Loose motions

Category: Digestion, stomach and bowel · Kidney, bladder and fluid · Children · Eyes, ears, nose, mouth and throat
What is given: Gas khali and Swt; (6) Swt, (6) Right Swt; Dys — only if there is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel; otherwise not — and for a day or two only; Ulta Normal where motions are soft two or three times a day; APR class A or B; Ulta Kidney Clear for CP children with loose motions three or four times a day
What must come first: When the motions are completely normal: NAN or FAN for at least one day, then re-examine from the beginning
What is barred: Gas 'I' · Const. (1)/(2) Acid not with loose motions. Dys works against the natural motion of the intestines, and its use must be undertaken only with great thought
Explained in: The Front of the Body I

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From The Front of the Body I

Dys — Dysentery (डिसेंट्री — read aloud as dysentery)

With both feet, press in the middle of the left thigh for six seconds and release. Do it as many times as the number written. This gives relief in ordinary loose motions.

This is given for information only. In practice this point is used next to never.

Patient's position	Supine, one pillow under both thighs Supine
Where the feet are placed	Both feet, in the middle of the left thigh Left Both sides
Duration and repetitions	6 seconds, as many times as the number written 6 sec
What it is for	Ordinary loose motions — though it is recorded that in practice the point is used next to never

Two differences between this pair are the substance of the instruction. Const is given one foot after the other, Dys with both feet; Const goes on the right thigh, Dys on the left. They are a matched pair on opposite thighs answering opposite quadrants of the belly. And notice that the point is set down here together with the plain statement that it is scarcely ever used: learn Dys so that you can read a card that carries it, and do not go looking for reasons to give it.

Key teaching

The pillow line printed beneath these entries

निम्न उपचारों के लिए जरूरत न हो तो सिर के नीचे तकिया न दें।

For the treatments that follow, if there is no need for it, do not place a pillow under the head. Supine ▲ Take care

The standing supine rule said once more where the therapist moves to the head end, and a pillow up there is in his way rather than under his eye.

A CASE FROM PRACTICE

The bus conductor who was loose for three days and said nothing

A composite, assembled to teach the reasoning rather than taken from one patient's file.

Ashok Pawar · 44 · bus conductor · Nashik · came with fifteen years of constipation — "every third day, and with straining"

What he said. "Since my twenties. Now three days, four days. I take a churan at night, otherwise nothing moves. Standing all day in the bus, no toilet, no water — what to do."

What was observed and palpated. A firm abdomen, distinctly tender at Const in the left upper quadrant, tender at Pan, tender at Mu° on the left flank. Hard thigh muscle. Read as one picture: a long-standing digestion running slowly in the acid direction, in a man who drank under a litre of water in a twelve-hour shift.

Which reports mattered. A stool report and haemoglobin mattered, both ordinary; a thyroid test mattered, because a sluggish thyroid quietly slows a bowel, and it was normal; an ultrasound of the abdomen from four years ago changed nothing.

What was chosen, and why. Digestive work supine, with Const on the right thigh as the tenderness in the left upper quadrant asked for; the parhez explained; and water made a written instruction with a number on it, because "drink more water" is not an instruction a bus conductor can act on.

What went well, and then did not. By the third week he was going daily without the churan and was extremely pleased. In the fifth week he arrived, lay down, and was given his usual card — including Const. He came the next day looking grey: he had been to the lavatory five times since the previous evening and twice on the bus, which for a man who works a route is not a small thing.

What had happened. He had eaten at a wedding on the Sunday, had been loose since Monday, and had told nobody — partly because he did not think loose motions worth mentioning to a therapist he had come to about constipation, and partly, as he admitted, because "I thought you would send me home and I have waited all week." Const had been given, correctly written and wrongly indicated, into a bowel that was already running.

