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EAR POINT
LMNT Neurotherapy Diagnostic Pain Points
Oil at the openings and the folds first, then plain water and no soap
THE METHOD, STEP BY STEP Before the bath One drop of mustard oil — or any other oil — behind the ears .
One drop in the nostrils.
One drop at the navel .
One drop at the anus.
One drop in the armpits.
Then apply the oil over the whole body.
Then bathe with plain water only, without soap.
The five places are the openings and the folds — the places where the body meets the outside. The whole-body application follows them, and the bath follows that, in that order and not another: oil first, water after.
TAKE CARE What the soap rule does not cover The rule is about bathing. It is not about the hands.
Nothing in it touches washing the hands with soap before food, after the toilet, or before and after you touch a patient. A therapist who allows a patient to carry no soap out of the bathroom and into the kitchen has taught the rule badly. Say the boundary out loud when you give the rule: "This is about your bath. Your hands are a different matter and they get soap." ▲ Take care
TAKE CARE Oil in the nostrils, and small children A drop of oil in the nostrils is given here as an adult daily practice. Do not extend it to babies and infants. Oily preparations put into the nose of a very small child can be drawn down into the lungs , and that is a serious illness, not a discomfort. If a household wants to follow the five places with an older child, the ears, navel, armpits and whole-body oiling carry no such hazard; leave the nostrils out for the small ones.
TAKE CARE Cold water is not for every patient in front of youAs far as possible, in every season — the qualification is in the rule, and it is there to be used.
Cold water on the whole body is a sudden thing for the heart and the vessels. In a patient with uncontrolled blood pressure, with chest pain that is not yet stable, or with a heart that has recently been in trouble, that suddenness is not a small matter, and the sensible course is to leave the cold-water habit alone until the patient is steady. The same goes for the very old and the very frail, for whom a cold bathroom is also a floor to slip on.
And for a patient who cannot feel her feet properly, the danger runs the other way — towards hot water. Such a patient must never test the water with the foot or leg that has lost its feeling. Use the elbow.
FROM AYURVEDA AND YOGA Oil at the gates The classical daily regimen puts oil before the bath, not after it, and singles out exactly these sites for their own daily attention: a little oil in the ears, a drop in each nostril, oil at the navel, and oil worked over the whole body before washing. Each has its own name in the old texts, and together they form the first half of the morning, the bath being the second.
What is striking is the order, which is the same order given here and the reverse of the modern habit. We wash and then apply something to the skin . The classical sequence oils the skin, lets it sit, and then rinses it with plain water — so that the skin keeps the oil and loses only the dust. A whole difference of attitude sits inside that ordering: the bath is not for stripping the body, it is for rinsing it.
DID YOU KNOW? Sweat is not merely salt water Human sweat carries its own germ-killing substances — short protein chains, made in the sweat glands , that damage the outer coats of bacteria. They are part of the skin's own defence, and they sit on the surface in a thin film together with the skin's natural oils.
This is the fact underneath the instruction. The skin is not a clean surface that dirt lands on; it is an inhabited, self-defending organ that is working while you are not thinking about it — which is why what you wash it with is worth a moment's thought, and why a bath is not automatically improved by making it more thorough.
The bath, whole. The oil at five places marked on the body, the order of pouring with the ears and the knees struck out, the chain of reasoning that runs from a gasp to a loss of hearing, the soap rule and the cold-water rule with their reasons, and the three places where the bathing rules bite. 
