Also, while it isn’t exactly zone therapy, it might be interesting here to note that eating salted popcorn has a tendency to help correct the nausea of pregnancy, car sickness, and indigestion. Many patients of mine keep a bowl of it on a chair right alongside their beds, and commence to eat it so soon as they awake in the morning. A handful of popcorn, thoroughly chewed, seems to help pacify the otherwise rebellious stomach. Zone therapy pressures are valuable not only in nausea and vomiting, but also in indigestion, gastric catarrh and all forms of stomach disorders. It has even been successfully employed in gastric ulcer, with dangerous hemorrhages and the other distressing symptoms of this painful malady. Dr. Reid Kellogg has cured three of these cases, one in ten treatments, the others in two or three months. Two of these patients had had an acute condition for two months--no food whatsoever passing through the pylorus (the exit of the stomach). They had been, of course, fed by the rectum. Dr. Kellogg used the probe (Fig. 9), low down on the posterior (back) wall of the pharynx, and used pressures over the thumb, first and second fingers of both hands with the aluminum comb. In less than a dozen treatments these patients were able to retain food taken into the stomach, and practically conduct the entire subsequent course of their own cure. To disabuse the minds of any who may evolve the idea that zone therapy is of value only in conditions that “don’t matter anyhow,” I want to emphasize that these cases were most grave, and that they had received skilled medical attention for many weeks--without apparent benefit. It has been current knowledge--even before those halcyon days when the banqueter retired to have his throat tickled by a dutiful slave--that by touching definite areas in the throat and at the base of the tongue--vomiting could be induced. And now we have discovered how to put the reverse English on the tickle, and keep it down when it wants to come up. Which discovery should also help increase the sum total of the world’s health and happiness. CHAPTER XI. HAY FEVER, ASTHMA AND TONSILITIS. If the United States Hay Fever Association, and all individuals who suffer from hay fever, will read carefully, and then apply this chapter--as directed--the ravages of these catarrhal cataclysms, I feel sure, will be beautifully lessened. For zone therapy has an especial and peculiar message for hay-feverites. It has mitigated, if not entirely relieved, the red-eyed misery of hundreds of them. And none--except those who have been victims--can know what a real relief this is. Nobody knows for certain what causes hay-fever, and, judging from the textbooks, they know even less regarding any definite method of relieving it. It is possible that repeated “colds”--generally from dust infection--result in a chronic irritation of the mucous membrane, followed by a thickening (or hypertrophy) of the tissues.