Neural Therapy is a regulatory therapy that aims to modulate the Nervous System, especially the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), so that organs and tissues recover their functions and the body achieves an overall balance. It consists of applying a very diluted local anesthetic to sites of possible nerve irritations that overload organic functioning and can cause disease and discomfort. These sites are determined from a thorough medical history and objective examination.
The ANS acts involuntarily, regulating the vital functions of our organism in order to maintain or rebalance homeostasis. Thus, it controls processes such as digestion, breathing, the cardiovascular and renal systems, and hormone secretion. It has a close relationship with the endocrine, limbic (associated with emotions), and behavioral (drinking, seeking food, etc.) systems.
All body tissues have nerve fibers that allow them to regulate their functions. These nerve fibers are all interconnected, forming a network, and adapting to the stimuli and needs of each one, at each moment. Any event that leaves an irritation in one or more nerve fibers can interrupt this global regulation of the organism and influence other organs and tissues. In this way, neural therapy seeks to neutralize these irritations so that the body recovers its balance and its self-healing mechanisms. The diluted local anesthetic does not have an anesthetic purpose, but it achieves the repolarization of the electrical potential of cell membranes, stabilizing them, and neutralizing foci of nerve tissue with interferences.
Considering that a large part of health problems can be improved by regulating the functioning of the nervous system, this therapeutic technique can help in a wide variety of diseases. The main problems that lead to seeking this type of treatment are: