Dr. Klinghardt adds, that in his experience, between one and six treatments, given twice weekly, are all that's needed. Often, he can get a person well with one treatment, although it sometimes takes a bit of sleuthing and listening for the body's response to target the source of the problem.

  Sally suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for the better part of a decade. At first, Dr. Klinghardt suspected an appendectomy scar was causing the interference in her body's electrical field, so he injected it with procaine. But it did not bring about the expected result. Then Dr. Klinghardt used applied kinesiology and found weakness in a strong indicator muscle when she touched her pelvic area. Immediately after injecting the Frankenher ganglion (autonomic nerve centers in the pelvis), Sally started coughing. And this helped to disclose the presence of an interference field in the chest. When Dr. Klinghardt injected her chest, the chronic fatigue syndrome cleared within hours.

   Sally was coming down with the flu and developing a cough immediately before the chronic fatigue syndrome had set in. Her body tried to fight the virus, that created chest congestion, and this affected the autonomic nerve endings in her lungs and created an obstruction of electrical impulses within her body's ground system. The injection of procaine into her chest reestablished the normal electrical potential of the cells and expeled the interference field in her lungs so that her energy could circulate freely.

  Dr. Penwell commonly uses neural therapy in his practice. He recalls  an eighty-year-old woman who came to him with degenerative arthritis in her knee. The pain extended down her leg and up through her hip joint. Because of this condition she had to depend on a walker and posed a very poor surgical risk. Dr. Penwell examined her and gave her several injections in her leg, including her knee joint. When the patient unwillingly got up off the table to bear weight on the knee joint, she was amazed. She took several steps and smiled broadly. The doctor asked her how she felt, instead of answer the woman took her walker, folded it up, put it under her arm, and walked out the door and down the hallway. She was given follow-up injections at weekly intervals for four weeks and as the pain did not return, she concluded the therapy.

  Eduardo Guerrero, M.D., P.A., a neural therapist from Houston, Texas, combines homeopathic remedies with anesthetics to clear interference fields to get the best results. Dr Guerrero once treated a man whose two operations failed to relieve his back pain. He warked as a foreman, but he was getting so bad, so he had to work as a door-keeper. Dr. Guerrero tells, that one day, while sweeping, the man reinjured his back and couldn't walk. When he administered nerve blocks to the sacral area, the man felt pain in the lumbar area. Since the lumbar area corresponds to the urogenital system, doctor asked him if he'd ever had problems there. And the man related,  when he was in the army, he had gonorrhea.' Within a week of treating him for that complaint, his back pain disappeared.

  Dr. Guerrero believes, the most important contribution neural therapy has brought to modern medicine is the understanding of interference fields. As long as we have a short circuit in the body's electrical network, we cannot recharge our biological energy.

  James A. Carlson, D.O., past President of the National Association of Orthopedic Medicine and a sports medicine specialist who practices neural therapy in Knoxville, Tennessee, states there are cases where poor results are achieved with neural therapy due to a counter magnetic field surrounding the patient. He consider this can be caused by dental metal fillings and metal bridges, total joint replacements, external watches, rings, even metal eyeglass frames. Many times, once these factors are eliminated from the patient's field, he  will readily begin to respond to neural therapy with lasting, positive results.

 

  Medical doctors from Germany, brothers Ferdinand and Walter Huneke,  developed neural therapy.This all started in 1925, when they published a paper showing how the injection of a local anesthetic affected other places in the body. Years later, Ferdinand found, that injecting a woman in her leg for pain caused her chronic shoulder pain to immediately disappear. This gave rise to the concept of ster-felder, or fields of interference.

 Today, neural therapy is a commonly used treatment for chronic pain in Germany and South America. In Europe,  the "ground system theory," the foundation of neural therapy, is widely accepted.  This theory states that it is actually the connective tissues between cells that control health, and that disease results from disturbances in this tissue.

 Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D., of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the United States, has trained nearly two hundred practitioners through his American Academy of Neural Therapy, and there are other practicing neural therapists who have trained outside the United States.

