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Why the navel, and why first
Pain or hardness around the navel reports disturbed blood flow
Every therapy must answer one question before it can begin: where do I look? A physician answers it with a history, a stethoscope and a laboratory. This therapy answers it with the belly, in the first two minutes — and the reason is not sentimental. It rests on an observation made over decades, confirmed on lakhs of patients, checkable by anybody on the next ten people they examine.
The observation the whole map rests on
Specific points around the navel, in front, exhibit pain or hardness — and the same points are found tender in all patients sharing a particular symptom or group of symptoms.
More broadly: any disease, whatever its individual symptoms, is generally accompanied by pain or hardness around the navel and the hip, at one or more of eighteen specific points.
And pain in an area indicates some disturbance in the blood flow to that area, and to the organ or organs associated with it.
Read the last line backwards, because that half is the working half: if the pain at a place is relieved, the blood supply to that place has been restored. Removal or reduction of one or more of those pains produces an immediate sense of well-being, which the patient herself confirms without being asked.
Two words in that teaching do quiet work. Hardness — you are feeling not only for a wince but for a place where the tissue has lost its give, where the belly wall meets your finger like a half-inflated ball instead of a cushion. A patient can be stoical about pain and cannot be stoical about hardness, because hardness is not an opinion. Group of symptoms — the point does not belong to a disease but to a pattern, which is why two people with different disease names on their cards can be tender at the same point and need the same treatment, and why one person is tender at different points on Monday and Thursday.
Why the navel in particular? Because of where the body was assembled from. Every one of us was built outward from that point; in the womb it is the door through which everything arrives, and the organs of the abdomen take their places at fixed distances from it, each at its own settled remove from all the others. Nothing in the abdomen has spare room. The organs are packed with such skill that no empty space is left over.
That packing is why the region is worth reading. For an organ to work smoothly it must go on receiving, twenty-four hours a day and without interruption, blood through the finest vessels and messages along the nerves — and those vessels and nerve bundles are exceedingly fine, running between the organs through the gaps. If through some unusual movement the internal gaps alter, pressure can fall on a capillary or a nerve bundle. The obstruction that follows need not be dramatic. First the stomach is upset; then, slowly, the balance of the whole body is disturbed.
Two bodies, read from the navel
A camp lesson and a four-complaint case, read from the pain points
From Each Point in Use
The navel, the womb and the paralysed limb
Setting the navel; and the prolapse point never written alone
Table 20 — The navel-setting points, the prolapse point and the limb points
| Point | What it is used for | When it must not be used | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| (3) ONS Supine | This treatment is given to correct disturbances of the navel, and to bring the navel back to its correct place if it slips | — | (3) ONS + WD is extremely good for setting the navel. |
| TF / NNS Supine | These two treatments together set all the organs of the navel. The number according to need | — | The standard closing pair after abdominal work. |
| 'P' point — the prolapse point | This is given to those women in whom sonography shows that a prolapse of the uterus has occurred — that is, her uterus has moved from its place. With this treatment we give in order to loosen her uterine muscles further | And immediately after giving this treatment, giving (6) WD is necessary; otherwise that woman will have still more trouble ▲ Take care | Some of the chief symptoms of prolapse of the uterus are: severe pain below the navel and in the back, white discharge, irregular menstruation, and infertility because of the low temperature of the body. The heel on the middle of the thigh, an upward jerk, left thigh first. |
| Shukla | Given to make the muscles of a limb — hand or foot — that has been paralysed, loose and flexible | For osteoporosis patients this treatment may perhaps increase the pain — so do not give them this treatment ▲ Take care | The wrist and the ankle, four ways each. |
Also explained in
- Why the navel is the reference point How a Formula Is Built
very organ at its fixed distance from the centre — and what shifts it The correspondence table is anchored on the navel, and leans on that anchor constantly.
- Setting the navel — and the toes that lead to it The Front of the Body II
It is also where the whole therapy began — a boy of eleven, and the folk work of setting the navel.
- ONS — Old Nabhi Set The Front of the Body II
Earlier its name was simply Nabhi Set — navel set.
- NNS — New Nabhi Set (न्यू नाभी सेट) The Front of the Body II
Left big toe → little toe, then the right foot 6 sec Left Right What it is for The new navel set — setting the abdomen from the toes The pillow detail is mechanics, not comfort.
- CNNS — Complete New Nabhi Set The Front of the Body II
Big toe → little toe unless one toe is named 6 sec × 3 What it is for The complete new navel set
- Choosing the formula from the pains around the navel Vitamin and Gene Formulas
Figure 34.5 Choosing by the pains around the navel.
- The pain that lasted months The Man Who Would Not Accept 'Incurable'
he illness at eleven, the old man, and a navel set face down At the tender age of eleven he was afflicted with a severe stomach ache.
- The front chart, complete The Navel Speaks First
very front point — where it lies, what is beneath, why the name The front chart is a line drawing of the trunk from neck to upper thighs, with the rib margins sketched in, the crests of the hip bones, the creases of the
- The two worked examples The Navel Speaks First
Left If the pain is at the number-three place of Gal — the innermost ring, immediately beside the navel — then it will go only from the treatment at the number-three place on the same thigh, near the knee.
- Finding it in the patient The Fire and the Ash
as, Liv and Rt.Ov, the B₁₂ and FA points, and the midline band The pain points around the navel.
- The disease has a name; the body has an organ The Hand That Heals
(Figure 1.3) Any disease, whatever its individual symptoms, is generally accompanied by pain or hardness around the navel and the hip, at one or more of eighteen specific points.
- The ring rule — how to read the numbers on the chart The Navel Speaks First
ings, not grades: the nearer the navel, the further down the limb Now the part of the chart beginners skip and should learn before any point name: those small boxes carrying 1, 2 and 3.
- The New Star Modified formula The Stiffening Joint
hree navel-setting stations in front, for the navel never set at all Because of the success of the treatments above, the number of patients went on increasing.
- Why the map crosses The Front of the Body I
Repeat it aloud until it is automatic: Pressure on one or both legs, between the groin and the ankle, relieves pains above the navel.