Schmerzmittelgruppe
Anhängsel
Frei nach: Hans Wolff
Schmerz ist für viele eine unendliche Geschichte geworden, so als ob der Schmerz ein eigenes Krankheitsbild darstellt, ist er aber nicht, aber irgendwie kann er das doch sein, z.B. wenn bei einer irreversiblen, destruktiven Krankheit zum Schluss nur noch begleitend der Schmerz behandelt wird, z.B. durch Opiate, Morphine und dadurch der Abschied erleichtert wird.
Schmerzen sind Sinneswahrnehmungen unterschiedlicher Qualität (stechend/brennend/ziehend/drückend/erkennen).
Wohlbefinden ist gestört, der Körper reagiert darauf und zeigt durch den Schmerz nur, das ursächlich etwas nicht in Ordnung ist - also eine Ursache hat.
Die Symptome, die wir erkennen zeigen uns, dass der Körper in Wirklichkeit mit eigener Kraft seine Gesundheit wieder erlangen will. Das ist wichtig zu verstehen!
Behandeln wir aber nur das Symptom oder den Schmerz so verlieren wir das Ursächliche aus den Augen. Und was noch schlimmer ist, dem Körper wird die Möglichkeit genommen Selbstheilungskraft zu aktivieren.
Es ist unglaublich, welche Kraft in der Natur liegt sich selbst zu heilen.
Genau das versuchen die homöopathischen Mittel zu fördern und zu unterstützen.
Dieser Weg über die Selbstheilkräfte, funktioniert leider in der Regel nur noch in den jungen Jahre. Vieles ist nicht mehr normal, ist nicht mehr
natürlich durch unsere Art zu leben, die Art, wie wir unsere Berufe ausüben (müssen) der natürliche Rhythmus fehlt. Die Art, wie wir uns ernähren.
Älter werdend, verlieren wir zunehmend die Gabe, auf unseren Körper zu hören, denn er will uns eigentlich über das Symptom (Schmerz) etwas sagen.
Hören wir nicht auf unseren Körper und machen uns etwas vor, wird uns der Körper oder die Psyche irgendwann die rote Karte zeigen.
Unterschied zwischen akuten Schmerz und chronischen Schmerz.
Chronisch (mehr als 6 Monate bestehender) Schmerz, der dauernd oder rezidivierend sein kann.
Diese chronischen Schmerzen - Beschwerden sind das eigentlich große Problem.
Akute Schmerz ist wesentlich leichter zu behandeln.
Aber warum machen uns die chronischen Schmerzen, die chronischen Krankheiten solche Schwierigkeiten? Warum lassen sie sich so schwierig behandeln?
Hahnemann: Miasmenlehre.
Eine Art von Genetik, die er 40 Jahre vor Mendel begründete (mendel’schen Gesetze sind Vererbungslehre). Seine Therapie oder Behandlung nahm nun Rücksicht auf den
Hintergrund der in der Familiengeschichte gehäuft aufgetretenen Krankheiten.
D. h. er behandelte in seinen Patienten die Krankheiten ihrer Ahnen, mit dem Erfolg, dass chronische, schleichende Krankheiten endlich für ihn zu behandeln waren.
Hierbei möchte ich auf die Begriffe reversibel, irreversibel aufmerksam machen. Fast jede chronische Krankheit überschreitet irgendwann die
Grenze zwischen reversibel und irreversibel.
Hierzu ein Beispiel:
Die Alkoholkrankheit.
Oft erleben wir in unserer Nähe einen Menschen, der an dieser Krankheit leidet und wir wundern uns, dass dieses Geschehen oft 10, 15, 20 Jahre sein kann.
Der ganze Körper ist aufgedunsen, aufgeschwemmt, die Leber wird zu Fettleber, und irgendwann entsteht Leberzirrhose. Dies ist der Übergang zum Irreversiblen. Ab hier kann man, das
Geschehen nicht mehr zurückholen.
Wir sind nicht nur das Ergebnis von Vater und Mutter, sondern einer ganzen Kette von Ahnen. Alle Stärken, alle Schwächen, alle Veranlagungen, ja jede Art und Weise
mendeln in uns rum. Es ist das einzige Erbe, auf das wir uns verlassen können!
