Polarity - Reaction

GENERAL

of stagnation. A surface counter-irritant, like red pepper, helps to stimulate the surface circulation and to speed recovery and absorption in such conditions. The application of hot vinegar compresses aids electric conduction. Stroking with a gold comb has a relaxing effect.

This gives but a brief review of the two types or categories of diseases, involving the positive or negative pole of any of the four elements in their flow and interaction, as well as the therapies indicated.

These principles are but a general guide to:

1 - The treatment of the stoppage of the positive, centrifugal flow of energy - the 'Yang' (male or +) force in creation. This energy flows from the center out, and its nature is expansion.

2 - The other is the centripetal, space-building force of Nature - the 'Yin' (female or -) principle. Its flow is from the surface, in, and therefore its nature is contraction. Like sensation, it is closely allied to pain, by interference of its cycle.

There is no end to the application of these two principles; all natural functions rest upon it; all increase and fruition is augmented by it. Its roots go as deep as all forms, way into the Causal Plane, the Pattern World. These two principles are latent in the seed power of all that lives and breathes, and even in the very structure of matter, like the atoms and the electrons. We shall leave them here with the thoughtful physician.

By understanding man and Nature, we can see clearly the principles involved upon which the ancients based their therapy which was so effective. Our own American Indians [Native Americans] had many such cures, besides their herbal knowledge, much of which we copied. For instance, when a person was exhausted by starvation, cold, drowning, or other strains, the Indians would form a chain around the fire, join hands, having placed the sick person in the center of the circle, near the warmth. They realized that this person's energy field was at a low ebb and that he needed more than mere physical warmth. He needed his energy battery recharged, and they did that by the currents that flowed through the group. The weak one came into rhythm with the rest, and so