Examination Preparatory to Treatment

cause of many ailments which are not understood. Ability to breathe is most important for healing and for the maintenance of good health. Choked-up channels are factors of physical disability which should receive care and attention by the doctor.

The energy that flows over the sympathetic nervous system,^[1] through breathing, keeps the body in touch with Nature and its rhythm. While food, liquid and warmth repair and nourish the body, and maintain its rhythm with the grosser elements. The air that flows into each nostril brings with it its finer element of 'Prana", which stimulates the fine nerve endings in the Schneiderian Membrane in the nose, on each side. These impulses are conveyed to one hemisphere of the brain, on each side; so the same air has a positive or a negative function in its flow to the brain, before it becomes one volume in the back of the nasopharynx. This has a very important significance. This air intake also divides into the right and left bronchial tubes, one for each side or lung.

Mouth breathing can bring enough air into the body, so why would all doctors insist on breathing through the nostrils if merely warming the air or filtering it through the hairs in the nose is the main object? If we look at mouth-breathers, we will notice a dull, stupid-like facial expression, due to the lack of 'Prana' in the brain. In colds, we also feel "stuffed" in the head and dull, not only because of the presence of mucous and swollen membranes; but, because we can't breathe through the nostrils, the vital energy (Prana) can't get through to the brain to vitalize it with the Life in the air, which is what it needs.

The anterior representation of the sympathetic nervous function in membranes starts at the Schneiderian Membrane of the nose and ends in the rectum and perineum.

When the left nostril is obstructed, that side of the brain and the body is deprived of the normal impulse of 'Prana', and the heart will always suffer. Without the normal power supply, how can there be normal function? In speaking of the nasal passage, I refer to the entire depth of about 4 1/2" [four and a half inches], clear back into the nasopharynx.

The right nostril has a positive current-transforming effect, which acts upon the brain and the liver. Abnormal children, like the mute or deaf, etc., have usually a badly obstructed right nostril, which should be opened. Cartilage will bend and, with patience, can be properly molded. It is not pleasant and must be done slowly and gently. But the results

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¹ See Autonomic Nervous System Terminology for more information.