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eyes/ears/nose/throat
strabismus
psychospiritual approaches

metaphors and correlations

• Fear of looking at the present, right here. (Hay, 1984, p. 164)
• Eyes represent not liking what you see in your own life. (Hay, 1984, p. 163)

Chinese psychophysiology:
Liver ~ Gan is the home of the Hun (Ethereal Soul); it relates to decisiveness, control, and the principle of emergence; controls the muscles, especially their contractility; opens into the eyes; 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 eyes, skin, and/or tendons; asthma; aching at the waist; hernia; and difficulty raising head up and down.
» Tumors and other masses are considered a form of Xue Yu (Blood Stasis) and thus ultimately are derived from Qi Stagnation. 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)


therapies

affirmation:
• I now create a life I love to look at. I love and approve of myself right now. (Hay, 1984, p. 163-4)

psychotherapy:
• When eye or visual problems occur, the first step is to put aside your contacts or lenses for an entire day, so as to consciously experience the total life situation that results. Make a written account of just how you saw and experienced things, what you could and could not do, what your found difficult, how you coped in your relationships, and so on. The following questions could also be addressed:
» What is it that I do not want to see? Am I afraid to see things in their full clarity?
» Is my subjectivity in the way of my awareness? Am I neglecting to recognize myself? What aspect of my nature am I so keen to look away from?
» Can I really bear to see things as they really are? (Dethlefsen, p. 152)

process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
• What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: eyes/ears/nose/throat 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.