The Nishi System is a methodology for the maintenance and recovery of good health that was first introduced in 1927 by Katsuzo Nishi, who at the time was the chief technical engineer for Japan's first subway project, the Tokyo subway.   learn more

SIX LAWS AND EXERCISES

PRACTISE SIX RULES                                                                  learn more

THE FLAT BED                                                                                 learn more

THE SOLID PILLOW                                                     learn more

THE GOLDFISH EXERCISE                                                           learn more

THE CAPILLARITY EXERCISE                                                    learn more

THE PALM AND SOLE JOINING EXERCISE                     learn more

DORSO VENTRAL EXERCISE                                        learn more

 

DORSO VENTRAL EXERCISE

Preparatory exercise consisting of eleven movements is to be practiced; the time required for this exercise is one minute:

1.
What to do: Move the shoulders up and down.
Effects: This is a movement of trapezius, latissimus dorsi and other muscles of shoulders. The exercise helps to release tension. Daily practice would prevent paralysis of the upper limbs and stiffening of the shoulders.

2.
What to do: Bend the head rightward.
Effects: In order to stimulate the pumping action of the thoracic duct, which opens into the jugular vein at the upper pit of the left collarbone, the head must be first bent rightward so as to strain the left side of the neck.

3.
What to do: Bend the head leftward.
Effects: This exercise is intended for stimulating the jugular vein and lymphatic gland in the right neck. A round back posture is apt to entail the swelling of the heart and right cervical lymphatic gland, which would easily be checked by this movement.

4.
What to do: Bend the head forward.
Effects: The posterior root of the spinal cord and spinalis dorsi muscle are apt to be compressed when in disease. This exercise is to prevent such disorder.

5.
What to do: Bend the head backward.
Effects: This is a stretching and stimulating the anterior root of the spinal cord and also the vagrant nerves.

The exercises from #1 to # 5 are to be taken with the seventh cervical vertebra as a centre, and would increase the alkaline concentration of the body fluids.

6.
What to do: Turn the head right backward:
Effects: This exercise is expected to counteract the alkaline concentration of the body fluids, enhanced by the preceding exercises.

7.
What to do: Turn the head left backward:
Effects: This exercise is also intended for stimulating the sympathetic nerves, thereby counteracting the increasing alkaline concentration of the body fluids.

The exercises from #1 to #7 should be repeated 10 times each.

8.
What to do: Stretch out both arms horizontally and turn the head right and left one time.
Effects: By stretching both arms in that way you can stimulate the pumping function of the lymphatic glad in the chest and by turning the head right and left, you can strain the neck muscles. Those who are in danger of apoplexy will find the neck muscles so stiff and the blood vessels and nerves so compressed that they cannot turn their heads properly and will feel the tips of fingers as if paralyzed. By this exercise you can prevent such a dangerous condition.

9.
What to do: Raise up both arms in parallel, palm to palm, and turn the head right and left one time.
Effects: This is intended for invigorating the pumping function of the armpit lymphatic gland and also for stretching the neck muscles.

10.
What to do: Pull down both upheld arms on the level of shoulders, bending each arm at the elbow, with a firm fist made.
Effects: By this exercise, the seventh cervical nerve, which controls the thumb and index finger, and, eight cervical nerves, which controls the other three fingers, would be stimulated, thereby prevent or cure paralysis of fingers and increase the grasping power of the hand.

11.
What to do: Draw as far backward as possible, both arms as in the same position of #10 exercise, and turn the head backwards with the chin stretched upwards as far as possible.
Effects: This is to stimulate the pumping function of the lymphatic gland in the chest and to invigorate the vagrant nerves as well as the thyroid gland.

As was shown above, the eleven preparatory exercises have all reasons, anatomical and physiological; therefore the order and number of practice must be followed exactly and directed.
Viewed as a whole, these exercises first release the trapezius muscles then stimulate the vagrant nerves in such a manner as to antagonize with sympathetic nerves.
Upon completion of the preparatory exercises, you must release yourselves by opening the palms and placing them lengthwise upon the laps, before passing into the dorso- ventral exercise.

The Main exercise
What to do: Putting the pivotal point of the coccyx and keeping the trunk (from the coccyx to the top of the head) as straight as possible, swing it laterally as if it were a stick. The ventral movement, which is done as follows, should accompany this swinging movement: each time the backbone is inclined to the right or to the left, the lower abdomen should be pushed outward. In other words, there are two ventral movements for one swing (a pair of right and left inclinations) of the backbone. The exercise is done independently from the rhythm of respiration.
This exercise should be practiced rot ten minutes, every morning and evening. Its standard speed is 50-55 swings per minutes, which amounts roughly to 500 swings in ten minutes. You had better take at leas three moths to attain this speed, because, otherwise, various troubles may appear. In so doing, you can make you skin resistant enough to allow you to do the exercise nakedly even in cold winter.
Thus the condition of the whole body should be ameliorated gradually to make you really healthy.

Effects: This Dorso-Ventral exercise respectively stimulates the sympathetic and vagrant nerves so as to bring them into a balanced state and their function will be performed with the greatest possible effect. Moreover the former will check the dangerous dilation of the cerebral blood vessels and the latter the intestinal stasis. This exercise makes function of intestines, including the absorption of nutriment, perfect. By the simultaneous practice of both exercises, we can harmonize our nervous system as well as our body fluids and also establish the balance of body and mind.
Doing this exercise one should constantly think of getting better, pray for becoming abler, and believe in turning more virtuous.
When the body fluids as well as the nerves are well equilibrated, wickedness, inability or immorality will be ameliorated by thinking of getting “good, able, and virtuous”.