FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

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FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

The one entry that stays open when every other one has closed

With the finger tips of the hands — that is, with the tips of the fingers — stroke the required part of the patient's body with a very soft touch, like a peacock's feather.

This is given for sending impulses through the whole body. It is very beneficial in paralysis, stiffness, pains and in all diseases of the brain.

Patient's position	Any
Where the hands are placed	The finger tips only — stroking the required part of the patient's body with a very soft touch, like a peacock's feather
Duration and repetitions	Not counted
What it is for	Sending impulses through the whole body. Very beneficial in paralysis, stiffness, pains and in all diseases of the brain; and, in Guruji's own account of it, by this treatment the muscles will relax to a depth of four inches

This is the treatment for the patient who can be given nothing else. No weight, no jerk, no position that must be held, no bone under a heel. A newborn, a woman in the last weeks of pregnancy, a man whose bones break from a knock, a patient in the acute days after a stroke, a child who will not tolerate being handled, somebody in too much pain to bear a palm — for every one of them the atlas closes, and this one entry stays open. Learn it as the point of last resort and you will use it more than you expect to.

"By meditating, the toxins of your body are changed. Just as, from the mere smell of a bhajiyā — or merely on hearing its name — water comes into the mouth, that is, the body begins to do its own work: in the same way, when you touch the lājvantī plant after joining your hands in prayer, then the chemicals in your body will change such that the lājvantī will feel no danger, and it will not wilt.

This is the very logic of the Feather touch treatment. When you close your eyes and give Feather touch with this prayer — that the patient must certainly get well — then he will get relief from every pain. By this treatment the muscles will relax to a depth of four inches. Do not hold a feeling of enmity towards anyone! Then such a skill will come into you that the patient will get well the moment you lay your hand on him."

Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra

Take that passage as the instruction it is. It says three things a therapist can act on tonight. The body answers to expectation — the mouth waters at the name of a fried thing, without any fried thing. The therapist's own state is part of what is delivered — hurry, irritation and distraction travel down an arm as surely as pressure does. And hold no enmity, which is put as a condition of skill rather than as a piety.

A CASE FROM PRACTICE

The hand that had been closed for three years

A composite, assembled to teach how the paralysis points are given together and what they are given alongside.

Bhaskar Nene · 64 · retired storekeeper · Kolhapur · came three years after a stroke, with a right hand curled shut and a right leg he swung to walk

What his daughter said, because he said little. "Physiotherapy was there for one year. Then they said this much only is possible. He does not lift the hand at all now. Cleaning between the fingers is the hardest part."

What was observed and palpated. Supine Right arm held to the chest, elbow bent, forearm turned in, fingers closed on the palm — which was moist and had a small red crease across it. Right ankle stiff, foot turned in. Both calves the same temperature and the same measure, checked before anything was done. Shoulder on the right loose in its socket, and tender when the arm was moved by someone else.

Which reports mattered. His neurologist's letter mattered: it named which side of the brain and confirmed he was on blood-thinning medicine, which ruled out every forceful point in this article at a stroke. An old scan report of the head changed nothing about what would be done.

The choice, and why. Katka and Motor neuron point were not used at all — a man on blood thinners. What was given: Paralysis clockwise, inner side down and outer side up, arm and leg, both ending with their lifts; Shukla at the wrist and the ankle, 6–6 of the four movements at each, with the forearm and the heel firmly held; and Feather touch at the end of every session, over the arm and the hand, unhurried.

What was done when the first approach did not do enough. By week four the ankle moved further but the fingers had barely opened, and the therapist named the reason out loud: a hand opens by being opened, many times a day, not twice a week. The daughter was taught Shukla at the wrist and shown how to interlace her fingers into his — six of each, morning and evening. The gains in the hand came from her, not from the clinic.

What went wrong because something was withheld. In week six the right shoulder became painful. Asked how they were getting him up from the chair, the family demonstrated: two of them, one under each armpit, lifting by the arms. Nobody had thought to mention it, because it was not treatment. It was changed that day.

