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7. The Good Night lemniscate

Remaining on the patient’s left side, only the lower part of the back and the buttocks are uncovered, approximately to the coccyx.

Throughout the treatment, my left hand rests lightly on the patient’s left waist. Starting below the sacroiliac joint (Articulatio sacroiliaca), I use my right hand to make a small lemniscate that runs transversely to the back.

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My fingers always point to the right side of the patient.

I start at centre of the lemniscate, first following the loop to the right, then to the left. Each loop begins with an emphasis on the lower arc.

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When dipping into the tissue, my hand – starting with the fingertips through the middle of the hand to the heel of the hand – nestles completely into the shape of the body. On the outside right, my hand releases from its emphasis and glides smoothly in reverse order (heel of the hand – middle of the hand – fingertips) back to the crossing point via the upper arc.

There I dip back into the tissue at the beginning of the left loop.

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With emphasis in the lower arc, my hand now glides to the patient’s left side. Led again by the fingertips – as in the beginning – the lemniscate is finally completed with an upper arc.

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My hand always stays in relaxed and warm contact with the skin. In its dynamics, the movement breathes between emphasis (below) and release (above).

Having performed it several times, I finish the Einreibung after a right loop with a downstroke in the centre.

During this downstroke, too, my fingers point to the right side of the patient.

EFFECT

Relaxing; soothing; promoting sleep. The warmth of the gluteal muscles stimulates the flow of warmth to feet.

INDICATIONS

Sleeplessness; mental states of excitement.

NOTE

Wrong emphasis (upwards) would result in overstimulation of kidney activity, i.e. excretion.