I read this the other night in Volume XIX – The Known Man by B.J. Palmer. I added spaces for easier readability. Enjoy!
“There is a constant on sensation. People who have no sensation are those with normal feeling and those with no feeling. Healthy organs have normal feeling and normal feeling has no sensation. We do not know we have an organ when healthy, for it is balanced in its cycles. When there is no feeling, we have no sensation, for cycles are completely unbalanced.
The recovery of feeling is the transition between pathological no-feeling of 0 in the climb back to normal no-feeling of 100%. Recovery of feeling anywhere between is noted by pain in ratio as it climbs from 0 to 100%.
Innate must have pain as a sensation in recovering from a pathology to know afferently what to do efferently. Pain is a mental interpretation of an abnormal external physical condition. Pain is in mind in brain. Without pain, Innate has no way of knowing what to do at peripheral end of efferent nerve. Pain is proof of understanding between what is not and what should be. To kill pain, by morphine, aspirin, or any drugless method, is to kill necessary condition which helps Innate know what, how, and where to do things necessary to restore health.
If there were no pain in the climb towards recovery between pathology and health, there could be no recovery of health. Pain is a necessary internal pathological variable to reach and restore internal constant of health.
If Innate did not receive impressions from body, it would not know what was going on, neither could she build adaptative responses. When man is healthy and all is well, Innate must have impressions to know, to adopt and adapt. The road to recovery has pain. Innate must interpret them to know how to reconstruct function back to normal.
Crossing legs is an example. Nerves are squeezed under one knee and over other. Legs “go to sleep,” reducing feeling to 0. There is little “pain” in process of going from 100% feeling to 0. Uncross legs, feeling begins to be restored. It climbs between 0 and 100%, passes thru process from 0 no-feeling to 100% no-feeling; from no flow to 100%. Process is pain, shooting needles, etc. To stop that pain would stop a normal process of restored function in muscles.
Chiropractors must discriminate between “pain” on declining side between constant of health and coming of variables from disease, pathology, traumas, etc.; and restoration of feeling on constructive side on inclining side, passing out of variables back into constant of health. So far as patient is concerned, “pain” is “pain” and he doesn’t want it. So far as average Chiropractor is concerned, “pain” is something patient wants to get rid of.
As disease grows, patient gets worse, feeling diminishes. He gets an adjustment, disease ungrows, feeling is being restored, a new kind of “pain” begins and grows in ratio until it passes halfway mark in its climb. Patient is quick to complain he is “getting worse,” wants to quit, wants to “take something to stop pain,” etc.
If man could externally strangle flow of internal efferent impulses, between brain and body of another, that would be slow murder. That is what happens when vertebra is subluxated.
In healthy man we have healthy afferent impressions with healthy feeling. To slowly strangle that afferent flow, if possible, would be murder to sensation. In sick man, we have sick impressions with “pain” feeling. To slowly strangle those impressions is to prevent life to that extent. Physicians give morphine and sedatives for that purpose.
Is a Chiropractor any less when he attempts the same by any other route? To “stop pain” slowly or instantly is to “block” afferent transmission, to prevent sensation getting thru, to paralyze feeling. How it may be done, doesn’t matter much, whether it be basephine or morphine, thumb or needle.
Rather than lose patient, average Chiropractor is interested in anything “to stop pain.” To “kill pain” when on upgrade would stop NCM readings, stop case getting well, and in The B.J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic it would stop our service.
To “stop” restoration of returning feeling is to stop life flowing efferently, make it impossible to continue efficient, competent, accurate health service. If patient wants to practice variables, he can do so better at home than with us.”
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Great post, Brandon. Thanks for sharing this terrific info from v-XIX.
Awesome….thanks for this….
Brandon, great job. If you keep investigating you will end up a B.J. Palmer Specific Upper Cervical Chiropractor.
Great post. It’s like a nervous system healing crisis.
The body returning to health and innate the director…. awesome stuff. Real healing, Real health.
Cool!