- Category
- Eyes, ears, nose, mouth and throat
- What is given
- (3) Medulla where the pupil is dilated; (6) Medulla where the pupil is crooked up and outward; (4) Medulla where the eye rests down and outward
- What must come first
- Look at where the eye is sitting — the complaint is one word, the finding is not
- What is barred
- (6) Medulla — not to 13–20-year-olds treated for height, unless there is special need
- Explained in
- The Medulla Family
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From The Medulla Family
(6) Medulla — the hypothalamus treatment
The first one found — and the one withheld from a child who came about height
This is the very first Medulla treatment that was obtained, and everything else in the family descends from it.
Table 5 — Card: (6) Medulla Seated 6 sec Both sides
| Written | (6) Medulla |
|---|---|
| Applications | 6, both sides of the neck below the ears, one side at a time |
| Site, technique, position | The standing card — Table 2 Seated |
| What was found on giving it | 1. If the body temperature is below normal, it can be raised. 2. Those who feel no hunger or thirst begin to feel hunger or thirst immediately after the treatment. 3. Patients who had brain trouble on account of meningitis truly did benefit. 4. Patients of epilepsy — mirgī — and of paralysis also benefit |
| The inference drawn | That the hypothalamus can be stimulated by this treatment — after which it was applied wherever the hypothalamus has a function, and considerable success was obtained in it |
| The reasoning about the brain's water | The hypothalamus forms the wall of the brain's 3rd ventricle. In meningitis there is a blockage in the 3rd ventricle, on account of which the CSF — the fluid inside the brain — cannot pass into the 4th ventricle. So this treatment is thought to be able to open the passage called the cerebral aqueduct, which lies between the 3rd and the 4th ventricles |
| Its use on the glands | For the hypothalamus to make releasing hormones such as TSH.RH and FSH.RH for the anterior pituitary, from which TSH, FSH and so on will be released. By (6) Medulla we can give orders to the anterior pituitary — which is what we use for setting right the diseases of the endocrine glands |
| Its use on pain | It stops the messages coming from the sensory nerves, so that the sensation of pain is not allowed to occur. The chemicals called endorphins also do this work |
| What the index adds | To increase hunger, thirst and body temperature, and to reduce the pains of the body. Through the anterior pituitary we can stimulate the thyroid gland, the ovaries or testes, prolactin, growth hormone and the adrenal cortex. It perhaps controls the muscles of the eyes by means of the 6th cranial nerve, and can also correct some kinds of double vision |
| When it must not be given | Not to boys and girls between 13 and 20 years of age who come for treatment to increase height — unless there is a special need for it ▲ Take care |
| Point taught in | Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck, "Seated — I" |
Four of the uses below are not yet settled, and the therapy says so plainly. They are printed here exactly as they stand, because a student who is shown only the finished parts of a teaching learns to distrust the whole of it on the day he finds an unfinished part for himself.
(6) Medulla — the further uses, which are to be tried on suitable patients
To stimulate the part of the hypothalamus called the mamillary bodies. The function of the mamillary bodies is the overall control of GIT activity — that is, of the workings of the stomach and the intestines — including at least some of the processes at the time of eating food, such as stimulating the licking of the lips with the tongue while eating, and the process of swallowing. (These nuclei are also described as a chief relay station for impulses relating to smell — they are needed in order that a smell be felt from the nose up to the brain.)
In the brain's medulla oblongata there is a place from which the nerves of one side of the brain cross over to the other side of the body. If there is any blockage in it, that ought to be set right by this treatment. This is called the crossing point of the pyramids.
In the hypothalamus there is a part called the optic chiasma, in which the fibres of the inner side of the retina cross from one side of the brain to the other.
Besides these, it appears that by this treatment we can also stimulate the 6th cranial nerve, by which we can set right disturbances arising from the eye muscles called the inferior oblique and the lateral rectus. Perhaps this may be useful in correcting some kinds of squint ??? Patients of this kind have not come to us in large numbers. This fact is to be tested on patients later on.
And then the passage that ought to be read aloud in every classroom, because of what it costs the man who wrote it.
One last thing about that card is worth a sentence, because it is the kind of detail that tells you how carefully a list was made. Temperature, hunger and thirst are not a random three. Deep in the middle of the brain sits a region no larger than an almond which is the body's thermostat, its appetite switch and its thirst meter all at once — three small clusters of cells, a few millimetres apart, doing those three jobs. It is why a fever takes your appetite with it. Anyone naming the hypothalamus at all would have to name those three, more or less in that order — and this list does.
Also explained in
- (2) Medulla — the smallest member The Medulla Family
A patient whose unsteadiness came on suddenly — or came together with vomiting, headache, double vision or slurred speech — is a patient for a hospital that day and not for a mat, and saying so plainly is the treatment y
- Where this family ends and the index begins The Medulla Family
It can also correct some kinds of double vision (8) Medulla For all problems of the ear, and for serotonin, necessary for bringing sleep and for correcting extreme sadness.
- The eyes Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
Table 4 — The six muscles of the eye and their Medulla treatments The movement The muscle Treatment Turning the pupils inward Medial rectus (3) Medulla Turning the pupils upward Superior rectus (3) Medulla Turning the pu
- The twelve in one table Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
he whole of Part two on one page, with the rule beneath it Table 2 — The twelve messengers, their number, their errand and their treatment Seated × 3 # The nerve What it carries The trouble you will meet Treatment I
- The whole index in reverse — number by number Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
Table 19 — Each Medulla number and the territory the index gives it Number Cranial nerve Its territory in the index (1) Olfactory Loss of smell — anosmia (2) Optic Blindness of any kind; seeing little or not seeing; the
- III — The oculomotor nerve: most of the eye's movement, and the lens Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
The pupil is dilated and there is double vision.
- VI — The abducens nerve: outward Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
The pupil sits crooked up and outward and there is double vision from it.
- Questions patients ask you Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck
If anything changes while I am working — dizziness, a wobble, double vision — tell me at once and I stop.
- Sinus Point — साइनस पॉइंट Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
TAKE CARE Facial pain with fever is not a case for the hands Withhold this point and send the patient the same day where facial pain comes with fever, thick discharge, swelling around the eye or eyelid, a bulging eye, do
- Ear Points — कान के पॉइंट Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
Giddiness with unsteadiness on the feet, or with double vision, slurred speech or weakness, is not an ear complaint at all and is an emergency.
- DOWN ARROW and UP ARROW — one stroke, run two ways Uncommon Problems
TAKE CARE Dizziness is sorted before it is treated Sudden dizziness with any of the following is an emergency and not a treatment: unsteadiness or staggering, double vision, slurred speech, a drooping face, weakness in a
- II — The optic nerve: sight Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
Seeing little; not seeing at all; whiteness over the covering of the eye; double vision of certain kinds; the balance going wrong; a child who cannot hold posture; the flat face and the slow start of Parkinson's disease.
- IV — The trochlear nerve: one muscle, downward and outward Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas
The eye sits down and outward and there is double vision because of it.
- And the findings that arrive in the room When the Hand Must Stop
Sudden dizziness with a hard sign beside it — unsteadiness or staggering, double vision, slurred speech, a drooping face, weakness in an arm, or the worst neck pain of their life.