Where the Opposite point rule earned its keep. In week nine he fell at home and bruised the right forearm badly; it could not be touched for ten days. Those sessions were given on the left leg — the diagonal partner of the right hand — and on the hand alone with Feather touch. Nothing was cancelled.

What this case teaches

One sentence in a neurologist's letter removed two points from the plan before the first session. Read the letters.

Paralysis clockwise is not finished at the end of the limb. Both lifts — behind the shoulder, and behind and above the waist — are part of it.

Teach the family Shukla. Twice a week does not open a hand; twice a day does.

Ask how the patient is lifted, moved and washed. The damage a family does with the best intentions never gets reported as a symptom.

When the limb closes to you, the Opposite point rule keeps the course running.

TON 'P' and TON 'T' — the same three rubs, different counts

Twelve, six, three against six, twelve, three — read the letter

TON 'P' — this is for stimulating the parotid glands situated at the side of the cheek.

TON 'T' — this is for stimulating the tonsil glands situated in the neck.

In both treatments exactly the same thing is to be done; only the count differs. In the following three places, rub with normal pressure, in this order. The first two treatments are to be given keeping the palm flat, but the number three treatment is to be given with the edge of the palm. Do the left side first, then the right side.

#	Where to rub	Tool	Ton 'P'	Ton 'T'
1	On the cheek — from above, in front of the ear, down to the neck	Palm flat	12 times	6 times
2	Below the cheek — from the chin in front, to behind and below the ear	Palm flat	6 times	12 times
3	On the side of the neck, where the neck and the shoulder meet	The edge of the palm	3 times

Patient's position	Not stated; the face and the side of the neck must be reachable Seated
Pressure	Normal pressure, in the order given — 1, then 2, then 3
Order of the sides	The left side first, then the right side Left Right
What they are for	Ton 'P': stimulating the parotid glands at the side of the cheek. Ton 'T': stimulating the tonsil glands in the neck
The restriction	Ton 'P' treatment is not given to those women who wish to become mothers ▲ Take care
What must follow	Immediately after the Ton 'T' treatment, Sangam points are to be given

The whole difference between two treatments is four numbers. Rub 1 is 12 for P and 6 for T; rub 2 is 6 for P and 12 for T; rub 3 is 3 for both. Everything else — the three places, the order, the flat palm for the first two, the palm edge for the third, the left side before the right — is identical. Which is exactly why a card that reads only Ton has told you nothing, and why the letter must be read.

SANGAM POINTS — the three confluences

Six below the elbow, six in the web, twelve below the heel bone

This treatment is given after Ton 'T'. In it, pressure is to be given at three places.

#	The place	What is done	Count
1	A little below the elbow joint, where the confluence of the cervical C6, C7, C8 nerves is	Press and release with the tip of your palm, or of the thumb of your foot	6 times
2	At the junction between the thumb and the first finger	Press and release	6 times
3	Just below the heel bone, where the pulse can be felt beating	Light pressure with the side of your heel, rubbing downward	12 times

Patient's position	Any; given after Ton 'T'
Where the hands or feet are placed	The tip of the palm, or the thumb of the foot, at place 1; the fingers at place 2; the side of the heel at place 3
Duration and repetitions	6, 6 and 12 6 sec
What it is for	The treatment that follows Ton 'T'; and all these points are also useful in cough, or in any problem of the throat

Two of the three are press-and-release; the third is a rub, and it runs downward. Places 1 and 2 are the short loaded press that lifts off, six each. Place 3 is different in tool, action, direction and count: the side of the heel, light, rubbing downward, twelve times.

Place 3 also teaches you something worth more than the treatment. Just below the heel bone there is a place where the pulse can be felt beating. Learn to find that pulse and you have learnt to check the blood supply of a foot — and a foot with no pulse there, in a patient with diabetes, is a referral and not a treatment site.

