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
Pain anywhere in any zone may be overcome more quickly by pressure with
an applicator, or with cautery contact at certain points throughout the
corresponding zone or zones in the mouth, pharynx, epipharynx and nose;
but the finger and toe pressures may be relied upon very often. What
applies to one zone applies to all.
Pressures average from one-half minute to four minutes or longer,
depending upon the susceptibility of the patient.
Heat or cold waves in varying degrees, depending upon the solution or
instruments used, may often be dispatched to the extremities from the
mouth, nose, etc., and similar waves of heat or cold will manifest
themselves in the mouth, nose and pharynx of susceptible individuals
from pressure or contact on the extremities. The most susceptible
patients will describe them accurately. For instance, if a cotton
tipped probe be dipped in camphor solution, or alcohol, the patient
will describe the sensation reflected along the particular zone pressed
as “cold.” If in nitrate of silver, or trichloracetic acid, he says it
is “hot.”
The majority of patients say that, while they are unable to detect
these sensations--only extra-susceptible individuals have this
faculty,--their pain is disappearing, or has already disappeared.
Patients who are most susceptible to pressure or contact will trace
heat or cold from an individual hair of the head, or an eyelash, to
the margin of the finger-nail or toe-nail, and if a hair or eyelash
be quickly pulled out, the sensation of numbness is often quickly
registered beneath the finger-nail or toe-nail of the invaded zone.
But to give these delicate results the subjects must be very
responsive.
Pressure or contact upon the occlusal, or biting, edges of the teeth
affect the innermost parts of practically every bone in the body. We
believe that the teeth, being the most accessible, are the natural
guardians of the bones throughout the body. The heat waves from the
application of a fine point cautery contact on the biting edges of
the teeth, are dispatched through the centers of all bones, and their
therapeutic, or curative effect is disseminated through the bones and
tissue in the zones treated. Naturally, the therapeutic effect is less
marked as the surface of the body is approached.
Pressure or contact on the anterior surface of the teeth affects the
anterior surface of the bones in the anterior sections of bones, and
to a greater or less extent the tissues of the same zones in the
corresponding sections. Pressure or contact on the posterior surface of
the teeth affect the posterior surface of the bones in the posterior
sections of zones treated, and to a greater or less extent the tissues
of the same zones in the corresponding sections.
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