Also called: APR class B, APR B
APR class B, first version, is the Neurotherapy (LMNT) abdominal-pain-releasing treatment for belly pain with more than five or six loose motions a day. Because the inflammation is stronger, it gives more anti-inflammatory work and makes the abdominal organs wait until the motions begin to answer.
APR stands for the abdominal-pain-releasing treatments. 'Releasing' is the key word: not covering the pain over, but removing the reason the belly is holding it. APR is a group, not one formula. Guruji split it into three classes, chosen by one plain question — how many loose motions a day?
Class B was born from a pattern in the failures of the first APR: patients with more loose motions were not helped enough. The insight was that more motions mean more inflammation, and until the inflammation is finished there is no point rousing the abdominal organs. So nothing new was added — the anti-inflammatory work was given more, and the organ work waits.
This first version was later revised: Gal and Spl were taken out of an inflamed belly. Today the revised class is the one in use; this page records the first version so its history and reasoning are clear.
The points below are listed as a set, with what each contributes. The exact method, including the order, is taught hands-on in the Neurotherapy (LMNT) course.
(30) Medulla, at the nape, seated — said to stop inflammation at once; in LMNT teaching it acts through the prostaglandins.
(6) Adr, on the mid-back, face down — the adrenal glands, which calm inflammation.
(3) Swt — the lighter variant of Swt written into this first version.
(8) Pan, on both thighs — the pancreas, for digestive enzymes.
Spl, the spleen point. (Later removed from an inflamed belly, because the spleen makes white cells and antibodies.)
Gal, the gall bladder point. (Later removed from an inflamed belly, because bile is antiseptic.)
Mu, the large-intestine point — given in reversed order with Liv, to slow the gut.
Liv, the liver point — paired with Mu in reversed order.
Position: Seated for the neck work, face down for the back, and lying on the back for the abdominal organs.
The exact technique is taught hands-on in the Neurotherapy (LMNT) course. See the course →
The reasoning behind APR is laid out in four steps. An old infection in the food canal turns into inflammation (swelling and irritation), which causes the pain. The pain also shows that the stomach and intestines are short of blood, so food passes through without being digested or absorbed. The large intestine, short of blood too, cannot take the water back out of the waste — and that watery waste is diarrhoea. So the movement of the gut has to be slowed.
Two findings of the therapy supply the tools. (30) Medulla and (6) Adr calm inflammation, and the pain at the Mu point eases. (6) Swt rouses the adrenal medulla, through which the body's 'slow down' nerves calm the gut. And giving the abdominal organs in reversed order — as in the Ulta Normal formula — slows the gut's movement rather than speeding it.
In class B the inflammation is stronger, so the anti-inflammatory work is given more, and the abdominal organs wait. The adrenal-and-Swt work may be repeated according to need, and the abdominal step is given only once the motions begin to answer.
In this first version, Swt is not given with the Medulla — the absence is itself the instruction — and a lighter variant of Swt, (3) Swt, is written in.
The APR group grew in generations: a first version, three classes, and a revision.
The class is chosen by counting loose motions, not by the name of the illness.
Because with more loose motions there is more inflammation, and until it is finished there is no point rousing the other abdominal organs. The stools show when the inflammation is answering.
Because the stool is how the treatment reports. How many motions and what form decide whether to continue, repeat, or stop and switch to the closing step.
Come for one more step. The treatment slowed your bowel on purpose; NAN or FAN for at least a day gives it its normal speed back. Then you are examined again from the beginning.
Yes. Sugar-and-salt solution replaces the water and salt that loose motions take out. It comes first, and the treatment works alongside it.
Bile acids act like a detergent that breaks open the outer coat of many bacteria. That sound fact is why LMNT later removed Gal from an inflamed belly — rousing bile and the spleen's defence cells could stir the inflammation further.
Source: Begley M, Gahan CGM, Hill C. The interaction between bacteria and bile. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 2005;29(4):625–651.
The wall of the gut holds a web of hundreds of millions of nerve cells — the enteric nervous system — that runs the squeezing waves of digestion. The 'fight or flight' nerves slow it down; the 'rest and digest' nerves speed it up.
Source: Furness JB. The enteric nervous system and neurogastroenterology. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;9:286–294; Guyton & Hall, 14th ed.
The gut has a doorway that illness does not close: it takes up sugar and salt together, and water follows. So a drink of sugar and salt in the right balance is absorbed even by a bowel that is pouring fluid out. This oral rehydration has saved millions of lives.
Source: Guyton & Hall, 14th ed. — sodium-glucose co-transport; WHO oral rehydration salts guidance.
About one and a half litres of fluid reach the large intestine each day, and it takes back almost all of it, leaving only a small amount in the stool. When it cannot, the stool turns watery.
Source: Guyton & Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th ed. — absorption in the large intestine.
This review shows that bile has strong antibacterial action: its acids dissolve bacterial membranes and damage bacteria in several ways. It is the body science behind the reason given for taking Gal out of an inflamed abdomen.
This page explains what a Neurotherapy (LMNT) treatment is for; it is not a self-treatment guide and does not diagnose. Neurotherapy (LMNT) works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed.
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