One of the most important things Americans have to learn is how to relax. Anything that will teach them to do this should prove a boon.
Therefore I feel certain that, before many years, the principles and practices of zone therapy will be as familiar and universally applied as are now the principles of domestic hygiene or the practice of sterilizing baby bottles. And then zone therapy will add to the depth and breadth, as well as to the length of human life.
CHAPTER IX. CURING LUMBAGO WITH A COMB.
There is a solid and substantial satisfaction in having lumbago. For we know, without being told, that we have it, and we don’t have to work our imagination overtime providing it with symptoms.
Also, lumbago offers less encouragement to mental or psychological healing than most anything ordinary we could gather up—except a broken leg, a crop of boils, or an abscessed tooth. And the same thing applies to its sisters-in-laws, rheumatism and sciatica.
Therefore, anything that cures lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica, or similar afflictions, must be able to “deliver the goods.”
On this basis zone therapy must be considered one of our most valuable methods for treating these obstinate conditions. Naturally it is not always successful. Neither are the salicylates, hot mud baths, porous plasters, nor having teeth pulled. And this is no more an apology for zone therapy than it is for medicine.
Lumbago, as a rule, responds very quickly and kindly to zone therapy. Cases which come to the office “all doubled up” are straightened out—frequently in one treatment—and wend their homeward way rejoicing.