You Can Get Rid of Migraine With the Help of Needles
Neural therapy, used for hormonal disorders, low back-neck hernias, dizziness, tinnitus and arthritis is also good for migraine. Neurologist Dr. Emel Gokmen, informed us about this method. You can get rid of migraine with the help of needles!
What is neural therapy?
There are two nerve networks in our body. The most well-known is the one starting in the brain and spreading through the body like cables. But the autonomic nervous system is different. It is dense enough to cover the world 12 times when added end to end. Migraine is the result from a disconnection in this network caused by a disease we had. Negative signals coming from this problematic area triggers migraine attacks and neural therapy fixes this problem by regulating the autonomic nervous system. By digging deep into the complaints it finds out when and how the problem started.
Is it a scientific method or an alternative medicine application?
It is scientific. Included in western medicine applications, it is actually a department in Bern Medical School in Switzerland.
How is it applied?
It is a treatment method using needles mostly on the skin. These needles contain local anesthetics called “procaine” and “lidocaine”.
Do these substances kill the pain?
No. These local anesthetics, used in pain clinics or while stitching a wound to numb the nerves, do not have therapeutic effects. They just create the feeling of numbness. “Procaine”, or “lidocaine”, increases the energy on the area and affects migraine. Especially procaine can increase the energy and prevent leakages in the nervous system. Also, obtained from urtica urens and bitter almond, it is completely natural.
Is it painful?
Tiny needles cause less pain than regular injections. Even patients suffering from needle phobia can have this treatment.
Are there any side effects?
There are no side effects reported or recorded. This treatment can be applied to patients of all ages. Since it is not a pharmacological treatment, even pregnant women can benefit from this method.
How long does it take?
Treatment sessions take 20 minutes and it takes 8-10 sessions at most to see the results.
What is the success rate?
If you are trained for neural therapy, you can find out the reasons of migraine. Migraine is a temporary malfunction in the autonomic nervous system and neural therapy, regulates this system. Hence, we can cure migraine starting from the source.
How many patients have you treated using this method? And on how many of them you have failed?
Scientific papers show a success rate of 75-85%. I, myself, have been applying neural therapy for almost five years now and obtained similar, in fact a little better results.
What affects this rate?
To be cured, the patient has to take the therapy until the end.
Is it possible that migraine can come back after neural therapy? Does this treatment require to be repeated?
If neural therapy has fixed the source completely, it does not. But sometimes, patients might have attacks months after the treatment. Then, possible pain focuses are detected and the treatment is applied for couple of sessions. After that, we can say that migraine is completely gone.
When was neural therapy born?
Two German anesthetics, Huneke brothers, discovered the healing effect of the local an aesthetic “procaine” by accident. This method is in use since then and after that, this effect is proven with the scientific studies in Vienna University.
If it is so effective why not common?
I have two explanations for this: First, physicians have hard times accepting that it is possible to easily heal something they could not heal with lots of drugs. A physician gets neural therapy training only after witnessing a treatment process. I treated my own migraine with neural therapy. And the second and biggest reason is the pharmaceutical industry. If all physicians apply neural therapy, this industry dies and this is unacceptable.
What other diseases is neural therapy good for?
- Hormonal disorders,
- Low back-neck hernias,
- Dizziness,
- Tinnitus,
- Arthritis.
RADIKAL NEWSPAPER, OCTOBER 2009