Paralysis Clockwise

How it is given: Uncommon Problems
What it is used for: Uncommon Problems

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knee and muscle pain

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Knee Muscles TF

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FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

The one entry that stays open when every other one has closed

With the finger tips of the hands — that is, with the tips of the fingers — stroke the required part of the patient's body with a very soft touch, like a peacock's feather.

This is given for sending impulses through the whole body. It is very beneficial in paralysis, stiffness, pains and in all diseases of the brain.

Patient's position	Any
Where the hands are placed	The finger tips only — stroking the required part of the patient's body with a very soft touch, like a peacock's feather
Duration and repetitions	Not counted
What it is for	Sending impulses through the whole body. Very beneficial in paralysis, stiffness, pains and in all diseases of the brain; and, in Guruji's own account of it, by this treatment the muscles will relax to a depth of four inches

This is the treatment for the patient who can be given nothing else. No weight, no jerk, no position that must be held, no bone under a heel. A newborn, a woman in the last weeks of pregnancy, a man whose bones break from a knock, a patient in the acute days after a stroke, a child who will not tolerate being handled, somebody in too much pain to bear a palm — for every one of them the atlas closes, and this one entry stays open. Learn it as the point of last resort and you will use it more than you expect to.

"By meditating, the toxins of your body are changed. Just as, from the mere smell of a bhajiyā — or merely on hearing its name — water comes into the mouth, that is, the body begins to do its own work: in the same way, when you touch the lājvantī plant after joining your hands in prayer, then the chemicals in your body will change such that the lājvantī will feel no danger, and it will not wilt.

This is the very logic of the Feather touch treatment. When you close your eyes and give Feather touch with this prayer — that the patient must certainly get well — then he will get relief from every pain. By this treatment the muscles will relax to a depth of four inches. Do not hold a feeling of enmity towards anyone! Then such a skill will come into you that the patient will get well the moment you lay your hand on him."

Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra

Take that passage as the instruction it is. It says three things a therapist can act on tonight. The body answers to expectation — the mouth waters at the name of a fried thing, without any fried thing. The therapist's own state is part of what is delivered — hurry, irritation and distraction travel down an arm as surely as pressure does. And hold no enmity, which is put as a condition of skill rather than as a piety.

A CASE FROM PRACTICE

The hand that had been closed for three years

A composite, assembled to teach how the paralysis points are given together and what they are given alongside.

Bhaskar Nene · 64 · retired storekeeper · Kolhapur · came three years after a stroke, with a right hand curled shut and a right leg he swung to walk

What his daughter said, because he said little. "Physiotherapy was there for one year. Then they said this much only is possible. He does not lift the hand at all now. Cleaning between the fingers is the hardest part."

What was observed and palpated. Supine Right arm held to the chest, elbow bent, forearm turned in, fingers closed on the palm — which was moist and had a small red crease across it. Right ankle stiff, foot turned in. Both calves the same temperature and the same measure, checked before anything was done. Shoulder on the right loose in its socket, and tender when the arm was moved by someone else.

Which reports mattered. His neurologist's letter mattered: it named which side of the brain and confirmed he was on blood-thinning medicine, which ruled out every forceful point in this article at a stroke. An old scan report of the head changed nothing about what would be done.

The choice, and why. Katka and Motor neuron point were not used at all — a man on blood thinners. What was given: Paralysis clockwise, inner side down and outer side up, arm and leg, both ending with their lifts; Shukla at the wrist and the ankle, 6–6 of the four movements at each, with the forearm and the heel firmly held; and Feather touch at the end of every session, over the arm and the hand, unhurried.

What was done when the first approach did not do enough. By week four the ankle moved further but the fingers had barely opened, and the therapist named the reason out loud: a hand opens by being opened, many times a day, not twice a week. The daughter was taught Shukla at the wrist and shown how to interlace her fingers into his — six of each, morning and evening. The gains in the hand came from her, not from the clinic.

What went wrong because something was withheld. In week six the right shoulder became painful. Asked how they were getting him up from the chair, the family demonstrated: two of them, one under each armpit, lifting by the arms. Nobody had thought to mention it, because it was not treatment. It was changed that day.

Where the Opposite point rule earned its keep. In week nine he fell at home and bruised the right forearm badly; it could not be touched for ten days. Those sessions were given on the left leg — the diagonal partner of the right hand — and on the hand alone with Feather touch. Nothing was cancelled.

What this case teaches

One sentence in a neurologist's letter removed two points from the plan before the first session. Read the letters.

Paralysis clockwise is not finished at the end of the limb. Both lifts — behind the shoulder, and behind and above the waist — are part of it.

Teach the family Shukla. Twice a week does not open a hand; twice a day does.

Ask how the patient is lifted, moved and washed. The damage a family does with the best intentions never gets reported as a symptom.

When the limb closes to you, the Opposite point rule keeps the course running.

Also explained in

Questions students ask Uncommon Problems
A hand closed since a stroke → Paralysis clockwise and Shukla.
Introduction Uncommon Problems
Give Paralysis clockwise, Shukla — 6–6 times, and never in osteoporosis — and Vasanti, 15 to 20 times, very softly.
How this article is arranged, and how to stand Uncommon Problems
Where the therapist is Named in Sitting at the patient's head Down arrow Supine Seated Sitting at the patient's waist Up arrow Supine Beside the patient, hands only, no chairs Lower shoulder blade pain Prone · Pa
MOTOR NEURON POINT Uncommon Problems
Figure 24.6 Paralysis clockwise and Shukla, on one sheet.
After the treatment is over Uncommon Problems
Paralysis clockwise: fingers gathered, rolled clockwise.
Every symbol, and how to say it in words The Shorthand
The second plate of the written symbols, redrawn as clean vector glyphs beside their point names as printed: from Hydrocele point and Knee Cap Free to Motor Neuron Point and T 8, including the numbered Pradeep chevrons a
The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand
Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Adr Adrenal Face Down Swt Sweat Face Down Back Arrow Back Arrow, or Blood supply to lungs Face Down H arrow — Face Down On the spine — Face Down Beside the spine — Face Down Round arrow —

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FEATHER TOUCH — the lightest thing in the atlas

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