- Category
- Bones, joints, back and spine
- What is given
- The full protocol for joint pain and RA; New Star Modified — where there is joint pain with Mu° ⁺⁺⁺ and any one of: equal pain in both ring fingers, more pain in the left, equal pain at Liv° and Mu°, or Mu° greater than Liv°; Alkaline Star — pain in both ring fingers with Liv° ⁺⁺⁺, or more pain in the right ring finger; All joints ghisai; Anil Sharma treatment for joint pain because of acid, considerable pain in Mu° only; (10) Pan for joint pain of many years; Lactic Acid Conversion; (4) Ku for stiffness; Raman
- What must come first
- Both kidney points and both ring fingers, squeezed together, before choosing. In the Anil Sharma treatment, (4) Th + Ch in place of (6) Adr every fifth treatment
- What is barred
- New Star Modified is NOT given where pain is only in the RIGHT ring finger, nor where there is pain only at Liv° and none at Mu°. Ku — not in menstruation, not in low blood pressure
- Explained in
- Correcting the Two Kingdoms
Watch
From The Stiffening Joint
The new method of diagnosis for joint pain
Both at the same time, the same squeeze — and let them answer
Since the success of this treatment, a new method of diagnosis has been started for patients with joint pain or sandhi vāta, which every therapist is to adopt.
Table 7 — The ring-finger sign and its recording
| Finding | How it is elicited | How it is written |
|---|---|---|
| Intense pain, left ring finger, middle joint | Both middle joints squeezed at the same time between the therapist's thumb and first finger; the patient says which hand has more pain | Lt. 4ᵗʰ ⁺⁺⁺⁺ Left |
| Intense pain, right ring finger, middle joint | as above | Rt. 4ᵗʰ ⁺⁺⁺⁺ Right |
| Lesser degrees of pain | as above | ⁺⁺⁺ or ⁺⁺, according to what is found |
| A blood report is available | Read it | the date of the report, then RA positive — or ANA where that is what is positive |
The grading marks are the ones you already use everywhere else on a diagnosis card, and they mean here exactly what they mean there: what you found, not what you will give. An empty box is not examined; a minus is examined and silent.
And note the value of the negative. A therapist who squeezes both ring fingers of a patient with trembling hands, finds nothing, and writes it down has not wasted thirty seconds. He has removed a question from the case.
From The Stiffening Joint
The full protocol for joint pain and RA
Three parts: the medulla and T1/T2, the formula, then every joint
The best results have been got in the following order. (Figure 36.4)
Table 8 — Card: the full protocol for joint pain and RA Seated Supine Prone 6 sec
| Written | I — (4) Medulla Clockwise + T1/T2; + if there is pain in the neck, also do Neck ghisai. II — the New Star Modified formula: (3) ONS (20) TF (6) NNS (6) Gal (6) WD (½) Ku – 40 seconds (20) ↑\ | ↓. Afterwards — the ghisai of all the joints, in order |
|---|---|---|
| Part I, step 1 — (4) Medulla, clockwise | Seated. Gather your fingers together into a pad — this is not the thumb glide of the rest of the Medulla family. Rotate the pad clockwise on the muscles of the neck, coming from the ear down to the shoulder, worked from above downward in various directions. Begin from the left side and go across to the right. Four, by this lane's count Seated Left Right | |
| Part I, step 2 — T1/T2 | Without moving the patient. Find the prominent bead at the base of the neck; the next two beads down are T1 and T2. That is the station. No count is written for the station itself — the treatment governs it. Light hands Seated | |
| Part I, step 3 — Neck ghisai, conditional | Only if there is pain in the neck. Four stages in order: first, with light hands, the muscles at the front of the neck and the muscles at the back; then the muscles of the right and left sides; then the necklace-like treatment; finally the muscles attached to the shoulder blade Seated ▲ Take care | |
| Part II | The New Star Modified formula, entire, exactly as Table 4 — ONS, TF, NNS, Gal, WD, the forty-second (½) Ku, the Round Arrow | |
| Part III | All joints ghisai — fingers to shoulder, every joint, very very light, one minute between joints | |
| The rule inside part I | Clockwise is a different hand action, not an adverb. Four ordinary downward strokes are (4) Medulla, which is not (4) Medulla clockwise | |
| What must not be given | The Ku bars — not in menstruation, not in low blood pressure. The anterior-neck rule governs Neck ghisai absolutely: glide, never thrust; no rotation, no traction, no leverage ▲ Take care | |
| Points taught in | (4) Medulla clockwise with T1/T2 — The Medulla Family, "The Medulla Family" · Neck Clockwise and T1/T2 — Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck, "Seated — I" · Neck ghisai — Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus · Each Point in Use |
Two notes on part I, both of which a student will otherwise get wrong.
