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Gal — the gall bladder point
Finding it. Lay your hand flat under the patient's right rib margin and find the outer edge of the straight belly muscle — ask her to lift her head an inch and it stands up under your fingers, then let her lie back. Where that edge crosses the rib margin, at the tip of the ninth rib cartilage, is the point. Right
What is beneath. The rounded end of the gall bladder, poking out from under the liver's edge; behind and above it the right lobe of the liver, beside it the bend of the large bowel, just deeper the first part of the duodenum.
Why the name. In gall bladder trouble, pain or stiffness is found in just this part. It is also the exact spot a surgeon presses when he suspects an inflamed gall bladder — two traditions arriving at one square inch from opposite directions, worth saying to a doctor who asks.
Gal — the gall bladder point
Standing straight, with your right foot on the patient's left thigh, using the soft middle part of the sole, give pressure without stopping at three (or four) places, running from below the waist joint down to just before the knee joint. At each place press for six seconds and release. Doing this from the waist down to the knee is called (1) Gal.
If more than (1) Gal is to be given, then without stopping repeat from waist to knee as many times as the number written.
| Patient's position | Supine, one pillow under both thighs; the therapist standing straight, the other foot lifted clear of the ground, knee not bent Supine |
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| Where the feet are placed | Therapist's right sole on the patient's left thigh; three (or four) stations from just below the hip joint to just above the knee Left |
| Duration and repetitions | 6 seconds at each station, moving down without stopping; one hip-to-knee pass = (1) Gal; the pass repeated as many times as the number written 6 sec |
| What it is for | The pain below the ribs on the right side of the chest, which is found in gall bladder disease and in all bile-related diseases |
Choosing the station from the ring. The entry carries its own note — the ring rule in working clothes: if there is pain at the number one place in Gal, it will be relieved by the treatment near the waist on the left thigh; whereas to relieve pain at the number three place of Gal, one must treat near the knee of the same thigh.
What lies beneath. Station one is as for Pan. Station two, mid-thigh, is the four-headed thigh muscle wrapped round the bone with the inner-thigh muscles alongside; deep and inward runs a narrow tunnel carrying the leg's main artery and vein with a sensory nerve — the one structure here that genuinely dislikes being squeezed against bone, and the reason the contact is broad, flat and central. Station three, above the knee, is chiefly the flat tendon running to the knee cap. The gall bladder itself is a small pear tucked under the liver on the right, where the rib margin crosses. (Figure 16.3)
From Each Point in Use
The gall bladder, the stomach and the intestines
Table 4 — GAL, GAS ONLY and GAS 'I'
| Point and variant | What it is used for | When it must not be used | Notes |
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| Gal — TF 'Gal', (1) Gal, (3) Gal and so on | Pain in the right front of the chest. To stimulate the upper part of the ascending colon. To stimulate the gall bladder, so that bile is released in adequate quantity as required. To lower cholesterol. To heal a blow or an injury. For wrinkles in the skin — give after checking for pain. For frequent urination. For skin disease with constipation. And wherever there is pus or discharge — in the ear or anywhere on the body | Do not give in leukaemia, blood cancer or other diseases arising from a raised white cell count. In asthma this point increases the trouble — so do not give it. Do not give to those passing little urine. This is a matter of experience ▲ Take care | Three prohibitions of three different kinds. |
| (1) Pt. Gal × 6 treatments | In viral fever, if there is pain at Gal. In all skin diseases — allergy, psoriasis, leucoderma (vitiligo) and so on — and especially where the patient also complains of constipation, where the benefit is great. In the HCl formula, to stimulate the part of the stomach near the pylorus and so produce gastrin | (the Gal prohibitions above stand) | Six treatments, not six applications. |
| (9) Gal | To reduce excessive anger — anger spoils the gall bladder. Especially to settle hyperactivity and restlessness in children | (the Gal prohibitions above stand) | The one entry in the family aimed at temperament |
| Gas Only — TF 'Gas Only', (1) Gas Only – 6 points, (6) Gas Only | This is for the stomach. To reduce pain below Pan and above the navel. To increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach. To digest protein by means of pepsin. To form intrinsic factor, so that vitamin B₁₂ is properly absorbed. In cancer, spasticity, fits, cerebral palsy, rheumatoid arthritis and joint pain, and in the UDF formula. It stops loose motions. Giving Gas Only removes pain in the right ring finger — but give only as much as is needed to remove the pain. For nausea, and to stop vomiting, it is immediately helpful — especially in pregnant women; but if they have back pain, it is better to give the treatment with the hands rather than the feet | Do not give to those who have an ulcer in the stomach or duodenum. For those with constipation, piles or fistula, if Gas Only must be given for some reason, Gas 'I' must be given with it; and if the constipation is severe, (2) S4, S5 may also be given with Gas 'I' ▲ Take care | The ulcer prohibition follows from the point's own mechanism. The second half is not a prohibition but a compensation — the point's own side-effect answered in the same breath. |
