Stretch

From The Front of the Body II

Stretch (स्ट्रेच)

Its symbol is ← →.

This looks somewhat like the Sulta Ulta treatment; but in this only sulta is done, ulta is not to be done — that is, treatment is given only with the palm facing the sky.

Keeping the hand at 180 degrees, that is, straight out from the shoulder, and giving some pressure, draw the tissue over the forearm from the elbow towards the wrist. Repeat six times.

Then with your sole, giving a little more pressure, drawing the tissue from the wrist to the tips of the fingers, rub six plus six times in the following manner:

First, keeping the heel fixed, give pressure with the ball of the foot and rotate it outward. Do this six times.

Then six times, keeping the big toe fixed, rotate the heel outward.

Those two rotations over the hand are what the point is named for. Pressing on the tips of the fingers, they are pulled outward — and it is because of that that the muscles of the neck relax. An arm's length away from the neck, and the neck is the target.

The row about the two sides is written for the therapist working alone. Somebody tested it and wrote down the result, and the sentence has the shape of a tested thing rather than a rule: the result has been found just as good. Give the left arm, then the right, and nothing has been lost.

Stretch and Sulta Ulta are told apart by two things only: Stretch is palm-up throughout, and it is given at 180°. A therapist who turns the hand over at the end of Stretch has given Sulta Ulta under the wrong name and at the wrong angle. Neither rotation over the hand should be heavy.

Also explained in

• The neck, the shoulder and the arm Each Point in Use

  Stretch — (6) ← → Supine Pressing on the tips of the fingers, they are pulled outward, because of which it relaxes the muscles of the neck.

• Electrical Waves (इलेक्ट्रिकल वेव्स) The Front of the Body II

  The two points on this page and the one on the next all reach the breath from the neck and the arm rather than the chest: Electrical Waves relaxes the muscles of the neck, Lu + Sh rouses the lungs and opens the muscles o

• Introduction The Front of the Body II

  Give the limb treatments — Sulta Ulta at its two angles, Stretch, B A F A, Tennis Elbow — with the arm position, the palm direction and the order each one names.

• The throat, and the treatments given with the hands The Front of the Body II

  The nine remaining treatments on one plate — Thrd, Vocal Point and Electrical Waves at the neck with the hands, Lu + Sh and Loveleen on the chest and flank, and Sulta Ulta, Stretch, B A F A and Tennis Elbow along the arm

• Sulta Ulta — palm up, palm down (सुलटा उल्टा) The Front of the Body II

  First sulta — that is, treatment with the palm placed facing the sky: Keeping the hand at 90 degrees, that is, straight out from the shoulder, stretch the muscles six times with light pressure from the elbow to the wrist

• B A F A — Both Arms, Both Forearms The Front of the Body II

  Point Arm position Palm up Palm down Territory Repetitions Sulta Ulta 90° — or 135° if there is chest pain first second Elbow → wrist → fingertips 6 + 6 each way Stretch 180° only not done Elbow → wrist, then the hand 6,

• Vocal Point (वोकल पॉइंट / वोकल घिसाई) The Front of the Body II

  Stretch is palm-up only, at 180°, and the fingertips are pressed and pulled outward — that is what relaxes the muscles of the neck.

• Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use

  Stretch for the breathing, which is used in asthma and bronchitis, the left side first and the right afterwards.

• Posture, muscle, and the side that gets less The Body's Own Pharmacy

  hy one side is so often short, and the stretch this therapy gives We come now to a small observation with very large consequences, and it is the one to test on yourself before you finish this page.

• The three defences Weeks, Not Sessions

  She was told at registration, before the examination and before any hope: ten days at a stretch, without break, and the honest estimate of many months for a disease of eleven years.

• BINDU POINT — the long diagonal The Low Back

  It is one of the few long lines in the body where a stretch at one end is genuinely felt at the other.

• The Oxygen formula Water and Salt

  Only Supine To clean the lungs 2 (6) ←→ — Stretch Opens the muscles of the neck so that one can breathe well 3 (6) \°/ — Back Arrow Prone To increase the supply of blood to the lungs 4 (3) ↑o↑ — H Arrow Prone So that

• Who may receive this treatment The Hand That Heals

  But a person with paralysis cannot make her own stretch; nor can a child with severe cerebral palsy, nor a very frail elder — and so they get constipation, indigestion and repeated infections on top of everything else.

• The rule: the digestion is corrected first The Fire and the Ash

  The method followed meticulously at that centre, irrespective of the ailment, is this: patients are told, right at the time of their registration on the first day, that it is mandatory that they must come for the first t