What was done. Const was stopped that day and the session rebuilt round quieting the bowel; the gap-question — how are you feeling, today, since yesterday — was made a rule at the door and again between formulas; and the card was rewritten in red across the top: ASK ABOUT MOTIONS TODAY BEFORE CONST. He settled in two days and the course went on.

What this case teaches

A caution attached to a condition is checked on the day, not once at the first visit. Do not give it to those who have loose motions is a question you ask every morning.

Patients withhold what they think is off the subject, and withhold more when they fear being sent away. Tell a patient early that a changed bowel is never a reason to be sent home — it is a reason to be treated differently.

The complaint was constipation; the caution was diarrhoea. The same patient can need a point one week and be forbidden it the next.

"Drink more water" changes nothing. A number, a bottle and a time of day change a great deal.

A MISTAKE STUDENTS MAKE

Giving Const on the side the constipation is felt

The Const pain point is felt in the left upper quadrant. A student who has learned the front chart properly and has not yet learned the crossing therefore treats the left thigh — and gives Dys, a treatment for loose motions, to a patient who has not passed a stool in three days.

It is the story that opens this article in different clothes, and it happens because the student reasons from the place of the pain instead of from the rule. Say the rule aloud before the foot goes down: left limb for the right of the navel, right limb for the left. Const is felt left and treated right; Dys is felt right and treated left.

And it does not go wrong quietly: a constipated patient given several days of Dys is a patient whose bowel has been asked to slow further. If the trouble increases after any point, take the chief therapist's opinion at once and write it on the card, so that in future the point is not given again, or is given with proper caution. ▲ Take care

From APR — Abdominal Pain

The third kind — abdominal pain without loose motions

The motility is correct, so go round the navel instead of slowing it

It is not always the case that every patient will have loose motions along with abdominal pain. There are some who have only abdominal pain, and no complaint at all about their motions. For them, some change is needed in the line of thinking.

Key teaching

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.

Key teaching

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)

Table 8 — Card: APR class C — abdominal pain with no loose motions Supine Side-lying Prone 6 sec

	Part	The region it is given to provoke
I	(6) Gas Only (6) Gas 'I'	The part above the navel
II	(3) Gal (3) Spl (7) Liv (5) Mu	The right and left parts above the navel
III	(8) Pan (6) WD (8) Ch. Only (20) ↑\	↓	The part below the navel
IV	(7) Liv° (7) Mu° (8) Ch. Only (20) ↑\	↓	The kidneys and the part behind the navel

Who it is for	Abdominal pain with no loose motions at all
What it does	From this treatment the abdominal pain comes out at once
Its other effect	Given to the elderly, and to those who have no particular complaint, it produces an immediate freshness and briskness
Order	Normal throughout. Gal before Spl, Liv before Mu. Nothing is reversed, because nothing is meant to be slowed — and so there is no underline anywhere in this formula
Two inseparable pairs, both honoured	Gas Only → Gas 'I' in part I; (8) Ch. Only → (20) ↑\	↓ at the close of parts III and IV. See Table 14 of How a Formula Is Built
Points taught in	Gas Only, Gas 'I', Gal, Spl, Liv, Mu, Pan, WD, Liv°, Mu° — The Front of the Body I · Ch. Only — The Front of the Body II · Round arrow ↑\	↓ — Face Down
Its second name	Jeevan Dhara — see below

Class C, and the formula built the other way round. The same organs pointed the opposite way — reversed and underlined where the bowel runs too fast, normal order where it is correct — with what class C leaves out and why, its card, its two inseparable pairs, and the mistake of giving it to a patient with loose motions.

Look at the pairing at the end of parts III and IV, because it is a rule you already hold. (8) Ch. Only is balanced by (20) ↑\|↓ — Ch. Only reduces alkali, the Round arrow reduces acid, and matched by their counts they hold the balance the formula has set. That is one of the four inseparable pairs of How a Formula Is Built, and here it appears twice in one formula, closing two parts in succession. The acid-and-alkali pair itself belongs to Water and Salt, "Water and Salt"; what matters here is that you never write the first of them without the second.