In der Therapie oder Behandlung der homöopathischen Miasmenlehre floss nun bei Hahnmann folgendes ein:
1. Die vererbten Merkmale, dies war die Sensation, das Geniale.
2. Die Gesamtheit der individuellen Merkmale geistiger, seelischer und körperlicher Art
3. sowie der spezifischen Reaktionen auf Einflüsse von Aussen
Aber wir müssen trennen:
1. das Geerbte und
2. das Persönliche - Individuelle
Das Geerbte = Blockierende muss gelöst werden. Erst dann kann man den Patienten in seinen individuellen Merkmalen behandeln.
‡ Folgendes hat anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡
Frei nach: Christa-Johanna Bub-Jachens, M.D.
Analgesics with peripheral action -
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs
The dangers of painkillers are often not fully
recognized. They are widely advertised, but potential consequences are only
rarely made known.
Painkillers are widely used in the highly
industrialized countries, with analgesic-induced nephropathy remarkably common.
20% of patients requiring dialysis present with analgesic-induced renal failure
(
At the dialysis center
in
"Phenacetin.
kidney" was first described in 1950. In 1986, the registration of drugs
containing phenacetin was canceled.
Concerning the history of phenacetin: large
quantities of p-nitrophenol were obtained as a byproduct in
the manufacture of certain pigments; the search
for an industrial use led to the development of phenacetin.
Anilines (Aniline, phenylamine
or aminobenzene is has the formula C6H5NH2.)
have analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties but proved too be
too toxic. Acetanilide (an antipyretic), obtained by acetylation,
was in use for a long time before it was banned
for causing methemoglobinemia. In was known as early
as 1887 that acetanilide converts to paracetamol [N-(4-hydroxy-phenyl) acetamide] in the organism. "This substance is
much more effective and is better tolerated.
Wanting to 'detoxify' paracetamol still further,
chemists produced phenacetin. Today we know phenacetin is converted into paracetamol
in the body“. The February, 1986 issue of Arznei-telegramm
states: "The pharmacological and toxicological data establish the same
kind of nephrotoxic and carcinogenic risk as for phenacetin. Epidemiological data that might go against this
are not available“.
Today, we know that paracetamol,
which has taken the place of phenacetin, is no less nephrotoxic than phenacetin
(combined with acetylsalicylic acid +/o. coffein).
All non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents cause renal
damage. The histology shows non-purulent
interstitial nephritis followed by papillary necrosis. There is no dose-effect
relation. Some patients taking large doses of analgesics do not show damage,
whilst others may develop nephropathy after even relatively low doses.
Generally speaking, it is true to say that renal damage is all the more likely
the higher the cumulative dose. Non-steroidal antirheumatic
drugs also play a considerable role in both chronic and acute renal failure.
We note that drugs have been produced from
waste products.
R.S.: "It is not admissible simply to try
substances out... without considering what is revealed to the world in them.
People test aspirin... or phenacetin, etc., giving
them to patients. If they give one after the other like this,
there is no need to activate the soul.“. He
spoke of the way medicines were found by Intuition in the past, when people
observed the inner connections. Today scientists experiment and try substances
out on a number of people.
R.S. pointed out that such an approach would
have negative consequences in due course, though these would not have been
noted by the initial experimenters. Chemical analysis in the modern sense will
not reveal the world mission of a substance. R.S. showed that it is important
to know and perceive the relationship between macrocosm and human being and that
there is less and less such knowledge (in medicine). "I went through the
martyrdom
of the intellect and of sentience when phenacetin was tried out. This method of trying something
out, without anything to guide one, shows that science has lost not only the
spirit but also its seriousness. .. Today we must clearly distinguish where we
have caricatures of a science and where true insight is gained out of the
spirit“. These words were spoken in 1908! Consider how long it took until
scientists discovered and admitted to facts which R.S. had known through the
science of the spirit.
Analgesics with peripheral action inhibit
prostaglandin synthesis and thus prevent sensitization of pain receptors. Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances
involved in many processes, e.g. inflammatory processes and platelet
aggregation.
