Using reflex mechanisms for self-treatment is a very good idea. And it can be used for treatment of nearly all diseases. As any irritation is transmitted in our body in the form of nerve (electrical) impulses, it should be possible to make a universal “electrical” pill, why not? That is what Alexander Karasev was thinking about in 1972…
“In Sweden doctors do not let the patient know his diagnosis. So people who came to us could not say what disease they had, they just complained of the symptoms, like migraine, pain in the stomach, constipation, chronic maxillary sinusitis, insomnia, chronic fatigue, depression, neuralgia, jammed sciatic nerve, allergy, stroke after-effects, etc. These were the problems the modern medicine could not help them with. But we already knew that SCENAR could treat diseases, as a lot of our patients had recovered after SCENAR-therapy!”
I have started giving therapy to an insomnia patient. She had suffered from insomnia for more than eight years and after first session, she had a long deep sleep of about ten hours on the first day. Insomnia pattern bounced back after 2nd day. But, nice deep sleep again on the first day of 2nd therapy, same bounce-back of insomnia pattern on the 2nd day post-treatment. Her general condition is improving but I try to figure out better ways of interfering with brain cycles of sleep …