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Design by Matley
Some three quarters of the patients who are successfully treated, notice a response at the first treatment, usually within seconds or minutes of the needles being inserted. Others will only notice this initial response after several hours, days or, very occasionally, weeks.
The initial response is often heralded either by an increase of general energy and awareness or by a feeling of pleasant, drowsy relaxation: as a rule, the phlegmatic patient feeling more energetic and the over-tense patient more relaxed. Thereafter the patient will observe that several of his symptoms, though not necessarily all, have improved. But this will not last. It will wear off after some days and the treatment will then have to be repeated; but with every repetition the patient will notice a more pronounced improvement and for a longer period before it diminishes.
The greater the degree of improvement, the longer it lasts with each successive treatment and the less the original symptoms return after it has worn off, the more rapidly will the patient recover.
Improvement follows an irregular course, some treatments helping more than others - some even not at all - till finally, by a cumulative effort, they achieve a total cure, or at least the maximum result possible.
With a few patients the treatment is so effective that they require only one treatment, others may require a dozen or more treatments.