The question is, why do peripheral analgesics
and anti-inflammatory drugs cause kidney damage leading to kidney failure and urothelial carcinoma? The kidney is a secretory
organ which enables the human organism to become a self-contained entity
capable of self experience. Processes of conscious awareness are connected with
the kidney. The kidney is also the organ from which the astral body radiates,
which makes it the organic basis for sentience. Pain signifies increased
awareness in the organic region concerned. It is experienced in astral body and
ego. [The pain vanishes as soon as ego and astral body depart (sleep/coma) even
if the wound is still there].
If we see pain as something that brings
awareness, waking us up, we may also consider it to be our helper, a chance to
perceive the need for specific measures both externally and inwardly. If this
awareness-creating symptom is simply suppressed, with no other suitable
measures taken, this may create deep-seated problems for the individual
concerned.
Apart from kidney damage, potential side
effects of all the types of drugs mentioned above include hypersensitivity
(skin reactions/asthma) and changes in blood profile (agranulocytosis).
It is evident that a shift occurs in the astral body's direction of action and
also an attack on the ego-organization.
The above-mentioned drugs not only eliminate
pain but also have anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties. Relative to
reduced awareness, the suppression of inflammatory reactions and the effect on
the warmth organization are of much greater account. They add to the damaging
effects of modem civilization, increasing the diseases of our time.
The question is, what is the effect of drinks
containing paracetamol used to treat colds? They
sound so harmless and are used with terrible frequency. What does it mean if we
use acetyl-ac. to treat inhibition of platelet
aggregation, which is a common practice today?
Frei nach: L. R. Twentyman, M.B., F.F. HOM.
The descriptions of migraine from classical
times show the same features as today/can manifest from childhood to old age.
Start is the characteristic feature of one-sidedness
(can be two-sided)/may always be on same side/may start on one side and move to
the other/may alternate in different attacks from side to side.
What does this marked asymmetry point to?
The human bodily organization is not fully
symmetrical; l. and r. do not fully mirror one another. Where does the twist
come from?
The brain is initially symmetrical; the
distinctions between l. and r. are built into it from the use of the limbs. In
early childhood it is still possible to determine l. or r. handedness. One
gains the impression that the symmetry
of the body stems downwards from the head. If
we were only head we would be symmetrical. Logical head-bound thinking wants to
have everything and all arguments balanced and symmetrical. This is the typical
male sort of thinking, and it finds the twist in things difficult to put up
with. Nature is always twisted; even in crystals we find dextro
or laevo rotatory forms.
If symmetry stems from the head, from where
comes the twist in asymmetry? Our abdominal organs show the twist early in
embryological development. The alimentary tract begins to coil, the stomach
moves to the l., the liver
to the r., the spleen and pancreas to the l..
The kidneys retain a symmetrical relationship, consistent with their origin as pronephros in the head region, but the suprarenal glands
sitting on the top of the kidneys show asymmetry,
the l.having a halfmoon shape. This twist builds itself upwards into the
thorax where the heart comes to lie slightly to the l. and the l. lung has two
lobes whilst the r. has three. Moreover the blood vessels develop so that the
aortic arch in mammals and man persists on the
l., the r. arch atrophying, whilst in birds on the contrary it is the r. aortic
arch that persists. In this way the arteries in man come to be centrifugal to
the l. and the veins centripetal
to the r. In the brain it seems that the
functional distinctiveness of l. and r. hemispheres is built into it from the
use of the limbs. In this way we have come to be a wonderful balance of two
spatial principles, and we can find
these two aspects sculptured in the inner ear.
The semi-circular canals, at r. angles to each other, manifest the tendency to
symmetrical order, r.-angled and r.-minded regularity of the 3 dimensions of
space. The cochleae, the
snail shells within our ears, on the other hand
are spirally formed.
The one-sidedness of migraine headache seems,
then, to point to processes arising in the metabolic, abdominal pole of our
organization and overwhelming the true nerve-sense processes in the head pole.
For consciousness to
wake up in our heads, the life processes must
withdraw. When the constructive, up-building forces of the metabolism push up
into the brain we lose consciousness, as for instance when we fall asleep. During
waking life, when
we can think and reflect, the dying processes
in the nerves predominate. The brain is only a true brain functionally when we
are awake and thinking. We wake up in our sense organs when the metabolic life
processes withdraw from them and allow the outer world to penetrate. In the
migraine attack the senses are disturbed, most dramatically in vision. The loss
of half of the visual field, usually l. or r., but sometimes the upper or lower
half, is fairly common. Tunnel vision and effects like snowstorms add to the
bewildering and varied phenomena of the visual aura or migraine. Hemiplegias, to be interpreted as loss of the sense of
motion and position, vertigo, disturbances
of hearing or smell or taste, may also herald
the onset of the attack. Most sufferers from migraine would also agree that
during the attack thinking is disturbed and, when circumstances permit, the
best thing to do is to sleep.