FROM AYURVEDA AND YOGA

संगम — the place where rivers meet

संगम — sangam — is the old word for a confluence: the place where two rivers run into one. The most famous of them is at Prayag, where the Ganga and the Yamuna join, and people have gone there to bathe for as long as anyone has written anything down.

The material gives that name to a place on a forearm where three nerves of the neck come together on their way into the hand. It is the most exact metaphor in the whole atlas. A nerve plexus really is a confluence — separate streams from separate levels of the spine, braided together and redistributed.

And it is a reminder of how these names were made. Not from anatomy books, but from whatever was nearest to hand in the life of the person naming it: a rocket, a sound, a student, a river.

ANKLE POINT

Clockwise all round, outside first, until the tissue is loose

Rotate the fingers clockwise — that is, in the direction of the hands of a clock — all around the skin of the ankle, so that the tissue underneath becomes loose. First do it towards the outside, then towards the inside. Do it on the leg which has the problem.

Patient's position	Any; the ankle reachable all round
Where the hands are placed	The fingers, rotating clockwise, all around the skin of the ankle
Order	First towards the outside, then towards the inside
Duration and repetitions	Not counted. The endpoint is stated instead: so that the tissue underneath becomes loose
Which side	Do it on the leg which has the problem — that leg only

Where no count is written, the stated aim is the count. The entry gives you an endpoint you can feel: the skin and the layer beneath it, which after a sprain or a plaster or a long stillness lose their ordinary glide, begin to move again over the bones. Work until they do, and no longer.

The order is written and it is outside first. And the side is written too — only the leg that has the problem, unlike several treatments in Knee, Leg, Foot that are given to both. Each entry names its own sides; none of them carries across.

T8, Rocket, Katka — and how these names were made

Four kinds of name: a sound, a place, a metaphor, a person

THE WORDS WE USE

The four ways a treatment in this atlas gets its name

A student meeting this article for the first time complains, reasonably, that the names tell her nothing. They tell her a great deal once she knows there are four kinds.

Named for the sound or the shape of the action. कटका — katka — is the word for the sudden snap itself, the sharp katak of something giving way; the treatment is named after the noise the material says may come from it. Rocket is named for a direction — everything in it travels upward. Superfast, Hammering — the same habit.

Named for the anatomy. T8. Motor neuron point. Ankle point. Gal–Spl ghisai.

Named for a metaphor. Sangam — the confluence. Feather touch.

Named for a person — the student or patient in connection with whom the treatment was found. Shukla, Vasanti, and in the last article Pradeep and Giriraj. The method and the story of its finding travel together, and the name is the index entry.

The naming layer is a record of how the system grew — one problem, one patient, one afternoon at a time.

The atlas ends, and the number under it

Where no number is written, six seconds is still the unit

That is the last point. Every physical point in this therapy has now been taught — where it lies, how the patient is placed, what the hand or the foot does, how many times, in which direction, on which side, and under what condition it is withheld. (Figure 24.8)

And under almost all of it sits one number. Six seconds. The material stops at exactly this place, having finished the atlas, and turns round to ask why the pressure should be six — why a contraction should last six and no longer, what the agonist and the antagonist are and why their rhythm must be kept, what happens to the oxygen and the glucose in the blood held ahead of a pressure and behind it, and why lactic acid rises on release if the hold has run long. That whole account, with the comparison to the mathematician whose results were proved by experience long before anyone proved them by explanation, is taught in full in Six Seconds. It is not repeated here.

What belongs here is only the reminder it leaves behind. Where an entry in this article gives no count, the standing unit still applies — T8, whose only instruction is press and release, is pressed for six. And where an entry gives its own number, that number replaces the unit and is not negotiable: two to four, three, five, six, twelve, fifteen to twenty.

After the treatment is over

Re-check, write the plus and the minus, and get her up slowly

The atlas closes and the session does not. What happens in the last ten minutes decides whether the patient comes back, whether you can tell next week what worked, and — occasionally — whether somebody goes home safely.

