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reproductive system
endometriosis
psychospiritual approaches
metaphors and correlations
Associated with anorgasmia and sterility. (Rossi and Cheek, p. 297)
Unresolved issues around femininity, sexuality, or conception. (Harrison, p. 14)
May be a form of self-punishment. (Rossi and Cheek, p. 297)
Female problems represent a rejection of the feminine principle; denial of the self; rejecting femininity. (Hay, 1984, p. 165)
Anger at mate; sexual guilt; need for punishment. (Hay, 1984, p. 187)
Menstrual cramps represent fear, tension, gripping, holding on, guilt, rejection of femininity, belief that genitals are sinful or dirty. (Hay, 1984, p. 160, 174)
Women who have painful periods often find it painful to be a woman, a protest against this self-surrender. (Dethlefsen, p. 185)
Chinese psychophysiology:
Liver ~ Gan is the home of the Hun (Ethereal Soul); it relates to decisiveness, control, and the principle of emergence; maintains smooth flow of Qi and Xue (Blood); has an intimate relationship with the genitals and Lower Warmer; and reflects emotional harmony and movement.
» Healthy expressions are kindness, spontaneity, and ease of movement.
» Liver Xu (Deficiency) signs include impotence; frigidity; pain in thighs, pelvic region, and throat; ready tendency to "the blahs" (Seem, p. 28); timidity; depression; irritability; vertigo; pruritus; dry skin and/or tendons; asthma; aching at the waist; hernia; and difficulty raising head up and down. Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) predisposes to Xue Yu (Blood Stasis) and Xue (Blood) Heat.
» Qi Stagnation contributes to Xue Yu (Blood Stasis). Liver Qi Stagnation reflects and accentuates emotional constraint as the Liver's function of facilitating smooth flow in the body is constricted. Stagnation is associated with frustration, irritability, tension, and feeling stuck. With time this pattern tends to produce a gloomy emotional state of constant resentment, repressed anger or depression, along with tightness in the chest, frequent sighing, abdominal tension or distension, and/or a feeling of a lump in the throat with difficulty in swallowing. (Maciocia, p. 216)
Kidney ~ stores Jing (Essence) and governs birth, growth, reproduction, development, and aging, particularly the internal aspects of the reproductive organs; houses the Zhi (Will); expresses ambition and focus; and displays the effects of aging, chronic degenerative processes, and extreme stress.
» Healthy expressions are gentleness, groundedness, and endurance.
therapies
affirmation:
I rejoice in my femaleness. I love being a woman. I love my body. I approve of myself. (Hay, 1984, p. 165)
Others mirror the love and self approval I have for myself. I rejoice in my sexuality. (Hay, 1984, p. 187)
I accept my full power as a woman and accept all my bodily processes as normal and natural. I relax and allow my mind to be peaceful. (Hay, 1984, p. 160, 174)
process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: female reproductive system)
related materia medica listings:
the shadow and physical symptoms
converting a symptom to a signal
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.