Breath is Life 13 



Hindu physiology begins its surprises by teach- 

 ing us that with every inhalation through the right 

 nostril a positive electrical current flows down the 

 right side of the spine, and with every inhalation 

 through the left nostril a negative current flows 

 down the left side. The lungs are correspond- 

 ingly charged with positive, or solar, and negative, 

 or lunar, currents. It is by means of the two cur- 

 rents that all the processes of life are performed, 

 and it is an imperative condition of health that 

 they be equally balanced. Upon their rhythmic 

 and harmonic flow, fed by the breath of life, de- 

 pends the measure of health and vitality in the 

 human system. 



It is of interest here to state that early in 1905, 

 the newspapers chronicled the successful experi- 

 ments of Dr. Atkins, of the California Medical 

 College, who had discovered, and succeeded in 

 registering by mechanical means, " a positive and 

 a negative electrical current in the air chambers 

 of the lungs of a living person." Thus it will 

 be seen that Western science is painfully discover- 

 ing the truths which the Orient has had in its keep- 

 ( ing since the earliest ages of man. 



In two instances I have had substantial proof 

 that something of this knowledge was also in the 

 keeping of our North American Indian " Medi- 

 cine Man." 



But the analysis of breath does not rest here. 



