Neural Therapy

Photo: Injecting sites which cause chronic pain. The Alternative Therapy concept of Neural Therapy.

In an earlier chapter, we talked about the importance of finding the cause and eliminating it It is one of the most important differences in regular, conventional medicine as opposed to alternative medicine, and it becomes very important when we are trying to discover and remove the cause of chronic pain.

It was 1973, and I had been invited to a conference in Columbia, South America. A heavy-set German physician, Dr. Peter Dosch, had come to lecture to us and he asked for a volunteer from our group, specifically someone who suffered chronic headaches.

A young Venezuelan anesthesiologist stood up and told how he had grown up on a farm. He related that one day, he had found a rake lying on the ground and going over to it, rather than bending over to pick it up, he had stood on one end of the rake, causing the handle to fly up from the ground, striking him on his forehead hard enough to break the skin and cause him to bleed. He reported that shortly after this incident, he began having headaches on a regular basis and now found there was no time he was awake that he did not have a headache. He reported taking pain medication constantly, but obtaining no real relief.

Our German instructor asked if the young doctor had a headache currently, to which the anesthesiologist replied, "Yes". Then the German doctor examined his younger patient's face and skin, showing the rest of us a small scar he discovered within the hairs of the right eyebrow.

Picking up a small 5cc syringe, the German physician loaded it with Procaine, an anesthetic, and, afer explaining to the patient what he was about to do, he gently inserted the thin needle into the scar in the eyebrow and discharged the Procaine into it.

Almost immediately, the younger doctor's mouth dropped open in utter shock and surprise. Then the anesthesiologist proclaimed his headache had suddenly disappeared. It did not recur for the remainder of the course, another 3 weeks.

How do we explain what happened? There are some very creative and detailed explanations for these events, but the explanation I like best relates to scars acting like a blockade across an acupuncture meridian. Normally, energy (Chi) flows unimpeded along a meridian, but if there is a scar, the energy does not flow as it normally would, and this creates an "Interference Field", altering not only the energy, but sending a different message to the brain, one of pain rather than whatever else it was supposed to be.

Injecting Procaine into the scar breaks up this blockade, allowing energy to return to normal flow once again.

When I returned from the  course, I experimented on my brother who had suffered with severe back pains and spasms for many years. I found a number of "reactive" scars, but an old appendectomy scar seemed the most reactive. I started with it, first. Beginner's Luck! My brother's pain was gone!

Unfortunately for him, the relief did not last, as there were other contributing factors in his case. But the fact that he got any relilef at all was a great valildation to me- especially because I was a relative "newbie" in the field of alternative medicine and his experience went a long way to boosting my confidence to try other alternative techniques.

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