December 2024

By: Dr. M. Kyu Chung

Recently, a 33-year-old woman presented to our office complaining of shaking, bouncing vision for a year and a half. For example, when she focused on a door handle, she could see the door frame and door shake and bounce. She had seen two ophthalmologists, one neuro-ophthalmologist, two neurologists, one endocrinologist, one allergist, and one chiropractor. One neurologist told her she had the beginnings of multiple sclerosis. Her medical work-up included multiple blood tests, CT and MRI scan of her brain and spine. None of the tests revealed any clue to the cause of her problem and her doctors were baffled.

Her past medical history: hip surgery for torn labrum 2013, wisdom teeth extraction, tonsil and adenoid surgery. Multiple scars from minor lacerations two scars on her scalp, one chin scar, a belly ring piercing scar, ear piercings, and history of a sports head injury.

Her other significant complaint was chronic fatigue and anxiety.

Our evaluation revealed a normal eye exam with no nystagmus. However, on autonomic response testing she had three abnormal wisdom teeth scars.

Visit one: She had all her scars treated with neural therapy using ½% lidocaine injections. The gum region near her abnormal wisdom teeth was injected with lidocaine followed by ozone. She was also given a general autosanguinous therapy for immune system support

Visit two(one month later): She reported marked reduction of her shaking vision that lasted approximately 6 days before her symptoms returned. The same treatment as visit one was administered with the addition of injections of lidocaine into her pierced earring scars.

Visit three (three months later): She reported 100% improvement of shaking for 3 days, and moderately good improvement for 2-3 weeks and then gradual worsening of her symptoms. She happened to complain of new neck pain. Autonomic response testing revealed: her head scar, chin scar, belly ring piercing scars and bilateral sphenopalatine were abnormal.

Treatment consisted of lidocaine injections to all the abnormal scars, lidocaine/ozone injections to her wisdom teeth scars; prolotherapy of her neck with autosanguinous blood and low dose immunotherapy drops were given made from a sample of material taken from between her teeth obtained with a floss tape.

Visit #4 (two months later): Marked improvement in vision that remained without any return of the shaking vision. Neck pain and stiffness 95% better.

Discussion: Oscillopsia, shaking vision, is not a rare condition. It can be associated with more serious neurological conditions but there appears to be limited treatment options. Through over 25 years of our experience with using neural therapy we have seen a multitude of a variety of neurological symptoms that resolve with simple procaine/lidocaine injections into abnormal scars. We have seen unexplained double vision, sensitivity to light, and blurred vision improve with neural therapy. This is the first case of oscillopsia that we have encountered.

Neural therapists believe that there develops a “focus” of abnormal nerve firing from old scars that create symptoms of pain, numbness, dysesthesia, tingling, muscle weakness, muscle imbalance that can be quite distant from the scar. Procaine by turning off the nerve for 15-20 minutes somehow allows the nerve to reset itself back to a more normal setting. Hence the improvement lasts much longer than 20 minutes. It is analogous to when we shut off our cell phone when it is working abnormally, and it resets back to normal when turned back on. 

There is also a secondary healing response from the needling of the area. The hypodermic needle creates microscopic bleeding in the scar which promotes a healing inflammatory response. It is very common when we treat a visible raised unsightly scar, there is an obvious visible improvement in the appearance of the scar with each subsequent treatment. Hence neural therapy injections have both an immediate as well as a delayed secondary healing response that then results in a lasting response.

In this patient the oscillopsia was likely caused by abnormal nerves arising from several of her head and neck scars.

Note to physicians:

Neural therapy is one of the most benign methods of resolving many severe and even odd neurological conditions. We highly recommend that you seek teaching seminars on this important method of treatment. For more information about neural therapy training, please see: ABOUT THE ACADEMY – NAANT

All lidocaine injections were ½% lidocaine and saline

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By: Dr. M. Kyu Chung

Up until now OCD, Tourette’s, and tic disorders have been treated either with medication or behavioral therapy.  Both types of therapies usually fail to resolve or reverse the condition and only relieve some of the severity of the symptoms.

We have recently developed a therapy that has surprisingly reversed these conditions in several of our patients without the use of chronic medications.  Our report is preliminary as we have so far only treated a few patients. Please see the video testimonials from a few of our clients for more personal reflections on this discussion.

Discussion:

Most psychiatrists generally believe OCD to be a psychiatric condition that spontaneously begins early in life and that rarely resolves and continues lifelong.  Anti-depressants are prescribed but usually result in only a partial reduction of symptoms and usually have to be taken for long periods at a time.

An acute form of OCD was identified and described in 1998 by Susan Swedo et al that was associated with Strep infections and was labeled: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS).

