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NEURAL THERAPY BY HUNERE
JURGEN HUNEKE, M.D.
INTRODUCTION
Jurgen Huneke received his medical degree from Wilhelms University in Germany, in 1966. He went on to start his own general practice in 1970, in Bad Meinberg, Germany. From the beginning, he has devoted his practice to the utilization of Neural Therapy in the treatment of almost every medical condition. He was literally born into the Neural Therapy family, as he is the nephew of the founders of Neural Therapy, Drs. Ferdinand and Walter Huneke. Since 1985 he has been president of the International Association for Neural Therapy. He is considered one of the best practitioners of Neural Therapy in the world. Dr. Hauser met and studied with Dr. Huneke in 1997, in Bad Meinberg, Germany. They have taught courses together and are still friends despite Ross beating Mrs. Huneke pretty badly in a game of golf, about which she is still upset...but there was a rematch in Sanibel Island, Florida, where some unfair play was rumored to have occurred, during which she supposedly won (or so the story goes)...
Neural Therapy is a gentle, healing technique that involves the injection of local anesthetics into or around autonomic ganglia, organs, peripheral nerves, scars, glands, trigger points, specific points in the skin, and other tissues. (See Figure A-i.) It is based on 'the theory that any trauma, infection, or surgery can produce long-standing disturbances in the electrochemical or electromagnetic function of tissues. A correctly applied Neural Therapy injection can often instantly and permanently resolve chronic long-standing illness and chronic-pain.
Neural Therapy by Huneke is one of the best-known natural healing methods in Germany. It is utilized in Germany where there are some 5,000 practitioners. It is slowly gaining acceptance in other parts of Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Neural Therapy goes back to the discovery of the physician brothers, Drs. Ferdinand and Walter Huneke. In order to provide anesthesia, they discovered lidocairie, and attempts with various substances, they were able erated local anesthetic that had already been use the ophthalmologist Koller, from Vienna, with the Neural Therapy involves the injection of local anesthetics into and around autonomic ganglia, organs, peripheral nerves, scars, glands, trigger points, and specific points on the skin to assist healing. After several to replace the highly-toxic cocaine with a well-told for superficial mucous membrane anesthesia by advice of his friend Sigmund Freud.
Spies and Schleich were the first ones to use procaine for local inflammation and pain. They noticed the extreme healing and therapeutic success, which lasted much longer than the actual anesthesia The famous French surgeon Leriche, was the first to successfully treat a migraine headache with a stellate ganglion block using anesthetic. He described novocaine (procaine) as "the surgeon's bloodless knife."
The brothers Dr. Ferdinand and Walter Huneke, both sons and grandsons of physicians, discovered, in 1925, the healing power of anesthetics. They had no knowledge about the work from Schleich, Spies, and Leriche. Their first observations had not been officially acknowledged and, therefore, were forgotten. At first, the brothers Huneke called their treatments "healing anesthetics." The discovery itself was nothing but a coincidence. Ferdinand treated his nurse for a migraine with a medication for rheumatism, which included procaine intramuscularly to limit the pain of the injection. The migraine, which had always been therapy-resistant, disappeared almost immediately during an inadvertent intravenous injection. Immediately Dr. F. Huneke thought that he might possibly have found a new therapy for pain.
In 1928, the brothers Huneke reported for the first time about their research to the "medical world" under the title, "Unknown Distant Effects of the Local Anesthesia." In their work they pointed out the importance of the head-zones. They explained that the reaction to the injections can be a distant one. affecting organs and organ systems, like a reflex. This part of Neural Therapy, later also known as "segment therapy," gained scientific acknowledgment relatively early. As a result of the studies in diffuse representation of nerve impulses in the brain, with the discovery of the terminal retinaculum in the early 1930s by Stoehr, and the validation of the derrnatovisceral reflexes (organ disease produces a change on the skin and vice versa), the concepts of Neural Therapy were validated. The knowledge of N. Wieners, especially in his book in 1948 about cybernetics, led to more clarification about Neural Therapy. The main concept espoused was that the body functions as a whole, with the practical application being that every disease, every scar, and also every treatment affects the whole body system. Thus, Neural Therapy is actually a reflex therapy, as described by Dr. F. Huneke. All body segments are connected and herein lies the biocybernetic control circle. When mentioning a "segment" we do not just mean the dermatome (skin), or the myotome (muscle), but also all other developmental structures, including the sclerotome (bone structures), angiotome (circulatory system), neurotome (nervous system), and viscerotome (internal organs). Because of their inner connection, they all react the same over the basic vegetative system (autonomic nervous system).
The scar injection "cured the shoulder problem." This type of instant healing is referred to as "the lightning reaction, Huneke reaction, or secondary phenomena." The scar is referred to as an "interference field."
