Polarity - Reaction

GENERAL

was revived and restored to health. When we talk about batteries, we understand this clearly; but when we are told that our red brethren saved lives in this self-same manner, we doubt it.

THE SHOCK TREATMENT of today is purely an electrical or a chemical shock to the body, without the deep insight into Nature, such as the ancients used in their simplified shock treatment of vomiting, purging, application of cold, etc. Science has observed that often fright or some physical shock has accomplished things for patients that could not be done in any other way known to them; so a shock treatment was invented.

The ancients based all their therapy on the flow of the four elements in Nature. When the diaphragm was locked, and things were at a stand-still between the waters of energy above and below this firmament, then they resorted to vomiting and got marvelous results. THERE WAS A REASON AND A PURPOSE BEHIND THIS TYPE OF SHOCK TREATMENT.

The renowned physician, Dr. Bernard Aschner^[1] from Vienna (now in New York) brings out these facts in his books, supported by history. Dr. Aschner also wrote several books in German, in one of which he gives clinical data of the good results obtained by intelligent use of these old methods, even in cases of insanity of long standing.

When the four elements do not flow properly in the body, the mind, which is the one energy river out of which they all flow, also cannot function properly. Then there is back pressure, with all its symptoms of suppression and melancholia.

Centrifugal or efferent energy currents flow from the brain to the extremities and return, to complete the circuit. Moderate resistance is met in all tissue, but more so at the negative pole because of the distance from the center of energy, and by sedimentation at the lowest level.

Therefore, THE NEGATIVE POLE USUALLY NEEDS STIMULATION in order to remove the obstructions and to activate the current flow back to its source, to complete the cycle. Stagnation of currents at the negative pole has much to do with mental conditions.

Energy impulses are from above downward. Structural reflexes are from below upward. Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nerve reflexes also respond from below upward. All sensory impulses are from without, inward.

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¹ Dr. Bernhard Aschner (1883-1960), a Austrian physician and physiologist. He was a pioneer in the science of endocrinology and a medical historian.