Explanation of Chart No. 4

OF VITAL ENERGY FLOW was not in use; hence the COMPLETE PICTURE AND THERAPY FOR THE BODY WERE NOT AT HAND. That is why the feet were neglected.

The only doctor who produced phenomenal results in foot therapy was Dr. Locke in Canada.^[1] He was known all over the world. And strange to say all his success resulted from ONE ADJUSTMENT of the CUBOID BONE. This acted as a powerful stimulant to the kidneys, because it lies in that area. The stimulation to the other adjacent articulations helped the circuit flow. In some specific cases results were miraculous. His fame spread; but, alas, not his knowledge of this mystery!

The wonderful response was entirely through the WIRELESS VITAL ENERGY CURRENTS. It proved a little part of the Chinese saying that man dies when the kidneys cease to function.

If one clever application of this principle can do such wonders, why not the selective art of balancing the Vital Energy Flow through polar opposites in the fields of the body as well as in the feet?

The reason for the limitation of this application and of Zone Therapy,^[2] was a lack of a logical foundation upon which it could be explained and proven as a principle in LIFE and in the energy field of the human body, instead of arbitrary lines of a method of dividing the body, vertically, as zones. No one could give an explanation why it was so, how these areas originated or why they elicited a response in the body and through what system. It had no scientific foundation. It was called a reflex through the sympathetic or other nerves, whether or not there were fibers of such nature in that area. 'Reflexology' was the name given to the response of an unusual nature.

The Acupuncture doctors in France had a similar system of zoning, which shows its real source or possible origin. But the few books in German, which were written later, tried to explain this system also as a nerve end response. The system followed the outline of our modern textbooks of anatomy, instead of the original concept of the FIVE RIVERS OF LIFE as the FIVE VITAL ENERGIES which enliven our five sensory and five motor actions.

The POLARITY PRINCIPLES of the three 'gunas', or POSITIVE, NEGATIVE AND NEUTER [neutral] were not given too clearly. The sun and the moon action of the 'yang' and the 'yin' were clear as poles of stimulation or as tonification and cold, like the cool and refreshing water of the moon energy. Such is the history back of a

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¹ Mahlon Locke (1880-1942), a Canadian doctor and pioneer in western reflexology and pedorthics.
² A precursor to reflexology where the body is divided into vertical zones. Issues in those zones are addressed via the fingers and toes corresponding to those zones.