The Medulla here is the one member of its family with a direction. (4) Medulla is given clockwise, with T1/T2, and is credited with the neck's own territories — the C1–C4 group, which carries the chest, the mitral valve, the spleen and the upper diaphragm, and the C5–C8 group, which is the arm written out from the shoulder to the fingertips. In a article about pain in the joints of the arm, that is not an ornament at the front of the formula. It is the road the arm's pain travels on.
And the conditional stays conditional. If there is pain in the neck, then also do Neck ghisai. No neck pain, no Neck ghisai. A conditional addition is a gate, not decoration, and the habit of giving it anyway because it seems to belong is how formulas quietly stop being formulas.
Also explained in
- ATF in both its forms Correcting the Two Kingdoms
Most people have been found to obtain more benefit from this first formula — the one that has Adr What it is for The whole acid picture of Table 2 — the consequences of deficiency of water; the three that fall out of pla
- July 2006 — the Star formulas are broken apart and rebuilt The Stiffening Joint
From July 2006, the New Star and Alkaline Star formulas above were broken apart and a new order was made, which is very effective in all kinds of joint pain.
- Questions students ask The Stiffening Joint
I gave the New Star Modified anyway because it is the formula for joint pain.
- The closing question The History That Cannot Mislead You
The parhez: non-veg; no smoking or alcohol; sour things — tamarind, lemon, tomato, curd, lassi — especially for joint pain.
- The patient whose report is normal Reading the Reports
Left Right Then the discovery: those who had joint pain but whose blood report was found RA negative had the very same pain in the ring finger, and the same treatment took their pain away — pain in the ring finger is
- Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use
A student watching was asked to write the card from the indication lists alone, and wrote a long one: Gal for the skin; (4) Thrd for the sluggishness and the cold; Armpit for the winter cough; (10) Pan for the joint pain
- The Anil Sharma treatment Water and Salt
Main illnesses — those who have joint pain because of acid (give only if there is considerable pain in Mu°); gout, that is gathiyā, where uric acid is raised; Bamboo spine; cervical or lumbar spondylitis.
- The patient whose report says negative The Stiffening Joint
Those who had joint pain but whose blood report was found RA Negative had the very same pain in the ring finger as the RA positive patients had.
- Why Mukha Dhauti is given, and to whom The Stiffening Joint
So: Mukha Dhauti is to be done by those who, along with joint pain, have much pain at Mu°, or at the middle joint of the ring finger of the left hand — but not as much pain in the same finger of the right hand.
- The sick-room table that belongs to the articles ahead Food as Medicine
In this therapy we say joint pain often comes from acid increasing in the blood; and in Ayurveda too they say that sour food increases pain.
- Questions students ask Food as Medicine
If joint pain comes from acid in the blood, why do you tell me not to say that to the patient with a normal report? Because those are two different sentences and only one of them is yours to say.
- The same complaint is not the same treatment The Hand That Heals
They also singled out the sour taste as one that aggravates joint complaints — exactly what this therapy finds, and why patients with joint pain keep away from curd, tamarind, tomato and lemon.
- Why the rest intervals matter Six Seconds
TAKE CARE The rest between rounds is not optional In the breathing treatment given for joint pain — ten breaths, then rest, then ten more — the instruction is explicit: taking one minute's rest in between is very necessa
- Questions students ask The Fire and the Ash
The same finding with tenderness at Gas, three motions a day, no hunger and nine years of joint pain is the head of a chain.