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urinary system
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psychospiritual approaches

metaphors and correlations

• Bladder problems represent anxiety, holding onto old ideas, fear of letting go, being 'pissed off' (UTI is usually at lover, blaming others). (Hay, 1984, p. 155, 187)
• Inflammation: fear; inflamed thinking; seeing red; anger and frustration about conditions in one's life. (Hay, 1984, p. 170-1)

Chinese psychophysiology:
Heart ~ Xin houses the Shen (Spirit); governs Fire and Heat; rules the Xue (Blood); opens into the tongue, and relates to the integration of the organs and the personality. Heart expresses the Yin aspect of the Fire phase.
» Healthy expressions are warmth, vitality, excitement, inner peace, love, and joy.
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Heart Shi (Excess) signs include false or facile laughter; sobbing; agitated spirit; insomnia (Seem, p. 28); frightful dreams; anxiety; tongue feels numb and heavy; heavy chest; hot sweat; and orange-colored urine. Heart Shi (Excess) can pour down into the Bladder.
» The Heart is the Emperor of the bodily realm so that when the Heart is disturbed all the other organs will be disrupted.

Pang Guang ~ Chinese "Bladder" receives the "dirty" part of fluids after Small Intestine separates them from the "clean" fluids; is in charge of Qi transformation, i.e. transforming and excreting fluids by the power of Qi; and controls the storing of fluid.
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Fear, or more exactly fright, adversely effects the Bladder. In adults, Bladder disharmonies are often manifested with feelings of suspicion and jealousy over a long period of time. (Maciocia, p. 287-288)
» Bladder Shi (Excess) signs include agitation; excessive erections; prostatitis; frequent and urgent need to defecate; headaches on defecation (Seem, p. 29); headache; olfactory problems; pain along spine or waist; congestion in abdomen; insufficient and cloudy urine.


therapies

imagery:
• self-cleaning drain (Chavez)

affirmation:
• (UTI) I release the pattern in my consciousness that created this condition.
• I am willing to change.
• I love and approve of myself. (Hay, 1984, p. 187)

(Inflammation)
• My thinking is peaceful, calm, and centered.
• I am willing to change all patterns of criticism.
• I love and approve of myself. (Hay, 1984, p. 170)

psychotherapy:
• Those who are prone to inflammations and infections are attempting to avoid conflicts. The following questions may be useful:
» What conflict am I dodging? What conflict am I failing to admit to?
» What conflict am I failing to see, hear, feel, take in? (Dethlefsen, p. 108)
• Bladder problems involve release of pressure, which may relate to and be revealed by the following questions:
» What areas am I clinging to, despite the fact that they are waiting to be released?
» Where am I putting myself under pressure?
» What have I got to cry about? (may be considered as 'lower level crying')
(Dethlefsen, p. 181)

process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
• What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: urinary 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.