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Why one treatment was not enough — the three classes
Count the loose motions: more inflammation-work, later organ-work
Many patients obtained great benefit from that treatment. The abdominal pain also went out and the loose motions also stopped. And then a pattern appeared in the failures, which is where the interesting part of this article begins.
Those whose motions were fewer benefited from the above treatment. Those who had more loose motions did not have their loose motions stopped by it — that is, it did not make much difference to them.
Why so? And what is to be done about it? The answer, when it came, was not a new point.
The insight that split the formula into classes
For those who have more loose motions, it means the effect of the infection is stronger in them — that is, there will be more inflammation in their body.
And therefore: until the inflammation is finished, there is no meaning in provoking the other organs of the abdomen.
So the treatments for finishing the inflammation must be given more, and the other organs provoked afterwards.
That single sentence — until the inflammation is finished there is no meaning in provoking the other organs — is the reasoning behind every difference you are about to read. Nothing new is added in the heavier class. The anti-inflammatory parts are given more, and the digestive part waits.
From years of experience, abdominal pains taken as symptoms were then divided into three chief kinds, with a different treatment made for each.
Notice what is doing the dividing: the number of loose motions, and nothing else. Not the name of the illness, not a report, not how long it has gone on. A therapist who can count and can ask a plain question has already chosen the class. That is what it means to make a thing simple enough to teach away. (Figure 30.2)
Class A — abdominal pain with up to 4–5 loose motions
Table 3 — Card: APR class A, the first version Seated Prone Supine 6 sec
| Written | I (30) Medulla (6) Swt · II (6) Adr (6) Swt · III Ulta Normal formula — (8) Pan (1) Spl (1) Gal (3) Mu (3) Liv |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Abdominal pain with up to four or five loose motions |
| Part I | (30) Medulla Seated — inflammation. Then (6) Swt Prone — motility. Swt is given with the Medulla in this class |
| Part II | (6) Adr then (6) Swt Prone — cortisol, then motility again |
| Part III | The Ulta Normal formula Supine . A line is ruled beneath (1) Spl (1) Gal, and beneath (3) Mu (3) Liv — the reversed pairs |
| The counts in part III | Here they are written (3) Mu (3) Liv — not the (1) … – 3 points form of the standard Ulta Normal. Give what is written on the card in front of you |
| Prohibitions carried | Those of (6) Adr — not where immunity is already low; not in high blood pressure ▲ Take care |
| Closes with | The NAN / FAN instruction below — not optional |
And there is a strengthened form of the same class, for when more is wanted.
Class A, made a little more effective
If this is to be made a little more effective, then give (6) Adr (6) Swt a second time, in this manner —
I. (30) Medulla (6) Swt II. (6) Adr (6) Swt III. (6) Adr (6) Swt + Ulta Normal formula
The anti-inflammatory pair is now given twice, and the second giving is carried into part III, immediately before the abdominal organs are touched. Nothing else changes.
Class B — abdominal pain with more than 5–6 loose motions
Table 4 — Card: APR class B, the first version Seated Prone Supine 6 sec
| Written | I (30) Medulla · II (6) Adr (3) Swt × 2 treatments · III (6) Adr (3) Swt + Ulta Normal formula |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Abdominal pain with more than five or six loose motions |
| Part I | (30) Medulla alone Seated . Swt is not given with the Medulla in this class — the absence is the instruction |
| Part II | (6) Adr then (3) Swt Prone — Swt is halved to three, and the whole part is given twice |
| Part III | (6) Adr (3) Swt again, then the Ulta Normal formula Supine |
| The stopping rule | See the panel below — part III waits on the stools |
| Prohibitions carried | Those of (6) Adr — not where immunity is already low; not in high blood pressure ▲ Take care |
| Closes with | The NAN / FAN instruction below |
Look at what has actually changed between A and B, because it is a short list and it is the whole lesson. Swt is taken out of part I. Swt is halved in parts II and III. Part II is repeated. The abdominal organs are reached only at the third part, and only when the stools allow it. More inflammation-work, later organ-work — exactly as the teaching above predicted.
The halving of Swt to three is written as it stands. Note, without resolving anything, that (3) Swt has other uses of its own in the atlas, and that the revised generation below puts it back to six.
The revision — Gal and Spl taken out of an inflamed abdomen
Nothing added, nothing strengthened — two points taken out, and why
Benefit was certainly being obtained from those treatments. But even in that, some patients would be met with who did not get full relief.
And then came the thought that changed the whole group, and it came from asking what the points in part III actually do.
Why two points were removed
The bile of the gall bladder is antiseptic. The spleen makes WBCs and antibodies.
So by giving these two points — Gal and Spl — the inflammation could increase.
Therefore these two should not be provoked in inflammation. Accordingly the treatments were changed in that direction.
Sit with that for a moment, because it is the most instructive piece of formula-building in this wiki. Nothing was added. Nothing was made stronger. Two points were taken out, on a reason drawn from what those points are for — and the patients who had not been getting full relief began to get it. (Figure 30.3)
This is what it means to say that an omission is an instruction.
