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The Glyphatic or Glial Lymphatic System and Neural Therapy One application of neural therapy I use in my office is to help “drain the brain”. It was discovered recently that our brain has its own lymphatic system, called the Glymphatic system. Basically, by pumping cerebral spinal fluid through the brains tissues, the glymphatic system flushes the waste from the brain back into the body’s circulatory system where is goes to the liver for elimination. The system ramps up its activity during sleep, thereby allowing your brain to drain toxins and harmful proteins called amyloid-beta, the build up of which has been linked to Alzheimers. It was discovered that during sleep, the cells of the brain shrink by up to 60%, allowing a greater efficiency of waste removal. Melatonin is the clearing agent for the brain. It is the hormone that stimulates the glial lymphatic system to drain. Melatonin is produced each night naturally when we sleep, but is tied closely to light exposure and our ability to have complete darkness when we are asleep. Melatonin is only produced in total darkness and any light exposure during the night stops your melatonin production which ultimately affects your ability to adequately drain harmful brain toxins at night. Orally consumed melatonin is not as effective as your own natural melatonin. I use a technique from Dr. Deitrich Klinghart where by neural therapy injections of procaine are used to stimulate the brain to drain. I use a safe anesthetic called Procaine to stimulate 10 to 12 different lymphatic areas (neck chain, tonsils, adenoids, to name a few) that result in the stimulation of the glial lymphatic system, which helps to drain toxins from the brain, ultimately reducing brain inflammation and toxicity. The entire procedure takes less than 15 minutes and is completely safe. No harmful chemicals are used. The process is designed to trigger and stimulate your bodies natural channels for drainage, so it happens at your bodies pace. I have seen it be helpful with patients that have had long term brain inflammation related to metal poisoning, chronic infection and insomnia. Sometimes we employ binders like chlorella or charcoals/clays if we think there is potential to drop heavy-metal toxic loads from the brain. Ideally we recommend to have vitamin C therapy in conjunction with the protocol we have affectionately named “Clean the Head” as it boosts your healing for a short time. We have seen tremendous results with the patients we have treated with this protocol. Most people experience immediate improved mental acuity and less brain fog. With repeated exposures we have seen improved psychological attitude and improved emotional well-being as a result of reducing the toxic load on the brain.

Neural therapy is a traditional German therapy, which uses Novocain to treat the autonomic nervous system (ANS) neural therapy is a traditional German therapy, which uses Novacaine to treat the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Local anesthetics strategically placed into scars, under the skin of chronically dysfunctional organs/structures and into areas of ANS nerve cell nuclei (Ganglia) are the basic tools to the traditional Neural therapists Neural therapy is the primary therapeutic modality for treating chronic pain in Germany. The therapeutic agents of neural therapy directly affect the ANS Nerves which affect blood flow regulation and bodily function. And indirect treatment of the ANS is acupuncture. While there are many differences in theory and philosophy between acupuncture and neural therapy, fundamentally they both modulate or treat the same thing, namely the autonomic nervous system. Neural therapy uses it’s therapeutics directly into the ANS nerves and acupuncture it uses its system of needles in directly into reflex points which affect the ANS nerves. Both modalities are used as part of an integrated treatment strategy to rehabilitate the organs and structures of the body that have been assessed to have a functional problem and us reestablish proper bloodflow and normal cellular regulation. Both neural therapy and acupuncture are very useful in treating acute or chronic pain problems “The intelligent use of ANS will one day become the most important part of the art of healing” Von Herring 1925 Neural therapy is a system of diagnosing and treating local disturbances of the autonomic nervous system. In German and Spanish speaking countries it is considered a part of conventional medicine, even as it is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. Central to the theory of neural therapy is the concept of the “interference field”. An interference field is a focus of electrophysioiogical instability somewhere in the body that destabilizes or blocks autonomic nervous system function – locally or systemically. Typical locations for interference fields are scars, teeth, internal orgms, autonomic ganglia, nerve roots, or any place where there is (or has been) an injury or irritation. Somatic dysfunction is a type of interference field and can be treated equally effectively by neural therapy as by manipulation. The classical neural therapy treatment is injections of dilute procaine into the interference field. Procaine acts as a membrane stabilizer, in a similar way to lidocaine in treating ventricular arrhythmias. Any medical condition that has an autonomic nervous system component may potentially be caused by an interference field. Examples include migraine, facial pain, backache and various forms of myofascial pain syndrome, as well as asthma, indigestion, bowel dysfunctioa menstrual problems, irritable bladder, etc. Interference fields have lower electrical potentials than surrounding tissues. Currents flow from areas of higher voltage to areas of lower voltage and seem to send confusing signals to the body’s nervous system. The body sometimes reacts in inappropriate ways, resulting in chronic pain and/or illness. Interference fields can be found almost anywhere in the body. Often, they are far from the part of the body where you feel symptoms. For example, an old appendix scar might cause migraine headache, or a wisdom tooth extraction scar might cause chronic low-back pain. Because these relationships are totally unpredictable, doctors need to search for interference fields everywhere in the body. Interference fields are very common and the conditions that they cause are mostly untreated in mainstream medicine except by drugs, merely suppressing symptoms. Giving a medication with a hypodermic needle has been one of the greatest advances in modern medicine and is only a little over 100 years old. If a medication is given orally a huge dose is needed to achieve the concentration necessary in the target tissue. The rest of the body is poisoned unnecessarily. Delivering a specific drug directly to the site requires a much smaller dosage. Some tissues that are disconnected from the whole, such, as in cancer, can sometimes only be reached with a needle. The needlestick also allows the stimulation of acupuncture points and the dry needling of trigger points. With a fluid-bolus scar tissue can be broken up mechanically, adhesive tissue-planes can be gently separated and normal anatomy can often be restored where there was distortion from trauma or infection. And beyond anything else, the needle stick often will bring up held back emotions and memories stored in the injected tissue. These releases are often the most important part of a healing intervention.

