HEALTH: NEURAL THERAPY- Migraines, Seizures, and Mercury Toxicity

January 11, 2003

Migraines, Seizures, and Mercury Toxicity

Chronic pain and other long-term symptoms often get resolved after a

series of injections with a local anesthetic. It’s called NEURAL

THERAPY, and it works through the nervous system.

Maisie, a 32-year-old actress, had suffered from migraine headaches for

nine years. They occurred twice a week and were so intense that she had

to retreat to her bed with a cloth over her eyes, all the lights off,

and the blinds drawn. Most of the time, the pain lasted through the day,

and the next morning she would feel nauseous and exhausted from the

ordeal. Maisie was taking a serious amount of conventional migraine

medications but none of the drugs abated the frequency or the severity

of the attacks.

Maisie was fortunate in making contact with a physician who has an

unusual approach to treating chronic pain conditions such as migraines.

Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D., who practices in Seattle, Washington,

asked Maisie when her migraines started.

She told him that, nine years before, she had been injured on a movie

set when a prop gun discharged wrongly and seared her upper arm with

powder burns. The burn wound was surgically treated three times to

produce a cosmetically acceptable result, but it still left a large,

highly visible scar. Maisie’s migraines started four months after this

accident; she had never had migraines before. From Dr. Klinghardt’s

perspective, the scar was the cause of the migraines, and this

understanding suggested the proper course of treatment.

After he gave Maisie a single injection into the scar of 1% procaine, a

standard local anesthetic, she never had another migraine attack. That

was ten years ago. The secret of how a scar can cause migraines and many

other chronic conditions, and how injecting the scarred sites with an

anesthetic can produce lasting relief, is the essence of Dr.

Klinghardt’s approach, and success.

What a Scar Remembers

" Any part of the body that has been traumatized or ill—no matter where

it is located—can become an interference field which may cause

disturbance anywhere in the body, " explains Dr. Klinghardt. In his

estimation, 30-45% of all illness or pain is caused by an interference

field or a linked series of such fields.

Any scar that results from an accident, surgery, or illness can produce

a strange, hidden, but long-lasting effect on a person’s health,

explains Dr. Klinghardt.

Say you once had an acute upper respiratory tract infection involving

the sinuses or tonsils. Even though you apparently recovered long ago,

the residual tissue changes of the sinuses or tonsils from the processes

of illness can still interfere with the health of other body systems

today. It is as if the traumatized tissue still remembers the illness or

trauma years later. The connection are various and surprising.

Sinus trauma, for example, can create chronic severe neck pain,

migraines, chronic fatigue, or PMS, says Dr. Klinghardt. A gallbladder

scar can cause chronic hip pain; traumatized tonsils can affect the knee

joint; leg scars can spark sciatica; pelvic scars can trigger arthritis,

PMS, or depression; trauma in the prostate, stomach, or sinus can

produce neck pain; an appendectomy can lead to rheumatoid arthritis or

pelvic pain.

Dr. Klinghardt notes that an injection in tonsil tissue can often

relieve chronic migraines. The four front teeth of the upper and lower

jaw are related to the urogenital system; problems with these teeth are

frequently responsible for pelvic pain, chronic kidney disease, and even

cancer in the pelvic organs.

In Dr. Klinghardt’s vocabulary, scars, traumatized organs and teeth, or

old injuries are essentially equivalent in the way they interfere with

any healthy functioning of the boy. " Any part of the body that has been

traumatized or ill —no matter where it is located— can become an

interference field which may cause disturbance anywhere in the body, "

explains Dr. Klinghardt.

In his estimation, 30-45% of all illness or pain is caused by an

interference field or a linked series of such fields. He cites a case in

which a woman with pelvic pain improved after she received procain

injections in both her uterus and thyroid. In one of the now classic

cases in this field (1940), a physician injected a leg scar and provided

immediate relief for a severely painful shoulder.

This way of medical thinking is part of a discipline called neural

therapy, first pioneered in Germany in 1925 by two German physicians

(and brothers), Ferdinand and Walter Huneke, as a way of eliminating

pain and chronic illness. In neural therapy, local anesthetics are

injected at the sites of old injuries to remove an irritating energy

focus in the body that is blocking the flow of electrical and nerve energy.

In neural therapy, a standard anesthetic is carefully injected into

specific points in the nervous system. This temporarily restores proper

nerve function, enabling cells to eliminate toxic waste, says Dr.

