Liv

From The Front of the Body I

Liv — the liver point

Taking the support of the chairs, place the sole of your right foot on their left hand near the elbow, and the sole of your left foot on their left thigh, so laid that the thigh muscles are pressed inward. Press and release at both places together for six seconds. This is (1) Liv. If a greater number is written, then keep changing the place according to the stations set out below.

Keep the weight equal on both feet, and as far as possible try to keep your own knees straight, so that you will not tire.

What lies beneath — the arm contact. The most nerve-dense square inch in this article, and it decides how the foot is laid. At the front of the elbow is a shallow hollow, and under the skin lie the tendon of the big arm muscle, the main artery of the arm and the median nerve, barely covered; behind the inner knob — the "funny bone" — the ulnar nerve runs in a bony groove with almost nothing over it. At mid-arm the big muscle lies in front and the triceps behind, artery and nerves together down the inner side. At the wrist it is nearly all tendon, the pulse artery on the thumb side and the median nerve dipping into its tunnel. (Figure 16.4)

The thigh contact is as for Gal and Spl, and for the same reason the instruction says pressed inward: a muscle belly sits in a tough sleeve that already packs it toward the bone, so press along that packing and it takes the load as it is built to. The liver itself fills the right upper belly under the dome of the diaphragm, behind the seventh to eleventh ribs; when its covering is stretched it gives a dull heavy ache under the right ribs, felt at the tip of the right shoulder if the diaphragm above is irritated.

From The Front of the Body I

Liv – 3 points — that is, (3) Liv — (1) Liv-3 वाला

In this, without stopping, it is to be done at three places: first near the waist and near the elbow; then on the middle of the arm and the middle of the thigh; and finally near the wrist and near the knee. At each place press for six seconds and release.

Each application counts as one Liv, which is why one pass of three stations is written both ways: (1) Liv – 3 points and (3) Liv are the same instruction said twice. Reading Liv – 3 points as "give Liv three times in one place" is named in The Shorthand, "The Shorthand" as the commonest misreading in the wiki.

The higher counts, each given whole:

(2) Liv – 3 points, or more. Repeat the pass as many times as the number written; two passes are six applications.

(7) Liv. Give the Liv – 3 points sequence twice, and at the end give once more at the place between the hand and the thigh — that is, the middle station. Six applications, then a seventh at station two. Not "seven presses anywhere"; the entry names where the odd one goes.

(12) Liv. Four complete passes of Liv – 3 points — twelve applications. It is the highest single count the atlas gives for this point, and it has a use of its own: it is very beneficial for dissolving gall stones, of which the therapy's own note says, with the hedge left standing, perhaps it works something like cholic acid; and it is used in the Lactic Acid formula. The full account of what each count is for belongs to Each Point in Use, "Each Point in Use"; the formula belongs to Water and Salt, "Water and Salt".

From The Front of the Body I

(1) point Liv × 6 treatments

It is to be done like (1) Liv – 3 points, twice. But at each place give the pressure for six seconds, then stop for one minute, and then give the pressure at the next place. Two such rounds — that is, altogether at six places.

Doing this four to six times in a day is useful in everything from malaria and typhoid to every major illness.

Two things deserve saying out loud. The frequency: four to six times in a day is far the highest dose in this article, and the clearest case in the supine atlas of a treatment meant to be taught to the household and given at home between visits.

Also explained in

• W D — White Discharge The Front of the Body I

  They are brought to the elbows *one by one* — the loading rule of the article inside an entry, applying to WD exactly as to Pan and Liv.

• 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.

• Mu – 3 points — that is, (3) Mu — (1) Mu-3 वाला The Front of the Body I

  Identical to Liv, on the other side.

• Why the map crosses The Front of the Body I

  Liv lies right of the navel — the left limbs; Mu left of it — the right.

• The three rules before the "zero" points The Front of the Body I

  he sole only, two pillows, and the hand left where Liv and Mu put it Liv° and Mu° are given in the same place and the same manner as Liv and Mu, with two changes that the small ring records — the hand contact moves up to

• Mu° — Mu Zero, Mucus Zero (म्यूकस जीरो) The Front of the Body I

  The Liv pain point lies right of the navel with the right kidney immediately behind it — so the right kidney is Liv°, answered from the left limbs.

• The liver and the spleen Each Point in Use

  able 5 — LIV and SPL Point and variant What it is used for When it must not be used Notes (1) Liv – 3 points / (2) Liv – 3 points Pain to the right of the navel.

• Mu — the mucus point The Front of the Body I

  Patient's position Supine; pillow under both thighs, flat pillow under the treated hand Supine Where the feet are placed Left sole on the patient's right hand near the elbow; right sole on the patient's right thigh, the

• Questions students ask The Front of the Body I

  Must I learn all of this before I can be useful? Learn Pan, Gal, Spl, Liv and Mu properly and you can already give the largest part of an ordinary morning's work.

• The standing rules of every supine treatment The Front of the Body I

  For Pan, Liv, Mu, Liv°, Mu°, Gas Only and Gas 'I' — and the same caution applies for WD, Rt.

• The paired points — an arm and a thigh together The Front of the Body I

  iv on the left limbs, Mu on the right — both places at the same moment Figure 16.4 The paired points — an arm and a thigh together.

• Liv° — Liver Zero (लिवर जीरो) The Front of the Body I

  ell the patient to keep the hand and the leg placed just as for Liv.

• Why a chemical made by a pair of hands might reach the brain when an injection cannot The River — Heparin

  Heparin → (6) Medulla (8) Pan (7) Liv (8) Ch.

• Opening the door the bile comes through — the Vater treatment Setting the Stomach

  When the pain points were checked, a good deal of pain was found in Gal and Liv.