- How it is given
- The Front of the Body I
- What it is used for
- Each Point in Use
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Pan — the pancreas point
Stand astride the patient at the joint of thigh and waist, so placed that the soft middle part of your sole lies right in the middle of their thigh, and so that the patient feels comfortable. Press on both thighs together for six seconds and release. Do it as many times as the number written — but take care that each time the pressure falls for six seconds at the same place, and that the weight is equal on both feet.
That last sentence is the whole difficulty of Pan. Every other thigh point travels down the limb; Pan does not move at all. (8) Pan is eight presses at one and the same spot, and a foot that creeps an inch lower each time has given something else. (Figure 16.2)
| Patient's position | Supine; one pillow under both thighs, its edge close to the hips; nothing under the head, nothing under the back Supine |
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| Where the feet are placed | Both soles at once, soft mid-sole in the middle of each thigh, close to the hip–waist crease — one foot placed without pressure, then the other, then the weight let down Both sides |
| Duration and repetitions | 6 seconds, released; repeated as many times as the number written, each time at the same place, weight equal on both feet 6 sec |
| What it is for | The pain of the region just below the sternum, which is found in all diseases of the pancreas |
The variant. If (2) Pan × 6 treatments is to be given, then press on both thighs twice for six seconds and release; then rest one minute; and do six such rounds. × 3 Read that exactly as it stands: not twelve presses run together, but two, rest, two, rest, two, rest — six rounds of two with a full minute between them, the minutes as much part of the treatment as the seconds.
What lies beneath. Just below the fold of the groin, where the great thigh muscles begin — the one that straightens the knee, the long ribbon crossing to the inner knee, the muscle over the outer point of the hip — with the hip-flexor tendon passing under them to the thigh bone and the hip joint deep beneath. Drift inward from the middle and you are over the groin triangle, where the leg's main artery, vein and nerve lie under little more than skin: which is why the instruction says the middle of the thigh. The pancreas itself lies far off at the back wall of the belly, behind the stomach; nothing in a thigh reaches it. What the point is named for is the sore place under the breastbone by which pancreatic trouble announces itself.
From Each Point in Use
The pancreas — PAN
By Pan we stimulate the pancreas. Stimulating in different numbers produces different effects — and here, more than anywhere, the counts open onto rooms that have nothing to do with one another.
Table 3 — PAN, by count
| Point and variant | What it is used for | When it must not be used | Notes |
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| (2) Pan 6 sec | To end tumour, cyst or cancer by means of somatostatin. If any gland or hormone is hyper — that is, working too much — it stops it. To stop unwanted abnormal growth anywhere in the body. For lipoma — lumps of fat — for fibroids, or for stiffness in the muscles. Will also benefit HIV patients. To increase urine in kidney failure, uraemia and nephrotic syndrome. In psoriasis and other skin diseases it stops the skin from becoming hyper, and stimulates the kidney to throw out toxins. And to correct HIV, goitre — swelling of the thyroid gland — and the like | It stops GH, that is growth hormone. Therefore do not give (2) Pan to children whose height is less, or who are taking treatment from us to increase height. They may be given (4) Pan or (10) Pan ▲ Take care | A prohibition that names its mechanism and its substitute — the best-shaped rule in the article. And see the six-second warning below, which belongs to this row |
| (4) Pan | To correct weakness arising from lack of sugar, by means of glucagon. Glucagon will give nourishment to the cells — so it may be given in small children to increase appetite and height. For players who feel fatigue shortly after playing it may perhaps be beneficial — further research is going on | Those who have diabetes: giving (4) Pan will raise the blood sugar. So do not give them (4) Pan ▲ Take care | The hedge on the athletes is the therapy's own and is kept |
| (8) Pan | For the digestive enzymes of the pancreas, and for sodium bicarbonate, which will reduce the acidity of the stomach. To increase appetite. In stomach ulcer. In indigestion. Also to correct pain in the Pan area | Giving Pan increases alkali — therefore do not give in fits, convulsions or seizures. But it may be given within the Heparin formula. Giving Pan to schizophrenia patients causes them to hear voices in the ears. So do not give it to them ▲ Take care | Both prohibitions are written as rules for Pan in general, not for (8) alone — and the exception inside the first is part of it. |