Besides the segment therapy, the finding of the correct interference fields and treating them are a central part of Neural Therapy. A distant interference field outside any dermatomal segment can cause and/or enhance many chronic illnesses. For instance, a person with a shoulder pain may have a surgical scar over the shoulder (dermatomal segment) but is resistant to various therapies. But by injecting a wrist scar, the shoulder pain is removed, because the wrist scar was acting as an interference field to the autonomic nervous system that was manifested by shoulder problems. This is what is meant by every interaction in the body affects the whole and how all the biocybernetic reflexes interact with each other.
CONDITIONS LIKELY TO BE CAUSED BY AN LNTERFERENCE FIELD
The autonomic nervous system is that part of the nervous system that regulates the body's auto. matic functions. It helps control, for example, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, bowel movements, urination, sexual function, menstruation, perspiration, and skin temperature. Any symptom related to these functions, such as palpitations. indigestion, constipation, or cold hands, may have an interference field as all or part of the cause.
Chronic pain, especially migraine, often has an autonomic component, e.g., nausea and sweating. One should think of an interference field if sciatica, or any other leg pain, or distant referral pain is accompanied by coldness or change in skin color.
The chronicity of the complaint in response to a surgery or infection is also an indicator of an interference field. If a chronic pain or condition started within several months of dental work, or other procedure, and there was not any obvious inciting event, then think interference field. It is quite common for me to hear the complaint, "I did not do anything to my back-it just started hurting." Hear those words, think of an interference field.
WHEN IS NEURAI. THERAPY USED?
The following is a list of conditions for which Neural Therapy is useful:
o Acute and chronic pain (including headaches of different origins)
o Inflammatory responses
o Poor circulation
o Multiple chronic conditions, caused by interrupted interference fields (such as rheumatism)
o Diseases of the motor system (sciatica, arthritic joint conditions, shoulder or arm syndrome)
o Internal diseases such as prostate; female, allergies, kidney
HOW IS NEURAL THERAPY DONE?
The first step is to use segment therapy, which involves injections directed into the painful area. The segment therapy is then continued as injections are made into the skin overlying and around the painful area (called "quaddles") as well as any scars in the area. Next injections are given into painful, tight muscle regions, or into ligaments, as well as the periosteal origins and insertions of tendons, ligaments, and muscles. Next, Neural Therapy may proceed to include injections into nerves, nervous centers a , search or intravenoush for the various and infra-arterial interference injections is started. Should the segmental gmental fields therapy can b be e unsuccessful, then though typical ones are tonsils, sinus cavities, tooth and jaw areas, gynecological areas, and all scars. (See Figure A-3.) By eliminating the interference fields with injections of a local anesthetic like procaine, we interrupt the damaging effect to the regulation ability of the organism. Therefore, the healing process will he possible.
Scars, surgery sites, and sites of previous infections can affect cell ion pumps from working correctly and the electrical charge and signaling of those cells becomes altered. These cells can influence other cells and, eventually, an interference is set up. The local disturbance of the autonomic nervous system can affect the autonomic nervous system as a whole, leading to sometimes severe dysfunction at sites remote from the scar tissue responsible for the disturbance. By infiltrating a local anesthetic around the cell wall, the ion pumps resume normal activity and, eventually, the autonomic nervous system starts functioning properly again.
Side effects of medications that people take often do more damage than good. Such things as chemotherapy (even with symptomatic treatments) and anti-inflammatories can do damage, which is often looked upon as another disease, rather than a result of the medication. As it turns out, the most common reason for a poor response to Neural Therapy treatment is the presence of a drug. Any drug with a prefix of "anti-" tends to block the autonomic nervous system, e.g., antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, antihypertensives, etc. Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs will block it as well. Compared to drugs, Neural Therapy is much safer and more powerful. J.J. Bonica, one of the leading pain experts in the U.S., wrote in 1958: "Nerve blockage as an aimed therapy might he the best clinical therapy to treat disease." Nerve blockage as a direct aimed therapy also belongs to the segment therapy the brothers Huneke talked about in 1928. Neural Therapy works well alongside other natural therapies, for example oxygen, ozone and thymus (THX) therapies. Fasting therapies can enhance the effects of Neural Therapy due to the cleansing and detoxification of the body.
In regards to sport injuries, for this is why Dr. Hauser contacted me, Neural Therapy is especially good at helping recovery. Swelling is diminished quite rapidly with segmental therapy. It is a much better approach than taking medications, because Neural Therapy assists the whole body to heal. if the swelling or pain after a sporting injury is severe, Neural Therapy to the area can be done daily until function is returned. Most commonly, segmental therapy is done weekly until the athlete makes a full recovery.
EDITOR'S NOTE
By Ross A. HAUSER, M.D. AND
MARION A. HAUSER, M.S., R.D.
Neural Therapy is a fascinating treatment. A typical case history is similar to the one we received from Lawrence D. Cohen, M.D., a Prolotherapist and Neural Therapist in Danbury, Connecticut.
Possible Interference Fields
Interference fields cause not only local but distant symptoms.
