Examination Preparatory to Treatment

this varies, we can figure the recuperative limitation of the patient, and endeavor to balance it. (Allow for emotional stimulus here.)

A good vital reserve is noted by the large ear lobes, as the positive poles. A fully developed Mount of Venus below the thumbs of both hands denotes a vital neuter [neutral] pole. Firm gluteal muscles denote good vitality in the negative pole of the body.

The art of the true healer must be to balance man with Nature, tune him into the greater energy field, so all the elements can flow and function. That is how Nature heals. If Nature does not support a correction that is made, it will not stay or help the patient. Parts must fit into the whole and blend, in order to be useful.

Aim to balance the patient's mental, emotional and physical energies in their flow and rhythm. The mental energies are usually summed up in voluntary actions and the cerebrospinal system. The emotional fields are usually unconscious patterns and impulses, flowing over the sympathetic system to seek expression and fulfillment, through the sympathetic nervous system and its stored energy in various energy fields. The parasympathetic impulses are the conscious reactions to both nervous systems; it serves as a balancer or a brake upon them in excesses.^[1]

Exhaustion is due to excess demands or disfunction of the sympathetic nervous system. This can be a mental block in the energy field of the patient, or the four elements in their function, an emotional imbalance, or a physical defect and lack of nutritious elements normally needed for repair of the system. By the same token it may also be due to over indulgence in food, drink, or any of the senses. One can be overloading the system with rich foods and still be starving for essential elements. That, together with the toxins from the improper food, results in exhaustion and illness.

EXAMINATION AND DILATION OF THE NOSE FOR THE INLET OF 'PRANA' and FOR THE RELEASE OF SYMPATHETIC NERVE ENDINGS AS REFLEXES FOR LOCKED BODY AREAS: When examining a patient, we usually take for granted that his nasal inlets for oxygen and Prana are large enough to give him his share of the vital air. But, examining them all the way back, by passing a simple, tapered, stainless steel rod to the nasopharynx, will tell the story. Dilation is possible here, with a little patience. Anoxia is the

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¹ See Autonomic Nervous System Terminology for more information.