Some attacks of compulsive sleepiness seem to
bear the signature of migraine rather than narcolepsy. Could we also approach Menieres syndrome as another aspect of the same process?
Emmanuel Swedenborg, swedish
philosopher-scientist, drew attention to the peculiar way in which the arteries
lead into the skull. Both the vertebral and internal carotid arteries supplying
the brain enter the inner sanctuary of
the skull with a sort of 'S' shaped twist. In
this way, Swedenborg suggested, the full drive of the pulse-beat is held back
and the brain can take its blood in freedom. Altogether the head rises poised
and balanced freely on the top
of the vertebral column; it should not be held
rigidly as a mere appendage like an animal's head. Many migraine sufferers have
stiff or stuck necks, and one wonders whether the success of osteopathic
manipulation of the neck
in some of these patients is due to the freeing
of the head from the trunk, freeing the brain from the surging forces of the
blood. The liberating action of the serpentine entry of the arteries into the
skull becomes frozen in these necks until it is again released.
So far we have been considering the
one-sidedness of migraine as an expression of the upper, cephalic, pole being
overwhelmed by the dynamics of the lower abdominal pole. Processes which should
run their course in the digestive and metabolic organs may for various reasons
be incomplete. Then the brain may be called upon to complete vicariously the
digestive and metabolic processes, functions for which it is not suited.
Certain foodstuffs
are not, in some individuals, overcome in the
digestion and then pass as foreign and still undigested foreign substances into
the brain: chocolate and cheese are well-known examples. These food
sensitivities are not really
allergic but rather poisonings. They may arise on
the basis of specific enzyme deficiencies.
We can now more easily pass on to the migraine
phenomena related to menstruation.
It has been said in an aphorism that migraine
is cephalic dysmenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea uterine migraine, and in
psychoanalytical circles migraine has sometimes been understood as symbolic labor pains. The old Greek
story of the birth of Pallas Athene from the head of Zeus expressed this in the
pictorial language of mythology. Zeus had become aware of the fact that his
spouse Hera had conceived without male help. He developed a
headache diagnosed by the midwives of
We are here faced with the polarity of the
uterus and skull. In the one the brain, in the other the embryo-fetus float. In the one case man conceives thoughts in the
head, in the other woman conceives babies in the uterus. These features again
lead us to look at the architecture of the human organization. From the top
cervical to the lowest lumbar vertebra the architecture is predominantly
segmental. Each segment is based essentially on a vertebra with posterior
spine, two transverse processes and two ribs, a five-fold star (Aster.). In the neck and lumbar regions
of man, the ribs appear lost, but they reappear, in metamorphosis, in the
limbs, the five suppressed ribs coming to visibility in the fingers and toes.
But in the skull and pelvis the segmental character is almost completely
overcome by the spherical form. The radial, segmental architecture of the spine
is replaced by the dome of the head, and the head of the fetus
fits almost perfectly into the containing dome of the pelvic cavity.
The sea-urchins among the echinoderms echo this
metamorphosis.
In nature we find two animal phyla in which
these architectural principles find expression. In the Arthropods., coming to highest expression in the
insects, we find segmentation carried to its limit. The body is rigidly divided
into segments, the appendages are segmented;
even the life history is divided into segmented stages, egg, caterpillar,
chrysalis, butterfly or imago. These stages are sharply separated from each
other. At another level of animal organization, the snakes carry segmentation
to another extreme, with up to 450 vertebrae. The great contrast to these
articulated creatures is found in the molluscs, and again amongst the reptiles
the tortoise stands in polarity
to the snake.
Poppelbaum emphasized the molluscs as
corresponding to the head/Jaworski emphasized more
the molluscan note in the female genital organs and
functions. The same note which is sounded in the formation of the uterus and
vagina sounds again in the realm of the cephalopods (squid/cuttle
fish/octopus). Homeopathy has the remedy Sep. (= ink of the cuttlefish/= a outstanding for
migraine) and it has an INfluence on the uterus and gynecological functions.