From When the Hand Must Stop

Dysentery, or loose motions

Blocked: Gas 'I' · Const ▲ Take care

Blocked	The reason as it is given	Given instead
Gas 'I'	Gas 'I' increases the motility of the intestine. So there will be still more loose motions	Gas khali and Swt
Const	Const corrects constipation. So those who have loose motions are not to be given Const	—

Hold this entry beside the one above it. In constipation, Dys is blocked and Gas 'I' is prescribed. In loose motions, Gas 'I' is blocked and Const is blocked too. Neither point has changed what it does; the bowel has changed which way it needs pushing. This is the plainest demonstration in the therapy that a prohibition belongs to a body and not to a point.

Also explained in

Dys — the dysentery point The Navel Speaks First
The other symptom-named point: in loose motions there is sharp pain at just this point.
Class A — abdominal pain with up to 4–5 loose motions APR — Abdominal Pain
able 3 — Card: APR class A, the first version Seated Prone Supine 6 sec Written I (30) Medulla (6) Swt · II (6) Adr (6) Swt · III Ulta Normal formula — (8) Pan (1) Spl (1) Gal (3) Mu (3) Liv Who it is for Abdom
Class B — abdominal pain with more than 5–6 loose motions APR — Abdominal Pain
able 4 — Card: APR class B, the first version Seated Prone Supine 6 sec Written I (30) Medulla · II (6) Adr (3) Swt × 2 treatments · III (6) Adr (3) Swt + Ulta Normal formula Who it is for Abdominal pain with m
Const — Constipation (कोंस्टीपेशन — read aloud as constipation) The Front of the Body I
Patient's position Supine, one pillow under both thighs Supine Where the feet are placed Both feet, one after the other — not together — in the middle of the right thigh Right Duration and repetitions 6 seconds each, a
Introduction The Front of the Body I
State each caution with the condition it bites under — the loose motions that forbid Const, the chair leg that must not touch a hand, the calf that is screened before it is pressed.
W D — White Discharge The Front of the Body I
Const is one foot after the other on the right thigh, and is not given to those who have loose motions — asked every morning, not once.
Questions patients ask you The Front of the Body I
"I had loose motions since yesterday.
The cord Treating Women
Seated Such women should drink water little by little many times in the day, instead of drinking a great deal of water at one time — otherwise the child can get loose motions or pain in the stomach.
What is given to a small child at the mat The Child, the Elder and the Frail
If children have ordinary loose motions, give the order reversed — start from the little toe of the right foot and work to the big toe, then do the left side in the same way — and it will give immediate benefit.
Three patients APR — Abdominal Pain
· 41 · bus conductor · Ratlam · came with cramping belly pain and six or seven loose motions a day for eleven days A composite, built from the pattern this article describes.
Why one treatment was not enough — the three classes APR — Abdominal Pain
ount the loose motions: more inflammation-work, later organ-work Many patients obtained great benefit from that treatment.
The bowel points — MU, CONST, DYS Each Point in Use
This treatment removes that pain, and also relieves the constipation that occurs in hypothyroidism, in bamboo spine (ankylosing spondylitis), in Parkinson's disease and in paralysis Do not give to those who have loose mo
The formula made out of a mistake — Ulta Normal Setting the Stomach
So it was decided that this treatment could be used to correct ordinary loose motions — that is, diarrhoea.
When ALTF is finally given Correcting the Two Kingdoms
(Figure 28.4) Table 20 — ALTF: the chief symptoms for which it is given — first check the pain of Liv° Pain in Liv° · pain in the ring finger of the right hand Right Running of the nose Very little flow in the menses, o

Language

Loose motions

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Dys — Dysentery (डिसेंट्री — read aloud as dysentery)

The pillow line printed beneath these entries

The third kind — abdominal pain without loose motions

Why class C is built the other way round

The thought that became class C

Dysentery, or loose motions

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