Zone therapy; or, Relieving pain at homeFitzgerald, Wm. H. (William Henry Hope)
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Zone therapy; or, Relieving pain at home
Fitzgerald, Wm. H. (William Henry Hope)
Therapeutics, Physiological
A very interesting case of gonorrheal arthritis was reported recently.
This man’s right knee joint was so painful that he could not bear to
have it touched. To bend the right leg at the knee was out of the
question.
Two minutes’ pressure on the top and bottom, as well as on the tip of
the big toe, completely relieved the pain, and upon testing the joint
the soreness seemed to have vanished. The doctor then began carefully
bending the knee, and to his surprise, and to the amazement of the
patient--who hadn’t the slightest idea what was being attempted--the
knee could be flexed (bent) perfectly, without any pain whatever.
As this doctor makes a specialty of treating painful joints by means of
heat, light, mud baths, and electricity, and has had a great deal of
experience in this work, we were much gratified to hear him say that
of all the cases he had ever treated he never had anything seem so
miraculous as this. He further stated that he had tried all his methods
of treatment to alleviate this man’s pain and to be able to flex the
knee, but without avail; yet zone therapy, applied at the proper zone,
brought about almost immediate results.
As demonstrating a peculiar phase of zone therapy, and showing how
great aches from little corns may grow, here is a very interesting and
instructive case. A patient, suffering from rheumatism in the left
shoulder and arm, had, for more than three weeks, been unable to sleep
on account of the pain. He had a small callous growth on the tip of his
left thumb, corresponding to the zone in which the pain was located.
This was removed, and pressures were made with a comb on the place
where the finger corn had formerly held forth. Within four days he was
completely cured.
And this reminds me that a corn doctor is a valuable aid in pressure
therapy work. For time and again I have seen pains as far away as
a headache relieved by clearing up the zone occupied and irritated
by a large pugnacious corn, which was the actual cause of the
headache--foolish-sounding as it may seem.
A little boy with an aggravated case of “wry neck” had, for months,
slept upon sand bags to give him neck support. I cauterized the necks
of his teeth (always look to the condition of the teeth in wry neck)
with a fine platinum point cautery (which is merely a direct way of
stimulating all the zones), and in a few days this youngster was up and
running around as well as ever.
Other cases of wry neck have been quite as readily cleared up by
combing the appropriate fingers on the palm of the hand of the side
involved or by pressing with a cotton-tipped probe on the proper zones
on the posterior wall of the throat, or on the under surface of the
tongue and on the floor of the mouth under the tongue.
Most medical men, without stopping longer than two seconds to think
about it, will affirm that all these things are ridiculous and absurd.
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