Planet Medicine: Modalities, Revised Edition: Modalities by Richard Grossinger

Author:Richard Grossinger [Grossinger, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Holistic Medicine
ISBN: 9781583947296
Google: HVPBRgE3b8cC
Amazon: B00BABT1AS
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

This is a standard osteopathic mode of correction: encouraging a segment of viscera (or neuromusculature) to “go” in the direction it “wants” rather than in a normalizing trajectory. The assumption is that it can “find” its own correct orientation through enhancement of its tendency, whereas it may never stay in a position into which it is just placed. (Osteopaths tend to support and reinforce counter-energetically forced or intrinsic rhythm, even when they encounter highly erratic motions and hard blocks.)

A few examples of some basic techniques, although simplifications, give a fuller sense of this modality:

If the stomach rotates more easily toward the median axis of the body (a movement Barral named “expir”), enhance that movement by a clockwise motion in the frontal plane with a flat right hand engendering a slight suction on the skin such that, at the end of the turn, the lesser curvature under the index finger rotates posterosuperiorly and the ulnar aspect seems to retreat from the skin. Encourage the dominant expir rotation while passively tracking and supporting the rest of the cycle until the pattern releases into greater depth and range.

To release a urethral calculus, compress and rotate at the point of the stone with the heel of the hand, culminating the rotation with a light inferior stretch across the ureter. This also improves the organ’s peristaltic function.

The pancreas is released by a seesaw movement in which the heel of the hand sits above the projection of the pancreatic head and is pulled posteriorly while the rest of the hand covering the body and tail of the organ induces tissue downward as the head begins to release; the fingers gradually follow. Then, as the pancreas rotates away from the median axis of the body (inspir), the same sort of induction is imparted from the fingertips to the heel. During this back-and-forth rocking, the predominant organ motion is accentuated, while its counterphase is supported more passively.

Variations, combinations, and refinements of such techniques treat areas as miniscule as the dural tube of the optic nerve, the sphincter of Oddi, and the epididymis.

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