Thymus
= Thymi glandulae extractum (Thym-g)
Vergleich: Cob-met (= in Thym-g enthalten) Colos (fördert Thym-g). Argin (setzt Wachstumshormonen für Thym-g frei), Ornithin (stimuliert Thym-g)
Siehe: Drüsengruppe
+ Sarcodes
Negativ: Eifersüchtig/(Selbst)mitleid/Sorgen/will eigenen Wünschen
erfüllen, Kindlich/kindisch, geistig wechselhaft
(Autismus), 1. meist untergeben, 2. GEGNER, zarter Haut, seidige Haaren;
[Richard Pitt]
Thymus gland
The thymus gland is situated in the upper part of the chest in front of
the trachea. There are two lobes to the gland and they contain lymphocytes – T
cells and B-lymphocytes, the latter of which are produced in the bone marrow.
The gland is most active from birth to puberty and then declines as the gonads
and ovaries become active. It also has much to do with the metabolism of
phosphor and calcium, like the parathyroid. Tumours can form in the thymus
leading to its removal. The medicine is discussed in Blackwood’s Manual5 and
briefly in Boericke’s Materia Medica6. Blackwood states that:
“This gland has not been employed therapeutically as much as its
importance might indicate. It has been employed in certain cases of
exophthalmic goitre, when the thymus is enlarged, in rheumatic arthritis,
rachitis and marasmus. Hypodermically it has lowered the blood pressure. Care
should be exercised in prescribing this to gouty patients, as it is rich in
nucleins.” In Doris Beauchamp’s book she suggests its use in children who have
slow development, many acute illnesses, NBWS since childhood illnesses or
vaccines, worried-looking babies, extremes of behaviour and children who are
extremely affectionate. It would be compared with the major polychrests such as
Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea phosphoricum, Carcinosin, Phosphorus and
Tuberculinum. In adults she suggests it for overweight and sluggish people, a
history of never being mothered, NBWS since serious road accidents or head
injury, NBWS prolonged stress, acute illness and food allergies. It is
suggested, as with other sarcodes that it can be given in low potencies as a
support medicine.
[J. Ellis Barker]
Thymus gland given as drainage in case of prostate dysfunction.
[Martin Miles]
Thymus gland - Thuj. - Tub.*
Repertorium:
Äußerer Hals: Kropf - Basedow
Allgemeines: Entwicklungsstillstand
Entzündete Gelenke - rheumatoide Arthritis
Wirkung: sanguinisch
Allerlei: Krebszellen haben gleiche elektrisch-magnetische Ladung wie Thymusdrüse.
The thymus gland is the organ that enables us to distinguish between
what is “me” and “not me”. It helps create and maintain the immune system and
it regulates the right amount of immunity,
like a thermostat. It is very important in Cancer and Autoimmune
diseases and, interestingly, many ASD children have biological markers
consistent with an autoimmune disease.
The thymus gland has been described as the “Black Box” of negative
events, recording whatever has changed the original life pattern and the remedy
can open the person up to past traumas,
explore the darkness within and unlock and resolve maintaining causes of
trauma. Part of its picture is also birth trauma (very common in ASD) and the
overuse of all kinds of drugs, as well as
a set facial expression (again common in ASD).
Organotherapie: [Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD]
Immune system and the Thymus Gland.
Under constant assault by viruses,
bacteria, vaccines, antibiotics taken willingly or inadvertently with food, the
immune system deserves some attention in many cases.
Echinacea Angustifolia or Purpurea
This is one of the best known and
most studied herb in relation with the immune system. There is abundant
literature available so I will summarize it:
immunostimulant, immunomodulator,
anti-inflammatory, enhances resistance to infection, anti-viral activity and
anti-microbial activity.
Echinacea deserves to be in each and
every prescription related to the enhancement of the immune system.
Propolis
Not an herb, but collected from bee
hives, so indirectly can be considered as a phytotherapic remedy, collected
from plants and transformed by bees.
Antiseptic, antibiotic and immune
stimulant, there is a plethora of literature available, which I will not copy
here.
Uncaria Tomentosa
Immunostimulant; increases production
of inteleukin-1 and interleukin-6; can induce apoptosis in leukaemic cells.
Recommended not to be given before or with organ transplantation, this
demonstrates its powerful immune
enhancement ability.
Astragalus Membranaceus
Immunostimulant, restores the body’s
immune response, particularly effective if leucopoenia is associated with the
immune deficiency.
It has demonstrated an increase in
the thymus gland weight, when tested in rats (Sigura, cited in Mills and Bone
Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy).
