Human body ground conductor contact

We discussed in Section 21.1.1 the maximum tolerable currents through a human body and their duration. The potential difference in a ground conductor at any point where a human body may come into contact with it during the course of a ground fault should be such that the resultant current through the human body will remain within these tolerable limits. 

The likely positions, in which a human body may come into contact with a phase or a ground conductor, and the corresponding potential differences, that he may be exposed to, are illustrated in Figure 22.9. 

Figure 22.9 Likely positions in which a human body may come in contact with phase and the ground conductors and the corresponding voltage gradients (illustrated through the layout of Figure 13.21)...

No harvested plant should be placed back on the ground. The vital energies which must be trapped for magical use only, return to the ground if contact is made. This is the reason for not touching the herb with your bare skin, for the human body acts as a conductor earthing the vital forces. 

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