Also called: First APR, Original abdominal-pain-releasing treatment
APR, the first version, is the original Neurotherapy (LMNT) abdominal-pain-releasing treatment for belly pain with loose motions, made before it was divided into classes. It calms inflammation first, slows the gut second, and treats the digestive organs last in reversed order. It is recorded here for its history and reasoning; the revised classes are what is used today.
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. Checking the pains around the navel is the foundation of this therapy, and within a few years Guruji had become skilled at removing belly pain of every kind.
Patients came from many provinces, with different habits, and most complained of belly pain. Guruji knew one treatment could not suit everyone, yet he set out to build the one that would suit the most. This first version was that attempt — made for loose motions or diarrhoea that come together with pain.
Many patients benefited greatly. But those with many loose motions did not, and that failure led to the three classes and later to a revision. This page records the first version so its reasoning stays clear.
The first version works through points at the neck, the mid-back and the abdominal organs. They are listed here 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 — found to stop inflammation at once, so the pain at the Mu point eases quickly.
(6) Adr, on the mid-back, face down — also found to stop inflammation at once.
(6) Swt, in the gutters beside the mid-back spine, face down — to rouse the adrenal medulla, through which the body's 'slow down' nerves calm the gut.
The pancreas point — for digestive enzymes.
The spleen point — later taken out, because the spleen makes white cells and antibodies.
The gall bladder point — later taken out, because bile is antiseptic.
Mu — given with Liv in reversed order, so the gut is slowed rather than sped.
Liv, the liver point — paired with Mu in reversed order.
Position: Seated for the neck work, face down (prone) for the back with the chest raised on pillows, and lying on the back (supine) for the abdominal organs.
The exact technique is taught hands-on in the Neurotherapy (LMNT) course. See the course →
Four observations were laid end to end. An old infection in the food canal turns into inflammation, which causes intense pain at the navel. The pain also shows the stomach and intestines are short of blood, so food passes without being digested or absorbed. The large intestine, also short of blood, cannot take water back from the waste — and that watery waste is diarrhoea. So the gut's movement has to be slowed, which is the work of the sympathetic nerves acting through the adrenal medulla.
So the parts are given in that order of need: inflammation first, gut movement second, the digestive organs last — and the organs only in reversed order, as in the Ulta Normal formula, because reversing the order slows the bowel.
Slowing the gut does not mean stopping it. It means slowing the wave so water can be taken out. A bowel slowed on purpose and then left slowed becomes constipation — so when the motions become completely normal, NAN or FAN is given for at least a day to bring the body back.
APR is a group, not a single formula — three classes, each with two generations. The first version is where it began.
Belly pain with loose motions. Today the revised classes are chosen by counting the loose motions.
Patients with many loose motions did not benefit enough, so the group was divided into classes by the number of motions. Later Gal and Spl were taken out of the inflamed belly, and patients who had not had full relief began to get it.
Because giving the abdominal organs in reversed order slows the gut, and slowing it is what loose motions need. The normal order would speed it up.
Not covering the pain, but removing the reason the belly is holding it — the inflammation and the rushing gut.
The wall of the bowel holds hundreds of millions of nerve cells and its own pacemaker cells. Outside nerves only speed or slow the wave; they do not create it.
Source: Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th ed., enteric nervous system
The sympathetic nerves that reach the abdominal organs leave the spinal cord at about the mid-to-lower chest levels, gathering into the splanchnic nerves.
Source: Gray's Anatomy, 41st ed., splanchnic nerves
Bile salts act like detergents on bacterial membranes, which is why bile is one of the gut's natural defences.
Source: Begley M, Gahan CGM, Hill C. The interaction between bacteria and bile. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2005;29:625–651
A major review explains that bile salts damage bacterial membranes, DNA and proteins, making bile a strong natural antimicrobial in the gut — the fact behind taking the gall bladder point out of an inflamed belly.
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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