Table 5 — Card: APR class A, revised Seated Prone Supine
| Written | I (30) Medulla (6) Swt · II (6) Adr (6) Swt · III (6) Adr (6) Swt (8) Pan (1) Mu – 3 points (1) Liv – 3 points |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Abdominal pain with up to four or five loose motions |
| What has gone | Gal and Spl — both of them, entirely |
| What has stayed | (8) Pan, and the reversed Mu before Liv |
| The underline | A line is ruled beneath the Mu and Liv steps. Here the order of Liv and Mu is the reverse of normal, which is why the line is there |
| The counts | Back to the standard form — (1) Mu – 3 points, (1) Liv – 3 points |
| The strengthened form | Already built in: (6) Adr (6) Swt now appears in part II and at the head of part III |
| Prohibitions carried | Those of (6) Adr ▲ Take care |
Table 6 — Card: APR class B, revised Seated Prone Supine 6 sec
| Written | I (30) Medulla · II (6) Adr (6) Swt × 2 treatments (as needed) · III (6) Adr (6) Swt + (8) Pan (1) Mu – 3 points (1) Liv – 3 points |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | Abdominal pain with more than five or six loose motions |
| What has gone | Gal and Spl |
| What has come back | Swt restored to the full six in parts II and III |
| What has changed in the repeat | The repetition of part II is now written as needed — the stopping-and-repeating rule above governs it |
| The underline | Beneath the Mu and Liv steps |
| Prohibitions carried | Those of (6) Adr ▲ Take care |
The instruction that closes every diarrhoea treatment
A bowel slowed on purpose is given its speed back: NAN or FAN, one day
This one is yours to learn by heart, because it is the single most forgotten line in the abdominal group, and forgetting it undoes a good part of what the treatment achieved.
Keep in mind
To correct loose motions we are stopping the speed of peristalsis.
After some days, when their motions become completely normal — do not forget to give NAN / FAN for at least one day.
Read the two sentences as one. The first says what you have been doing on purpose. The second says what you must do to stop doing it.
NAN and FAN are the digestion-and-absorption pair of Setting the Stomach. NAN is the Normal formula followed by Ajay Normal, given as one treatment. FAN is the Fast treatment followed by Ajay Normal. Their written forms, their indications, the optional (10) Medulla before FAN and the prohibitions each carries are taught in full in Setting the Stomach, "Setting the Stomach", and are not repeated here. What belongs here is when to give one, and why.
Why the therapy builds its slowing treatments this way is worth saying once, because it recurs. A treatment that deliberately slows the bowel is prescribed together with the treatment that undoes it. The Ulta Normal formula carries the same architecture in Setting the Stomach — ask about the motions daily, and as soon as the stool is formed like a banana, stop and give the Normal formula for at least one day. Here the same duty is written at the end of the whole APR group, and the antidote named is NAN or FAN. The underline is the visual interrupt; the closing instruction is the exit.
The third kind — abdominal pain without loose motions
The motility is correct, so go round the navel instead of slowing it
It is not always the case that every patient will have loose motions along with abdominal pain. There are some who have only abdominal pain, and no complaint at all about their motions. For them, some change is needed in the line of thinking.
Why class C is built the other way round
If there is no problem with the motions, it means the motility of the intestine is correct. So it must not be tampered with.
We have only to provoke all the organs of the abdomen — and this therapy is famous for that work.
Everything follows from those two sentences. No Adr, no Swt, no Medulla, nothing reversed and nothing underlined. A bowel that is working is left alone, and the work is done entirely by bringing blood to the organs.
And here is where the story that opened this article turns into a formula. From many years of experience, Guruji had found out which organs of the body, on being pressed, take out the pain of which part of the abdomen. He had reached the position where, at anyone's wish or asking, he could take out the pain of any specified place in the abdomen, announcing it beforehand as a challenge. And the best part of it is that he made that knowledge so simple, and taught it to so many people, that anyone at all will be able to do this work.
So he found a very simple way.
The thought that became class C
If the blood circulation is increased above the navel, below it, in front of it and behind it — on all sides — then the pain will come out of itself.
Is that not a marvellous thought? It replaces a memorised table of which point empties which corner with a single instruction: supply the whole sphere. You do not have to know where the pain is. You have to go round it. (Figure 30.4)
Table 8 — Card: APR class C — abdominal pain with no loose motions Supine Side-lying Prone 6 sec
| Part | The region it is given to provoke | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I | (6) Gas Only (6) Gas 'I' | The part above the navel | |
| II | (3) Gal (3) Spl (7) Liv (5) Mu | The right and left parts above the navel | |
| III | (8) Pan (6) WD (8) Ch. Only (20) ↑\ | ↓ | The part below the navel |
| IV | (7) Liv° (7) Mu° (8) Ch. Only (20) ↑\ | ↓ | The kidneys and the part behind the navel |
| Who it is for | Abdominal pain with no loose motions at all | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | From this treatment the abdominal pain comes out at once | |
| Its other effect | Given to the elderly, and to those who have no particular complaint, it produces an immediate freshness and briskness | |
| Order | Normal throughout. Gal before Spl, Liv before Mu. Nothing is reversed, because nothing is meant to be slowed — and so there is no underline anywhere in this formula | |
| Two inseparable pairs, both honoured | Gas Only → Gas 'I' in part I; (8) Ch. Only → (20) ↑\ | ↓ at the close of parts III and IV. See Table 14 of How a Formula Is Built |
| Points taught in | Gas Only, Gas 'I', Gal, Spl, Liv, Mu, Pan, WD, Liv°, Mu° — The Front of the Body I · Ch. Only — The Front of the Body II · Round arrow ↑\ | ↓ — Face Down |
| Its second name | Jeevan Dhara — see below |
Look at the pairing at the end of parts III and IV, because it is a rule you already hold. (8) Ch. Only is balanced by (20) ↑\|↓ — Ch. Only reduces alkali, the Round arrow reduces acid, and matched by their counts they hold the balance the formula has set. That is one of the four inseparable pairs of How a Formula Is Built, and here it appears twice in one formula, closing two parts in succession. The acid-and-alkali pair itself belongs to Water and Salt, "Water and Salt"; what matters here is that you never write the first of them without the second.