Most migraine attacks in women are associated
with menstruation, and Sep. helps in the treatment of these patients and in
understanding the dynamics of the condition. Jaworski
further traced the asymmetry, as a female note,
so marked for instance in the spiral of the
snail-shell, r. back to the asymmetry in the process of oogenesis
(= Entwicklung einer befruchtungsfähigen Eizelle). In
the divisions of the oocyte (= weiblicher
Keimzelle) leading to
the formation of the ovum, the cell divisions
do not lead to two equal cells. Instead, small so-called polar bodies are cast
off. Cell division leads to unequal cells, ovum and polar bodies = female. In
spermatogenesis = male on
the contrary, cell division results in equal
sized cells of the next generation.
Lyc. + Sang. + Chel.
r.-sided action and related to the liver and gall systems.
Spig. works mostly on the l. side of the head and
has strong affinities with the heart.
These instances help us to see into the way in
which, in migraine, the processes of the lower genital and metabolic
organizations come to obtrude into the head organization. Can we characterize
these polarities any further? The distinction mentioned between the conception
of babies in the uterus and thoughts in the head points to another aspect of
this polarity. In the womb, real, live babies are conceived, but in the head
only those shadowy images we call thoughts. These thoughts have more the
quality of mirror images; they are not substantial but image realities. It is within
the world of images which arise in our heads that we can wake up in freedom;
they do not compel us. But we live into the realm of substantially real
metabolic activities and metamorphoses found in our lower functions and then
actively transform these processes. In doing so we lose our awake
consciousness, we enter the realm of the unconscious, a sleep consciousness. We
can, even if at first only as a guess, begin to see how here we enter the realm
of the will over against the awake life in that hall of mirrors we call our
head, the realm of the image life of our thinking.
A typical feature of migraine = periodicity.
All life activities have a rhythmic quality: night and day, lunar month,
seasons of the year and other rhythms manifest themselves in living organisms.
Migraine often obtrudes into ordinary life, interfering forcibly with our
consciously held wishes and intentions, and does so periodically. In between
the attacks life proceeds normally. We have already mentioned the association
of migraine with menstruation and in women the monthly rhythm usually comes to
dominate the migraine periodicity. In men the periodicity seems more related to
stress. The weekend headache comes on to spoil the pleasures of recreation
after a heavy week's work dominated by the objective demands of imposed duty.
The nightly renewal of the brain during sleep cannot keep pace with the
accumulating deposits, the debris of our over-concentrated waking activity. The
attack comes as a weekly spring cleaning. It can come on when the repressive
force of conscious concentration on a task is relaxed. Attacks can be
associated with some special occasion or event. They nicely come to prevent the
fulfilling of the arrangement, duty or other obligation. A certain hysterical
element here enters into the attack whose occurrence may certainly seem
purposive and useful.
In these phenomena is a polarity on one hand
excessive digestive, metabolic processes overwhelm the processes in the nerves
and senses (incl. the hysterics) and on the other hand overexertion of nervous
and sensory activity leads to the need for a periodic curative clean-up and
renewal in the brain and senses. Our conscious waking life is purchased at the
expense of catabolic breakdown processes in the brain. If these are not cleared
up during sleep and periods of recreation, they build up until a crisis point
is reached. The migraine attack is curative. In the former type of cases, a
surplus of incompletely digested metabolic substances breaks through into the
nerve-sense processes. These two types of migraine phenomena often play into
each other today.
At this point we can approach the conditions
sometimes known as migraine substitutes. If we can grasp the archetypal process
in migraine in a sort of picture, if we can begin to approach it, then we can
hope to find this same archetype in related phenomena. We can proceed to
grapple with the riddles of migraine by the methods of amplification rather
than by reductionism. This is not to decry the researches which unearth the
fine mechanisms which play their part in illness and health. But just as a
study of the chemistry of ink is only one aspect of the deciphering of a
written page and must be complemented by study of the letters of the alphabet,
of spelling, of the building up of sentences and paragraphs until with a leap
we reach the very heart, mind and soul of the author, so must we try again and
again to read the meanings of symptoms in addition to the chemical mechanisms
in which they are written.