Klinghardt. Several important ganglia exist in the neck. A ganglion is a

bundle, know, or plexus of nerve cell bodies with many interconnections

that acts like a sorting and relay station for nerve impulses. There are

several dozen ganglia throughout the body. In other words, scars and

sites of physical trauma generate an energy field that interferes with

the body’s proper functioning. Dr. Klinghardt estimates that dental

factors, extraction sites or root-canaled, devitalized or impacted

teeth, can account for between 50% and 80% of interference fields.

Often the results of neural therapy can be seemingly

instantaneous—practitioners call this the " lightning reaction " —as if

something dammed up has been suddenly released in the body. This

reaction frequently entails an emotional release; every injury or

surgical scar carries a memory of the events involved in producing it,

and somehow the anesthetic releases them, says Dr. Klinghardt.

For example, when he injected at various points in a woman’s pelvic

region, she had a spontaneous memory of childhood sexual abuse. With the

memory came a release of anger, rage, and tears and, soon after, an end

to her long-standing pelvic pain.

rheumatoid arthritis: the body's immune system attacks the connective

tissue around joints, especially in the feet and hands. This leads to

inflammation of the (fluid-filled) membranes surrounding the joints. As

the condition becomes chronic, neighboring soft tissue hardens and

erodes, resulting in deformities and disabilities.

The Inner Life of a Ganglion

To understand how neural therapy produces its dramatic results, it’s

necessary to think about processes at the cellular level. Each cell in

the body can be regarded as an organism, explains Dr. Klinghardt.

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

" Ever cell needs to eat, drink, and detoxify itself, to have the

cellular equivalent of a urination and bowel movement. " It does this

across the cell walls, taking in nutrients and eliminating waste

products. The rate at which substances are exchanged across the cell

membrane determines how efficiently the cell is working, Dr. Klinghardt

says. " It determines the healing ability and aliveness of the organism.

The more rapid the transport, the more vital the body. "

This rapid transport is dependent on the status of the membrane

potential, which is a difference in electrical charge on both sides of

the cell membrane. " Whenever a cell has lost its normal membrane

potential, the ion pumps and ionic channels in the cell wall stop

working, " says Dr. Klinghardt. In effect, the cell becomes electrically

paralyzed and cannot eliminate the waste products of its own cellular

processes. " This means that abnormal minerals and toxic substances

accumulate inside the cell, leading to an inability of the cell to heal

itself and resume normal function. "

Here’s what the scar and interference field come into the picture. Scar

tissue can actually produce a measurable electrical charge of up to 1.5

volts. The typical cell’s electrical charge is only 80 millivolts. This

means the interference field functions like a battery inappropriately

implanted in the body, says Dr. Klinghardt.

The interference field generates abnormal electrical signals which

disrupt the autonomic nervous system and the membrane potential of nerve

ganglia and nerve fibers. The result can be electrical chaos in the

spinal cord and brain, and a cascade of nerve disturbances throughout

the body which manifest as chronic pain or dysfunction.

" Neural therapy attempts to break this cycle by identifying the ‘primary

lesion,’ or interference field—the structure [scar or focus] that gave

the original abnormal signal into the autonomic nervous system, " Dr.

Klinghardt says. The local anesthetic, " infiltrated " through the cell

wall, temporarily restores the natural membrane potential in nerve cells

at the site of physical trauma.

During this respite, which lasts perhaps 30-120 minutes, " the cell uses

the time to eliminate a sufficient amount of the toxic waste to regain

normal function, often lastingly. "

Now let’s put the theory of neural therapy back into action, with two

examples. Dr. Klinghardt treated a man who had been diagnosed with

severe arthritis of the hip joints and lower back. He indicated his

arthritic symptoms began after a serious bout of prostate gland

inflammation. Within seconds after infusing a local anesthetic into the

autonomic nerve ganglia surrounding the prostate, the man was pain-free,

and the pain did not return in later days.

While neural therapy, when performed by a trained, qualified health

professional is generally safe and free of side effects, occasionally

there are minor complications following treatment.

Dr. Klinghardt notes that in many cases involving women with lower back

pain, pain relief and lasting cures can be achieved by injection the

Frankenhäuser ganglia (it regulates the sexual organs and functions)

surrounding the vagina and uterus. Usually, stress from childbirth or

prior pelvic infections create disturbances in the pelvic ganglia which,

in turn, generate the pain. " We have consistently observed that with

neural therapy, women’s’ premenstrual symptoms and pain during

menstruation disappear along with the back pain, " says Dr. Klinghardt.

