Also, if he tells you to use a wire brush on the front and back of the hand, and also press with the aluminum comb on the palms of the hand, to cure cold feet, he may not be nearly as crazy as he sounds. He may be merely a little ahead of your time, as were Harvey, Semmelweis, Horace Wells, Lister, and hundreds of others, who have suffered the slings and arrows of ridicule.
And so, we who believe in zone therapy now understand why we grind our teeth. It is because the action relieves nerve tension, and diminishes the pain in all the zones of the body connected by those invisible and as yet undiscovered nervous wires strung through the telegraph poles of the teeth.
When we grab our bruised shins we check the transmission of pain in the irritated nerve trunk lines of that zone. When we grasp the arm of the dental chair, and hang on like grim death, we are unconsciously going through motions that, if continued long enough, would have made our trial comparatively painless. The only fault in our preparation for the ordeal was that we should have started our pressure grip three or four minutes earlier. But our intentions were good.
When automatically we clench our fists in furious anger, we are relieving our terrific nervous excitation, and thereby perhaps preventing the bursting of a blood vessel. When we clasp the hands of one sorely stricken and in the throes of despair, we are, in addition to supplying him with comforting magnetism and physical solace, producing a distinctly analgesic and quieting effect upon his entire nervous system.
And when we clasp our hands or press the fingers tightly together in supplication, we are ministering to over-wrought nerves, and thereby perhaps bringing ourselves into closer harmony with the great Cosmic Force that envelopes us all in a mantle of kindness and love.
[CONCLUSION.]
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