Neural Therapy is the name given to a form of therapy that promotes healing through the nervous system. More specifically, nerve anesthetics such as lidocaine or procaine are injected into areas around specific nerves or in areas of the skin that correspond to specific organs or acupuncture meridians. These nerves are part of what is called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Neural Therapy was developed by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt (see www.neuraltherapy.com).

The ANS is the part of the nervous system that is unconscious, that is, not under the control of our conscious will. Whether we are awake or asleep, the ANS regulates breathing, circulation, body temperature, digestion, metabolism, and hormone function, just to name a few of its functions. In illness, the autonomic nervous system loses its capacity to function optimally. Neural therapy can help eliminate regulatory imbalances in this system, leading to improvement of general health and well-being.

An organ never becomes diseased in isolation. Illness always involves the whole individual—body, soul, and spirit. The task of the physician is to improve the capacities of the patient to self-regulate on all levels. Because the autonomic nervous system extends into every area of the body, by injecting scars, the skin over organs, or sometimes deeper tissues, we can improve the capacity of the body to self-regulate.

In illness there are disturbances present in the autonomic nervous system. Disturbances at the cellular level can be measured as imbalances in self-regulation: a too acidic (very often) or too alkaline (rare) environment, inadequate oxygenation, or mineral deficiencies, to name a few. The fine endings of the autonomic nerves and of the blood vessels terminate in the fluid that bathes every cell. Therefore, disturbances at the cellular level are ultimately carried by the entire nervous system.

Inflammations, injuries, bacterial infections, foreign bodies, and scars from surgery can block the function of the nervous system in specific areas of the body, affecting cellular and organ function and leading to symptoms of illness. Skillful injections of anesthetics can reverse these adverse effects, restore cellular function, and remove any blockages to healing.

Neural Therapy Helps Pain

Sometimes people get enmeshed in a cycle of pain from which they have difficulty extricating themselves. An initial injury or painful area develops, with subsequent spasms, leading to decreased circulation to the area. As a result, there is a decrease in oxygenation and toxic elimination. This creates the conditions for more pain and spasm.

A larger cycle of pain is also created. After the injury or painful area develops, with subsequent spasms, people may have difficulty sleeping or relaxing. They may take pain medications or pharmaceutical sleeping pills. Over time, these medicines can compromise the liver’s capacity to detoxify and function correctly. Long-term acetaminophen can especially be a problem for the liver. This leads back again to more pain, and the cycle continues.

Neural therapy, in combination with other therapies, can help break this cycle of pain and help the body to reset the signals to recovery. Once this cycle of pain is broken, blood supply to cells is improved, waste products are moved to organs of elimination, and spasms and pain are relieved.

The nervous system is a power grid that links all cells and all organs together. Every cell in the body is a tiny battery that has an electrical charge. As long as this electrical charge is maintained, the body functions normally. When exposed to an accumulation of stresses from various sources, the electrical charge in the cell collapses. When this occurs in enough cells, symptoms of illness appear, especially pain and fatigue. With neural therapy injections we can repolarize and recharge the cells in an area of illness, and thus support the process of healing.

With neural therapy injections, we attempt to treat the source of a problem, rather than just the immediate symptoms. For example, scars from a childhood tonsillectomy may in adulthood be a source of illness in another area of the body, and this illness may not appear for years. A scar from other types of surgery or from a miscarriage can do the same. Not only do scars cross and interfere with the function of acupuncture meridians, there are also stored emotions connected with these scars. The potential exists for these scars to cause problems in distant areas of the body, sometimes years later.

The main goal of treatment is to improve the capacity to self-regulate. Self-regulation means that the body is able to recognize changing conditions both internally and externally, and then adapt to them. When self-regulating, a balance is maintained both in body chemistry as well as in thinking, feeling, and action in daily life. The goal is to help reestablish an internal equilibrium on all levels: cell, tissue, organ, and organism.

Scar Therapy

Cells that are cut, as in surgical scars, give off abnormal electrical signals for the rest of a person’s life. These electrical signals then travel via nerves to other areas of the body. Excessive electrical energy generated somewhere in the body will find a way to express itself elsewhere in the body as a dysfunction. For example, an electrical signal constantly generated from an old appendix or gallbladder scar may be a contributing factor in problems such as asthma, headaches, or other symptoms of illness that are distant from the original scar.

We can often reverse these dysfunctional effects. We find the scars that are causing problems and inject them with procaine, or treat them in other noninvasive ways, such as with red lasers or wheat germ oil. The stress on the body decreases, which helps the body in its efforts to self-heal.

Before going to the office of a practitioner of neural therapy, a patient should make a list of his or her scars and where they are located. Also record the age when these scars were incurred, and any emotional events that were occurring at the time of the scarring, or whether the surgeries were emotionally difficult.

The scars that hold the most potential for improving health and removing blockages to healing after being treated are those from surgeries with anesthesia, and especially from surgeries that were emotionally difficult.

Sources of scars that can be problematic include:

• Umbilicus (from cutting of umbilical cord)
• Circumcision
• Tonsillectomy, appendectomy, hysterectomy, gallbladder and other surgeries
• Wisdom teeth and other tooth extractions
• Tattoos
• Immunization areas, especially if there were reactions
• Bone fractures, especially if they require surgery or metal plate insertion to hold bones together

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