We have already considered migraine and
dysmenorrhoea as substitutes, and problems of menstruation can throw light on
related aspects of migraine. Fluid retention is common before menstruation. It
may assume major importance in severe cases of premenstrual syndrome. In many
cases of migraine a similar fluid retention builds up before the attack which
passes off with diuresis. Some decades ago this led
to the treatment of migraine with urea which was used to promote the diuresis. In homeopathy Gels. is
mentioned in connection with migraine ending in diuresis/anticipatory
anxiety and confusion and to paralytic and anesthetic
phenomena, pointing to the hysterical pole of these conditions. No doubt
hormonal influences are integrated into these manifestations.
Gout: deposits of urates
in the cartilage and tissues (around joints). Attack of acute gout: joints
red/swollen/hot/exquisitely painful. After the attack the deposits (in tophi), may be reduced in size; the attack has been
curative. Prof. F. Wood Jones: observations based on his own experience. He
came to the view that in the attack arterio-venous anastomoses (= Verbindung 2er Strukturen) around the joint opened up and brought about a
greatly increased blood flow. One might describe such phenomena as vicarious
menstruation, remembering that gout is mostly a disease of men, female
menstruation protecting women from it.
In children various aspects of the periodic
syndrome are fairly common and tend to develop at puberty into frank migraine.
But quite typical migraine also occurs in childhood.
Syndrome occurring periodically: bilious
attacks with vomiting and abdominal pain or recurrent fevers (with inflamed
throats). In adults: abdominal migraine, in which recurrent attacks of pain,
nausea and sometimes vomiting occur (+ headaches) and the diagnosis is easy.
Often, however, it is only the overall picture of the recurrent attacks which
leads to a diagnosis, together with the exclusion of so-called organic disease
of gall bladder, kidneys and pancreas in particular.
Pseudo-angina in the chest has also been
recognized as a migraine substitute.
Some years ago I had occasion to record and
comment on some cases in which the migraine process seemed to appear in a limb.
One of these cases was a woman who had had a cancer of the l. breast for ten
years. She had always refused treatment for it. It had now reached the stage
when multiple skin metastases were present over the l. breast and shoulder and
upper arm. She told the story of how, over the years, at periodic monthly
intervals, she would have an attack which she called her fever attacks. One day
she would feel particularly well, and she came to expect next day to pay for
it. Then next morning she would wake with a high fever (up to 103 o F.) and the
whole breast and arm area red, swollen, angry. On occasions when doctors had
seen it, they had wanted to give antibiotics, but she had always told them not
to be silly and go away. Next day she was quite recovered. These attacks always
came together with a severe l.-sided migraine. It was as if one could actually
see the same process both in the head as pain and in the trunk as an
inflammatory reaction.
If we relate this to the conception that a
cancer is a misplaced sense organ we may guess that these attacks were indeed
curative processes. Incidentally, she also said that after radiation therapy
for a metastasis in the cervical spine the attacks stopped for six months. Did
the radiation suppress the curative reactions?
We have suggested that the unilateral aspect of
migraine points to an origin in the metabolic processes and organs. In the
homeopathic tradition of medicine various remedies have been observed to have a
particular relationship to migraine. These remedies often point to disturbances
of other organs and functions in addition to the headache. Puls:
uterus and headache. Iris-v. acts IRRitative on the
gastrointestinal tract (acts on the pancreas as well?)/migraine with nausea,
vomiting and abdominal pain/produces intense SALivation.
Sulph.: whole metabolic process (liver).
Kidneys system in so far as it relates to
migraine. Following the anthroposophical school
kidneys and suprarenal glands are taken together. The last sitting like caps on
the kidneys catch to some extent the kidney radiation and mediate it into the
circulation. Swedenborg discussed these 2 glands and attributed endocrine
functions to them. He showed their close
connection with the kidneys. This connection has been developed in anthroposophical medicine. The kidneys perform a lot of
work in separating the urine from the blood, and as a consequence there is backthrust into the organism. R.S. discussed this backthrust under the term kidney radiation. It works to
arouse the organic processes from vegetable to animal existence. The
relationship of the kidney to N metabolism indicates this; vegetable life is
based on C-metabolism, animal life on protein, and where protein enters into
vegetable life it indicates that this has been touched by the animal level of
existence. Protein has interiorized the N-processes. It is significant that Cofin. and barbiturates are closely related to urea in molecular structure. The one
acts to awaken, the other as a hypnotic. The kidneys are also involved in blood
pressure control through renin, angiotensin
and related processes, and the suprarenal glands reach a high polarity of
action in the contrasted pictures of Addison's disease and Cushing's syndrome.
