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posted by admin on Mar 23

When using this technique used by Jim Bell, you can also see your pain as a row of nails driven into your scalp; or you could see your neck muscles tied into knots; or you might visualize your head on fire. As you draw out the nails, untie the neck muscles or extinguish the fire with cold water, your headache diminishes and disappears.

The variety of healing visualizations you can invent is almost endless. You can create images and suggestions to reinforce the effects of any other technique in this book, or to boost the effects of medication or medical treatment.

Creative imagery won’t replace such needed therapies as exercise or nutrition, but it can work wonders in reinforcing their benefits. We should also realize that imagery is not a substitute for needed medical treatment. It should not be used to mask pain that has not been medically diagnosed and declared benign. For best results, you should practice creative imagery three times a day for about fifteen minutes each time. Some people have experienced swift results. In others, it may take several weeks, or possibly longer, for the necessary physiological changes to take place. As new neural pathways and improved behaviors occur, you can gradually reduce the number of daily sessions.

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posted by admin on Mar 23

The first step in creative imagery is to enter deep relaxation (Technique # 14). Although not essential, you can deepen this relaxation by adding biofeedback (Technique #15).

You should now be tying down, deeply relaxed Begin by getting in touch with your headache pain and experiencing it. Exactly where is it? What are its dimensions? Is it constant or pulsating? Can you give it a shape, color, smell or taste?

Then continue with one or more of these frequently-used imagery techniques.

• Distorting Time. The rationale behind this popular hypnotic therapy is that time seems to drag endlessly during periods of discomfort while it literally flies during a pleasant experience.

Picture yourself experiencing the most pleasurable sensations you can think of—being given a massage in a luxurious room while beautiful girls bring food and drink—or whatever else arouses sensations of hedonism and deep pleasure. Continue to daydream as you visualize a series of rich pleasures.

As you enjoy the mental feeling, time will begin to fly past just as if you had actually experienced the pleasures you fantasized. And as the passage of time is reversed, so you will find, is your headache pain.

• Bathing the Painful Area in Sunshine. Picture a bright ray of healing sunshine flooding the headache area. As you hold this mental picture, repeat autogenic phrases such as these: “My head is entirely free of pain. I feel happy, relaxed and comfortable all over. As the sun’s healing rays enter my head, I am completely free of pain. I feel deeply grateful that my inner healing power has restored me to pain-free health.”

A few minutes of this imagery usually cuts most headache pain in half. And a few more minutes often ends it completely.

• Glove Anesthesia. Visualize one of your hands immersed in an imaginary bucket of hot water. As you maintain this picture, your hand should become quite warm. As soon as you feel this warmth, visualize your other hand plunged into an imaginary bucket of cold water filled with slush ice. In a short time, your hand will feel numbed with cold and it will tingle as if asleep.

Now use this phrase: “1 now transfer this numbness to the headache area by touching it with my cold band.” As you repeat this autogenic phrase, place your cold hand against the headache area. Almost everyone experiences a cold, pain-numbing feeling in the head while the headache diminishes.

Repeated several times, this imagery often produces quite dramatic results, even when medication has failed. It is especially effective for migraine relief.

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posted by admin on Mar 23

The first step in creative imagery is to enter deep relaxation (Technique # 14). Although not essential, you can deepen this relaxation by adding biofeedback (Technique #15).

You should now be tying down, deeply relaxed Begin by getting in touch with your headache pain and experiencing it. Exactly where is it? What are its dimensions? Is it constant or pulsating? Can you give it a shape, color, smell or taste?

Then continue with one or more of these frequently-used imagery techniques.

• Switch Off the Pain. Visualize the nerve fiber leading from the painful area in your head to the pain gate in your brain and on to the pain receptors. Just before the fiber enters the pain gate, visualize a large switch operated by an equally large lever. As you experience the headache pain, see yourself pulling down the lever. With a loud clang, you turn off the switch. In many cases, the pain suddenly ends.

As this is a brief visualization, repeat it several times. Eventually, the ANS will turn off the pain gate switch just as you visualized.

• Displace the Pain. Focus your awareness on the painful area and briefly experience the pain. Then transfer your awareness, together with the pain, to any other area of your body such as your left foot or right hand. You should feel the pain in this new location, often quite intensely. Meanwhile, the headache area becomes increasingly pain-free.

Repeat several times until almost all of the pain is in the new location. Finally, visualize the pain leaving the new location by flowing out into the air. By this time, the original headache site should be virtually pain-free.

A variation on this is to imagine the headache pain diffused and spread out equally all over the body.

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posted by admin on Mar 23

The first step in creative imagery is to enter deep relaxation (Technique # 14). Although not essential, you can deepen this relaxation by adding biofeedback (Technique #15).

You should now be tying down, deeply relaxed Begin by getting in touch with your headache pain and experiencing it. Exactly where is it? What are its dimensions? Is it constant or pulsating? Can you give it a shape, color, smell or taste?

Then continue with one or more of these frequently-used imagery techniques.

• Project Your Headache Out of the Body Place your awareness on the location of the headache. Visualize its exact shape and dimensions. Now detach this block of pain out of your head and see it several feet in front of you. Meanwhile, visualize a gaping empty space in your head where the pain was formerly located. For instance, you might picture your entire forehead removed from your body.

You can do several things with the painful area you have just detached. You might “see” yourself dropping it into a garbage can. Connect the can to a hot-air balloon and watch it soar away out of sight, never to be seen again.

