Sarah discusses the use of neural therapy for pain management with Dr. Kumar Biswas, a Canadian naturopathic doctor on Vancouver Island. Developed in the early 1900’s in Germany, neural therapy is now practiced across Europe and North America. Dr. Biswas explains that biological medicine, which is practiced throughout Europe, integrates alternative medicine and modern medicine. While modern medicine is based on diagnosis, biological medicine is based on functional physiology, and aims to understand and correct imbalances in the body. He further explains that functional medicine has developed in the US in recent years as a marriage of the art and science of medicine.

Neural therapy was developed in Germany. Local anaesthetics were injected into various structures in the body, including parts of the autonomic nervous system, to bring regulation to the body. Dr. Biswas explains that procaine is not only a local anaesthetic, it also balances or upregulates nerves by normalizing their charge. He elaborates that interference fields occur with changes in tissue due to things like surgery, piercings, tattoos, traumas, infection and inflammation. A surgical scar can cause an interference in the electrical, physical and energetic flow within the body. He explains that changes can occur in the direction of charge within the autonomic nervous system, and that an injection can help bring balance back into that process. Dr. Biswas points out that these treatments are not yet considered conventional medicine, although some medical doctors and anesthesiologists in Canada and the US have been trained and are using the techniques.

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