NEURAL THERAPY IN PRACTICE ARCHIVE

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dear Colleagues:   If you are a physician and are reading this newsletter, chances are you enjoy practicing medicine.  You are curious enough to be looking "outside the box" for a better understanding of what ails your patients and then finding methods of helping...

Dear Colleagues: Last month's topic for discussion was the vagus nerve and its potential as an interference field.  The fact that 80% of its nerve fibers are afferent was perhaps a surprise to some of us, as the vagus nerves are best known for their parasympathetic...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss the vagus nerves and their importance in neural therapy.   The vagus nerves are currently not attracting the attention that they once did.  A few decades ago every medical student was taught the indications for...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to highlight an always-interesting diagnostic challenge: namely, chronic pain in the upper shoulder.  (By upper shoulder I mean that area between the glenohumeral joint and the neck). What I find interesting about pain in this...

Dear Colleagues:  Last month I began a discussion of the relationships between vaccinations and neural therapy.  I raised the concern that vaccinations may weaken the immune system as a whole even as it provides specific immunity to certain diseases.  I also mentioned...

Dear Colleagues: A reader has asked about vaccinations and their relationship to interference fields.  Vaccination is a controversial and polarizing subject, and one on which I comment with some trepidation. At one extreme the medical establishment seems to say "The...

Dear Colleagues: Students of neural therapy learn quickly that psychosomatics are important.  And also that the mind can affect the body in a multitude of ways! Most mind-body phenomena are physiological and serve some utilitarian purpose, e.g. a blush signaling...

Dear Colleagues: Some unfinished business with regard to last month's newsletter on tinnitus:  First let me thank you for the feedback on newsletter length and for the constructive criticism, suggestions and encouragement.  The consensus seems to be that a page and a...

Dear Colleagues:  This month I would like to discuss tinnitus, a symptom that affects about 10% of the adult population.  Despite its prevalence, there are still some surprisingly large gaps in our knowledge about it.  Most of the time a cause or causes can be found...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss some more reasons why the liver is so important in neural therapy.  I have in previous e-newsletters emphasized that the liver is the most common organ interference field and that it is often involved in depression. ...

Dear Colleagues: One reward of sending out these monthly newsletters has been the interesting feedback received from readers around the world.  Comments and questions from many places have resulted in some stimulating discussions. The last newsletter (on gluten as a...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss a problem encountered sooner or later by physicians learning the art of detecting interference fields.  The problem is this:  A patient presents with a complaint that is found to be caused by an interference field....

Dear Colleagues: Neural therapy is not usually thought of as a treatment for psychological problems. To be sure, relief of pain and other symptoms of illness can give a lift to the psyche, but neural therapy as a treatment for emotional distress?  -  This seems...

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to review the newly translated 2nd English edition of Dosch's Manual of Neural Therapy according to Huneke. This is a long awaited book as the only previous neural therapy textbook available in English was the 1984 edition that...

Dear Colleagues:   It is always interesting to see a new scientific explanation come forward to explain an old clinical observation. Although western medicine prides itself on its scientific underpinnings, it is not unusual for science to follow clinical practice...

Dear Colleagues: The concept of "tissue memory" is one of the more intriguing ideas encountered when learning neural therapy. That the body "remembers" the experience of pain is not hard to conceptualize, but remembering whole pathological processes with visible...

Dear Colleagues: Fatigue is not a symptom that attracts much attention (from the medical community, that is). No specialty has taken "fatigue" under its wing and no anti-fatigue medication has yet appeared on the market. In fact, I suspect that most patients...

Dear Colleagues: I was waiting to write this newsletter in the hope that our "Mid-winter Neural Therapy Retreat" would provide something interesting to relay to you—and I was not disappointed. A number of "pearls" were presented by not only the invited speakers but...