Spur

From When the Hand Must Stop

Bamboo spine, and spur

Blocked: Thrd 'P' · Thrd ▲ Take care

Two points, two named mechanisms of bone building, and a disease of too much bone being built. It is one of the cleanest arguments in the therapy: the levers by which bone is laid down are identified, and in a disease of excessive laying-down neither lever is pulled.

And the same bar in its other wording, from the point's own entry, which reaches further than the two named diseases: in a disease in which the osteoblasts are hyper — bamboo spine, or spur, or where bone has grown unwanted anywhere in the body — (4) Thrd 'P' is not given. That last clause matters, because it covers the patient whose report says calcification at a shoulder or a heel and who has never heard either of the two names.

Also explained in

• The glands of the throat and the head Each Point in Use

  When a bone has broken, then after the wound has filled, giving (4) Thrd will fill calcium into the bone by means of calcitonin, making the bone strong So do not give in bamboo spine, or spur and the like, because these

• Questions students ask Each Point in Use

  (4) Thrd is not given where a bone has grown at an unwanted place — spur, bamboo spine — and the bone indication for (4) Thrd is written for after the wound has filled in a break that is healing.

• The thyroid Reading the Reports

  TAKE CARE The thyroid points, and where they must not go Do not give (4) Thrd in bamboo spine or spur and the like — because these diseases have come from increased calcium, and this raises calcium into bone further by m

• When calcium has gone where calcium should not be Correcting the Two Kingdoms

  wo complete orders, Thymus or Adrenal — give one, never both Group 5 of Table 2 named a family: calcium deposited between the bones or the joints — bamboo spine, spur.

• What travels with each direction The Two Kingdoms

  In others, calcium is deposited between the bones or the joints: bamboo spine, ankylosing spondylitis; and spur, a bone growing outward.

• The Acid Treatment Formula — when it is given at all Correcting the Two Kingdoms

  Bone and joint, second kind — calcium in the wrong place Calcium deposited between the bones or the joints — Bamboo spine, that is ankylosing spondylitis; Spur, a bone growing outward.

• Four — leading the patient with the question The Educated Hand

  At Pan he presses the little bony spur at the bottom of the breastbone instead of the soft dip beside it, and almost every patient alive flinches.

• The two directions, symptom by symptom The Two Kingdoms

  Table 1 — The complete picture of the two directions Typical picture of the ACIDIC patient Left Typical picture of the ALKALINE patient Right The points Pain at the Mu° pain point and at the Acid point · pain in the r

• The reports that change nothing, and the discipline of saying so Reading the Reports

  So: changed nothing — unless the film names a level your fingers had already found, which is two independent instruments agreeing (one instrument round the room twice is worth nothing — The History That Cannot Mislead You); or unless it names a

• Talking to the patient's doctor Reading the Reports

  (4) Thrd not in bamboo spine or spur (increased calcium), not in asthma (the cough increases), not in heart patients (metabolism rises too much); in angina, (2) Thrd in place of (4) Thrd; (4) Thrd 'P' not where the osteo

• The warnings that shape a plan — blocking From Findings to a Plan

  Table 2 — The conditions, and the points blocked in each Disease or condition Blocked points Autoimmune disorders, arthritis, inflammation / polio Th · Th+Ch · Lymph · Armpits · Ton 'P' · Ton 'T' · Spl Asthma Spl · Thrd

• The rule printed at the foot of every page Face Down

  Each is the backward-pointing spur of one vertebra — the only part near the surface.

• ORGAN CLEARANCE Face Down

  The neck bones above it have short forked spurs, so the head can tip back without the bones colliding; at the seventh, where the neck stops and the rib cage begins, that constraint disappears and the spur grows long, sin

• Choosing between them Correcting the Two Kingdoms

  Write down that you reopened it Mu° pain with pimples, acne or black heads ATF for pimples — form (b) + (3) Swt Adr is not to be given A patient with severe or chronic disease — cancer, hepatitis, cirrhosis, rheumatoid a