Standard anatomy describes two components to the nervous system. The

Central Nervous System (CNS) comprises the spinal cord, containing

millions of nerve fibers, and the brain, while the peripheral nervous

system (PNS) is the network of nerves estimated to extend 93,000 miles

inside the body. The PNS is the sensory motor branch that pertains to

the five senses and how sensory information from the outside world gets

translated into muscle movements.

The autonomic nervous system (ANS), involving elements of both the CNS

and PNS, is controlled by the brain’s hypothalamus gland, and pertains

to the automatic regulation of all body processes, such as breathing,

digestion, and heart rate. It can be likened to the body’s automatic

pilot, keeping you alive without your being aware of it or participating

in its activities. Neural therapy focuses its injections of anesthetics

into body structures whose nerve supply is linked with the autonomic

nervous system.

Within the ANS, there are two branches–the parasympathetic and

sympathetic branches, which are believed to counterbalance each other.

The parasympathetic nervous system slows heart rate, inhibits activity,

conserves energy, and calms the body, but stimulates gastric secretion

and intestinal activity.

The sympathetic nervous system involves the expenditure of energy and is

associated with arousal and stress. It prepares us physically when we

perceive a threat or challenge by increasing our heart rate, blood

pressure, and muscle tension. The sympathetic portion links all the

cells of the body together; it regulates the contraction and expansion

of blood vessels; it regulates the activity of connective tissue

necessary for regenerating body systems; and it regulates the voltage

(membrane potential) across the cell wall in every body cell. Neural

therapy primarily addresses this system.

A ganglion is a bundle, knot, or plexus of nerve cell bodies with many

inter-connections that acts like a sorting and relay station for nerve

impulses. There are several dozen ganglia throughout the body.

Membrane potential refers to differing electrical charges, which

constantly change around a certain baseline, measured in millivolts,

inside and outside of a cell. This, in turn, influences how easily (or

not) substances (nutrients or toxins) can pass into and out of a cell.

Sodium ions are pumped out of the cell (to create the normal resting

potential of -80 mV) and potassium ions are pumped in. The three means

by which substances are transported across the cell membrane are called

ion pumping, ionic channel transport, and carrier-protein transport.

This mechanism is voltage dependent and resembles the ebb and flow of

tidal water, with nutrients " washing in " and toxins washing out with

each pulse of the electrical current every 2-5 milliseconds.

autonomic nervous system: has 2 major divisions: the sympathetic nervous

system and the parasympathetic nervous system. These two divisions

comprise the nerve networks that regulate the actions absolutely

essential to life. The autonomic nervous functions must be carried on

continuously without interruption, independent of the will. The

sympathetic system is closely related to the hormone adrenaline and is

primarily a stimulator, or accelerator, of metabolic activities.

membrane potential: refers to differing electrical charges, measured in

millivolts, inside and outside of a cell. This, in turn, influences how

easily (or not) substances (nutrients or toxins) can pass into and out

of a cell. Potassium ions are pumped out of the cell (at a resting

potential of -80 mV), increasing the membrane potential (to +40 mV),

then sodium ions are pumped in, restoring its normal value (-80 mV). The

process, variously called ion pumping, ionic transport, or the ion

channel, resembles the ebb and flow of tidal water, with nutrients

" washing " in, and toxins washing out with each pulse of the electrical

current every 2 to 5 milliseconds.

parasympathetic: system is closely related to the vitamin-like substance

choline, and operates mainly as an inhibitor, or brake, for metabolic

activity. Branches of both sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves send

electric impulses to all of our glands and organs. The sympathetic

system's basic message is " speed up, " while the parasympathetic system's

is " slow down. "

blood: is classified into 4 blood types or groups according to the

presence of type A and type B antigens on the surface of red blood

cells. These antigens are also called agglutinogens and pertain to the

blood cells' ability to agglutinate, or clump together. Type O blood

(containing neither type) is found in 47% of the Caucasian population;

type A, 41%; type B, 9%; type AB, 3%. Another form of blood grouping is

according to Rh-positive and Rh-negative types, based on the

distribution of 6 different Rh antigens.

Membrane potential: refers to differing electrical charges, measured in