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The complaint, in plain words
A busy kitchen with a small pantry and a narrow back door
A joint is two bones meeting in a wet, closed, well-fed little room. It has a lining that makes the fluid, a cushion of gristle on each bone end, a bag around the whole thing, and a blood supply that is not lavish at the best of times. Everything about a joint that works well depends on things arriving and leaving: food and oxygen arriving, waste leaving. Nothing is stored there. It is a busy kitchen with a small pantry and a narrow back door.
Now slow the deliveries. Nothing dramatic happens on the first day, or the hundredth. What happens is that the room gets a little sour, the movements get a little shorter, and the person begins to arrange their life around not doing certain things. A stiffening joint, in this therapy's reading, is a joint whose supply line and whose drain have both been narrowed for a long time — and the pain is the room's way of reporting it.
That reading is why the first thing tried on these patients was the ordinary work: the formulas for putting the stomach right, because every tissue in the body is rebuilt out of what digestion delivers, and the heparin-family treatments that increase the blood circulation, because those open the road.
That sentence is worth sitting with, because it is the whole reason this article exists. A treatment that helps and does not finish is not a failed treatment. It is an incomplete picture — a signal that something is being added back faster than you are taking it away, or that something is being held somewhere your sequence does not reach.
The two findings that came before any formula
Pain at Gal, and a bad stomach — the ground floor of the chapter
Before any of the thinking, there were two plain observations, made by looking at a great many of these people one after another.
What was found in the joint-pain patients, every time
First: such people always had pain at the Gal point.
Second: their stomach was also bad.
Those two findings are not incidental to the story. They are why the formula that came out of it opens on the digestion and the bile, and why Gal is the point whose count keeps rising through four generations of the family.
Hold onto that. When you meet the finished formula at the end of this article, with its three navel-setting stations and its forty-second sacral hold and its twenty spinal sweeps, it can look like an elaborate machine. It is not. It is the answer to this man's Gal hurts and his stomach is bad, with three further answers bolted on afterwards, each one added because a group of patients was still not getting well.
The thought that came from outside medicine
Told openly rather than tidied away: the planets, and where it led
Here the material does something unusual and worth respecting: it tells you exactly where the idea came from, including the part that a modern reader might find easier if it had been left out.
Guruji's mother taught him from childhood to honour the culture and family tradition of his country. He was himself skilled in reading the hand — palmistry — and had great regard for jyotiṣa and the other old sciences. He has always said that our forebears knew that when a child is born, all the affairs of its life proceed according to the positions of the planets at that time, about which the कुण्डली — the birth chart — is written; and that the effect of those planets falls upon the child's health.
So the thought that came was this: those diseases which for many years do not leave a person — their connection must surely be with the planets.
A student may do what he likes with that sentence. What he may not do is pretend it was not the sentence, because everything that follows is built on it, and the reasoning that follows is careful, physiological and testable at every step. Where an idea comes from is not the same question as whether it works. Ideas in medicine have arrived from dreams, from bad analogies, from plain religious conviction, and have then been judged by what they did at the bedside. This one is told openly instead of being tidied away afterwards, which is a point in the therapy's favour and not against it.
From the pineal gland to the spine — four steps
A message, a road, a traffic jam, and the arrow that clears it
The therapy's own long-standing observation supplied the bridge. In Neurotherapy it has been seen that after giving the treatment called Ku, the activity of the brain increases very much. For years Guruji has therefore said that by the Ku treatment we can stimulate the pineal gland.
From those pieces a decision was taken, and it is stated in one line.
The decision from which the Star family grew
Gal is to be stimulated, the stomach is to be set, and the pineal gland is to be stimulated.
One clause for each of the two findings, and one for the thought.
Then four further thoughts followed, in this order, and they are the reason the formula does not end there.
One. The message of the pineal gland will come out of the brain — and it must reach all the organs through the thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves of the peripheral nervous system, which leave on both sides of the spinal cord, inside the backbone.
Two. It is a common matter that if there is an obstruction anywhere on a road, the traffic will not run properly and there will be a traffic jam, so that goods do not reach at the right time.
Three. In the same way, if there is any unevenness in the alignment of the beads — the vertebrae — the message from the brain will not reach all the organs at the right time or in the right way. So this too has to be put right.
Four. And to set the blood circulation through the beads, a treatment already existed: the Round Arrow, ↑|↓.
