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Correcting the cause instead of silencing the warning
Root cause, not symptom
Neurotherapy does not treat only the symptom. It improves the working of the glands, from which the disease is cured — and along with it the likelihood of another disease coming is also ended.
Small ailments — fevers, colds, coughs, indigestion, constipation, stomach ache — come in order to give us warning.
When such a thing is treated so that the symptom alone is suppressed, the warning is silenced and the bigger disease goes on growing in the body, unannounced.
So when such symptoms appear, treat at once, without delay: considerable relief will be obtained within three or four days. But for a complete cure, at least one treatment a week for a month or two means the trouble does not come again.
A damp patch appears on a bedroom ceiling. You can paint over it — quick, cheap, effective for a fortnight. Nobody who has owned a house believes the paint fixed anything; everybody knows there is a tile off the roof. And notice that the patch was the useful thing: it was the only way you were going to learn about the tile. Say that fairly at the mat, though — relief is a mercy and often urgent. The claim is only that relief is not the same act as correction. (Figure 1.5)
The other side of the coin: when the root really is corrected, not only that disease but all the symptoms connected with that root cause go away, and should not return. The patient will tell you about the ones you did not treat. She came about her knees; in the fourth week she mentions that her hair has stopped falling and she no longer needs the antacid, and thinks these coincidences. They were rows of one account.
Two honest qualifications, both the therapy's own. About living: one main cause of disease is wrong thinking, and not following the ordinary rules of diet, sleep and exercise. Some conditions are so bound up with tension that a person well for months finds the symptoms return with a little of it; such a person needs, besides treatment, to change the way of life and the direction of the thoughts.
What patients notice first comes long before that. Within a day or two the small effects begin: hunger improves, sleep improves, energy rises, weakness reduces, the body feels light, life becomes enjoyable. Even where the disease is slow to go, those changes matter in themselves, because a body in that state is far less likely to acquire the next disease. Say this at the start: it is true, it is modest, and it stops a patient measuring week one against a cure.