system 46

4B

Heart, weak, tat, distended, displaced. nervous. Study " My Breath-ing System ” and perform the exercises explained therein.

Heartburn. (See Indigestion.)

Haemorrhoids. These are, morę often than not, due to bad circulation and to undue strain in trying to gct an action of the bowels. In bad cases the surgeon's knife is the best remedy, but milder attacks can be remedied and prevented by improving the circulation and curing the constipation. (See notes on these items.)

Herma. In young people this may be curcd by gradually strengthen-ing the abdominal wali by Exercises Nos, i, 3, 6, 7, and 11 (but keep for a long time to the easy degree of Nos. 3 and 6). Ali jerky movements. holding of the breath, severe coughing and lifting of heav v things should be avoided. Middle-aged and elderly people, even with double hernia, can derive generał benefit to their health by doing the whole “ System,” but they must wear their truss while exercising.

Imbecility.

Indigestion. Nowhere is a yicious circle so easily established as in this large group of complaints. A suflerer from any " stornach " trouble will soon get bad-tempered, and this will immediately have a slackening influence on all the physical processes, and first of all upon the digestion. Some cases are started by worrying, but most cases are due to eating too much, too quickly or too often, or eating food not suitable to the individual. The afternoon tea meal causes indigestion in thousands of middle-aged people. Three, or even two meals a day are suflicient for the avcrage grown-up brain worker, or idle individual. By all means drink the tea, and have a smoke, but do not eat. One biscuit alone will stir the whole machinery and disturb the sorely needed rest of the stornach. The feeling of hunger is often only a falsc one. due to fermentation of food previouslv eaten. It will gradually disappear even if you do not eat very soon.

Most cases can be cured either by dieting and fasting, or by the right exercises (see the foregoing chapter). By the last method, the whole body will simultaneously be strengthened, and wlien, after some months’ time, the digestive organs are toned up, the person can, with moderation, eat and drink just what he likes best. I.ong walks or protracted games are not always able to cure indigestion. The appetite will be inereased, so that still morę is put into the poor stornach. I have had several pupils who walked from three to eight miles a day and always suffered from indigestion, but a few minutes' performance daily of my trunk exercises very soon cured them.

Insomnia. Only cases due to auto-intoxication can be directly cured by exercises. If the cause is mental, it must first be removed, otherwise exercising, if not very gentle, may aggravate the com-plaint. The six weeks’ programme (see page 52) should be spread over three months.

Kidneys (loose, weak. gravel in). See the foregoing chaptcr.

Knock-Knees. Preliminary exercising the same as for '' Bow Legs.'' The best exercises of “ My System ” are No. 6, third degree, trying to press the feet together each time the legs meet. with the addition of the squatting of No. 10, and Nos 14 and 13. with powerful