The Shorthand

The Shorthand — Codes, Symbols and How to Read a Formula

A therapist who can read three-quarters of a card is not three-quarters of a therapist. He is a therapist who will give the wrong treatment while believing he is following instructions. This article is the key to the thirty articles that come after it. Every point, every formula, every card and every line chalked on a board in a village camp is written in the language set out here.

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Why a therapy needs a language of its own

Short, exact and kind: what crosses the gap between planner and hands

A therapy given by one person to one patient in one room needs no notation: the therapist remembers, because he was there.

This therapy is not given that way. It is given in camps where a hundred people are treated in a morning; taught to a patient's daughter so a village with no centre can be served; written on a card that comes out of a bag eleven months later in another state. Between the person who decides the treatment and the hands that give it there is very often a gap, and something must cross it without losing a count.

The three tiers — point, formula, treatment

A point is a word, a formula a sentence, a treatment the paragraph

Three words are used constantly from here to the end of the wiki, and students confuse them for months. The difference is best made unmistakable by size.

Chemical points and physical points

Chemical counts are doses; physical counts may rise by one or two

Before you choose a point you must know which of two kinds it is, because the two obey different rules — and the rule that differs is the one about the count, which decides the dose.

The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in

Some 126 manoeuvres, arranged as a route through four positions

This is the index you will turn to more often than any other page. It is arranged not by organ and not by ailment, but by the position the patient is put into — supine, seated, side-lying, prone — with three further groups for the physical points of back pain, knee pain and everything else. (Figure 14.1)

That is not filing convenience. Turning a patient costs time and comfort, and in the frail costs more; so a formula is performed as a route through the four positions, gathering all that one position yields before the patient is moved.

Around a hundred and twenty-six manoeuvres are listed — some named anatomically, some biochemically, some functionally, some for the shape traced on the back, a handful for the patients in whose case they were found.

Table 3 — Points given with the patient supine · पीठ के बल लिटाकर Supine

Chemical from Pan down to Thyroid; physical from Loveleen to Vocal.

Table 4 — Points given seated on a chair · कुर्सी पर बिठाकर Seated

Medulla, Mesencephalon and Dorsal are chemical; all the rest physical.

Table 5 — Points given side-lying · करवट में लिटाकर — all chemical Side-lying

Table 6 — Points given prone · उलटे यानि पेट के बल लिटाकर Prone

Chemical from Adr down to Ku; Triangle for Piles, (2) S4 and S5 are physical.

Table 7 — Miscellaneous physical points: back pain

Table 8 — Miscellaneous physical points: knee pain

Table 9 — Other points

Every symbol, and how to say it in words

Forty-two glyphs, three conventions: arrow, ring and handedness

Treatment notes in this therapy are very often not written in letters at all. On a card in a busy camp, or chalked on a board before a class, a point appears as a glyph — a circle with a dot beside it, two arrows springing apart, a numbered chevron, a small face with dots along the jaw. A therapist who cannot read them cannot read a prescription.

There are forty-two. They cannot be typed, so each is described here in words beside its code and full name, with the original plates alongside. (Figure 14.2)

Table 10 — The written symbols and their names (first plate)

Table 11 — The written symbols and their names (second plate)

Forty-two glyphs look like forty-two things to memorise. They are three conventions applied over and over. (Figure 14.3)

Reading a written formula aloud

Left to right, in the order performed — and the order is not negotiable

Everything above was vocabulary; this is grammar. A formula is read left to right and performed in the order it is read. (Figure 14.4) (Figure 14.5)

First example — the commonest formula there is

Second example — a longer line, with a glyph inside it

Ch. Only reduces alkali — the symptoms of acid increase; Round Arrow reduces acid. Given together they hold the balance, and they are matched by their counts: to balance (20) ↑|↓ you need (8) Ch. Only, whereas (4) Ch. Only is balanced by (10) ↑|↓.

The same six words, four different treatments — each chosen by what the patient's stool looked like this week. (Figure 14.6)

Third example — seconds in place of counts, and where the gaps fall

Gaps fall in three places only: inside a point, between one application and the next; between rounds of a × N treatments line, a stated rest, most often one minute, not optional; and between formulas, where the patient is turned. A session for a common ailment runs about thirty minutes and is not continuous — the formula sets the gaps, and those minutes are when a patient may speak.

