The point to be most emphatically dwelt upon in connection with the treatment of these conditions is that “absent treatment,” or lick-and-a-promise namby-pambyism, isn’t of any avail. The pressures must be made by some one who has more sympathy with the patient’s ultimate good than he has for her present temporary discomfort, and who will administer a good honest treatment--preferably while the patient does all she can--by tightly clasping the hands on the interlocked fingers, or by grasping the chair or a table with the finger tips--to reduce the sensitivity of the zones operated upon. If zone therapy is used in this manner, the results will amaze and delight. For no method yet evolved for the treatment of these disorders even remotely approximates zone therapy in point of efficacy. CHAPTER 8. RELAXING NERVOUS TENSION. Perhaps you may not do it. You have such splendid control over yourself. But you know many people who, when angry, or when suffering great physical pain, sink their teeth into their lip. Sometimes they bite hard enough to start the blood. Others clinch their teeth and hands, and double their toes up in their shoes. Why do you suppose they do this? They do these, and many other natural and apparently inevitable things, because they are instinctive and scientific, and because Nature knows her business. We have done and shall continue to do them involuntarily and automatically, because they relieve pain and nerve tension, because they produce a form of analgesia, or pain-deadening, similar to that which follows the injection of water or some anesthetic solution into a sensory nerve. If you stop and think for a moment many examples of this inhibition--as it is called--will recur. One of the most interesting, from our standpoint, was that of a young school teacher, subject to cataleptic fits, who, when she felt one of her fits coming on, stepped on her right toes with all the weight she could throw on the left foot, at the same time grasping the right wrist firmly. Often those near--if notified in time--would produce the pressures for her. In this way the young woman managed to break up or prevent all except severe and sudden attacks. It was subsequently found that this patient had a chronic irritation in the right ovary, and also a strained condition of the muscles of accommodation in the right eye. When these conditions were cleared up by proper remedial measures and correction, the cataleptic attacks ceased. The fact of relief having followed in many instances her “inhibiting” the right-sided zones indicated the possible source of trouble. And by painstakingly examining the organs in these zones the cause of her condition was located and finally overcome.