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The organs of digestion — the key to health
Why every gland depends on digestion, and why the work begins at the belly
Everything so far has been preparation for one observation, and this observation is the founder's own contribution to the treatment of disease. It is short. It should be learnt by heart.
Where the raw materials come from
All glands and organs can produce their individual chemicals in the correct quantity and at the correct time only when the necessary raw materials for them are available from the end products of digestion.
In other words: the correct performance of every gland and organ depends wholly on the correct functioning of the digestive system — including the accessory organs of digestion. (Figure 3.12)
Here is the everyday picture, and it is the one to give a patient. One kitchen supplying a hundred households. If the kitchen is sound, every house eats. If it runs at half strength, no house is destroyed — but every one is a little short, and the weakest shows it first. Nobody looking at the hungriest house would say this house has a disease of its own; they would go and look at the kitchen. Which is why a slowed digestion does not produce one disease. It produces whichever disease that particular body is disposed to.
Three substances, and everything built from them
The raw materials of all the hormones are made from only three things — cholesterol, tyrosine amino acid, and proteins.
For those three to be formed properly and absorbed properly, the digestive system must be right. That is what this therapy corrects.
And with the vitamins the position is starker still: apart from vitamin K and folic acid, the vitamins are not manufactured in the body at all. They have to be obtained from food — and for that too, the digestive system must be in order.
Take three worked examples — the ones you will be asked about at the mat, each the same argument arriving from a different direction.
The thyroid. The thyroid builds its hormones on tyrosine, an amino acid which becomes available during the digestion of protein in the intestine. If digestion is not right, the material is short; if the material is short, the gland's output falls — the T₃ and T₄ on the patient's slip. And when they fall the pituitary, which is watching, shouts louder: that shout is the raised TSH she has come to ask you about. If digestion were right, tyrosine would be properly made, the thyroid's work would remain right, and we would not fall ill.
The bones. A person with thinning bones has less calcium in the bone, and less in the blood behind it, because calcium is not being absorbed. If the intestine is not working, then however many tablets are swallowed the deficiency will not be made up — the tablet passes through. Correct the intestine and calcium begins to be absorbed again; by that road even thinning of the bones can be corrected. This is the schoolteacher at the head of this article, and it is why nobody told her to buy a better brand.
Cholesterol and the liver. Cholesterol is not a villain; the body needs it, because out of cholesterol it builds the steroid hormones — the ones that let a person stand and fight a calamity or run from it. But if the liver is not working properly, cholesterol accumulates and settles on the inner walls of the arteries. They slowly narrow, the circulation is obstructed, and from that come disorders of the heart, of the kidney and much else. By correcting the function of the liver the level of cholesterol is kept right — and the very chance of those diseases arising is ended.
Two further examples belong in your pocket, because patients ask about them.
The body's own blood-thinner. In the liver and the lungs a substance called heparin is continually made, whose business is to prevent lumps and clots forming in the circulation. If clots are forming, heparin is not being made in sufficient quantity — and a clot carried to the heart can obstruct it and kill; carried to the brain, it obstructs the circulation there, and that is paralysis. By activating — stimulating — the pancreas, the liver and the lungs, heparin begins to be made again; it dissolves those lumps, and even knots dried and settled for a long time begin to come out, so that paralysis, heart disease and blockage in the heart begin to be cured.
The chemical that stops abnormal growth. The pancreas makes a hormone named somatostatin, whose work is to stop abnormal growth. By stimulating the pancreas for a special length of time, this therapy is able to end not only fibroids and cysts but even a tumour in the brain.
Now the conditions themselves. The therapy does not leave "digestion should be good" as a pious wish: it states what must be true, and then what a person must do to make it true. Both lists are examinable.
That triad is not a rhetorical flourish. The abdomen is the organ of supply — nothing enters the body's stores except through it. The kidneys throw out the fixed wastes and hold the water and salt balance. The lungs take in oxygen and put out carbon dioxide, and by how fast they do it they hold one whole side of the acid–alkali balance. Supply, drainage and air: get those three right and there is very little left for a disease to stand on.
Which brings us to the sentence that decides how a course of treatment is built.
Why the work begins at the belly
In our daily routine there are many factors under whose influence the greater part of the blood moves towards the limbs, the brain and elsewhere — and the blood flow in the organs of digestion decreases.
Sufficient blood is not obtained for the process of digestion.