There are many other herbs that have
an immune stimulating effect and are widely used for that purpose:
Arctium Lappa is an immunoregulator,
Fucus Vesiculosus is an immunomodulator, Glycyrrhiza induces the production of
interferon, Baptisia increases the production of antibodies,
Tabebuia Avellanda, Shiitake and
Reishii, Eleutherococcus, Pau d’Arco, Withania etc. Whether those herbs repair
the immune system, stimulates it or both is still not entirely clear and the
indication of each one should be
weighted according to the totality of the patient’s problem, as usual; for
example, you cannot give Glycyrrhiza to a hypertensive patient or Fucus
Vesiculosus
to a hyperthyroid patient; that
seems obvious, yet it is repeatedly done.
Thymus gland
The thymus gland grows rapidly until
the second year of life. Then more slowly, and at puberty begins to regress. In
adult life it is only a rudiment. Regression starts earlier in females than
males.
…It is claimed that the thymus lost
its value for man and mammals when their ancestors began to incubate their eggs
within their body and ceased laying them, as birds do - reptiles with albumen
and shells.
That was the original function of
the thymus gland. Pigeons, whose thymus glands have been removed, lay eggs
without shells but if fed thymus lay normal eggs plus shells. …
The thymus has been called the gland
of precocity. It has also been named the gland of eternal youth, for its
failure to regress at the proper time inhibits the maturing of the body.
When thymus is fed to a tadpole it
remains a tadpole - it doesn’t metamorphose into a frog.
This centre, the thymus gland and
the heart chakras, is the centre of true rebirth from ordinary dull humanity to seership.
It is blocked in virtually everybody. The ingredient that compounds this
situation
is inoculation. There is no straight
antidote for inoculation (don’t think you can wipe the board clean with a
remedy or two, it’s not possible). Constitutional treatment is required for a
period of time,
sometimes even years.
The inoculation remedies are,
however, very helpful. In a recently vaccinated child (= within the last few
days) Sil. 10M is very helpful. The child will be ill for 7-10 days….. Another
helpful prescription
can be Thymus gland C 6 for 10 days,
followed by the constitutional remedy (individually selected). Thymus gland C 6
also useful for longer term vaccinosis and can be used by adults - any age, any
time –
although the gland itself almost
completely shuts down at adolescence….. Inoculation compounds the tubercular
miasm. It is one of the reason (inoculated) tubercular patients are difficult
to treat - you
have to “hit ‘em hard” with remedies
to get a reaction.
The remedy most associated with the
heart and thymus gland is Nat-m. Other remedies are Syph. Tub. Aur-met. and
Carc.
Therapeutic note: Thymus gland given
as drainage in case of prostate dysfunction.
It’s interesting that the syphilitic
miasm looks like Nat-m., as the principal remedy for the Heart Centre.
Note: The Victorian age was the age
of syphilis, with the masked balls, hiding behind a mask. In that way it is
hard to differentiate between Nat-m. and Syph. One builds walls and hides away,
the other hides
behind a mask. Both are indicated at
this centre and understanding the timing of the individual’s healing process is
helped by understanding the processes of this centre.
Martin talks many times of “remedies
in threes” and I have observed how Thymus gland is followed by Thuj., is
followed by Tub.
Depending on the case, these
remedies may appear in this pattern with inter-current remedies over months,
may be given on consecutive days or even in one day. Potencies may ascend
(Thymus gland C 30,
Thuj. C 200 and Tub. C 1000) or
descend. The pace and needs of the case will dictate. Ayahuasca 10M may be
given to open the brow centre followed by Thymus gland C 30 for the heart and
then the individual’s remedy. Therapeutically in chemotherapy Ayahuasca 10M,
Syph. and Thymus gland (individually or combined) reduce sickness and nausea.
So what order do you prescribe in?
If you prescribe in the right order, you get a better job done. If wrong, it
works but it doesn’t clear properly. Use medium potencies (C 30) they are
repeatable. The only way to clear the Thymus centre of its
syphilitic-tubercular miasm is over a long period of time using C 30 = medium
potencies. You have to use your intuition. There’s no set time gaps,
information, special books to read (no one to tell you) you have to work it out
for yourself.
…Giving the “wrong” remedy doesn’t
do anyone any harm. If there’s no affinity it goes straight through….C 30
potencies do the work we want to do on this centre.
Thymus gland and development
When an enlarged thymus is present
in a newborn baby, the starting process of breathing may be exceedingly
prolonged and (a) difficult matter (blue babies - Carb-v.).
