If the use of the probe through the nostrils seems too much like a surgical operation, very good—though not so rapid and effective results—will follow the application of firm pressures on the front part of the tongue, and on the floor of the mouth directly under the tongue.
Also moderately tight rubber bands should be worn on the thumbs and first fingers of both hands for five or ten minute intervals, several times a day. This might be supplemented also with strong pressure with the finger and thumb over the bridge of the cougher’s nose.
If there should be a frontal headache associated with the cough—a very frequent symptom if the cough has persisted for any length of time—the finger and thumb should be moved up to the very root of the nose. This shall be pinched gently for several minutes, right at the place where the nose ends and the eyes begin.
One of the most remarkable things zone therapy has yet done (although I am not surprised at anything it may do) was to cure a forty-year-old cough, originating in a tracheal (or wind pipe) irritation. The patient received one treatment with a probe (Fig. [9]) on the back wall of the pharynx.
She experienced relief after the second treatment, and continued to improve until, at the expiration of three weeks, she was discharged as cured. Now, after 15 months, there has been no return of the cough.
Another patient with bronchial cough associated with lagrippe, under my instruction, relieved herself by pressures made with the finger and thumb over the bridge of the nose, and by the wearing of rubber bands around the thumbs and first fingers of both hands.
This lady reported the following morning that she had enjoyed the first night’s sleep she had had in more than five nights, and that a persistent and most annoying headache had also cleared up.
These results are quite uniform, and can be duplicated by any one who will try patiently and painstakingly to duplicate them.
Indeed, so simple is the procedure that I have repeatedly seen bronchial and other coughs, resulting from irritation or congestion at some point in the air passages, completely cured, merely by pressure on the tongue with the handle of a tablespoon or a toothbrush. And many of these had persisted for a long time.