Shortage of blood makes the organs of digestion sluggish, so that they become unable to digest the food and complete its absorption. Since all the glands depend on the products of digestion for their raw materials, the ill effect must fall on the working of the glands too. That gives birth to various symptoms, which in the end take the form of one disease or another.
This is the root cause of nearly every disease that afflicts the human race.
And therefore: in this therapy the greatest attention is given to setting right the stomach and the organs related to it — because in that lies the key to complete health.
The material's own image for the last step is a housewife's, and it is the best in the wiki. Just as many different dishes can be made in an ordinary kitchen out of the same few limited materials, so out of the different levels of functioning of our few organs different symptoms are produced — and different combinations of those symptoms are given the names of different diseases. Change the proportions and you get another dish. The pantry did not change. Whatever the name of the disease, it has come from the disorder of only a handful of organs.
That is the sentence for the patient who asks why you are pressing her belly when her complaint is her shoulder. Add the honest second half: your shoulder is repaired out of the same stores as everything else in you, and those stores are running short. If I only work the shoulder, I will give you a fortnight of relief and see you again in the spring.
From The Fire and the Ash
The rule: the digestion is corrected first
The UDF work before the disease, and the order where Liv° is tender
Since the food, drink and manner of living of all people are not the same, one and the same treatment will not apply to all patients — which is why different kinds of treatment have been made for correcting UDF in patients of different tendencies.
The undigested-food work is the first stage of the treatment
The view is this: in old diseases — whatever the disease may be — the treatment for correcting UDF should be the very first stage of the treatment.
And it has been seen that when undigested food stops coming in the stool, from that alone a miraculous improvement is seen in the patient's disease. After that, on giving the other treatments according to the condition of the body, the results have been found to be better still.
From the diagnostic end the rule reads: the very first treatment one should give to such patients is to correct this tendency. Any treatment which does so is nicknamed a UDF treatment; it corrects the digestive system and thereby brings substantial relief from the present ailment — irrespective of whatever that ailment may be.
Here is the reasoning laid bare. Every gland builds its chemicals out of the end products of digestion. The end products of protein digestion are the amino acids. The amino acids are released by pepsin. Pepsin will not work above a pH of 3. The pH will not fall below 3 unless hydrochloric acid is made in the proper quantity and concentration. The acid will not be made unless the blood is reaching the stomach. So whatever you intend to treat, the raw material for it comes from a stomach — and the digestion is treated first not because it is the loudest complaint, but because nothing else you do can be built out of nothing.
The recapitulation
Improper digestion — of proteins mainly, and to a lesser extent of fats — is the root cause of all diseases.
The reason: the raw materials of all the glands are made by the body only from the end products of digestion. Without them the glands cannot produce their chemicals in correct quantity, and hence all sorts of disorders set in.
Dr. Krishnamurthy Jalihal, MBBS, is a founder member of Gulbarga Medical College who worked forty years as an anaesthetist with well-known surgeons in large hospitals in Karnataka, retired from allopathic practice, and from 2002 onwards has practised only this therapy. This is how his centre is run.
The ten-day rule as it is practised at one centre
The method followed meticulously at that centre, irrespective of the ailment, is this: patients are told, right at the time of their registration on the first day, that it is mandatory that they must come for the first ten days at a stretch, without break, to set their digestive system in good working order.
For those ten days or thereabouts they are given only the treatment for UDF 6 sec , along with the appropriate Muscle Relaxation Treatment (MRT) in extreme cases. Afterwards, depending upon their ailments, a further treatment schedule is prescribed.
The experience: "By the end of the first ten days a majority of their symptoms have been totally alleviated, even though no specific treatment was given exclusively for THAT ailment for which they had approached us. Not only that: in a number of chronic cases, relatives have informed us that the patient's disposition has become remarkably better, irritability drastically reduced, just within ten days." One family put it as families do: "Earlier my father used to get irritated over every small matter. But after only two or four days of your treatment, father's irritability went out completely."
Three things are worth taking from that. The rule is announced at registration, before any examination and before hope has been raised. Ten days at a stretch, without a break. And the outcome that convinced them was not the one they were measuring. Give it to a patient as exactly what it is, never as a guarantee.
From Each Point in Use
The organs of digestion
The largest family: every gland draws its raw material from digestion
This is the largest family in the therapy and the reason the belly is worked before anything else. Every gland in the body draws its raw material from what digestion delivers.
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