| (10) Pan | Stimulates insulin. Given to diabetic patients to maintain the body's sugar level. Excellent for cataract and eye diseases. For joint pain of many years' standing, relief is immediate — because one function of insulin is to deliver proteins inside the tissues, and joint pains come precisely because proteins do not reach inside the cells. Given to correct hole in the heart (ASD, VSD, PDA). In heart disease or obesity, to reduce triglycerides — chiefly where the diabetes or heart disease arises from hypothyroidism. To end dead skin from tissues, to open old clots, and to protect the skin from bacteria, acting as an antiseptic. To correct cracking of the skin of the hands or the feet. To increase the number of white cells (?). If the mother of a cerebral palsy child had high blood pressure during pregnancy, giving that child (10) Pan will benefit (?). In kidney failure — uraemia, nephrotic syndrome — HIV and goitre, those who do not benefit from (2) Pan benefit from (10) Pan (?). A child who is very hyper may become even more hyper on being given (10) Pan (?) | (no separate box; the general Pan prohibitions above stand) | The question marks belong to the therapy and are kept exactly where they were put. Four of these claims are marked by their own author as not yet settled, and a student is entitled to know which |
| (18) Pan | To reduce the amount of prolactin in women. Also excellent for cataract and eye diseases | (the general Pan prohibitions stand) | The highest count in the family |
From The River — Heparin
What is the secret of provoking the pancreas?
The liver and the lungs explain themselves. The pancreas does not, and the therapy sets out its reasoning openly rather than leaving the step to be taken on trust.
The two boys on the road
If, while passing along the road, we were to see two boys who looked similar to one another, could we not say that perhaps they ought to be the children of the same mother and father?
It has been written that plasmin is a fibrinolytic enzyme which resembles trypsin. Trypsin is made by the pancreas in order to digest proteins — and in the body the chief responsibility for digesting proteins is the pancreas's alone.
So is it not possible that plasmin too is being made by the pancreas?
Guruji has perhaps provoked Pan with exactly this thought. (fibrinolytic = one that breaks fibrin.)
This is the clearest window anywhere in the formulary into how a treatment in this therapy actually got made. A sentence was read in a textbook — plasmin resembles trypsin. A question was asked about the resemblance. The organ that makes the one was provoked, to see whether it would make the other. And then the patients were watched.
Notice also the two perhaps in that passage, and that neither has been taken out. Perhaps they ought to be the children of the same parents. Perhaps this is the thought with which the point was provoked. The therapy is telling you which parts of its own reasoning are inference. Keep them marked that way.
Also explained in
- Pan — the pancreas point The Navel Speaks First
The midline seam where the two straight muscles meet edge to edge; behind it the left lobe of the liver and the upper stomach; and crossing the back wall at about the first lumbar bone, lying across the great artery like
- How to read this article Each Point in Use
THE WORDS WE USE Chemical points and physical points A chemical point is named for a substance the therapy is working to move — Pan for the pancreas and what it makes, Adr for the adrenal cortex, Thrd for the thyroid, Pa
- The points of generation Each Point in Use
On gentle inward pressure around the navel he was tender at Pan and at Gas 'I'.
- At a glance Each Point in Use
The same is true of every count of Pan, of Swt, of Thrd, of Ku.
- Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use
Tender at Pan, at Const, and on the right at Liv°, not at Mu°.
- 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.
- 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.
- Questions students ask Each Point in Use
What you must hold in memory cold is the short list that changes a session: the points withheld in pregnancy, in menstruation, in diabetes, in cancer, in high and low blood pressure, in fits and from a growing child; the
- The points on the thighs The Front of the Body I
an never travels; Gal and Spl run hip to knee without stopping Figure 16.2 The points on the thighs.
- Mu – 3 points — that is, (3) Mu — (1) Mu-3 वाला The Front of the Body I
A soft abdomen, tender at Pan and at Mu, and tender — to her open surprise — at Mu° on the left flank.
- Introduction Each Point in Use
Read a bracketed count as a selector, not a strength — and explain why (2) Pan and (4) Pan are two different treatments with opposite prohibitions.
- The bowel points — MU, CONST, DYS Each Point in Use
In (2) Pan it changes the treatment into its opposite, and the row above says so in the plainest words in this atlas.
- 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.
- 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.