Key teaching

Re-check every pain point, and write it down

After the treatment, check again for pain or stiffness at all the pain points, and write it in the proper place on the card.

If before the treatment he had extreme pain at Pan, then write Pan⁺⁺⁺⁺. After the treatment, check again. If the pain has become somewhat less than before, then below the place where four plus was written, write two plus — Pan⁺⁺. If the pain became considerably less but a little remained, write Pan⁺. If the pain went away completely, then below where Pan⁺⁺⁺⁺ was first written, write a single minus — Pan ₋.

Written on the card	What it means
Pan⁺⁺⁺⁺	Extreme pain at the point, written before the treatment
Pan⁺⁺	The pain has become somewhat less than before — written below the first entry
Pan⁺	The pain became considerably less, but a little remained
Pan ₋	The pain went away completely — a single minus

Along with checking the pain, also show or tell the patient at which places, and by how much, the pain has decreased. Guruji gives two reasons for that instruction, and the second is the one students underrate.

"By showing or telling them in this way that the pain is decreasing, their faith in this therapy increases greatly. They feel that this is magic!

Apart from this there is one more principal use — sometimes patients, after taking two or four days of treatment, do not come for many days. When they have trouble again, they come and say that they got no benefit from the treatment, because their pain came back just as it was. In this therapy, removing or finishing the pain of the pain points is the main aspect of the treatment. In such a situation, by looking at their card from the previous day — which point has a + and which has a – before the treatment and after the treatment — we will come to know whether the patient really did benefit from that day's treatment or not. Then we can decide whether the old treatment is to be given again, or a different treatment is to be given. The thing to note here is that so long as any treatment reduces the pain of the pain points, there is no need to change it and give another."

That last sentence is a decision rule, and it is worth learning by heart. The card decides whether the plan continues, not the patient's memory of how last month felt.

Getting up, and going home. After the treatment is over, tell the patient to turn onto their side and get up comfortably, and to gather their things. If it is a pain patient, tell them to walk about a little, and then ask how the treatment felt — certainly they will say that they felt good. Then tell them that they may eat food after half an hour. And give them the assurance that if they keep taking treatment regularly and observe the dietary restrictions, they will feel very well indeed.

If the patient feels giddy. If, during the treatment or after getting up, the patient feels somewhat giddy, do not be alarmed. It means that by the treatment the digestive system has improved so much that insulin has come out from the pancreas, on account of which the quantity of sugar in the blood has become less. This is momentary. Sit them on a chair, and stand near them giving support until their nervousness has gone. If need be, dissolve a little jaggery in half a glass of water and give it to them to drink, and tell them to rest for some time and only then to set out for home.

If the head feels heavy. Some people, because the flow of blood in the forehead has increased, may feel the head heavy for a little while. If this happens, tell the patient not to be alarmed. Sit them on a chair, place your palm behind their neck like a cup, draw the muscles and nerves backward for a second or so and release them slowly — the heaviness of the head will go.

The telephone. Only after doing all this may you, or they, talk to anyone on the mobile — not before this. If you yourself observe the rules, the patient too will observe this rule, and from that the feeling of respect towards you and towards the therapy will increase.

Before the next patient. Clean the mat below and spread the pillows properly again, so that no dust, dirt or any unwanted fold remains in it.

The instruction	What it asks
Getting up	Turn onto the side and get up comfortably; gather their things
A pain patient	Walk about a little, then ask how the treatment felt
Food	After half an hour
The assurance to give	Regular treatment and the dietary restrictions kept — and you will feel very well indeed
If giddy	Do not be alarmed. Sit them on a chair, stand near them giving support until the nervousness has gone; if need be, a little jaggery dissolved in half a glass of water; rest before setting out for home
If the head is heavy	Sit them on a chair, the palm behind the neck like a cup, muscles and nerves drawn backward for a second or so and released slowly
The mobile phone	Only after all this — yours as well as theirs
Before the next patient	Clean the mat and spread the pillows properly again — no dust, no dirt, no unwanted fold

TAKE CARE

What giddiness must never be mistaken for

Most post-treatment giddiness is what the material describes and is managed exactly as the material says: sit, support, jaggery water, rest. Two things must be told apart from it, because they are not treatment reactions at all.

