Linda’s comment: Neural therapy is the new treatments coming your way….read on…
Dr. Gordon’s comments:
I am afraid that many of us are not doing enough acupuncture. I say this because the attached article is showing that acupuncture alone is working even for serious post traumatic brain injuries, and I will show you how you can dramatically increase that benefits easily in your practices now using “neural therapy”.
But, more than that, many of us have been taught that only certain points can help, whereas, I find that almost any points will work if I add homeopathic remedies to the process! This is beyond acupuncture and might be a form of neural therapy.
You will be amazed, as I continue to be, how simple yet effective this adjunct to any treatment for any condition can be when all else fails, look at this!
First, you do not have to believe in homeopathy but if you study the documented benefits from Traumeel you will find it clearly works, whether used topically as an ointment or cream on any traumatized area of the body or used sublingually as tablets or drops. You cannot go wrong and will do no harm and have great potential for benefit. So if you use it as in injection either sq or IM or IV, clearly this too will offer benefit!
If you happen to want a more directed benefit, you should inject at an acupoint and if that is not in your knowledge base, learn acupressure, as anyone can self-administer by purchasing a book on the topic like Acupressure by Cerney from Amazon for $7.00. Now you have a reference for points that could be useful in managing different issues like headache, nausea, abdominal pain, etc.
If the points you see plainly diagramed in this convenient reference guide are stimulated by manual pressure or by laser or by a magnet or if you should chose to “needle” the point with an acupuncture needle, the results may be amplified.
Some have learned to use a 30 gauge needle 1 inch and then, besides inserting this needle at the point, inject a small amount of healing substance, which could be based on your training and belief, any of the following: procaine, Traumeel or any of the many other homeopathic substances that are available for injection. These substances might be mixed together and even used with the inclusion of other useful liquids such as B-complex or B12 but tiny amounts are all that I use. For example, a couple of drops of those vitamins added to say a 5cc syringe that might have 2 cc of Traumeel and 2 cc of procaine and the ideal water for dilution is Quinton Marine Plasma Isotonic.
I might add 1+ cc to the mix of that Quinton and let the patient consume orally the left over. Add just a drop, enough to see a slight color change of the B vitamins that are in this injection. If just administered IM in gluteal or deltoid will offer some healing effects but, if instead, I use the Cerney diagram and inject a small amount like 0.5 cc in a few of the suggested acupoints in this book for the condition I am treating, I have seen this greatly amplify the benefits, as you are combining homeopathic with acupunture/acupressure.
I find this is synergistic so with all that said it is interesting the read the attached article in Wall Street Journal and see that even without the homeopathic, clearly acupuncture by itself is useful. I just want to share with you this simple way to amplify this effect and using this it becomes neural therapy and that can work for any trigger point without even looking up the specific acupoint that might be applicable.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604576150110202228764.html?mod=djemHL_t
Excerpt:
•U.S. NEWS
•APRIL 23, 2011
Can Needles Soothe Wounded Warriors?
Military doctors in Afghanistan are using acupuncture to treat brain injuries, with promising results
By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS
Marine Lance Cpl. Tristan Bell was injured in a jarring explosion that tore apart his armored vehicle, slammed a heavy radio into the back of his head and left him tortured by dizziness, insomnia, headaches and nightmares.
He is recovering on a padded table at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, beneath strings of soft, white Christmas lights, with the dulcet notes of “Tao of Healing” playing on an iPod and a forest of acupuncture needles sprouting from his head, ear, hands and feet.