The notation conventions, gathered

Brackets, stations, rings, seconds, rounds, underlines, substitutions

Everything a written line can contain is in the table below. Several of these you met in Six Seconds, "Six Seconds", where the count is taught as the dose; they are set out here in their written form, because a convention you can recite but cannot recognise on a card is no use at the mat. (Figure 14.8)

Table 13 — Every element you will meet in a written line

The underline, and why it exists

In the Ulta Normal formula the usual order has been changed on purpose — Spl before Gal, Mu before Liv — and to give notice of that, a line is drawn beneath some of the points, so the therapist does not give the Normal order out of habit.

It does a second job. Seeing that line every day reminds the therapist to ask the patient every day about his motions — because as soon as the stool becomes firm, formed like a banana, the treatment must be changed, and for at least one day the Normal formula given to bring the body back. A reversed order is permitted only for a limited period, for a particular problem. One mark that says this is deliberate, ask her today, and this is temporary.

How a substitution is written

A substitution is written as a swap plus a condition. Both halves are the instruction: a swap without its condition is a rule that is right half the time and harmful the other half. (Figure 14.7)

Writing a prescription another therapist can follow

Seven steps to a card a stranger can act on a year later

Now turn the skill around: a therapist must also write, for a reader he will never meet.

Two cards, and what they taught

A card written for a family, and a line guessed at 900 km away

Questions students ask

1. 1. I am twenty and just starting. Must I memorise all hundred and twenty-six codes before makes sense? No. Memorise the shape of the list: four positions, then back pain, knee pain, other. Then learn the twelve supine digestive codes properly — they appear in nearly every formula you will give. The rest arrive one at a time, attached to a patient.
2. 2. A card says Liv where I am fairly sure Liv° was meant. May I correct it? No. You may ask. Telephone the therapist who wrote it, or leave that line out and write on the card why. A silent correction is a guess wearing the clothes of expertise, and if you are wrong nobody will ever find where the error entered.
3. 3. I am a physician. What is a formula named "Heparin" claiming? That the sequence is held to produce effects akin to those of that chemical. Nothing is given. The honest sentence in a letter to you reads: "we applied a formula named after heparin." A therapist who writes that he gave your patient heparin has made a serious error of language.
4. 4. If physical points wear off in a few days, why give them at all? Because they hasten the time required to bring normalcy. What they must not be is the whole plan.
5. 5. Two lists contain Sciatica setting. Which is right? Both. One manoeuvre reached from two directions, and the group it stands in tells you what surrounds it.
6. 6. I have no science at all. What does it mean that "different numbers make different chemicals"? Take it as an observation before a theory. Over sixty years it was found that pressing the same place twice and four times do not do the same thing — one stops an over-active thing, the other feeds a hungry one. Give the number written, exactly.
7. 7. A senior therapist reads formulas silently and fast. Should I read aloud? He read them aloud for years first. Read every line aloud, quietly, until you catch yourself finishing it correctly before your eye reaches the end — and keep reading aloud on any card that is not yours, and on any day you are tired.
8. 8. What is the commonest error in reading a card? Reading Liv – 3 points as "give Liv three times". That gives a third of the treatment, in one place instead of three, so none of the organs the pass was addressing has been reached. See also → Six Seconds, "Six Seconds".

Questions patients ask

1. 1. "What is all this writing on my card? It looks like a code." It is a code, and I will read it to you if you like. Each short name is a place I press, and the number in front is how many times. We write it so that if you go to another centre in another city, the therapist there does exactly what I am doing.
2. 2. "It says B₁₂ on my card. Are you giving me a vitamin injection?" No. Nothing is given to you here — no medicine, no injection, no instrument of any kind. That is the name of a sequence of pressures, named after an effect it is meant to help your body produce for itself. If a doctor asks, tell them exactly that.
3. 3. "Why is one of the lines underlined?" Because for these few days I am giving part of the treatment in reverse order on purpose, and the underline stops me giving it the usual way out of habit. It also reminds me to ask you every day about your motions. As soon as they are properly formed, I change it back.
4. 4. "Can you write it down so my daughter can do it at home?" Yes — that is one of the things this therapy is built for. I will write it in full, and then I will ask your daughter to read the whole card back to me aloud, twice, before you leave. Not to test her: if she can say it, she can do it.
5. 5. "My report is normal. Then why is there so much written on my card?" Because a normal report and a well-working organ are not quite the same statement. A report tells you the things it measures are inside their ranges — genuinely good news, and worth having. What is on your card is what my hands found, and what I intend to do about it.

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