User talk:Neuraltherapy

Dear all,

yes, the existing English language article I have edited here about Neuraltherapy needs improving.

I am glad to have started a discussion about its suitability.

Most English language contributions about the subject are from people who are not medically qualified, with a few exceptions like Dr. Kidd for example.

Having looked through the list of contributors here none of them appear to be a medical professional or claims to have inside knowledge of the method, some appear to have specialist knowledge about local anaesthetics and a wide range of other subjects.

I claim to have some inside knowledge about the subject.

Neuraltherapy originated with a surgeon who made a observation as he experimented with a new drug, then other medically trained doctors and physicians in German speaking countries and is now firmly rooted in the Spanish speaking countries - see http://www.terapianeural.com - arguably more than in Germany.

It is a postgraduate medical qualification in these countries - details see German section.

Some of its foundations in terms of anatomy, in particular anatomy of the autonomous nervous system (Clara), experimental pathology (Ricker - relational pathology, Speransky, Pischinger) and related concepts of health and disease are as yet largely locked in the German language. Possibly a lot more may currently evolve in Russia, Turkey and elsewhere. The same applies to the most important contribution of Ernesto Adler, a ex-patriate German dentist who lived in Spain and whose book is available for free on the web in Catalan/Spanish.

If none of this knowledge is accessible to the English-only speaker they will not understand what we are talking about. It won't help either if they have not experienced or seen a "Flash/Huneke Reaction" and what follows from there.

Science begins with observation,(see Isaac Newton), then systematic observation, followed by experiment, eventually theories, and these evolve as knew knowledge becomes available.

Is medicine a science ?
Is medicine a science - or is it a rather ecelectic set of skills, empiric personal and collective knowledge, attitudes, at the end a personal matter of the practitioner and patient ?

It is just that every now and then a therapy or method is classed as "not scientific", something I find quite annoying and misleading.

It is maybe a valid statement to say "large scale multi centre controlled trials are not available" or "randomized controlled trials and meta analysis has/has not confirmed this view".

Or: Currently accepted evidence is XYZ. Most trials have been paid for by companies/manufacturers XYZ who sell related products, therefore conflict of interest has to be assumed in these cases. Independent studies do/do not exist.

But what on earth is "scientific" meaning "real, precise" medicine ?

I think it doesn't exist.

Regards

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