Types of Pain Relieved by Zone-therapy
The type of pressure which will relieve specific pains has to be worked out by the patient himself. Sufferers constantly hit upon devices which relieve them somewhat, independently of any knowledge of zone-therapy. Among the forms of relief possible are: the relief of abdominal pains by stroking the backs of the hands with a wire brush or metallic comb; relief of bladder pains by biting the tongue or the lips; relief of childbirth pains by firmly clenching something in the hands, and pressing with the feet against some rough resistant surface; relief of neuralgia by pressure upon the joints of fingers and thumbs in the zone of the pain, using rubber-bands or spring clothes-pins to produce the pressure, or pressure by fingers on the roof of the mouth.
Zone-therapy is not a cure, primarily. It is a means of relieving pain which sometimes allows the patient to “relax sufficiently to get the recuperation which enables the organic forces to overcome the local difficulty.