Sudhakar

From Face Down

Sudhakar — the back treatment for which no method is given

A name that outruns its method, and a silence left standing

One more treatment belongs to this strip of back, and a student will meet it on a card long before they meet it in a article. It is called Sudhakar, after the patient in whom it was worked out, and this is the whole of what the therapy says about it: in this treatment, the muscles around all the vertebrae of the back are moved and brought to their correct place, and it is beneficial for the neck, the back, and all pains.

That is the entry, and it is an entry about what the treatment does, not about how a pair of hands does it. No tool, no path, no direction, no count and no order is given for Sudhakar anywhere. The six arrows above each name the edge of the thumb or the two fingers or the soft sole, the station it starts from, the station it ends at and the way the number on the card is spent. Sudhakar names none of these, and none is supplied here.

So the honest position for a therapist is this. You may read the card and know what is wanted — every vertebra of the back, the muscles around it moved and set back in place, for the neck, the back and all pains. You may not read it and know what to do with your hands, and a treatment reconstructed out of that description would be your own work under somebody else's name. Where a card says Sudhakar and you have not been shown it hand to hand, give the treatments of this article that do carry their method — the three arrows over the same territory, Organ clearance over the whole of it — and write on the card what you gave.

This is not the only place in the therapy where a name outruns its method, and the wiki does not close such a gap by filling it in. The material's own silences are left standing exactly where they stand, in the same way as its perhaps, its nowadays and its research is still going on.

Also explained in

• Introduction Face Down

  Say what Sudhakar is held to do and what it is given for — and say plainly why no method for it is taught here.

• What this article hands to the next Face Down

  Sudhakar works the same territory and is the one treatment here with no method.

• The line that closes the chemical half Each Point in Use

  These treatments are called after a place on the body, a movement of the hand, or the person in whom the treatment was first worked out — Back arrow, L5–S1 ghisai, Giriraj, Pradip, Shivaji, Sudhakar, Vasanti.