Polio: how four points make one treatment plan

Overview

Students meet polio in four separate places in the Neurotherapy (LMNT) point lists and are sometimes puzzled. There is no conflict. Each point does a different job in the same disease.

(6) Adr is given because polio is an inflammatory disease, and (6) Adr is the point used to settle inflammation. It carries its own caution: it lowers immunity, so it is not given where immunity is already low, as in septicaemia, HIV or cancer.

Blood Supply to Legs is given for the leg weakness and numbness. That point works on the limb, not on the inflammation.

The Armpit point and the Thymus and Thymus + Chest group are held back in polio. They carry their own bar, together with diabetes and the autoimmune disorders.

Spl, the spleen point, carries an open question: should it be tried in polio to see whether patients benefit? It is written as a question and read as one. This is how a whole point list is meant to be read: each point doing its own work, with its own conditions attached.

Key points

• Four points appear in polio, each with a different job.
• (6) Adr eases the inflammation but is not given where immunity is low.
• Blood Supply to Legs works on the weak limb.
• Armpit and the Thymus group are held back in polio.
• Whether Spl helps in polio is still an open question.

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This topic is part of: Each Point in Use: What It Is For, and When It Is Held Back