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Chart No. 18
[See Book 3, Chart 18]
A double contact is used across the spine, held with a firm and steady pressure, for relaxation of tension and to polarize one side of the body with the other; either with the direction of the surface currents for a soothing effect, as shown here, or in the opposite direction, against the flow of the currents, for stimulating. The contact is held firm and steady until the tissues under it relax. This can be done all the way up and down the spine, especially on the high or posterior side of the body.
As previously mentioned, in POLARITY ACTION, the right half of the body is positive and the left half is negative.
In giving this treatment, the doctor stands on his toes in order to put the whole body impact behind these vibrations, as shown in charts 23 and 24 of book II. The elasticity of the movement, plus the volume of weight potential behind it, makes it a most effective impulse with great therapeutic benefit, but gentle in application.
FIGURE 1 of this chart shows the doctor's left hand laid freely across the spine of the patient. The doctor stands on the left side of the patient, at right angles to the patient for step No. 1.
FIGURE 2 shows how the right hand is loosely placed on top of the fingers of the left hand.
FIGURE 3 shows how the left-hand twist is made, with a firm contact with both hands on the muscle tissue to place one side under tension in opposite direction to the other. The heel of the left hand goes down on the left half of the body while the fingers push the tissue upwards and at the same time are re-inforced [reinforced] by the right hand. The doctor now faces the patients head, holding the contact firmly in that upward direction, with or without vibratory impulses, for balancing of currents.
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