The Shorthand: How Neurotherapy (LMNT) Treatments Are Written and Read

Overview

Neurotherapy (LMNT) has its own short written language of codes and symbols, so that what one therapist means is exactly what another therapist does. This guide explains points, formulas and treatments, the two kinds of points, how a written line is read, and why every substitution carries its reason.

The card that travelled, and the one line that was guessed

A teaching case, put together from situations every centre sees: a young woman moved to another state carrying the card of the therapist who had helped her through two years of exhaustion and hair fall. The new therapist could read every line but one, which named a lighter thyroid variant written “in place of” the usual one. He gave the usual variant he knew. Some weeks later her heart began to race on the stairs.

On the back of the card, in very small writing, was the reason: a heart-valve finding from years before. The first therapist had written both the swap and the reason. Only the reader failed. A therapist who can read three-quarters of a card is not three-quarters of a therapist; he is one who gives the wrong treatment while believing he is following instructions.

Why a therapy needs a language of its own

This therapy is rarely given by one person to one patient in one room. 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, and written on cards that travel. Between the person who plans the treatment and the hands that give it there is often a gap, and something must cross that gap without losing anything.

A code is not there to look learned. It is there so that what one therapist meant is what another therapist does. Some codes are also chosen kindly, so that a patient reading her own card is not frightened: the two kidney points, for example, are written as Liv° and Mu°, not as “kidney”.

Point, formula, treatment: a word, a sentence, a paragraph

Three words are used all the time, and students mix them up for months. A treatment point is the code name of a technique — Pan, Gal, L5-S1 ghisai. It names what is done, not a claim that the foot rests on that organ. A formula is a particular set of points, given in a fixed order, that together address one symptom, such as the Acid Treatment Formula. A treatment is a set of formulas given for one disease in one person.

Because different people have different organs working below par, the same disease can have different treatments. A formula can be looked up; a treatment is put together for the person in front of the therapist, from what the hands found that morning.

• Some formulas are named for the body condition they correct, such as the Acid Treatment Formula for acidosis.
• Some are named for the organ they work on, such as the Medulla treatments.
• Some are named after a chemical whose effect they are held to resemble, such as Heparin, 1,25 DCC or B₁₂. Nothing is given: no medicine, no injection.
• Some carry the names of the people in whose cases they were found, such as Raman or Maunish.

Chemical points and physical points

The points are of two kinds, and they obey different rules. Chemical points rouse the working of the glands — Pan, Gal, Liv, Mu, Adr, Ku, Acid, B₁₂ and others. Over long experience Guruji found that many of them act differently depending on the variant given, which suggests they make different chemicals. (2) Pan and (4) Pan, for example, are different treatments with different effects. So a chemical point is given exactly as written, by whoever planned it.

Physical points relax muscles, tendons and ligaments — Sulta Ulta, Stretch, BAFA, Necklace, Back of Knees. Here the therapist has a little room to adjust for the patient's comfort. Physical points bring quick relief and help the body settle sooner, but on their own the relief tends to wear off, because the root — organs working below par — is reached through the chemical work.

The master list, arranged by position

Around a hundred and twenty-six named manoeuvres are listed — not by organ, not by illness, but by the position the patient is placed in: lying face up, seated on a chair, lying on the side, and lying face down. Three more groups hold the physical points for back pain, knee pain and everything else. This is because turning a patient costs time and comfort, and in the frail it costs more. So a formula is given as a route, finishing what one position offers before the patient is moved.

Names come from anatomy (Pan for the pancreas), chemistry (Heparin), function (Const, for constipation), the shape traced on the back (Round Arrow), or the patients in whose cases they were found. A code must always be read inside its own group: Gas on the thighs, Gas ‘I’ on the calves and Big Toe Gas in the knee group are three different things.

Reading a written line

A formula is written as one line and read from left to right, in the order it is given. The order is not a matter of taste: Guruji wrote that stimulating the organs in a different sequence can sometimes produce the opposite result — not a weaker one. The Normal formula works through Pan, Gal, Spl, Liv and Mu. Turn its pairs around and it becomes Ulta Normal, used on purpose to firm up loose motions. Given by mistake to someone who is not loose, it can bring on severe constipation.

The line also carries small marks, and each one is part of the instruction. The exact meaning of each mark, and the method behind each point, is taught hands-on in the course.

• A number in brackets in front of a point name is part of its name: (2) Pan and (4) Pan are different treatments.
• A small ring makes a different point: Liv is the liver point, Liv° the right kidney point. Never drop the ring.
• A drawn symbol can stand inside the line in place of a name, such as the sign for Round Arrow on the back.
• An underline means the usual order has been reversed on purpose, only for a short time, and reminds the therapist to ask about the patient's motions every day.
• A substitution is written as a swap plus its reason; an omission (a point left out on purpose) is itself an instruction.

Writing a card a stranger can follow

A therapist must also write for a reader he will never meet. The test of a card is simple: could another therapist, or a trained family member at home, pick it up a year later in another town and give exactly what was meant?

• Head it with the person, not the disease: name, age, town, date, and the complaint in the patient's own words.
• Record the findings that chose the plan; a minus means examined and silent, an empty box means not examined.
• Mark the blocked points before any treatment is written.
• Write each formula on its own line, in the order given, grouped by position, with every substitution and its reason on the line.
• Date and sign every change, keep private marks out of the treatment lines, and read the whole card aloud before the patient leaves.

Key points

• Neurotherapy (LMNT) writes its treatments in a shared shorthand so that what one therapist means, another does exactly.
• A point is a word, a formula a sentence, and a treatment the paragraph built for one person.
• Chemical points rouse the glands and are given exactly as written; physical points relax muscles and allow small adjustments for comfort.
• Points are listed by the patient's position, so a formula is given as a route through the positions.
• A formula is read left to right and given in that order; a changed order is a different treatment.
• Every substitution carries its reason, and a line you cannot explain is a line you must not change — ask the therapist who wrote it.

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