NEURAL THERAPY IN PRACTICE ARCHIVE

Dear Colleagues: I think most neural therapists would agree that finding interference fields is one of the most intellectually satisfying things we do.  This is especially true if the patient responds well and lastingly to treatment. However good and lasting responses...

Dear Colleagues: Last month I wrote about a case that surprisingly had an interference field lurking in the background.  The pioneers of neural therapy urged us to look for interference fields even in the most unlikely cases.  Here is another such case: An otherwise...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss the role of neural therapy in treating a case of atrophic vaginitis.  Atrophic vaginitis is common in post-menopausal women and usually easily treated with topical hormones, but this case was different.  Atrophic...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss anusitis, a common problem, but one that patients often neglect to mention unless symptoms are severe. For some reason "heartburn", "sore throat", and "indigestion" seem to be worthy of attention, but pain or itching...

Dear Colleagues: This month's topic is kidneys as interference fields.  Kidneys are hardy organs; they seem to tolerate the stresses of modern life quite well and are easily overlooked in the search for interference fields. Part of the reason is that they seldom...

Dear Colleagues: Last month's newsletter included three English-language articles on neural therapy.  I hope you found time to read them or at least place them on your desktop to be read later. This month I intend to get back to the usual format of something short and...

Dear Colleagues: David Vinyes, of Barcelona, Spain, is president of the Spanish Neural Therapy Society and a very busy man.  Not only is he in demand as a speaker internationally, but he also is active in neural therapy education in Spain, is an organizer of...

Dear Colleagues: Some North Americans who learned neural therapy from Dietrich Klinghardt in the mid-1990s will remember Louisa Williams.  She is a gifted naturopath-chiropractor who (with Dr. Klinghardt) discovered that Applied Kinesiology (AK) could be used to...

Dear Colleagues: A newsletter reader has kindly sent me a long-lost paper by the great Russian neurophysiologist, AD Speransky, entitled "Past traumatic contractures". This paper was published in 1944 and had escaped my notice despite many years of searching for more...

Dear Colleagues: "Sciatica" (like "allergy" or "arthritis") is one of those so-often misused semi-medical terms that has now become close to meaningless.  Whenever the word comes up, the physician needs to ask clarifying questions:  How was the diagnosis made? Who...

Dear Colleagues: In 2006, I wrote a book review on "The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System--Neurobiology of Homeostasis" by Wilfrid Janig (Vol. 1 No. 6).  This was a landmark textbook, an update on current research in autonomic neurophysiology and a...

Dear Colleagues: The history of neural therapy is intertwined with the history of procaine, whether we date it from Spiess's report of its anti-inflammatory properties in 1906, the Huneke brothers' cure of their sister's migraines in the 1920s, or Franz Huneke's first...

Dear Colleagues: This month I plan to discuss a "hidden" interference field - a difficult one to find and even more difficult one to treat using conventional neural therapy techniques (procaine injections or energetic treatments).To avoid misunderstanding, I want to...

Dear Colleagues: The fact that you are reading this newsletter tells me that you believe continuing medical education to be important.    It also tells me that you have likely had a good education.  The mark of a good education is the habit of life-long learning, not...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss the subject of constipation and neural therapy's role in its treatment.  The Dosch textbook suggests a number of injection techniques including epigastric and coeliac plexus injections, quaddles to the small and...

Dear Colleagues: This month I plan to discuss the use of DMPS (dimercapto-propanyl-sulfonate) as it relates to neural therapy. It is a subject that neural therapists sooner or later will encounter, as it is the most powerful chelating agent for mercury. And at least...

Dear Colleagues: At the recent Neural Therapy conference in Vienna, Austria, three case reports were presented.  All three were complex and required many months of pain-staking and careful neural therapy for success.  Potential interference fields were searched for...

Dear Colleagues: I am beginning this newsletter on a flight home from the Austrian Neural Therapy Society's biannual meeting in Vienna.  It was my first experience of a European neural therapy meeting and I have much to report. I learned a great deal at this meeting. ...

Dear Colleagues: In 2001, I wrote an article entitled "Osteopathic treatment by injection: A comparison of osteopathic manipulative treatment and neural therapy".  The piece was published in the American Academy of Osteopathy Journal and directed at the osteopathic...

Dear Colleagues: Almost two years ago I wrote a couple of newsletters on the relationship between interference fields and autoimmune disease.  One was primarily about psoriasis (Volume 6, No. 11 ); the other was about rheumatoid arthritis (Volume 6, No. 12 ).  Both...

Dear Colleagues: A new book on neural therapy (in English) has arrived!  Neural therapy books in English are few, and perhaps one of the reasons why neural therapy has been so slow to be accepted into mainstream medicine.   So any new literature on this subject is a...

Dear Colleagues: Neural therapy is unique (as far as I know) among medical systems in its identification and treatment of interference fields.  Its discovery by Franz Huneke in 1941 was through clinical observation.  Only later did a scientific explanation come...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to present a case of "abdominal migraine" in a young woman. I enclose "abdominal migraine" within quotation marks because it, like "migraine" is a syndrome, - a shorthand description of a clinical picture, but indicating...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to report on a case of bronchiectasis, a condition that most of us in industrialized countries do not see much anymore. A half century ago it was often associated with tuberculosis, but nowadays underlying conditions such...