Название | Zone Therapy; Or, Relieving Pain at Home |
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Автор произведения | Edwin F. Bowers |
Жанр | Языкознание |
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Издательство | Языкознание |
Год выпуска | 0 |
isbn | 4057664605788 |
In the hands of many who have tried these methods the percentage often is much lower—because they haven’t learned how to apply it. For if the operator doesn’t “hit” the proper areas or focal points he misses them completely—and also misses results.
In attempting the relief of pain by “working” from the fingers it should also be emphasized that it makes a difference, too, whether the upper and lower or the side surfaces of the joint are pressed. A physician experimenting with the method was ready to condemn it because he was unable to relieve a patient who complained of rheumatic pains which centered on the outer side of the ankle-bone. The doctor grasped the second joint of the patient’s right little finger and pressed firmly for a minute on the top and bottom of the joint. (See Fig. 3.) The pain persisted, and the doctor jeered at the method.
Fig. 3.—Illustrating method of applying anterior and posterior pressure to the finger joint.
A disciple of zone therapy smiled, and suggested that while the doctor had the right finger, he had the right finger in the wrong grip. The doctor was advised to press the sides of the finger (See Fig. 4), instead of the top and bottom. This was done, and the pain disappeared in two minutes.
Fig. 4. Illustrating method of applying lateral pressure to the finger joint.
This pressure therapy has an advantage over any other method of pain relief, inasmuch as it has been proved that, in contradistinction to opiates, when zone pressure relieves pain it likewise tends to remove the cause of the pain, no matter where this cause originates. And this in conditions where seemingly one would not expect to secure any therapeutic, or curative, results.
For instance, I recall a case of breast tumor, with two fairly good-sized nodes, as large as horse chestnuts. This lady had made arrangements to be operated upon by a prominent surgeon in Hartford, but had postponed her operation a few weeks on account of the holidays.
Meantime she had been instructed to make pressures with a tongue depressor and with elastic bands (See Figures 17 and 5), for the relief of the breast pain—which relief, by the way, was quite complete. After a few weeks, this lady returned to her surgeon for further examination and to complete arrangements for operation. Upon examining, however, the surgeon found the growth so reduced in size that he expressed himself as unwilling to operate, as he saw no necessity for operating. The tumor has since completely disappeared—under these tongue pressure treatments. This patient, and the name of the surgeon who saw her “before and after,” are at the disposal of any physician who may regard this plain unvarnished tale as an old wives’ chronicle.
A small uterine fibroid made a similar happy exit, as a result of pressures made on the floor of the mouth, directly under the center of the tongue. This patient next made a regular practice of squeezing the joints of her thumb, first and second finger, whenever she had nothing else important to do. And the result infinitely more than justified the means.
Lymphatic enlargements, as painful glands in the neck, arm-pits, or groin, yield even more rapidly to this zone pressure than do tumors. And while no claims are made to the effect that cancer can be cured by zone therapy, yet there are many cases in which pain has been completely relieved, and the patients freed from the further necessity of resorting to opiates. And in a few cases the growths have also entirely disappeared.
Fig 5.—Showing method of “rubber-banding” the fingers for trouble in the first, second and third zones.
The growth of interest in this work is most encouraging. Dr. FitzGerald and other physicians using zone therapy in their practice, have had scores of letters from patients they have never even seen, but who have written, expressing their appreciation for the relief secured through instructions from some of their patients, or through following out some suggestion from my articles in the magazines.
I have reason to believe that there are now upwards of two hundred physicians, osteopaths and dentists, using these methods every day, with complete satisfaction to themselves and to their patients.
And the number of laymen, and especially lay-women, who are preaching the doctrine in their own households, and among their circle of friends, must be legion. The adoption of the method is attended with absolutely no danger or disagreeable results, and may be the means of lengthening short lives and making good health catching. I, for one, hope that the numbers of those who may be inclined to learn and practice these methods upon themselves and upon the members of their families may ever increase and multiply. For this is a big idea, and a helpful one. Therefore, the more who make it their own the better for the human race. We shall now let Dr. FitzGerald continue the argument.
CHAPTER II. THAT ACHING HEAD.
The next time you have a headache, instead of attempting to paralyze the nerves of sensation with an opiate, or a coal tar “pain-deadener,” push the headache out through the top of the head. It’s surprisingly easy.
Fig. 6.—Palate-pressor Electrode may be used with or without electricity.
It merely requires that you press your thumb—or, better still, some smooth, broad metal surface (See Fig. 6), as the end of a knife-handle—firmly against the roof of the mouth, as nearly as possible under the battleground—and hold it there for from three to five minutes—by the watch. It may be necessary, if the ache is extensive, to shift the position of the thumb or metal “applicator” so as to “cover” completely the area that aches.
Headaches and neuralgias, of purely nervous origin, not due to poison from toxic absorption from the bowels, or to constipation, or alcoholism, tumors, eye-strain, or some specific organic cause, usually subside under this pressure within a few minutes.
’Tis as easy as lying. Many patients cure their own or their friend’s and relative’s headaches or neuralgic attacks in this manner. In their own headaches they use their right or left thumb—depending upon whether they are right or left-handed. In treating others, they use the first and second fingers, pressing firmly under the seat of pain.
Their “points of attack” may extend from the roots of the front teeth—for a frontal headache—to the junction of the hard and soft palate—for a pain in the back of the head. Or from the roots of the right upper molars to those of the upper left molars, if the pain be in the region of the temples or the side of the head.
Only temporary results should be expected—or even complete failure—if the pain is due to costiveness, eye-strain, or some persistent organic condition—although even here the severity of the attack can usually be modified.
In those headaches excited by dental operations relief can almost invariably be secured. Dr. Thomas J. Ryan of New York, and others familiar with zone therapy (the science of relieving pain and curing disease by pressures in the various “zones” affected by pain or disease), almost uniformly cure headaches or neuralgias in their patients in this manner. In medical practice the results are even more miraculous.
One of the worst cases yet treated by zone therapy was that of a lady who had suffered from persistent headache for more than three years. She had