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[Robin Murphy]
Nat-m. C 6 4x daily and Equisetum mother tincture– 5 drops in water, 3x
daily. Don’t combine with Rx blood pressure drugs, you could cause electrolyte
imbalances.
‡ Folgendes hat anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡
Frei nach: Fernanda Abrao, M.D.
Hypertension
According to R.S.: "Hypertension is the result of astral
hyperexcitability at the level of the rhythmic system". In German, this
pathology is called hypertonie, that is, exacerbated or intensified tonus. We
know cramping as a constrictive action of the astral body on the muscles acting
from outside as if a hand were gripping them. To understand "hypertonus",
imagine this exacerbated astral tonus going deeper, as if it were generating
exaggerated tonus at the level of the rhythmic, or cardiovascular, system. Here
we see that this astral activity does not act from outside as it does in the
case of a cramp.
It is not my intention to diminish the importance of the pathophysiology
of hypertension. The comparison with a cramp is used only to get us closer to
the constrictive, tension element of the astral process - something which is
almost mechanical in the case of a cramp.
We find the causes of this astral tension of the rhythmic system in
psychic disorders, moral tremors which affect the human being as a creature of
soul and spirit. A simple and instructive example of the effects that a threat
can cause to our feeling life is fright. When someone is startled, a feeling of
abandonment arises, as if presence of mind abandons them. In other words, the
activities of the Ego and the astral body move out of harmonious relationship
with the physical-etheric body. These four bodies balance harmoniously in our
rhythmic system. The consciousness of our Ego dwells in our cardiovascular
system. If fright overcomes us, our capacity to react is impaired; the
"shield" of the Ego and the astral body does not fully protect us. As
a result, fear can invade us.
R.S. points out the importance of disorders of the rhythmic system in
human beings between the 2nd and 3rd seven-year periods as a cause of
hypertension. It is well known that the 2nd seven-year period of life is the
solar phase, which is essentially a rhythmic one when the child suffers very
little illness. In his book. Children's Destinies, Dr. Holtzapfel explains
this. The aesthetic and artistic experience of the world and the experience of
beauty have their roots in this period. The child perceives everything around
it through its most genuine feeling; we can state unequivocally that this
feeling is an organ through which the child receives the world and through
which he goes out to meet it. In this way, traumas of the soul from different
sources will disturb the above-mentioned attitude of soul, and the soul will
absorb these elements during the process of structuring the personality.
What is it that happens in this situation? It is as if the activities of
the Ego and the astral body are attempting to settle on the base of the
physical-etheric body, whose node of confluence is at the cardiovascular level,
but does not succeed in doing so properly. Traumas are like frights in
installments which cause the Ego and the astral body to hover, thus making it
difficult for them to fit into the lower bodies like a hand in a glove. The
attempt to incarnate occurs more from outside, irregularly, in the
cardiovascular system, generating an increased tonus, hypertonus, or
hypertension.
In a talk on the heart, R.S. states the following:
The human heart is a center where the cosmic forces and karmic
activation are interlaced. From the age of seven up to the beginning of
puberty/adolescence the individual etheric heart is born, originating from the
cosmic spheres of influence (fixed stars, zodiac, planets). Together with this
process there is a penetration of the astral elements (which were formerly
outside) into all the physical organs; and it is as if the heart is the central
point of this interiorization. These astral elements consist of karmic elements
developed during the prenatal life. And it is in the heart that this clash
between the cosmic-etheric forces and the karmic-astral forces takes place. The
ego joins this process in sympathy from the astral body, inscribing in the
astral body its aims and ideas based on which man carries out his actions...
Indeed, here there is complete union of the karma with the laws of the
cosmos... After death, the etheric body, upon dissolving in the starry cosmos,
hands over to the universe, as it were, everything that was created by karma on
earth.
This is an incomplete account of the lecture designed to illustrate the
importance of the cardiovascular system in the deeper context of the existence
of a human being.
Dr. Mees also deals with the heart, asking us to consider the muscular
continuity of the heart-aorta-arteries (with the reservation that the first of
these is a syncytium, and the arteries smooth musculature). Since the heart is
the stage on which the "dramas of the soul" are enacted, it is
possible for a tensional process to materialize in the arterial system. He also
reminds us that it is not only the heart that beats but the entire arterial
system.
In his book, Der Leib als Instrument der Seek in Gesundheit und
Krankheit Dr. Walther Buehler describes the heart as the "perceptive"
organ of the arterial circulation; it is the latter which really beats, leading
the heart to beat with it.
Hypertension and Sclerosis
In the seventh clinical case of the Fundamentals of Therapy by R.S. and
Ita Wegman, it is stated that the excess astral activity not absorbed by the
physical and etheric bodies causes sclerosis. Later in the book, they state
"...the excess of activity of the astral body also increases the activity
of the Ego, which is manifested as a rise in blood pressure“. Indeed, the
correlation between sclerosis and hypertension is very common, especially when
deposits are observed on the walls of the arteries. An excess of activity of
the soul/spirit can be seen as the basic cause of sclerosis; but it is
interesting to note that the degenerative element can be attributed to the
astral activity whereas the Ego would be the harmonizing element of this
process - if it were in control. Here, however, the astral element causes
degradation, irregularity, constriction or hardening, which can lead to
hypertension, to more obvious metabolic disorders such as atherosclerosis or
arteriosclerosis, or to less obvious ones.