| Gas 'I' — TF Gas 'I', (1) Gas 'I' – 6 points and so on | To reduce pain directly above the navel. To stimulate the jejunum and the ileum for secretin and CCK, so that digestion and absorption proceed properly. For constipated patients, to increase small intestinal motility. For children who drool — where Lu + Sh has not helped, Gas 'I' does | (see the (6) Gas 'I' box) | |
| (6) Gas 'I' | Increases blood flow in the arteries of the intestines and the kidneys. Prevents the kidney from producing renin, and so normalises high blood pressure. Enables the enteric neurons of the gastrointestinal tract to produce serotonin and other brain neurotransmitters | Gas 'I' increases small intestinal motility, so do not give it if there are loose motions ▲ Take care | The prohibition governs the whole Gas 'I' family, not this count alone |
| (12) Gas 'I' | Given in Parkinson's disease to produce dopamine. It works like (20) Medulla | (the loose-motions prohibition stands) |
The stomach point and its companion — the clearest compensation rule in the therapy
Gas Only stops loose motions. That is one of the things it is for, and it is also the reason it becomes a problem in the wrong belly.
So the instruction does not simply forbid it to a constipated patient. It says: if Gas Only must be given for some reason to somebody with constipation, piles or fistula, then Gas 'I' must be given with it — because Gas 'I' increases the movement of the small intestine and pulls in the other direction. And if the constipation is severe, (2) S4, S5 may also be given with Gas 'I'.
Three points, running together, each answering the last one's shadow. Learn the shape of this instruction, because you will meet it again in the formulary: a therapy that knows what its own treatments cost writes the payment into the same line.
Also explained in
- The formula that came out of what is inside bile — New Gal Setting the Stomach
ive formulas as one: first the stomach, then the gall bladder This formula was made in the year 2006 itself.
- When the burning is not the acid — the Chole treatment Setting the Stomach
It is Guruji's unique discovery that the burning in the chest happens from the following causes: The liver or the gall bladder are sluggish — working at a slow speed.
- Opening the door the bile comes through — the Vater treatment Setting the Stomach
So, after much thought, an inference was drawn: if there is some blockage in the road by which the bile comes — in the ampoulla of Vater — then the bile will begin to congeal in the gall bladder itself, and its effect wi
- Questions students ask Setting the Stomach
Give the gall bladder and liver pair first.
- The Vitamin B₁₂ formula Vitamin and Gene Formulas
And then the last piece, which decided the other two steps of the formula: in the body, in the liver, there remains a stock of Vitamin B₁₂ of only five to six years, and the gall bladder is the godown of the liver where
- The cord Treating Women
Triangle for piles strengthens the muscles of the pelvis and tightens the sphincters of the bladder, the uterus and the anal opening, and is named for prolapse of the uterus and for controlling excessive bleeding in mens
- S4–S5 Face Down
The therapy's own account is plain — to stimulate the sacral nerves, the muscles at both sides of the S3–S5 beads are pulled from above downward — and those levels genuinely are the levels from which bladder, uterus and
- The back that gets better, and the back that leaves the room today The Low Back
1 — The saddle and the bladder.
- The low back, the sacrum and the tail bone Each Point in Use
This relaxes and opens the sphincters of the urinary bladder, of the uterus, and of the anus.
- Snakebite Fire and Swelling
Our own body has a chemical that does an antiseptic's work: bile — which the liver makes and the gall bladder stores.
- What is said about food and the organs during a fever Food as Medicine
he liver and the gall bladder are spoiled; no diet rule is attached One further statement about illness belongs on these pages, and it is a statement about the organs of digestion rather than about the plate.
- WD — the white discharge point The Navel Speaks First
The midline seam; behind it the dome of the bladder when full — one good reason a patient passes urine before a session — the uterus resting above the bladder in a woman, and loops of sigmoid colon.
- What you are actually pressing over The Navel Speaks First
Four fields hold the whole map: the upper field, rib margins to navel — liver, gall bladder, stomach, duodenum, pancreas behind them, spleen far back on the left; the middle field around the navel — small intestine, twen
- The three levels The Fire and the Ash
Seeing the patient's condition, according to the need they increase the blood circulation in the various parts of the gall bladder, liver, pancreas and small intestine, so that the digestion, absorption and metabolism of