The secretion from the thymus gland
controls muscular metabolism in some definite way during the period of
childhood. It particularly influences the outer part of the adrenal cortex, the
pineal gland, the thyroid gland and the prostate gland - so from the heart
centre its influence radiates upwards and downwards. Children nursed on human
milk have greater vitality than those brought up on the milk of animals,
because animal ether is not permanently absorbed by the thymus gland as is
human ether.
The thymus is ruled by Venus and the
Moon. Venus impinging upon the thymus gland begins to awaken response and puts
the individual in touch with the higher realms of the desire world.
The Moon is also a feminine planet;
she is the cosmic mother and influences growth. There is also a close
connection between the thymus gland and the spleen, and between the thymus
gland and bones and growth
of bones. These two factors would
further suggest the already observed connection between inoculation and
leukaemia.
Children and childhood diseases
We know it’s good for them to have
these diseases, That they throw off their miasms’ with these diseases. If the child
is inoculated and still has these diseases, they don’t fully release it. After
the child has the disease, give the nosode of the miasm that belonged to the
disease - not the nosode of the disease itself:
Cancer whooping cough, glandular fever
Syphilis chicken pox, scarlet
fever
Sycosis mumps
Psora measles
Heavy catarrh, glue ear,
tonsillitis, continuous colds, flu’s, weakness are due to inoculations and the
tubercular miasm (also syphilitic because this is hidden). Use your intuition.
Note: From this work with Martin I
have found that inoculation pushes the child into the sycotic miasm, which has
the nature of fixed ideas and rigidity. So sycotic remedies are first needed
and then there is a move towards tubercular remedies. This supports the work
Sheila Creasey did on tuberculinum that suggested that Thuj. often precedes any
prescription of Tub.
Syphilitic miasm and thymus gland
Look at the syphilitic remedies and
you get a picture of how really weird and peculiar they are. Not so much the
nosode Syph. - there’s virtually no information on it (because its hidden!) but
Mercuries, Kali-i.,
Aur-met. Phyt. Be careful how you prescribe Merc. because
wrongly prescribed can confuse the picture and often sends the patient away
(quite common for Merc.). Martin recognises Merc. very much on its
proliferation of physical generals (not physical particulars) - things like
oedema and sweating, processes of decomposition generally get running through
the body. Because of its nature, it’s not always possible to exactly locate the
Merc. mentality first, but if you can get those physical generals …. Along with
the modalities, it’s an easy remedy to spot.
The thymus gland and thyroid gland
are both devastated by radiation so before prescribing Syph. prescribe Plut. C
30.
Pituitary gland
One of the two centres in the head.
The seat of the mind. The master gland of all glands, blueprint of all you have
been and all you will be. Your destiny is here, all diseases enter the physical
body through this centre.
To Hindus it is Ajna, the two
petaled lotus, and Shiva lives here. In the West, Mercury lives here, the
communicator, Hermes, the messenger of the gods. The realm of thought and
reason. It is at this point that you are able to make contact with your spirit
and its requirements through focusing the mind. That still small voice in the
background that no-one takes notice of.
Some patients have no symptoms -
withheld or give little away, not in their body or don’t know who they are -
Carc. 50M, after one week (the) principal miasm appears and this is what needs
to be treated.
Prescribe the miasm and the remedy
picture will ensue.
Remedies for this centre: Calc.,
Bar-c. Tub. and Carc. are also very good. Bel-p. acts like sunshine on this
gland. One of the tendencies of this gland is to be: slow, sweaty (and) put on
weight.
Afflictions result in loss of
memory. If this gland and the pineal gland function as they should they will
resist all disease - including cancer. It is at this centre that you have
control over (your)selves. You can decide to be happy, optimistic and sunny and
reach goals without failing or be miserable and depressed and resentful. This
is point of choice. If (you are) happy and optimistic the body is not so
subject to disease.
Fibroids are result of out of
control brain. Quieten the brain and turn on to optimistic subjects.
Tub. and Med. - keep to C 30 and
repeat over long period of time: nosode/remedy/nosode/remedy
Calc. very useful. Prescribe 10M and
repeat four times a year.
Heavy periods and bits of tissue
come away.
Connection with throat centre: what
you think is what you speak. Thuj. indicated here. Remedies made from flowers
(like the brain at the end of the spine - a blossom on a stalk). Particularly
orange flowers -
Calen. and Lil-t.
(Therapeutic:) Bel-p. (10M) used to
induce pregnancy.
