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- Each Point in Use · The Medulla Family
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(12) Gas 'I' works like (20) Medulla
Two points, two families, one errand — dopamine
The last thing this article owes you is a promise made back in the atlas, and it turns out to be the neatest illustration in of what a formula family actually is.
Gas 'I' is not a Medulla. It is a point on the calves, in the digestive group, with a dose ladder of its own — (3), (6), (9), (12) — and the reasoning that built that ladder, beginning with a Parkinson's patient whose tenderness was at Gas 'I' and whose trembling eased when it was given, is taught in full in Correcting the Two Kingdoms, "Correcting the Two Kingdoms". It is not repeated here.
What is taught here is the sentence that joins the two families.
The equivalence, with its context
(12) Gas 'I' is given in Parkinson's disease to produce dopamine. It works like (20) Medulla.
Two points. Two families. Two positions — one supine at the calves, one seated at the nape. One errand: dopamine.
And the reason there can be two is the reason this therapy keeps giving: in our intestines there are enteric neurons, and those neurons make, in smaller quantity, the very same chemicals that are made in larger quantity in the brain. So a chemical the therapy wants can sometimes be asked for at the head and sometimes at the gut, and the two requests are for the same thing.
Table 18 — Two points, one errand Seated Supine
| (20) Medulla | (12) Gas 'I' | |
|---|---|---|
| Family | The Medulla family — this article | The Gas family — The Front of the Body I · Setting the Stomach · Correcting the Two Kingdoms |
| Where | Both sides of the neck below the ears Seated | Down the calves Supine |
| Position | Seated | Supine |
| What it is given for | Parkinson's disease; raised prolactin; fits; pneumonia in children; with (8) Medulla, height | Parkinson's disease — to produce dopamine |
| Held to act on | Dopamine, by way of the substantia nigra | Dopamine, by way of the enteric neurons of the intestine |
| The relation | — | It works like (20) Medulla |
| Its own bar | (see the card above) | Gas 'I' increases small intestinal motility, so it is not given if there are loose motions — and that bar governs the whole Gas 'I' family, not this count alone ▲ Take care |
| Its own warning about the clock | The count is the treatment — Table 2 | Six seconds only at every point. If nine seconds is given at every place, (6) Gas 'I' can become (9) Gas 'I' — the ladder's own warning, Correcting the Two Kingdoms 6 sec |
Why this matters in practice, and not only as a curiosity. A bar on one of the two does not bar the other. A Parkinson's patient with loose motions cannot have (12) Gas 'I'; he can have (20) Medulla. A Parkinson's patient who cannot be seated — too weak, too unsteady — can have the Medulla work lying down, which is expressly allowed, or can have the calf work instead. Knowing that two roads reach one place is what lets a therapist keep treating when one road closes.
Two numbers that look alike on two cards are not a rule
A student who has read Correcting the Two Kingdoms carefully meets a second set of paired numbers there — 8 against 20, and 4 against 10 — in the balance between Ch. Only and the Round arrow, and sooner or later concludes that (8) Medulla and (20) Medulla must balance one another too, or that (4) and (10) are a matched pair.
They are not. Those proportions belong to a different pair of points entirely, with a different logic, and that pair is one of the four inseparable pairs established in How a Formula Is Built — (8) Ch. Only with (20) ↑|↓. The formula they belong to, and the acid-and-alkali balance they strike, are Water and Salt's, whole.
In the Medulla family, (8) and (20) are given together — for height, because dopamine and serotonin both increase the secretion rate of growth hormone. That is a partnership, not a balance, and it has nothing to do with the other pair beyond a coincidence of arithmetic. Two numbers that look alike on two different cards are not a rule.
Also explained in
- The gall bladder, the stomach and the intestines Each Point in Use
Enables the enteric neurons of the gastrointestinal tract to produce serotonin and other brain neurotransmitters Gas 'I' increases small intestinal motility, so do not give it if there are loose motions ▲ Take care The
- Introduction The Medulla Family
Say what (12) Gas 'I' has to do with (20) Medulla, and why two points in two different families can be given for one errand.
- (20) Medulla — the dopamine treatment The Medulla Family
Perhaps the reason is that from a rise in prolactin the breasts increase in size Fits Since dopamine stops the movement of the limbs, (20) Medulla is therefore given in the treatment of fits as well, from which many pati
- Two more from the mat The Medulla Family
Her tenderness at Gas 'I' would have supported (12) Gas 'I' for the same errand — but she reported loose motions two or three times a week, and Gas 'I' is not given where there are loose motions.
- At a glance The Medulla Family
(20) Medulla at the nape and (12) Gas 'I' at the calves — it works like (20) Medulla — because the intestines' own neurons make, in smaller quantity, the same chemicals the brain makes in larger.
- The Gas 'I' ladder, and what a dose can decide Correcting the Two Kingdoms
When (12) Gas 'I' was given, it was seen that that patient's trembling of the hand had become very much less.
- Choosing between them Correcting the Two Kingdoms
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- Generation two — the modification, and the principle inside it Clearing the Ash
→ The Medulla Family The Medulla Family — the whole graded series, and why (12) Gas 'I' works like (20) Medulla → The Front of the Body I The Front of the Body — I — Gas Only and Gas 'I' as points → Each Point in Use Each Point in Use —