Read those four steps as one sentence and the Old Star formula writes itself: set the navel, take the pain out of Gal, stimulate the pineal, then clear the road so that what you have provoked can actually arrive.
The first formula that was made — Old Star
Four steps, twelve minutes — and the name the patients gave it
Several formulas were made on the basis of all these thoughts, and they were given the name Star treatments, because the treatment had been made to correct the effect of the influence of the planets. The one made first of all was this.
Table 1 — Card: the Old Star treatment formula Supine Prone 6 sec
| Written | (3) ONS (3) Gal (4) Ku (20) ↑\ | ↓ |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Old joint pain — sandhi vāta — in the patient who has pain at Gal and a bad stomach | |
| Step 1 — (3) ONS | Old Nabhi Set. Supine; the therapist beside the right heel, both big toes gripped, both feet raised slowly to the height of his own standing hands, held six seconds, brought down very slowly. Three times. Given here to set the navel. Supine 6 sec × 3 | |
| Step 2 — (3) Gal | The therapist's right sole on the patient's left thigh, soft middle part of the sole, three (or four) stations from below the hip joint to just above the knee, six seconds at each, moving down without stopping. One full hip-to-knee pass is (1) Gal; here three passes. Given to take out the pain of Gal. Supine Left 6 sec | |
| Step 3 — (4) Ku | The old Kundali. Prone, one and a half pillows under the chest, both heels turned to face each other; the therapist seated between the feet, mid-sole on the last end of the spine. The time is six seconds and the count is two equal one — so (4) Ku is eight presses of six seconds, without stopping. Given to stimulate the pineal gland. Prone 6 sec | |
| Step 4 — (20) ↑\ | ↓ | Round Arrow. Prone; the edge of the big thumb from below the neck down the right side of the column to L5, pressure inward on each bead, then without lifting the finger up the left side to the neck. Twenty. Given to make the nutrients reach all the organs properly through the peripheral nervous system. Prone |
| The technique caution inside step 4 | Take care that each time the pressure falls on the side of the beads ▲ Take care | |
| What must not be given | Ku is not given to women during menstruation, and not to those with low blood pressure. The bar belongs to the point and travels into every formula containing it — Each Point in Use, "Each Point in Use" ▲ Take care | |
| Points taught in | ONS — The Front of the Body II · Gal — The Front of the Body I · Ku — Face Down · Round Arrow — Face Down |
Said aloud to a colleague: lift the feet three times, three passes down the left thigh, eight presses at the tail of the spine, twenty sweeps of the back. Four steps, perhaps twelve minutes, and nothing in it that a therapist did not already own.
Whoever had an old pain, their pain used to lessen at once with this treatment. And then something happened that formulas rarely do: before one's eyes it became so popular — so dear to the people — that it truly became a star, a star indeed. The name had been chosen for the planets. The patients made it mean something else. Later, when many further changes came into the treatment, this first form was given the name Old Star treatment formula, and it is still printed, still taught, and still given.
Why the Round Arrow follows Ku — a rule with a long reach
A step that makes a finding, and a step set behind it to cancel it
One further benefit was found from giving the Round Arrow after Ku, and this is one of the most useful small findings in the whole formulary.
Ku first, Round Arrow after — and the reason
It was seen that giving Ku produced pain at Mu° in some people, and signs of acidosis began to appear in them — whereas the (20) ↑|↓ took the pain of Mu° away.
This fact has been used in many places. That is why you will see that in many formulas (20) ↑|↓ is given after Ku.
Notice what has happened there, because it is a model of how this therapy handles its own side-effects. A step was found to produce an unwanted finding in some patients. It was not denied, not explained away, not made conditional on the therapist's judgement. It was named, and a second step was set immediately behind it whose job is to cancel it. The pairing is the safeguard.
And the rule travels. The point's own entry carries the same instruction from the other direction: if pain remains at Mu° after Ku, give Round arrow as required until the Mu° pain clears.
The WD variant
The connection is from birth, so it must reach the generative organs
Then a second thought followed from the first. Since the planets' connection is from birth, their effect must certainly be upon the generative organs — and in this therapy the generative organs are stimulated by the WD treatment. So the formula was changed.
