SWT

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SWT — स्वेट · sweat

With this treatment we stimulate the medulla part inside the adrenal gland.

It is also useful for stimulating the sweat glands.

Place both palms standing on their edge on both sides of the T6–T12 beads, and with the edge of the hands give a little pressure inward to the nerves and muscles at the side of the beads, pressing and releasing as many times as the number written. If (6) Swt is written, press and release 6 times.

If Left Swt is to be given, place the right palm completely flat on the right side of the bead, and keep only the left palm standing on edge, giving pressure straight downward with its edge. If Right Swt is to be given, place the left palm completely flat on the left side of the bead, and keep only the right hand standing on edge and give pressure.

"Standing on their edge" is the whole technique. The hand is turned onto its little-finger border, the way you would chop a vegetable, and set in the gutter beside the beads — a narrow line where a flat palm would spread the force. Both hands stand so for plain Swt, the pressure running inward, toward the column.

When one side alone is written, the other hand changes job entirely. For Left Swt the right palm goes down completely flat and stays there, and only the left works — and because the flat palm holds the spine steady, the pressure at Lt. and Rt. Swt is straight downward rather than inward. Three written forms, not one treatment given to one side.

What lies beneath. In the gutter either side of the T6–T12 beads lie the long upright muscles, the short slanting ones beneath, and the nerves supplying both. The sympathetic chain, which does reach the adrenal medulla, runs at these levels — but down the front of the vertebrae, on the far side of the bone from any hand on a back. The therapy has named the right system and the wrong side of it. The sweat half of the name is better founded: sweat glands really are governed by that same chain, segment by segment down the trunk.

From Fire and Swelling

The note that belongs here: (6) Right Swt for bronchial asthma

Right constricts, left dilates: the side is part of the point

Before the viral formulas, one treatment has to be brought across from another article and taught properly, because it was named there only in passing and it belongs to this subject.

The context is the white cells, and specifically the eosinophils — one of the three kinds of granulocyte. Two facts about them were set down together:

Eosinophils destroy parasitic organisms. They release chemicals that cause bronchoconstriction in asthma — that is, narrowing of the airways.

And from infection in the lungs, eosinophils increase.

Put the two together and a lung infection becomes an asthma problem by a chain you can follow: infection in the lungs → eosinophils rise → the chemicals they release narrow the airways.

The polarity rule in the last row but one is the reason the side is written, and it is taught whole — with all twelve of its cranial-nerve applications — in Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas, "The Twelve Messengers". Here, take only what the card needs: Left Swt with Left Medulla opens; Right Swt with Right Medulla closes. A card that says Swt with no side has not told you which of two opposite instructions was meant, and is to be sent back.

And note, without merging them, that the asthma patient may meet a second treatment in this article's family from an entirely different direction: from the prostaglandins the bronchioles relax, and in asthma the patient obtains immediate relief from (30) Medulla — an experience proved on many patients, and set out in full in The Medulla Family. Two treatments, two families, two accounts. Each is given for what it is given for, and neither is a version of the other.

A few days ago a person asked a question that every therapist will be asked eventually, usually by somebody who means it sincerely: can we kill virus or bacteria by this treatment? If not, how are you successful in treating diseases caused by virus or bacteria without medicine?

Since such a question naturally arises in anyone unfamiliar with this work, it must be answered — and the answer is the whole design of the formulas that follow.

The image the therapy uses to explain itself is worth keeping, because patients understand it instantly.

If someone tells us to make a line shorter without erasing it, what should we do? Draw a longer line beside it — and the first begins to look shorter.

In bacterial or viral infection we put things right in exactly this way. When the line of the body's immunity becomes longer than the powerful line of the virus, the virus can do that body no harm at all.

Nothing has been rubbed out. The germ has not been attacked. What has changed is the comparison — and it is the only one of the two lines a pair of hands can do anything about.

Two details on that card decide whether the formula is given correctly or only approximately.

Lymph is not Pan. They are given a hand's breadth apart on the same thighs. In Lymph the therapist's weight is on the heels; in Pan it is on the middle of the sole. In Lymph it is compulsory that both heels touch each other; in Pan they need not. In Lymph the toes are on the inner side of the thigh. Three differences, all checkable by eye before any weight goes down.

Th. Only is not Th + Ch. The word Only is there to say that only the thymus is to be given — not chest and not armpits. In this formula the armpits are given as their own separate step, at their own count, which is precisely why the thymus step has to be named narrowly. And Th. Only is given with no pressure at all, the knee still, the sole swinging like a pendulum, no rub on the return stroke.

By this treatment we increase the body's immunity, so that its capacity to fight any external or internal virus or bacteria increases. This protects the body from every kind of viral fever or other infection.

Also explained in

• The two adrenal points — cortex and medulla Each Point in Use

  ADR is aimed at the rind; SWT is aimed at the core.

• (15) Medulla — the acetyl choline treatment The Medulla Family

  Such patients have been seen to obtain great benefit — which proves that it truly stimulates acetyl choline, or increases its production MND and MS On giving it, for some while so much strength increases in their muscles

• Which formula for which patient Water and Salt

  Weakness in the evening means that sodium has gone out through the sweat.

• Where the water goes, and where it is taken back What the Bowel Tells You

  At least one and a half litres of water are lost daily through respiration, sweat, urine and the rest, so drinking water regularly is essential to health.

• The room Treating Women

  ark and warm so that the sweat comes — and not an air-conditioned room At the time of delivery, the birth should take place only in a dark and warm room, so that much sweat comes out of the woman's body, from which the

• Water in decides water out The Two Kingdoms

  — a traditional saying An average person loses almost two litres of water a day — through sweat, through urine, and in expired air, the breath you can see on a cold morning.

• At a glance The Two Kingdoms

  About two litres of water are lost daily through sweat, urine and breath and must be replaced with at least as much pure water; no other drink can be a substitute for water.

• The variant kept for acne Correcting the Two Kingdoms

  (Figure 28.2) Table 7 — Card: ATF for pimples and acne Supine Side-lying Prone 6 sec Written (8) Pan (1) Gal (3) Mu° (1) acid (4) Thymus+Chest (3) Swt Positions, in order Supine Supine → side-lying for step

• The oil at five places, and the absence of soap Between Two Sessions

  DID YOU KNOW? Sweat is not merely salt water Human sweat carries its own germ-killing substances — short protein chains, made in the sweat glands, that damage the outer coats of bacteria.

• Where the bath meets the meal Between Two Sessions

  Your own sweat contains germ-killing substances, and soap destroys them.

• The sick-room table that belongs to the articles ahead Food as Medicine

  Water leaves you all day through urine, sweat and the breath, and it has to be balanced.

• The cord Treating Women

  So that much sweat comes out of the body; it is said to be beneficial for both mother and child.

• What a gland is, and why the wiki keeps saying "eight to ten" The Body's Own Pharmacy

  Some glands make their product and pour it down a tube to where it is needed — the salivary glands into the mouth, the pancreas into the intestine, the sweat glands onto the skin.

• Questions patients ask you The Two Kingdoms

  For most people about two litres of plain water spread through the day replaces what is lost through sweat, urine and breathing; tea, coffee, buttermilk, juice and cold drinks do not count.