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cutaneous system
rubeola
psychospiritual approaches
metaphors and correlations
Anthroposophic medicine:
Childhood diseases can be perceived as facilitating ego incarnation. Fever is seen as a process of the warmth organism and "with heightened warmth activity in a fever, there is intensified involvement of the ego in the organism". Thus fever promotes the dissolution of the protein structure, as the carrier of the individual ego, appropriate to a now obsolete stage of ego development; i.e., "each fever is both a kind of rejuvenation and a new connection of ego and body".
Prior to the childhood illness and its attendant fever the child often is "whiny and utterly disagreeable", giving the "impression of being uncomfortable 'in their own skin'." Then through the process of the disease they often literally "break out" through a rash and desquamation which involves a change in the constituent proteins of the skin.
"Every febrile illness brings about a radical change in the constitution of the organism. The fundamental polarity of inflammation (fever) and sclerosis (diseases of abnormal deposits such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, or carcinoma) . is influenced by every process in the warmth organism. This means that any suppression of a fever or inflammation pushes the balance in favor of a disease lying on the sclerotic side. It has been found, for example, that people who have not gone through any childhood diseases have a greater inclination to cancer." (Husemann and Wolff, pp. 40 - 43)
Chinese psychophysiology:
Lung ~ Fei governs the Qi; regulates the rhythm of respiration, the pulse, and all bodily processes; is the home of the Po (Corporeal Soul); it relates to strength and sustainability; opens at the nose; and extends through the skin.
» Healthy expressions are righteousness and courage.
» dysfunction, and illness are associated with excessive grief, sadness, worry, and depression. Worry depletes the Lung Qi.
therapies
imagery:
related materia medica listings: imagery for immune enhancement
process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: immune system)
related materia medica listings:
the shadow and physical symptoms
converting a symptom to a signal
imagery for immune enhancement
imagery: precautions
imagery: techniques
process paradigm
footnotes