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The term "neural therapy" describes a form of treatment using the body's autonomic nervous system. The miracle of life itself is only made possible by a cybernetic control of all the regulating mechanisms. Information exchange and the transformation of stimuli take place through the autonomic nervous system. Excess stimuli disturb or block the production and distribution of energy. Neural Therapy methods remove these energy blockages enabling the body's self healing mechanisms to function correctly again.
Life is dependent not only on matter, but also on energy. Every cell is a tiny potassium-battery having a voltage of 40 - 90 millivolts. This potential collapses with every stimulus (Depolarization). Normally the cell recharges immediately (Repolarization). The required energy is generated by the oxygen-metabolism.

After exceedingly strong or too many accumulative stimuli (of a chemical, physical or traumatic nature) the cell is not able to repolarize spontaneously. The permanently depolarized and thus defective or sick cell is no longer fully integrated into the activities of the cell system and is unable to exercise its function, but its transmits interfering stimuli with its rhythmic discharges (i.e. an interference field!).

Tissues of congenital weakness or those impaired by diseases or injury show inadequate selectivity towards electric impulses. They receive the irritating or interfering stimuli and translate them pathogenically into disturbances of regulating mechanisms, e.g. of blood circulation, etc.

The local anesthetic (neural-therapeutic agent) brought into the interference field has a high potential of its own which repolarizes and stabilizes the defective cell membrane potential. So the "error" (derangement) of the autonomic nervous system is corrected at least for the time being, and its neural, humoral, cellular, hormonal, etc., efficiency restored. Each repetition improves the organism's ability to recharge and maintain the necessary potential autonomously. This fact accounts for the healing process.

 


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