In Addison's disease the patient lies inert, pale, pigmented, the Na level in
the blood is reduced and the blood pressure is very low. But in Cushing's
syndrome, the patient is hyperalert, restless,
florid, with high blood pressure and raised Na level relative to K. Na
characteristic of animal, and K of vegetable physiology.
John Paterson: Proteus. He
found a common thread running through the drug pictures of these remedies which
he expressed as "brain storms." The main remedy in this group is
Nat-m., an outstanding homeopathic remedy for migraine. I have no doubt that
this group is related to the kidney, as the group associated with the Morgan
bacillus was related by Paterson to the liver and the group associated with the
dysentery organisms with the heart and epigastrium.
These were empirical clinical findings. Now in this group associated with salt,
Nat-m. we find Sec. Cupr-met. Cact.
together with Ign. and Con. (which brings in attacks of vertigo as well). In
the picture of Nat-m. we find long exhausting periods of strain followed by
sudden outbursts of disease manifestation such as migraine or even herpes
simplex.
The evolutionary origins of the kidney as pronephros from the cephalic pole already points to a close
connection between this organ and the nervous system. It is interesting to find
that these empirical confirmations and the whole range of symptoms of these
remedies share a common style. It is this style, which
The style of the attacks points to a common
ground in the kidney and related nervous disturbance. A feature of some
migraine attacks, already touched on, may find an explanation in the kidney
dynamics. It is not uncommon for patients to refer to a feeling of well-being,
a high, the day before an attack. Sometimes it takes the form of ravenous
hunger and then the headache is attributed to the orgy of overeating, whereas
in reality the overeating is the first symptom in the whole ritual of the
migraine attack. Starting with a general exhilaration arising from an overactive
kidney radiation, the process goes on to the overwhelming of the brain function
and the typical migraine headache.
Senses weak or exhausted/unable to defend
themselves against the battering of the modern world: Sil.
Prun. and Phos.
Migraine expresses itself as a confrontation
between these two poles: the nerve-sense pole and the metabolic pole and a failure of the rhythmic system in its
function of healing intermediation.
The form-giving upper pole cannot succeed in
straightening the turbulence of the metabolic processes. The nourishing
metabolic pole cannot refresh the dying nervous system but erupts against it as
a pseudo- inflammation. In the natural rhythm of sleep and waking we can see
the healthy interworking of the two poles mutually interpenetrating and
balancing each other. In the meeting of breathing rhythm and pulse beat, these
two again work into and through each other; the breathing rhythm leads the
nervous and the pulse beat the metabolic processes into harmonious relationship
with each other through the interplay of these two rhythms.
Ferr-met. works in 3 functional realms: 1. as
healer and strengthener of nervous tissue, 2. relates
to the biliary system, restraining the overexuberance, 3. working in the rhythmic cycles/the to
and fro of taking up and giving up O by the hemoglobin is an example of this rhythmic
activity of iron. In the vaguely developed homeopathic drug pictures of Ferr-met. and its salts, something of all this is visible.
Instability of the circulation/orgasms of blood/flushings
which are combined with sensitivity of the senses particularly of hearing, and
indigestion, vomiting and an intolerance of eggs. All of this with hammering
headaches and a marked r.sidedness in the symptoms
show the relatedness of iron to the whole migraine disturbance. The anthroposophical remedy for migraine: Bidor.
Migraine in relation to other diseases:
First stage: prodomal
herniplegia ordinarily resolving in ½ hour, the hemiplegia will on occasion be found to be persisting and
permanent. The migraine has passed over into a stroke.
The dynamics of migraine as they have been
presenting themselves to us can be found again in the more serious and tragic
condition of multiple sclerosis. Here the dying of nerve tissue, something
which paradoxically can almost be called the life of the nerve processes, gets
too advanced. It provokes the blood to an inflammatory response, in an attempt
to reincorporate and re-enliven the disintegrating myelin sheath.
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