Giddiness with a drooping face, one-sided weakness, slurred speech, sudden loss of vision, or the worst headache of a person's life — an ambulance, at once. Minutes matter.

Chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations or a collapse — the same.

And do not walk a giddy patient to a chair. Sit or lie her down where she is; the five steps are where people fall. In a patient on medicines for diabetes who has come fasting, sweating and trembling with the giddiness deserves the jaggery water at once and a word with her doctor about timing before the next session. Giddiness that does not settle within a few minutes, or that comes every session, is a reason for medical review, not a stronger formula.

The rest of the atlas on one sheet. The article as one poster in five bands — how it is arranged, the three pairs that must not be swapped, every count at a glance, the shared set-up of the two forceful points, and what must follow what.

WHAT TO CARRY AWAY

This article is arranged by problem, not by region, because these treatments were not discovered by region. Every entry carries its own position, its own tool, its own count and its own rule about sides. Nothing carries across from the entry above it.

Lower shoulder blade pain — prone, elbows bent, palms facing the sky; left palm beside the spine, right palm drawing the arm's muscles to the elbow, then the left palm dragged shoulder joint → elbow, then both palms across the wrist to the fingertips; the whole of it three times, then the same on the right side too. Upper shoulder blade pain — prone, elbows bent, palms facing the ground, arms raised; both feet sliding along both arms shoulder → elbow, then small close steps elbow → palm, drawing the muscles inward. After these two treatments, BAFA is of great benefit in cervical problems.

Down arrow: sit at the head, palm under the neck, middle of the palm over T1, pressing slightly inward, slide down to L5; may also be given seated on a chair; for dizziness when the fluid in the ear increases — Meniere's disease. Up arrow: must be given lying down; sit at the waist, palm over L5, pressing somewhat firmly, slide up to T1; for dizziness when the fluid in the ear decreases — vertigo. The signs are a circle with an arrow leaving it downward and a circle with an arrow entering it upward.

Hydrocele point: for swelling or itching in the scrotum; such persons have great pain in the calf, four to five inches above the ankle joint — heel, from the side, press and release two to four times, one leg or both, together or separately, according to the pain.

Prolapse point, also P point: for women whose womb has moved from its place — the heel on the middle of the thigh with an upward jerk, left thigh first, then the right. Immediately after it, (6) WD — then the descended womb sets into its own place and the necessity of an operation can be avoided.

T8: press and release all around the thoracic T8 vertebra — but the pressure should not be so much that the pain increases further.

Rocket point: after a blow to shoulder, neck or arm so that the muscles come down and the arm cannot be raised — the base of the palm from the wrist up to the shoulder, three times; then the tip of the thumb, quite strong pressure, on the tissue of the back part of the ear, pushed upward. Seated or lying down.

Gal–Spl ghisai: supine, palms hard on the chairs with the full weight on them, only the soft middle part of both soles, on the outer side of the pelvic bone, both sides at once, from inside outward, 6 times, no weight onto the bone. For blockage in the lymph nodes and swelling in the leg — especially in those who wear tight trousers.

Abdomen setting: supine, the knees the handle — butterfly ×3; knees joined, heels at the buttocks, three to the right and three to the left; one leg straight, the other knee inward to the ground, three on both sides; face one way, both knees the other way to the ground, three on both sides. For those whose stomach is very bad. Nothing touches the abdomen.

Opposite point: the opposite of the right hand is the left leg; the opposite of the left leg is the right hand — press, and rotate clockwise and in the reverse direction, according to the affected limb. The rule to reach for when the limb that hurts cannot be touched.

