Neural Therapy Insights and News
Bladder Interference Fields
Dear Colleagues: I suppose we all know what the term "irritable bladder" means. It is one of those expressions that is neither symptom nor diagnosis, but which we employ to describe a constellation of symptoms. The term overlaps with many others - bladder...
Iatrogenic Interference Fields
Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to bring up the subject of unintended harm (by physicians) to their patients and how it relates to neural therapy. Iatrogenic is the term we use to describe it. When we think of iatrogenic illness, we usually consider...
Pain Referral Patterns
Dear Colleagues: I wonder if you find pain patterns as interesting as I do? This is a subject that first drew me to orthopaedic medicine, the late James Cyriax's system of identifying the precise anatomical locations generating musculoskeletal pain. In addition...
Pain Referral Patterns
Dear Colleagues: I wonder if you find pain patterns as interesting as I do? This is a subject that first drew me to orthopaedic medicine, the late James Cyriax's system of identifying the precise anatomical locations generating musculoskeletal pain. In addition...
The Lung and Neural Therapy
Dear Colleagues: Last month I made mention of the lung and its connection with the lung meridians as identified in acupuncture. This month I would like to consider the subject of the lung as an interference field in more general terms. The lung is easily...
Neural Therapy and Acupuncture
Dear Colleagues: I am often asked, "How do neural therapy and acupuncture compare?" - a fair question, but not an easy one to answer. The main difficulty is that they are similar in some respects, but different in many others. Both systems lie outside the medical...
Delayed Healing
Dear Colleagues: A recent newspaper report on "nanoscaffolding" for regrowth of severed limbs or other tissue caught my eye. The headline read: "U.S. military can regrow human...
Retrobulbar Ganglion
Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss the retrobulbar (or ciliary) ganglion. Actually, ciliary ganglion is the more commonly used term, but I like the retrobulbar name, partly because it describes its location so well, but also because it avoids...
Oral Allergy Syndrome
Dear Colleagues: Have you heard of "oral allergy syndrome"? I must admit I had not, - until earlier this year when a 16 year old girl (I'll call her Cindy) appeared in my office with her mother. The diagnosis had already been made by an allergist and treatment...
Book Review [3,9]
Dear Colleagues: You may have noticed that I complain from time to time about the lack of English-language literature on neural therapy. Our inveterate correspondent Rainer Kumm, (a German-trained physician practicing in the UK) regularly reminds me of this by...