Initially developed in Germany during the early 1900’s, Neural Therapy, is beginning to re-emerge as a simple and effective treatment for chronic pain and many other types of chronic illness. The first applications of neural therapy were performed in 1925 by brothers Ferdinand and Walter Huneke. Neural therapy is not based on the treatment of nerves as the name implies but rather based on the premise that illness may result from a nervous system that has become unregulated or temporarily damaged or distracted. In actuality, neural therapy is more of a type of bio-regulatory therapy or holistic therapy who’s goal is to produce a positive response to the whole system.

Our culture’s current medical approach to health care is not working. As traditionally trained doctors in the Unites States, the problems we are causing to our patients health are starting to exceed the benefit we are making. The CDC reported in 2016 that Iatrogenic error (doctor caused) is the third leading cause of death now, behind heart disease and cancer…though it gets little public attention. Today, the vast majority of medical treatments are for diseases of a chronic nature, in particular chronic pain. !n 2012, the cost associated with treating chronic pain was over $800 billion dollars in the US alone, not to mention the disability costs and cost of production-loss due to people off work with chronic pain. There is an urgent need at this time to explore effective alternative treatments for chronic illness and chronic pain. A relatively unknown injection technique, initially developed in Germany during the early 1900’s known as Neural Therapy, is emerging as a simple and effective treatment for chronic pain and many other types of chronic illness. The first applications of neural therapy were performed in 1925 by brothers Ferdinand and Walter Huneke. Neural therapy is not based on exclusive treatment of nerves as the name implies but rather based on the premise that illness may result from a nervous system that has become unregulated or temporarily damaged or distracted. In actuality, neural therapy is more of a type of bio-regulatory therapy or holistic therapy who’s goal is to produce a positive response from the whole system. Slowly, neural therapy is now gradually being adopted by medical communities throughout the world with cases demonstrating many remarkable healing outcomes. The Neural Therapy technique primarily involves the injection of local anesthetic called Procaine into scars, trigger points, tendon and ligament insertions, peripheral nerves, autonomic ganglia, epidural space and tissues. Neural therapy is based on the belief that there is a extracellular matrix or ground substance whose pathways are those taken by both illness and recovery and that with support, any illness can be healed. Based on the concept of the extracellular matrix, or ECM, chronic pain and illness result from long-term disruption/ irritation of this complex matrix system, either structurally, biochemically or electrically. Neural therapy generally uses the re-polarizing property of Procaine to re-establish a functional, healthy electrical charge around cells. This in turn allows for proper cellular and ECM functions and eventual homeostasis throughout the entire autonomic nervous system. Neural therapy in its simplest form is an intra-dermal injection of scars, tattoos, or piercings which are believed to be causing an “interference field” or disruption of the autonomic nervous system. The local anesthetic is injected in such a way as to produce a linear “wheal” over the interference field of approximately .5cc- 1cc of Procaine. The location of the interference field can be in the vicinity of the patient’s pain or in an entirely different location. The therapeutic benefits range from gradual improvement after repeated treatments to an immediate complete relief of symptoms. The “Huneke phenomenon” or “Huneke lightning reaction” was the term given to the injection protocol that would stop all disturbances simultaneously with a single injection for at least 20 hrs, resulting in a positive outcome that persisted longer with every repeated injection. As a biologic dentist, I want to make a positive impact with regard to all areas of my patients health when I perform my dental procedures. I do not want to contribute to our high rate of iatrogenic death through ignorance or misinformation. The purposeful goal of finding safer routes of care for helping my patients led me to neural therapy in 2012. The intention behind my education then, and point of this paper now is to demonstrate a safer way of assisting the body in healing illness through neural therapy and how we could significantly lower the high death rates in our country that are resulting from the inappropriate overuse of prescription drugs and unsafe procedures for treating chronic illness.