Superfast: for sharp groin or waist pain when the leg has suddenly slipped. Whichever side the pain is on, do it on the other. Soft mid-soles, close overlapping steps, inner muscles drawn downward, thigh → ankle; then the knee turned over onto two or three pillows; then outside of the thigh → side of the calf → back up to the heel. Three or four rounds.

Katka: prone, back relaxed, neck straight — soles from L5 upward to T1, three times, for relaxing the spine; feet turned sideways, outer edges, force both sides of the spine, a jerk; sometimes a slight sound comes — then the vertebrae are setting; neck left: the jerk again, and without stopping, immediately slide shoulder blade → elbow; neck right: the same.

Motor neuron point: weight on the hands through the chairs; heels one by one on both sides of the C7–T1 joint, toes not pressing the skull, foot at 90° so pressure does not come onto the cervical vertebrae; standing straight, pressure for a few moments, release — ordinarily only five times.

The note both of them share: four pillows — three under the chest and one under the chin — and a three-finger gap at the throat, checked with your hand. Only a mild jerk. More force can cause the patient a great deal of trouble. Use both points only after much thought.

Paralysis clockwise: fingers gathered, rolled clockwise. Inner side downward, outer side upward — arm: shoulder → elbow → wrist, then wrist → elbow → shoulder, then lift the muscles behind the shoulder; leg: thigh → knee → heel, then heel → outer knee → side of thigh, then lift the muscles behind and above the waist.

Shukla: on both the affected hand and the affected leg. One palm fixing the wrist so the forearm does not move — or holding firmly at the heel bone — the other hand's fingers interlaced in fingers or toes; up-down, right-left, clockwise, anti-clockwise, 6–6 times each, at both. Not to be given to osteoporosis patients — it may increase the pain.

Vasanti: supine, standing between the legs, soft mid-sole, very softly, heel → knee, both sides of each leg in turn; then prone, the back of the calf from below upward, 15 to 20 times. For numbness in the limbs, especially in diabetic patients; for numbness in the hands, fingers → elbow.

Feather touch: the finger tips only, stroking with a very soft touch, like a peacock's feather — for sending impulses through the whole body; very beneficial in paralysis, stiffness, pains and in all diseases of the brain. The one treatment available to the patient who can be given nothing else.

Ton 'P' and Ton 'T': the same three rubs in the same order, palm flat, palm flat, palm edge, left side first. Counts — cheek 12 / 6, below the cheek 6 / 12, side of the neck 3 / 3. Ton 'P' is not given to women who wish to become mothers. Immediately after Ton 'T', Sangam points.

Sangam points: below the elbow, at the confluence of C6, C7, C8 — press and release 6; the junction of thumb and first finger — press and release 6; just below the heel bone where the pulse beats — light pressure with the side of the heel, rubbing downward, 12. Also useful in cough, or in any problem of the throat.

Ankle point: fingers rotated clockwise all around the skin of the ankle, outside first, then inside, so that the tissue underneath becomes loose, on the leg which has the problem.

And when the treatment is over: re-check every pain point and write it on the card — Pan⁺⁺⁺⁺ before, then Pan⁺⁺, Pan⁺ or Pan ₋ beneath it — show or tell the patient where and by how much the pain has decreased, and remember the decision rule: so long as a treatment reduces the pain of the pain points, there is no need to change it. Never repeat yesterday's treatment from memory when the card cannot be found. Turn onto the side to get up; walk about a little; food after half an hour; sit and support the giddy; the cupped palm behind the neck for a heavy head; no telephone until all of it is done; and clean the mat and lay the pillows again before the next patient.

Above all: whether or not the patient gets immediate benefit from our treatment, let no harm reach him through our carelessness.

Language

FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

Watch

FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

TON 'P' and TON 'T' — the same three rubs, different counts

SANGAM POINTS — the three confluences

ANKLE POINT

T8, Rocket, Katka — and how these names were made

The atlas ends, and the number under it

After the treatment is over

Re-check every pain point, and write it down

Ready to begin?