Prana Therapy - 4
Besides the above three symptoms two more factors are required to be noted. Parts of vertebra showing any abnormal warmth or coldness are recorded. For this purpose, the therapist upturns his/her palm and feels the temperature of parts of vertebra with the back of the four fingers. Joined together, the
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upturned forefingers are moved diagonally, at right angle, all over the vertebra from beginning to end as though the vertebral column is a knife’s edge cutting across all four fingers simultaneously. Sensory tissues of back of fingers of many people are not sufficiently sensitive to record subtle difference in temperatures. Such individuals may use the back of palm for this purpose. Normally there is a uniformity of temperature all over the vertebral column. Abnormalities in temperature are to be carefully recoded in this manner.
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The patient is made to lie down flat on the stomach on a soft mattress with a pillow below the chest to prevent any pressure on the chin and face. The patient is asked to rest comfortably with hands stretched comfortably, on either side of the body. The therapist uses the index and middle fingers (Tarjani and Madhyama) of the right hand to feel the abnormalities in the spinal cord of the patient. Placing these two fingers on either side of the vertebral column, the therapist first feels the raised part of the vertebra below the neck; then slowly slides the fingers down the spinal column, carefully examining the parts for the vertebra for any (1) stiffness, (2) clot, (3) torsion in the nerves. The locations indicating any of these three symptoms are demarcated by different-colored markers. For instance, for stiffness: white, for clots: purple and for torsion: yellow mark may be made. There are no specifications for the code of colors. If the therapist can remember these sites, there is no need to use markers.
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The Procedures for Diagnosis and Treatment
Thus the therapist records the abovementioned five root symptoms of the disease. It is irrelevant to investigate whether the stiffness, clots, distortions, warmth or coldness in parts of the vertebra are the cause or effect of the ailment. As a matter of fact, in context of Prana therapy, traditional methods of diagnostic analysis and equipment cannot help us in arriving at a conclusion. Theoretical considerations would not help in such matters. Only if some equipment could monitor real time physiological changes in the body of patients round the clock and diagnostic centers well equipped with such equipment are made available to a large number of therapists for each patient, would it be possible to know the relationship of the symptoms in the vertebral
“God created everything by number, weight and measure.” - Sir Isaac Newton Akhand Jyoti November - December 2014
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