In biologic dentistry, one of our main focuses is on the safe removal of poisonous metals like mercury and on the proper removal of serious infections, like root canals and jaw-bone cavitation’s. The healing outcomes of both are improved significantly with the use of Neural therapy and Drainage Formulas. For example, the mercury that is emitted as a vapor from amalgam fillings or the leaching of toxic nickel and aluminum based metal crowns gets lodged in our body tissue and plugs up our drainage pathways. It can contaminate nerves and stop their normal function. The infectious organisms found in root canals move outside the tooth and into the bone surrounding the tooth. Its important to understand that the lymphatics in the head and neck that drain toxins from infected teeth also drain infections from sinuses and tonsils. Its like too many cars on the highway at rush hour and everything jams up and comes to a stop. To the patient, this may look like swollen eyes and lymph nodes, but may also feel like brain fog and insomnia to another person. These drainage formulas safely help to naturally open the lymphatics to improve a healthy outflow of toxins.

Ozone injections: ozone has 3 major properties utilized in the injection treatment: a. ligament tightening ( Dr Frank Schallenberger MD coined the term “prolozone” injections) b. anti-viral/antimicrobial effect. This makes it an ideal choice to treat joints and lymph nodes affected and inhabited by Lyme spirochetes c. ozone has been shown to disintegrate over 400 known biotoxins. Toxins become less toxic in the presence of ozone. This makes ozone an ideal candidate for injecting it anywhere where the body is in trouble. We use ozone in trigger points, joints, ligaments, lymphatic tissue, in fascial planes, in the neighborhood of teeth, in the jaw bone (x-tip procedure), intramuscularly and rarely intravenously

It’s important to understand that ozone is not a poison and that it has been used to help human health for more than 100 years. To give you a little history, In 1785, the Dutch chemist Martinus van Marum was conducting experiments involving electrical sparking above water when he noticed an unusual smell, which he attributed to the electrical reactions, failing to realize that he had in fact created ozone. A half-century later, Christian Friedrich Schönbein noticed the same pungent odor and recognized it as the smell often following a bolt of lightning. In 1839, he succeeded in isolating the gaseous chemical and named it “ozone,” from the Greek word ozein, meaning “to smell.” For this reason, Schönbein is generally credited with the discovery of ozone. The formula for ozone, O3, was not determined until 1865 by Jacques-Louis Soret and confirmed by Schönbein in 1867. Some other historical uses of ozone demonstrating its safety include its use as a disinfectant in drinking water in 1893, its use as a food preservative for cold storage of meats in 1909 and in 1939 ozone was found to prevent the growth of yeast & mold during the storage of fruits. Most people have heard of ozone because of the concerns with the holes forming in the ozone layer. Ozone in the ozone layer filters out sunlight wavelengths from about 200 nm UV rays to 315 nm, with ozone peak absorption at about 250 nm. This ozone UV absorption is important to life due to the fact that radiation intensity is 350 million times as powerful at the top of the atmosphere as at the surface on the earth. So ozone actually makes life on earth possible. Nevertheless, enough of UV-B radiation at similar frequency reaches the ground to cause some sunburn, and is responsible for the production of vitamin D in humans. In fact, even Benjamin Franklin believed that the presence of cholera was connected with the deficiency or lack of ozone in the atmosphere, a sentiment at the time that was shared by the British Science Association. Industrially, ozone is used to disinfect laundry in hospitals, food factories, and nursing homes and can be used as a disinfectant for water in place of chlorine. Ozone kills bacteria on food or on contact surfaces, can be used to sanitize swimming pools and spas. Ozone is very safe when used properly. The science behind ozone is somewhat complex, but basically the thing to understand is that it can kill viruses, bacteria, fungi, molds and parasites approximately 4000 times as effectively as bleach, but will not harm human cells if used at the correct dose. Ozone has many health benefits with respect to stopping pain and inflammation, building the immune system naturally and helping to treat and prevent cancer, but we use it extensively in my dental office because of its remarkable ability to improve healing.