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density, becomes its own tomb and destroyer. It is then broken up as an organism, and resolved back into the elements that composed it. The stored energy that is residual in any substance, is then liberated by combustion or burning, like the heat and fire element in wood, coal, oil, etc. Or, in vegetation and in bodies cut off from life, slow oxidation and decay also resolve substances back to their elements, without utilizing the liberated energy.

BLOODLETTING, a widely practiced art of the ancients, had its foundation in the facts that the blood contents were loaded with debris of semi-solids, liquids and waste gases, and were unable to carry oxygen in sufficient amounts to make the Prana effective in the body. By letting out stale venous blood, there was room for new cells that the system would manufacture from the red and white bone marrow, and these new cells were fresh, clear, good carriers of oxygen and Prana. IT STILL IS A VALUABLE FACTOR IN NATURE CURE, and works wonders in chronic rheumatism, low back pains, and for venous stasis anywhere, especially in cases of bad varicose ulcers. They are almost miraculously healed when fresh blood can supply that area. "Fresh blood heals", said Dr. Bier.^[1]

The ancients drew most of their practices from experience. And they usually had a good, common-sense basis, when UNDERSTOOD, and not overdone. The same reason holds good for venesection, which was effectively employed in many desperate and hopeless cases. The brain, which can hold one third of the blood supply, in congestion, needs Prana in order to function. When it cannot receive sufficient Prana to correct its lines of force and heal a bursted capillary, a leak, etc., then drawing off some of the loaded and congested venous blood through the upper extremities (even in brain hemorrhages), makes room for new blood and the much-needed Prana, for life to function. The application of leeches to the neck and behind the ears has proved to be a real remedy in cerebral hemorrhage, bad eye infections, etc. It draws off the stagnant blood sludge in those tissues which are swamped by it.

Where Prana is present in normal amounts, there the life forces will heal, restore function and balance, and no infection will take place, because life energy prevents decay. Life functions by positive and negative polarity. It is not always necessary to add something to the body externally. More often the excess present at the negative pole NEEDS TO BE DISPERSED, to help the body restore its balance. (This I usually accomplish, in a quick and simple manner, by the use of my PERINEAL TECHNIQUE.^[2])

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¹ Possibly August Bier (1861-1949), a German surgeon, pioneer in spinal anesthesia, and supporter of homeopathy.
² See page 87; and Book 2, Charts 30 and 31.