In the same book, they refer to the medicine Scleron: "In
sclerosis, the organization of the Ego becomes very weak; it does not do enough
breaking down. As a result, the breaking down takes place only by means of the
astral body.“.. From this we see that both in sclerosis and in hypertension
there is a predominance of the irregular astral activity, poorly controlled by
the healthy activity of the Ego. The effect of Scleron is precisely to give
priority to the activity of the Ego over the astral body; it is to fortify and
intensify the activity of the Ego in the therapeutic sense, attempting to
dissolve the hardening or constrictive tendency of the astral body.
Kidney Radiation
When the activity of the kidneys and adrenal glands is increased, the
resulting plethora can, in turn, lead to cardiovascular disorders and
sclerosis. The pyknic constitution and the choleric temperament have this
tendency.
People with a weak kidney radiation tend to have low blood pressure and
a melancholic temperament of the longilineous type. I have seen several
patients of this type suffer a reversion to hypertension between the ages of
about 35 to 42 after a professional or marital crisis, bearing in mind
significant aspects of their case histories.
It is quite common in anthroposophic medicine to come across the
following definition of R.S.: "The hypertensive patient is a hypotensive
person up against life“. I think that, especially in the above case, this
definition is perfect if we remember that this type of person generally has
little vital energy, which affects the will (in the case of low kidney
radiation).
Recent Research
Some very interesting research was recently performed by means of a
microneurogram in which the stimuli of the sympathetic (peripheral) nervous
system on the arteries related to hypertension was observed. The initial
conclusion was that the hyperactivity of this system (due to stress, emotions,
intellectual activity, etc.) caused arterial constriction, even going so far as
to constrict minor blood vessels. It further concluded that in hypertensive
patients the number of nervous stimuli remained high, even in the absence of
triggering factors.
From this, it is not difficult to understand the previously-mentioned
aspects if we consider the increased astral activity acting "from
outside", causing contraction in the arterial system through the channel
with which it has most affinity - that is to say, the nervous system.
http://ir.dut.ac.za/handle/10321/668
[Raeesa Aboobaker]
Hypertension is a serious problem in South Africa, affecting 18.8% of
women (South African Demographic and Health Survey, 2003), prompting
investigation into treatment. In total, approximately 6.1 million people suffer
from Hypertension in South Africa.
The purpose of this double-blind study was to evaluate the efficacy of
the Homoeopathic simillimum and a Homoeopathic complex (Aurum metallicum C6,
Lachesis C 6,
Natrium muriaticum C 6, Veratrum album C 6) in the treatment of Primary
Hypertension in adult females.
A minimum of 30 patients were recruited and were selected on the basis
of specified inclusion and exclusion criteria, and randomly divided into two
equal groups by the research supervisor, with the first group receiving the
Homoeopathic simillimum and the second group receiving the Homoeopathic
complex. The initial consultation took place at the Durban University of
Technology or at the Umlazi Medical Centre after obtaining informed
consent from the patients (Appendix D). A detailed case history was
taken, followed by a complete physical examination, including blood pressure
readings and cardiovascular system examinations. Follow up consultations
occurred weekly for a period of 4 weeks to record blood pressure readings, any
changes in the general health and well being of the participants, in order to
prescribe more medicines if needed. A mercury sphygmomanometer
and a Littmann Classic 2 stethoscope were the tools of measurement and
was used according to the method outlined by Bates (2007), which states that an
accurate measurement of blood pressure is dependent on the appropriate cuff
size of the sphygmomanometer and whether the type of gauge used needs to be
calibrated or not. SPSS version 18 was used to analyse the data. A p value
<0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
Repeated measures ANOVA tests were done to compare the blood pressures
over time between the treatment groups. Specific remedies used at each time
point were described by treatment group. Potencies of the remedies were
compared within each remedy between the treatment groups using Pearson’s chi
square tests.
RESULTS Within each of the two treatment groups there was a highly
significant decrease in systolic blood pressure over time (p<0.001). This
means that both treatments were effective at lowering systolic blood pressure.
Within each of the two treatment groups there was a highly significant
decrease in diastolic blood pressure over time (p=0.001 and p<0.001 respectively).
This means that both treatments were effective at lowering diastolic blood
pressure. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures at five time points were
compared between the two treatment groups using repeated measures ANOVA. There
was an overall significant change over time in both groups (p<0.001), but
the change over time was not different according to treatment groups (p=0.355).
The decrease in systolic blood pressure over time was nearly identical in the
two groups as the profiles are almost parallel.
Therefore in terms of systolic blood pressure there was no statistical
evidence for one treatment being more beneficial than the other. There was an
overall significant change over time in both groups (p<0.001) but the change
over time was not different according to treatment groups (p=0.187). The
decrease in diastolic blood pressure over time was almost the same rate in both
groups as the profiles are almost parallel. Therefore in terms of diastolic
blood pressure there was no statistical evidence for one treatment being more
beneficial than the other.
CONCLUSION The results of the study led to the conclusion that both the
simillimum and complex treatments were effective at reducing blood pressure
over time, but there was no evidence that one treatment was more beneficial
than the other, since the rates of change over time in systolic and diastolic
blood pressure were similar in both treatment groups.
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