Or you can visualize the detached painful area out in front of you and fill it with ice-cold water. After it is completely numbed and blue with cold, return it to your head.

Or you can magnify the detached painful area to ten times its original size. Then shrink it down to one-tenth its original size. Repeat this exercise ten times. When back to normal size, fill the painful area with a soothing, bright green light. After a few minutes, return it to your head.

Usually, these exercises so overload the brain with sensory stimulation that pain impulses have difficulty getting through. By the time the exercises are over, the headache has often disappeared.

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posted by admin on Mar 11

The therapeutic action of each of the herbs is as follows. The fresh plant extract made from St John’s wort flowers and buds is an effective wound-healing remedy, as is St John’s wort oil. It is an excellent remedy for severe pain in cases of injury to the nerves, concussion and injuries to the spinal cord; where the nerves are badly affected; for post-operative pains and for neuralgias, especially headaches resulting from mental strain and overexertion.

Yarrow, or millefolium, fresh plant extract is primarily indicated as a remedy for varicosis, haemorrhoids, varicose veins, venous obstructions in the abdomen and in the legs, also when there is a rush of blood to the head, frequent and excessive nosebleeding, and haemorrhaging of the bladder.

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posted by admin on Mar 11

If the fever is assisted as described above, rather than suppressed, the temperature will not continue to rise, but will decrease slowly. This is nature’s way, so do not try to make it come down faster. When the temperature rises it remains high until everything that has to be eliminated has been burned up; only then will it begin to drop. This is the natural process. Anything done in haste in reality only suppresses and does not eliminate, as we might be led to believe. At best, a sort of armistice will be achieved, but never the removal of the actual cause of the problem. Everything not eliminated through perspiration, the urine and the stools remains in the body, and these toxic residues can cause a relapse at any time.

You may have a temperature and the wonderful little tablets you take to get rid of it actually relieve your very bad sore throat. However, what you have done has not eliminated the toxins and the trouble may suddenly surface somewhere else in the body and in a different way.

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posted by admin on Mar 11

It is unpleasant to be stung anywhere, most of all in the mouth or throat. This can happen if you fail to notice a wasp or bee on your bread and honey or in fruit. The very moment that the insect is pressed against the palate it will sting you, and this can lead to serious problems. What can you do? Dab the sting or gargle with whey or whey concentrate {Molkosan). If these are not available, use concentrated salt water instead to reduce the swelling and prevent choking. You can help yourself in this way until a doctor arrives. Gargle repeatedly with a solution of salt water – two tablespoons of salt to 100 ml (lA pint) of water. After a while the poison will begin to disperse and will also be partially drawn out by the salt water. After gargling, a clay pack or cabbage leaf poultice applied to the neck will be of further help in reducing the poison’s effect. As a good antidote, take clay and, if possible, biological calcium tablets {Urticalcin) as well.

If you add a few drops of ivy tincture to the salt water the effect will be better still. The preparation of ivy tincture is described in the previous entry.

In the case of hornet stings it is imperative to see your doctor immediately or go to an ear, nose and throat hospital, because there is a greater danger of choking (oedema of the glottis).

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posted by admin on Mar 11

Begin your treatment in the morning by drinking half a glass of raw potato juice on an empty stomach; if you like, dilute it with a little warm water. All meals should consist of natural, organically grown foods. Detailed information on ‘Natural Wholefood’ is found in another section of this book (see pages 463-74).

An hour before lunch eat two or three juniper berries; chew them thoroughly, insalivating well, and swallow. After lunch swallow 2—4 whole mustard seeds. To quench your thirst during the day drink the water in which potatoes have been boiled.

Painful areas and arthritic deformities should be treated with different poultices; on the first day use pulped cabbage leaves; on the second day clay and on the third day, soft white cheese (quark).

Let me also remind you of a very old but effective treatment for sciatic and rheumatic pains, the formic acid therapy. Once every two weeks place the painful limb, say your leg or arm, in an anthill and leave it there long enough for the ants to inject their acid. Then, wipe them off with a brush or cloth and let the formic acid do its work. This is a simple, absolutely natural injection that does not cost you a penny.

Anyone who persists in the use of these simple methods of treatment, and in eating natural foods, will not only alleviate serious cases but cure them, even where the doctor has given up hope. However, if the patient suffers from a slipped disc or other disc trouble, it will be necessary to consult a good chiropractor.

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posted by admin on Mar 11

Have you ever wondered what causes these two unpleasant complaints? It is unlikely that you would be troubled with them if you saw to it that your vascular system, particularly the veins, were kept free from congestion. But if you do suffer, hot and cold foot baths can help. Begin by immersing your feet in hot water for several minutes, then place them in cold water and keep them there for the equivalent number of seconds; in other words, if you soak your feet for two or three minutes in hot water, leave them for only two or three seconds in the cold water. This procedure may be repeated 6-8 times at a session. Finish off with cold water, rub your feet vigorously with a towel and then apply a little oil (preferably St John’s wort oil), if you like. This treatment will soon bring the circulation back to normal.

A much older but less known method of improving the circulation is that of walking barefoot in the snow. If your house or apartment has a veranda which becomes covered with snow in winter, you have the ideal location for this. Incidentally, this is a similar treatment to treading cold water, a form of hydrotherapy connected with the Kneipp method (see page 334). To start with, practise snow-walking for ten seconds, then thirty seconds, gradually building up to 2-3 minutes. However, a word of caution is called for here. Take care not to do this to the point where you start to feel chilled. After completing the exercise, and without
drying your feet, go back inside to your warm bed.

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