Bowel

What the form tells you about the direction

The form tracks the speed of the journey better than the number of motions ever will, and the speed is what your work changes.

Form · The journey · Which kingdom

1 hard lumps · Very slow — squeezed nearly dry on the left · Acidic — expect tenderness at Mu° Left

2–3 lumpy or cracked sausage · Slow, but moving · Acidic, milder

4 smooth soft sausage · Right · Neither

5 soft blobs, easily passed · Faster than it should be — this is SSS · Alkaline — expect tenderness at Liv° Right , and undigested items

Colour, and what to do about each

Ordinary brown.

The colour is not made by food but by the pigment in bile, altered on the way down: brown is a report that bile is arriving.

Pale, clay-coloured, putty. Bile is not arriving in normal quantity. With dark urine, or yellowness of the eyes, a doctor's matter today. ▲ Take care

Black and tarry. Never explain this away. There is a treatment in the formulary — Large Folic Black, given after the undigested-food work — after which the black colour of the face is said to be reduced by a quarter immediately, and the next morning the first inch of the stool will be black, meaning waste is coming out by way of the rectum. Learn that as it stands, with its boundary: it accounts for the first inch on the morning after that treatment, and for nothing else. Iron blackens a stool harmlessly; so does an ulcer bleeding higher up. ▲ Take care

The colours and consistencies that are not a matter for the mat at all — a bulky pale greasy floating stool with weight coming off, a black tarry stool, blood of any colour at any age — are listed with their instructions in The Fire and the Ash, "The Fire and the Ash", and are asked about of every patient, every time. Rectal bleeding is never put down to piles until a doctor has excluded what else it can be, and a patient genuinely having piles does not make the blood theirs.

Four readings are taken every time — form, frequency, effort and content — and none stands alone. Their information has to be correlated to arrive at a proper diagnosis, together with the pain points around the navel, the B₁₂ and folic acid points, and, in women, the menstrual history, which is an additional and very valuable tool. Content — the undigested items — is The Fire and the Ash's question, not this article's.

Dys — the most self-restrained point in the therapy

Read the three brakes again, because between them they are a small course in how to hold a powerful treatment.

The gate. Give this only if there is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel; otherwise not. Not if the patient has loose motions — the complaint is not enough. There must be a finding under your fingers.

The ceiling. It may be given for a day or two. A day or two is not a suggestion about how long it takes to work. It is the outer limit.

The reason. Its use must be undertaken only with great thought — because it works against the natural motion of the intestines. Loose motions are partly the body emptying something it wants out. A treatment that slows the bowel is holding that something in. The therapy says this about its own point, in its own voice, and asks you to think before you use it. ▲ Take care

And there is a reason that warning is not squeamishness. The gut carries its own nervous system — a complete network of nerve cells in the wall of the intestine, enough of them to run the whole organ on their own; cut every connection to the brain and an intestine still senses what is inside it, still decides, and still moves it along in orderly waves. Which means a bowel that has speeded up has usually decided to speed up, and something is in it that its own wiring wants gone. It works against the natural motion of the intestines is respect for a second brain that knows more about the situation than the therapist does.

Why class C is built the other way round

If there is no problem with the motions, it means the motility of the intestine is correct. So it must not be tampered with.

We have only to provoke all the organs of the abdomen — and this therapy is famous for that work.

Everything follows from those two sentences. No Adr, no Swt, no Medulla, nothing reversed and nothing underlined. A bowel that is working is left alone, and the work is done entirely by bringing blood to the organs.

And here is where the story that opened this article turns into a formula. From many years of experience, Guruji had found out which organs of the body, on being pressed, take out the pain of which part of the abdomen. He had reached the position where, at anyone's wish or asking, he could take out the pain of any specified place in the abdomen, announcing it beforehand as a challenge. And the best part of it is that he made that knowledge so simple, and taught it to so many people, that anyone at all will be able to do this work.

So he found a very simple way.

The thought that became class C

If the blood circulation is increased above the navel, below it, in front of it and behind it — on all sides — then the pain will come out of itself.

Is that not a marvellous thought? It replaces a memorised table of which point empties which corner with a single instruction: supply the whole sphere. You do not have to know where the pain is. You have to go round it. (Figure 30.4)