Dys

How it is given: The Front of the Body I
What it is used for: Each Point in Use
Take care: not in constipation

Watch

for constipation

Given by a therapist

Const

From The Navel Speaks First

Dys — the dysentery point

Finding it. The right upper quadrant, in the middle ring — the mirror of Const. Right

What is beneath. The ascending colon and the bend of the bowel under the liver; below them the caecum and the last stretch of small intestine.

Why the name. The other symptom-named point: in loose motions there is sharp pain at just this point. The side is part of the instruction — the finding that licenses the Dys treatment is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel. Right

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 Each Point in Use

The bowel points — MU, CONST, DYS

Table 6 — The three bowel points, and the substitution written for one of them

Point and variant	What it is used for	When it must not be used	Notes
Mu — म्यूकस, mucus	For pain just to the left of the navel. To stimulate the middle part of the descending colon. Good for constipation, and for a blocked nose	It stimulates the mucous membrane from the mouth to the anus. So do not give to those who have a cold, or whose nose is running, or from whose mouth excessive saliva is coming. In its place, (4) Down arrow may be given ▲ Take care	The only chemical point whose prohibition names a substitute. Method:
(1) Const / (4) Const	In hard constipation there is pain in the region above and to the left of the navel. 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 motions ▲ Take care	The palpation finding comes before the treatment: the tenderness above and left of the navel is what selects the point
Dys	Loose motions — but give this only if there is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel; otherwise not. It may be given for a day or two to correct loose motions	Do not give to those who have constipation. And the standing warning: its use must be undertaken only with great thought — because it works against the natural motion, the peristalsis, of the intestines ▲ Take care	Three brakes on one point: a palpation gate, a time limit of a day or two, and a warning about the mechanism itself

Key teaching

Dys — the most self-restrained point in the therapy

Read the three brakes again, because between them they are a small course in how to hold a powerful treatment.

The gate. Give this only if there is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel; otherwise not. Not if the patient has loose motions — the complaint is not enough. There must be a finding under your fingers.

The ceiling. It may be given for a day or two. A day or two is not a suggestion about how long it takes to work. It is the outer limit.

The reason. Its use must be undertaken only with great thought — because it works against the natural motion of the intestines. Loose motions are partly the body emptying something it wants out. A treatment that slows the bowel is holding that something in. The therapy says this about its own point, in its own voice, and asks you to think before you use it. ▲ Take care

And there is a reason that warning is not squeamishness. The gut carries its own nervous system — a complete network of nerve cells in the wall of the intestine, enough of them to run the whole organ on their own; cut every connection to the brain and an intestine still senses what is inside it, still decides, and still moves it along in orderly waves. Which means a bowel that has speeded up has usually decided to speed up, and something is in it that its own wiring wants gone. It works against the natural motion of the intestines is respect for a second brain that knows more about the situation than the therapist does.

A MISTAKE STUDENTS MAKE

"I held it a little longer to be thorough"

The commonest fault in a therapist's second year is not carelessness. It is conscientiousness pointed in the wrong direction — the wish to give a little more of a good thing. He counts to six, sees the patient settle, and rides the press out to eight or nine because it seems kind.

In most of this therapy that habit wastes time. In (2) Pan it changes the treatment into its opposite, and the row above says so in the plainest words in this atlas.

The cure is a spoken count, out loud or under the breath, every single time, for every single point, from your first week — so that on the day you are giving (2) Pan to a frightened family your mouth is already trained and your sympathy has nothing to add. Count aloud. It also tells the patient when the press will end, which is half of why they relax.

Also explained in

Dysentery, or loose motions When the Hand Must Stop
In constipation, Dys is blocked and Gas 'I' is prescribed.
Introduction The Front of the Body I
Eleven names and their variants — Pan, Gal, Spl, Liv, Mu, Gas Only, Gas 'I', Liv°, Mu°, Const, Dys, WD — account between them for more time on the mat than everything in Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck to 24 together.
W D — White Discharge The Front of the Body I
Legs answer pains above the navel, arms answer pains below it, and left answers right, right answers left: Gal on the left thigh, Spl on the right; Liv on the left limbs, Mu on the right; Liv° on the left for the right k
Why the map crosses The Front of the Body I
Const lies in the left upper quadrant — the right thigh; Dys in the right — the left.
The three rules before the "zero" points The Front of the Body I
The last five entries of the supine block on one plate — Liv° and Mu° with the shoulder contact that stays and the thigh place that changes, Const and Dys on opposite thighs, and WD given from above the patient's head.
The two thigh points for the bowel The Front of the Body I
onst on the right, one foot then the other; Dys on the left, and rarely
Questions students ask The Front of the Body I
Why is Dys printed at all if it is used next to never? Because an old card may carry it, and a therapist who cannot read a line cannot give the formula it sits in.
At a glance Each Point in Use
Dys carries three brakes — give only if there is pain in the upper part to the right of the navel, for no more than a day or two, and only after great thought, because it works against the natural motion of the intestine
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 front chart, complete The Navel Speaks First
(Figure 6.8) Table 1 — The pain points of the front chart Code Full name — organ or symptom Where it lies, by feel Pan Pancreas The pit of the stomach — the soft dip at the bottom of the breastbone, where the two rib mar
Two bodies, read from the navel The Navel Speaks First
He was re-examined from the beginning as though it were a first visit, and the picture had moved: Const almost quiet, Dys now tender on the right, the right flank no longer silent.
Fistula · anal fissure · descent of the rectum · piles When the Hand Must Stop
locked: (10) Medulla · Gas Only · Dys ▲ Take care Blocked The reason as it is given Given instead Gas Only, (10) Medulla All four of these are diseases of acid, and one chief cause of them is hard constipation.
Constipation When the Hand Must Stop
Blocked: Gas Only · (10) Medulla · Dys ▲ Take care Blocked The reason as it is given Given instead Dys Constipation is a disease of acid.
The queue at his father's door The Man Who Would Not Accept 'Incurable'
People suffering from constipation, dysentery and other disorders of the abdomen, from nearby areas and then from distant ones, formed a line in front of his father's house — and he treated them, with great success, by h

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