LAPARO S C 0 PY SCAR LNTERFERENCE FIELD CAUSING LOWER
BACK PAIN:
JOYCE THE RUNNER
Joyce was a runner in college at the University of Maryland. By the time she saw Dr. Hauser, she was no longer a 21 year old sprinter, but a 31 year old physical therapist who just wanted to get back to running and being active. Her history was interesting in that 10 years prior to her visit in our office, she was having a fantastic college career and her sprint times were continually improving. In 1990, she took a white water rafting trip and "pulled something" in her right lower back that never seemed to heal. She had seen at least 10 physicians, several of whom were sports medicine "specialists," from whom she received cortisone shots, NSAIDs, acupuncture, and numerous physical and manual therapy treatments over a period of 10 years. She had significantly limited her athletics since the injury in 1990.
"Tell me what happened just prior to the rafting incident?" Dr. Hauser asked. She
seemed startled by the question. "What does that have to do with anything?" She was a physical therapist and her husband was a chiropractor, so she knew something about medicine. "It may have everything to do with it." She went on to relate that she had a laparoscopy surgery for ovarian cysts and an irregular menstrual cycle just prior to the rafting trip. She said that her menstrual cycle was still not quite right. This history provided the clue in regards to the treatment that she needed. Joyce needed both Prolotherapy and Neural Therapy in order to make a full recovery. She received Prolotherapy to both her lower back and pubic symphysis area, as well as Neural Therapy injections to the pelvic sympathetic ganglion, in December of 1998. These treatments were repeated in late January 1999. In March of 1999, she improved to the point that her pubic symphysis popping had decreased substantially and she was working out again. She had started running without any pain for the first time in a decade.
Modern medicine has no clue as to how surgery and trauma can adversely affect the autonomic nervous system. Perhaps the surgical procedure "weakened" her pelvic area just enough to make it prone to soft tissue injury, which occurred during the white water rafting incident.
I met Ricky Hritz through some aggressive marketing. He had been trying to convince an orthopedic surgeon in the next town to give me a try with prolotherapy to help his patients, and he finally contacted me to refer Ricky.
Ricky was a 19-year-old college freshman on athletic scholarship out in Ohio who had developed pain in his left groin about 8 months before. He would keep playing with pain but had difficulty walking afterwards and it would reoccur whenever he played soccer. He was seen by many physicians, underwent physical therapy, stretching and strengthening: however, the pain continued to reoccur. A bane scan was performed and was negative at the groin, showing only some wisdom tooth extraction a few months prior and a left wrist fracture which happened 4 months before onset of his groin pain.
Anxious to impress this orthopedistand hopefully get more business from him, I squeezed Ricky in to my schedule on Friday afternoon. as he was just dome far a weekend and was flying back to Ohio on Sunday. I saw hint late in the day on Friday arid examined him thoroughly, and to my dismay, was unable to find any tender or injured tissue in his groin that required prolotherapy. When questioned, he sew that the pain usually occurred only with heavy running, and he didn't bring his running sneakers to try.
I then applied a neural therapy approach, and using autonomic response testing, a form of applied kinesiology, I determined that his wrist fracture on the opposite side was his major area of interference, and that in fact. it was linked to his groin complaints. I had a hard time selling him on this, but finally, he let me inject his wrist fracture scar and then down onto the bone with procaine. I asked him to get up early Sunday and try running, and if the pain returned. call me and I'd meet him at the office. and we could do prolotherapy to the strained tissue once we found it, and we parted that afternoon on those terms.
He hadn't left my office more than 6 minutes-when I got a call from the orthopedist questioning why I injected the wrist when he sent the patient there for a groin problem. After struggling to explain neural therapy, I waited anxiously for the results on Sunday.
Lo and behold. Ricky reported good relief of his pain and cn subsequent fallow up the next summer, he came back arid said that the pain was 90% gone but he wanted additional injection into the wrist to get rid of the rest of it, and cc we proceeded to do that.
Ricky nas been able to maintain his athletic scholarship and remains very active, thanks in great part to the neural therapy approach to pain management.
LNTERNATIONAL NEURAL
THERAPY SOCIETY
One of the primary questions asked is "Where do I get training in Neural Therapy?" One of the best ways for a physician to receive training in Neural Therapy is through the courses taught by the International Neural Therapy Society. This society is run by Jurgen Huneke, M.D., Germany, and Lorenz Fisher, M.D., Switzerland. Both of these physicians are excellent teachers and wonderful human beings, as can be attested by the staff of Caring Medical who have gone on several excursions with them. Dr. Fisher is especially skilled in the more challenging injections that are available via Neural Therapy. (See Figure A-6.) Dr. Huneke is the backbone of the organization and one of the most knowledgeable people on the technique of Neural Therapy. (See Figure A- 7.) He has been instrumental in helping form a flourishing Neural Therapy society in Europe and Mexico and has even come to the United States (along with Dr. Fisher) to teach the treatment.
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