Neural Therapy Insights and News

Dear Colleagues:  One of the best indications that neural therapy may be the solution to our patient's pain problem is failure of manual treatments to help a situation that is clearly mechanical in nature. This is especially evident when chronic pain develops after a...

Dear Colleagues:  Neural therapy does not come immediately to my mind when patients present with skin problems. If contact dermatitis is not the issue, I usually think of systemic disturbances, especially diet, intestinal parasites, toxic exposures etc.  So when this...

Dear Colleagues: Last month's newsletter was about planning an introductory neural therapy course for North American physicians. I mentioned that training programs are already established in other countries, especially Europe, Latin America (and I should have also...

Dear Colleagues: This month I want to report on the progress of the North American Academy of Neural Therapy (NAANT) in creating an educational program. This is not an easy project as it requires consensus on what neural therapy is, and that is not always clear. Every...

Dear Colleagues: Migraine would seem to be a happy hunting ground for neural therapists. After all, among its most distinctive features are the autonomic nervous system disturbances that to go with it. With some categories of migraine, they are the only symptoms. ...

Dear Colleagues: One of my pet peeves in medicine is pseudo-diagnosis - labelling a condition with a name suggesting knowledge that does not exist. "Arthritis of the spine" comes to mind, used for non-specific backache associated with disc degeneration on x-ray. This...

Dear Colleagues: In a recent newsletter, I announced the release of the long-awaited English translation of Dr. Hans Barop's neural therapy textbook. His first edition was published over 20 years ago, and had already become a standard in the German-speaking world. Dr...

Dear Colleagues: The superior cervical ganglia and the organs directly in front of it (the tonsils) have always been important in neural therapy.  By "important", we mean they are common interference fields, and they also have far-reaching effects on the body's...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to take a look at the subject of Baker's cysts.  These cysts are common and often no more than a nuisance, but occasionally they become painful.  They may even lead to complications affecting nerve supply and leg circulation...

Dear Colleagues: This month I want to tackle the issue of "Regular Membership" of the newly formed North American Academy of Neural Therapy.  I received a few questions about this last month and because it is a contentious subject decided to devote this newsletter to...