or fear or anything else associated with it other than a memory.  I counseled for about six months and never told my counselor or anyone else that I contemplated suicide.  I knew that if I did I would be incarcerated.  I also refused all offers of medication - and an offer of hypnosis from my counselor.  I learned self-hypnosis many years ago but what I've learned since then leads me to believe that it does more damage than it does good, and in the hands of the wrong person - including experienced counselors, it can cause severe problems.

My pain originated in early childhood.  We rationalize all sorts of debilitating things that happen to us in childhood because we think our world is normal, and generally it isn't.  Then when we reach adulthood we once more rationalize events in childhood as "it didn't really hurt" or "others had it worse than I did" and all sorts of excuses - anything except admitting that we/I as an individual had pain.  I am an ex-Marine front-line rifle carrying combat veteran of Korea, and later in my service time survived an airplane disaster in which the pilot was killed in the crash.  I will take both my combat and air experiences many times over rather than go through my childhood difficulties - any day.  I can relate to anyone who had abuse in childhood, either male or female.  Yes I had to deal with my military experiences too but they were much easier than the childhood experiences.

Best to you in dealing with your PTSD.

Your experiences and healing journey are commendable yet it is your personal journey and not all journeys are the same.  Nutrition alone will not heal PTSD.  I do agree with your assessment of medications.  Before the introduction of SSRI meds I was given a 10 pill prescription for 5 grain (a low dose) Valium and discovered that it made the world go away much better than martinis - without the hangover.  After taking the first one in the morning and ruining my whole day I used them recreationally in the evening and once they were gone I swore I'd never again take a mood altering drug, and I haven't.  The Valium was long before my PTSD showed its face.

Shortly after my PTSD erupted full force by re-experiencing my childhood abuse along with the ability to only sleep in 20 and 30 minute stretches due to horrible nightmares, I took a three day seminar at Esalen with Edith Eger who is an Auschwitz survivor.  

On her arrival at Auschwitz, Edith's father was separated from her and sent to another camp and she never saw him again.  Her mother was taken directly to the ovens and she knew that same day that her mother was going up in the smoke that was emanating from them.  Edith spent a year in that concentration camp where she was permanently crippled by a German soldier who hit her in the back with the butt of his rifle.  She obviously did not have an easy time.

After the war Edith married another Holocaust survivor and immigrated to the United States where she raised a family.  At age 40 she began college for the first time in her life at the University of Texas where she received a PhD in psychology and she had been practicing her profession for thirty years by the time she taught the seminar.

The seminar had only 5 or 6 attendees so there was a great deal of time to ask questions and to get to know Edith.  Her own healing journey was one of self assessment and didn't involve drugs or nutrition.  She took responsibility for everything that happened to her in her life, including her Auschwitz experience.  By that I me she recognized that she had personally created everything that had happened to her and then through her inward journey learned why she had created that experience.  Although I didn't know her beliefs before the seminar, it was something that I also believed (still do) for myself so I greatly appreciated her view of healing and growth.  Edith was about 16 at the time of her incarceration and had trained as a ballet dancer for several years.  When Dr. Mengele (infamously known as the doctor of death) learned of her dancing ability he asked her to perform for him, and here is a quote from Edith recalling her experience while dancing:

"Edie said as she continued to dance, "Dr. Mengele discussed with the guards who should die next. I prayed. Not for myself, but for Dr. Mengele, so he would not have to kill me. It was then that I began to pity the Nazis; they were more imprisoned than I. Somehow I would survive, but they would always have to live with what they had done."

Edith told how she had had to forgive Hitler, the guard who crippled her, and all of the Germans in the concentration camp as a part of her healing journey.

I believe very much the same way that Edith does, that we create our own reality and that we have to take responsibility for everything that has happened in our lives and forgive everyone else while at the same time forgiving ourselves for our creations.  That is my core belief and I use meditation to do just that and meditation and nothing else cured my PTSD.  By the way, I was on the front lines in combat in Korea and I'm an air disaster survivor in which another person was killed.  Yes, I've had to deal with those experiences as well using my meditation.  I'd like to also add that my PTSD erupted in full bloom within a week of  the love of my life leaving me.  I discovered that life experiences can do that.  Today there are no triggers of any kind that can rekindle either my PTSD or military experiences.

I'd like to point out one last thing.  My PTSD was from childhood experiences - within my family.  During childhood one has to rationalize the world about them, and that's what I and many others do with pain.  It is that rationalization and denial that creates the setting for PTSD, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and many other ills - and it has nothing to do with nutrition.  One of Edith's many little sayings was "If you repress you will depress" and I found that to be true.  You have to experience all of your emotions from anger and hate to joy and enthusiasm in order to experience life pain free.  That doesn't mean trouble free, it just means pain free.

You can learn about Edith Eger and her experiences here: http://www.heroicjourney.com/pages/about/edieeger.htm

"As to meditation, I regard this as a "management technique", (please look up term at our search engine) which is different from a "cure". It is a technique that needs to be done at regular intervals, like taking drugs, but does not permanently "cure" the illness. We have a "relaxation therapy" at our web site (look up) that is similar to "meditation"."

That is simply not true.  I have cured several mental and physical manifestations from PTSD to long term depression, anxiety, panic attacks, heart palpitations, atrial fibrilation, and other things with meditation alone, and I'm not the only one.  Many have done the same thing.

When you turn within and recognize yourself as the eternal spirit that you and everyone else is, you can then take control of your reality as spirit and you can heal all sorts of things.  The major problem is that we in our Western Society are all programmed that we are bodies and not spirit.

The woman who I have mentioned before was taught that she was an eternal spirit at age 7 and she survived Auschwitz - weighing 40 pounds and buried by corpses when she was found.  She took responsibility for her incarceration, forgave Hitler, the Nazis and all Germans in her camps.  Taking complete responsibility for everything that has ever happened to you and forgiving all of it - externally and internally, is the key to all kinds of healing.

Edith Eger's profile is at: http://www.heroicjourney.com/pages/about/edieeger.htm