Table 2 — Card: the WD variant of the Star formula Supine Prone 6 sec
| Written | (3) WD (1) Gal (4) Ku (20) ↑\ | ↓ — and if there is a need, (3) ONS may also be given first |
|---|---|---|
| What changed, and why | WD replaces ONS as the opening, because the planets' connection is from birth and so must reach the generative organs. Gal is cut from three passes to one. The ONS is not abolished — it becomes conditional, given first if there is a need | |
| Step 0 — (3) ONS, conditional | Supine, exactly as in Table 1. Given first only if there is a need — read the condition as carefully as the step Supine × 3 | |
| Step 1 — (3) WD | From the head end: the therapist's feet placed on both sides of the patient's neck, carrying no weight; then brought to the elbows one by one; with the middle part of the soles, pressure on both forearms at once at three places from elbow to wrist, six seconds at each place. That is (1) WD; here three rounds. Keep the weight equal on both soles. Supine Both sides 6 sec | |
| Step 2 — (1) Gal | Right sole, left thigh, one hip-to-knee pass Left 6 sec | |
| Step 3 — (4) Ku | Old Kundali — eight presses of six seconds, without stopping, prone Prone 6 sec | |
| Step 4 — (20) ↑\ | ↓ | Round Arrow, prone, as in Table 1 Prone |
| What must not be given | The Ku bars — not in menstruation, not in low blood pressure ▲ Take care | |
| Points taught in | WD — The Front of the Body I, "The Front of the Body — I" |
Both these treatments began to please all the patients with joint pain. Two formulas, four steps each, and a clinic full of people who had been disappointed everywhere else now getting up off the mat differently.
WD never travels alone after P point
WD is one half of an inseparable pair. Wherever P point is given, (6) WD follows immediately — the two are written as one instruction and are never split.
That pair is not triggered by this article's formulas, which do not contain P point. But a therapist who meets WD here and WD again in New Genes — Vitamin and Gene Formulas, "The Missing Links" — and WD inside the Fast line of the rebuild at the end of this article, should hold the pair in mind as part of the point's identity, not as a rule attached to one formula.
Why Gal was increased and Ku was changed — the New Star
A blocked pipe opened by force, and forty seconds in place of eight presses
But the full benefit did not come, and the patients always had pain in Gal. The same finding that had started everything was still sitting there after treatment, which is the plainest possible message a body can send: you have not yet done enough of the thing you know is needed.
Seeing this, Guruji thought about a blocked pipe. If there is a blockage — an obstruction — in some pipe, then if we release water through it with force, the pipe will open. In the same way, he thought, a greater quantity of bile is needed, so that the flow in the bile duct increases; and if there is any blockage in the ampulla of Vater, it may open.
So (3) Gal was increased and made (6) Gal.
And (4) Ku was changed to (½) Ku – 40 secs, by which patients were found to obtain greater benefit.
That second change is larger than it looks here. (4) Ku and (½) Ku – 40 secs are not two doses of one thing; they are two different treatments performed at one site. The old Kundali is eight presses of six seconds without stopping. The half form is one single hold of forty seconds, and its stated purpose is precisely the one the derivation asked for: to stimulate the pineal gland — for melatonin.
Table 3 — Card: the New Star treatment formula Supine Prone 6 sec
| Written | (6) Gal (6) WD (½) Ku – 40 secs (20) ↑\ | ↓ |
|---|---|---|
| What changed, and why | Gal raised from three passes to six, to force the flow of bile and open any block at the ampulla of Vater. WD raised from three rounds to six. (4) Ku becomes a single forty-second (½) Ku, by which patients were found to obtain greater benefit. And the order of the first two is now Gal before WD | |
| Step 1 — (6) Gal | Right sole on the left thigh, three or four stations hip to knee, six seconds each, six full passes Supine Left 6 sec | |
| Step 2 — (6) WD | Head end; both forearms together, three stations elbow to wrist, six seconds each — six rounds Supine Both sides 6 sec | |
| Step 3 — (½) Ku – 40 secs | Prone, sacrococcygeal, mid-sole, normal pressure — once, held forty seconds, then released comfortably. A single timed hold, not a repeated count Prone | |
| Step 4 — (20) ↑\ | ↓ | Round Arrow, prone — follows Ku, by the rule above Prone |
| What (½) Ku – 40 secs is credited with | The pineal gland — for melatonin; disorders of the brain, speech or CSF such as MND and MS; excellent for cerebral atrophy | |
| Points taught in | (½) Ku timings — Face Down · Water and Salt |