Subsequently a broader syndrome called Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) has become increasingly used to describe acute onset OCD in children. This broader term includes children who have a dramatic – sometimes overnight – onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms including obsessions/compulsions and/or motor tics who do not necessarily have evidence of a current or previous strep infection. Hence PANDAS is considered a subset of PANS.

The cause of PANS is thought to be unknown in most cases but is thought to be triggered by infections, metabolic disturbances, and other inflammatory reactions.

Over fifteen years ago, we began seeing patients with PANDAS who responded to low dose immunotherapy (LDI’s) against strep infections. However, we began encountering patients who fit the clinical symptom criteria for PANDAS who showed no evidence of strep who failed therapy with strep LDI’s. At the time PANS was not fully coined as an entity.  However, some of our patients showed evidence of abnormal reactions on Autonomic Response Testing (ART) to swabs taken from their throat (but strep negative).   Some of these patients responded to low dose immunotherapy made from samples from their throat swabs. In homeopathy, remedies that are made from the very same substance that cause the problem are called isode’s.

Recently, due to the COVID pandemic we happen to obtain thin nasal swabs to obtain samples from the nasopharynx.  We then began sampling the nasopharynx in our OCD patients. We found there were a significant subset of patients who had normal throat swabs but abnormal nasopharyngeal swabs. Just as different regions of the earth favor different types of organisms, the nasopharynx appeared to have its own unique environment that favored its own unique set of microbes.

When we employed Low Dose Immunotherapy LDI remedies from these samples, we began seeing astounding effects on chronic cases of OCD as well as body/facial tics including Tourette’s Syndrome. We now see more cases that are associated with swabs taken from the nasopharynx than that obtained from the throat.

Given the small number of patients that we have treated we cannot say what per cent of OCD patients will ultimately respond to this type of therapy. However, we have seen a variety of other psychiatric and neurologic conditions improve using isode’s from the nasopharynx. Given the close proximity of the nasopharynx to the brain we believe that a large group of patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms may be affected by inflammation arising from the nasopharyngeal region.  

Currently there are only scattered papers that suggest that organisms in the oropharynx affect the brain. Mahoney et al reported a review of 150 patients who fit the criteria for PANS.

“10/150 (6.6%) patients had isolated sinusitis at the time of their neuropsychiatric deterioration. Eight patients received antibiotics to treat sinusitis, three of whom also received sinus surgery. Neuropsychiatric symptoms improved in all eight patients concurrent with resolution of sinusitis per parent report and clinician.”

We believe that many of the other 140 patients who were not treated with antibiotics would have had abnormal nasopharyngeal swabs on autonomic response testing. It is important to note these patients fit the criteria for PANS which is considered an acute possibly acquired condition. Our three case examples are patients who fit the criteria for the usual chronic OCD of long duration and would not fit the criteria for PANS.

Therefore, employing LDI’s from the nasopharynx may turn out to

potentially be a great solution to OCD, Tourette’s, Tics, and a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions. We are also looking into the connection between gum bacteria and neuropsychiatric conditions and find isode’s from the gum (floss) to be beneficial.

The positive response of our patients who had longstanding OCD symptoms calls into question whether OCD and Tourette’s have similar etiologies to the acute form of OCD described in PANS. There is an ever-increasing number of research papers supporting the possibility that neuropsychiatric conditions have an inflammatory component.

Someday basic science research may verify the different types of organisms that are associated with different neuropsychiatric conditions. We are finding that LDI isode therapy obtained from the nasopharyngeal region to be a very promising therapy for these otherwise difficult to treat conditions.

Swedo SE, Leonard HL, Garvey M, Mittleman B, Allen AJ, Perlmutter S, Lougee L, Dow S, Zamkoff J, Dubbert BK: Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases. Am J Psychiatry 155:264–271, 1998. Erratum in Am J Psychiatry 155:578, 1998

Talia Mahony 1, Douglas Sidell 2, Hayley Gans 3, Kayla Brown 4, Bahare Farhadian 5, Melissa Gustafson 6, Janell Sherr 7, Margo Thienemann 8, Jennifer Frankovich 9 , Improvement of psychiatric symptoms in youth following resolution of sinusitis. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol . 2017 Jan:92:38-44. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2016.10.034. Epub 2016 Oct 31.

Han,KyuMan, Ham,Byung-Joo How Inflammation Affects the Brain in Depression: A Review of Functional and Structural MRI Studies,  J Clin Neurol. 2021 Oct; 17(4): 503–515., Published online 2021 Sep 17. doi: 10.3988/jcn.2021.17.4.503

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