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tx
endocrine system
Cushing's syndrome
psychospiritual approaches

metaphors and correlations

• Adrenals associated with first chakra at tip of spinal cord, which symbolizes grounding, (fight/flight syndrome, state of balance). (Serinus, p. 163)
• Mental imbalance; overproduction of crushing ideas; a feeling of being overpowered. (Hay, 1984, p. 161)

Chinese psychophysiology:
Kidney ~ Shen stores Jing (Essence) and governs birth, growth, reproduction, development, and aging; houses the Zhi (Will); expresses ambition and focus; governs Water to regulate body fluids; includes the functions ascribed to the adrenals, and displays the constitutional endowment from the parents as well as the debilitating effects of aging, overwork, and extreme stress.
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Healthy expressions are gentleness, groundedness, and endurance.
» Kidney Xu (Deficiency) signs include indecisiveness; confused speech; dreams of trees submerged under water; cold feet and legs; abundant sweating (Seem, p. 28); hearing loss; fearfulness; apathy; chronic fatigue; discouragement; scatteredness; lack of will; negativity; impatience; difficult inhalation; low sex drive; lumbago; sciatica; and musculoskeletal irritation and inflammation, especially when worse from touch.
» Intense or prolonged fear depletes the Kidney. Often chronic anxiety may induce Xu (Deficiency) and then Fire within the Kidney. (Maciocia, p. 250) Overwork, parenting, simple aging, and a sedentary or excessively indulgent lifestyle all contribute significantly to Kidney Xu (Deficiency).


therapies

imagery:
• adrenal rescue (Chavez)

affirmation:
• I lovingly balance my mind and my body.
• I now choose thoughts that make me feel good. (Hay, 1984, p. 161)

process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
• What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (related materia medica listings: endocrine system interview)

related materia medica listings:
the shadow and physical symptoms
converting a symptom to a signal
imagery: precautions
imagery: techniques
affirmations: guidelines and precautions
process paradigm


footnotes

Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.