Blutdruck
[Seryan Atasoy, Epidemiologin am Helmholtz Zentrum München]
»Wir haben depressive Stimmungslagen bei etwa der Hälfte derjenigen Patienten festgestellt, die Medikamente gegen den Bluthochdruck genommen haben«
[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.
High blood pressure: Crat. Rauw. Verat.
Low blood pressure: Aven. Cact. Gins.
Hypotonie: Skorodit w
Aurum/Apis regina comp: seelisch bedingten, funktionellen Organstörungen, die sich in Kopfschmerzen, Magenbeschwerden, Schwindelgefühlen, Kreuzschmerzen u.ä.
äußern können (Neurasthenie, vegetative Dystonie), nervöse Erschöpfungszustände, Stimmungsschwankungen in den Wechseljahren (klimakterische Stimmungslabilität),
depressive Verstimmung, Konzentrations- und Gedächtnisschwäche._
[Fernanda Abrao]
‡ 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 7 up to
the beginning of puberty/adolescence the
individual aetheric 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 Seele 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 in
“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 (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.
Vergleich. Psora - Sykose - Syphillinie - Tuberkulinie
[Raeesa Aboobaker]
http://ir.dut.ac.za/handle/10321/668
According to the U.S. Department of Health, Joint National Committee’s 7th
report (2003), Hypertension is defined as an elevated blood pressure where
systolic blood pressure is greater than 140mmHg and the diastolic blood
pressure is greater than 90mmHg, on the average of two or more readings taken
in the seated position, on two or more consecutive visits and where patients
are at risk for end organ damage (Chobanian, Bakris, Black, Cushman, Green,
Izzo, Jones, Materson, Oparil, Wright, and Rocella, 2003)
Hypertension is a serious problem in South Africa, affecting 18.8% of
women (S. African Demographic and Health Survey, 2003), prompting investigation
into treatment. 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.
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.