Works in unison with the thyroid and
thymus glands and the heart centre.
Thyroid more in women - leads to fibroids
Thymus more in men - leads to heart disease and prostate problems later
in life.
Working on one helps the others as
well as itself.
Use Thyroid gland C 3 in women and
Thymus gland C 6 or C 3 in men to cleanse from inoculation. Do not give thyroid
to a pregnant woman. Thyroid gland useful in old age (again low potencies or
even LM).
The three aspects of the pituitary
1. The anterior lobe influences the
growth and reproductive organs. …(and) has much to do with the calcium
metabolism, bone formation and production of teeth. All problems reflected
require calcium remedies:
Calc. Calc-p. and Calc-f. It
especially affects the thyroid gland, the cortex of the supra-renal and the
islet tissues in the pancreas.
Tubercular/psoric
2. The posterior lobe:
Raises the blood pressure
Stimulates the muscles
Stimulates digestion
Regulates the water flow from the
kidneys
Over-activity of the posterior lobe
has different effects in different age groups:
Child overgrowth and early sexual
maturity
Rapid and debilitating growth such as
in phosphoric remedies (Phos. and Ph-ac.)
Can see: pituitary giants, pituitary
dwarfs, pituitary eunuchs (produced by under-activity)
Adult Over-activity: bones grow at
their extremities (can’t grow any longer) = Acromegaly.
Spade-like fingers tips, hands and
feet become coarse, facial changes, head and face square-ish, jaw becomes heavy
and square, skin thickened, (head) seems too large for body.
Under-activity: produces the
opposite. They put on a lot of fat, inversion of sexual function, drowsiness, dry
skin, hair loss, mentally dull. (Like Calc-Carb picture).
Personality: Over-secretion +
intense living, like Ars. when well (live fast, intensively, cover a lot more
ground than other people in the same time). Courage, initiative and
forcefulness of character.
The centre of idealism and truth.
Often find people who are idealistic or altruistic are highly motivated, have
the courage of their own convictions and forethought. Ars. has more forethought
than anyone else -
that’s when talking about the general
run of humanity.
Under-activity produces lassitude,
timidity and failure. So - the pituitary is the success centre.
Inability to maintain effort is a
sign of insufficiency of this gland. So, if you can’t sustain the effort
required to do something, to realise the conclusion of a task, you’ve got a
problem here. Butterfly brain, flit, phosphorous-like, enthusiasms here and
there which die out. Leaving life cluttered with unfinished tasks. (Calc. would
never have got started at all!)
Associated more with sycosis -
Nat-s., Med., Thuj. - governs water going to kidneys and peristalsis in
alimentary canal. Disabilities with heart and kidneys that are to do with
fluids tend to be sycotic - it is a watery miasm.
3. Cleft between the lobes:
Syphilitic - link between thought
and action - Op. Hell-n. Bufo.
So destruction in people takes place
in the cleft. Syph. is the first remedy to heal link. You have to perceive the
intention, as patient reports nothing. All divulged from the detail. Patients
indulge in self-destruction
and self-denial and are non
co-operative, e.g. sweet and sugar binges or too much alcohol. All drugs only
act to delay karma, they have to go there in the end. Forces around patient
intended to see patient fail –
(you should) continue to work to see
they succeed.
Remedies: Cann-i. Ars. Mang-met. and
Sulph.
This centre records your dreams. If
you don’t remember them the centre is blocked. It is the centre to which we
retreat - our inner cave where we seek solace. Children live here and observe
and assimilate. We retreat here after shock and trauma.
Any trauma, especially in childhood,
will cause us to retreat into this cave for safety. As a result the thyroid,
thymus and sex glands go out of balance. Growth and development becomes
diffused and ineffective.
The base chakra becomes completely
lost.
Afterwards Martin Miles
Outward disease is a sign of inner
error; yet people parade their diseases like medals. There’s a gap, a defective
memory- but when we practise homeopathy, we seek to close that gap. Every time
you take a history from a closed patient, trace backwards in as much detail to
get the pattern of error lying in the past which has produced the manifestation
of now.
It is possible to use homeopathic
remedies as a very effective force of healing on the knowledge of the endocrine
glands alone. These glands and their secretions are called the chemistry of the
soul. They certainly have a direct effect upon the person. The whole
manifestation of being, size, shape, colour, are very much governed by the
action of the endocrine glands. So, increasing your knowledge, from experience,
and that will give you understanding, and in understanding you will grow into
something greater than you are now. And that’s one of the ways knowledge of
homeopathy is such a great instrument
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