 

  Reinhold Voll, M.D., discovered in the 1950s that each tooth in the mouth relates to a specific acupuncture meridian. He observed that if the organ related to that meridian is not functioning normally, the tooth related to the same meridian may be symptomatic (i.e., painful, decayed). When the meridian is under stress, the acupuncture points are sensitive to local pressure, and this phenomenon can be used for diagnosis and treatment. For example, if the patient suffers a gallbladder attack (intense abdominal pain), the acupuncture point close to his right canine will be tender when probed. If neural therapy is used to inject this acupuncture point with a local anesthetic, the abdominal pain will cease. Toothaches, tooth sensitivity, jaw pain, gingivitis, and other local problems respond well when the corresponding oral acupuncture point is treated with neural therapy.

  The acupuncture points in the retromolar area (the space behind the last molar of the lower jaw) are indispensable for treating neck pain, low back pain, and temporomandibular joint-related pain with neural therapy. Acupuncture points in the upper jaw are sensitive to pressure in cases of sinus infections, tension headaches, and indigestion. Sensitivity neighbouring to the wisdom teeth indicates heart problems, intestinal disorder, arm/elbow/shoulder problems, vertigo, migraines, and lymphatic problems.

  Sensitivity in the lower jaw is associated with lumbago, spinal problems, sciatica, indigestion, and hormonal malfunctions. Lingual sensitivities accompany vertigo, cervical syndrome, migraines, hearing difficulties, and kidney/bladder disorders.

 

 

  Locating interference fields begins with a study of patient history of past illness, surgery, or trauma. According to Peter Dosch, M.D., of Austria, there are some certain empirical relationships between interference fields and illness: tonsils-knee joints; abdominal scars-large joints and low back; leg scars-sciatica; tonsils and teeth-migraine headaches; prostate, stomach, and sinuses-neck; gallbladder scar-shoulder; pelvic scars-premenstrual syndrome; and depression-arthritis.

   A scar that crosses an acupuncture meridian  probably causes disturbances in the corresponding body part. Scars may also be responsible for problems in nearby joints. According to Dr. Faber, scars that do not fade within two years or seem excessively hard or tight across the skin can signal an interference field. Also, the relationship between specific teeth and organs, such as the upper and lower front four teeth to the urogenital system, can be responsible for pelvic pain, chronic kidney disease, and even pelvic malignancies.

  Neural therapists try to pick up clues to past problems that the patient may believe to be insignificant. After the initial treatment, patients are asked to keep a record of any changes that occur in the body over the next forty-eight hours, as these can guide the practitioner in further treatments.

  Warning:  

  By definition, neural therapy can influence disturbances only if they are due to autonomic (independent) causes or if neural or humoral (body fluid) factors are part of the original cause. Neural therapy cannot reverse any major structural changes and therefore does not take the place of orthodox diagnostic or therapeutic measures. 

•   Neural therapy is ineffective in genetic disease and nutritional deficiencies, and not beneficial in psychiatric disorders (except depression) or end-stage chronic diseases.

•   Several conditions are contraindicated for neural therapy. It should not be used for cancer patients, since the stimulation of the lymphatic system may lead to the spread of cancer cells throughout the body. 

• It is contraindicated in diabetes mellitus because it may cause instability of the disease.

•   Patients allergic to local anesthetics should definitely not receive neural therapy.

•  It should not be used for patients with renal failure or myasthenia gravis (a disease characterized by extreme muscle weakness), or for patients treated with morphine or antiarrhythmics similar in chemical structure to local anesthetics. 

•  It is also contraindicated for patients with coagulation disorders (such as hemophilia) or for those receiving anticoagulant therapy.

Direct techniques:	Indirect technique:
The direct or "local" technique in neural therapy treats pain or illness with an injection of anesthetics specifically at the site of the interference field causing the problem. The injections can be made by infiltrating scar tissue, into nerve junctions, or into the area surrounding the spinal cord.	If the neural therapist cannot pinpoint the exact location of the interference field, the source of pain can be tracked down by injecting related interference fields until the original blockage is found. In other cases, an indirect approach is needed when the problem area is too delicate to receive a direct injection.