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AN A-Z OF EMOTIONAL PAIN: ACUPUNCTUREAcupuncture is used to balance the energies of the body, by first diagnosing and then treating from the twelve pulses in the wrist. Acupuncturists talk in terms of earth, metal, fire, water and wood. Not enough fire energy can cause depression, while too much can cause excessive laughter (have you ever been driven insane by someone’s inability to stop laughing long after the joke is over), or giggling? This can bring on an asthma attack (I know because it used to happen to me as a child).Then again, not enough wood can cause tears and an excess of wood will bring forth anger. Here’s a short list of emotions affected by each element: Wood aggression, anger, irritability, restlessness, instability. Fire joy, happiness, hysteria, excessive laughter, sadness (lack of fire energy minimises our joy etc). Earth sympathy, concern, worry, tension, depression. Metal crying, grief, sorrow, negativity, parsimony. Water groaning, reverence, awe, wonder, fear, alarm, timidity (again, appreciate the need for correct energy balance). Too much or too little of these emotions can cause problems. Acupuncture is a simple means of correcting energy flow. By balancing these important energy levels we can ease emotional tensions almost instantly – just a few small needles quickly and expertly inserted. It’s so much better than drug dependency. Susan’s story-Susan came to my clinic, very tense and shaken. She was teary and couldn’t sit down while she relayed her story to me. She had had a fight with her husband followed by a minor car accident. I gave her drops for shock and lay her down, then checked the pulses in her wrist to see how her body was coping. Stress, in my opinion, was the only real problem, and I quickly inserted acupuncture needles in the correct positions. Very soon after that she calmed down and her heartbeat returned to normal. I was quite comfortable that a day’s rest was all she would need — if her husband didn’t abuse her over the cost of fixing the car. Homoeopathy takes in the total picture of the suffering person’s family history, the past health history, trauma in their life, medications masking illnesses or reducing immunity, sensitivity to weather, movement, heat and cold, sleep patterns, food preferences and so much more. These details give the homoeopath an overall idea of the type of patient you are, and the special picture you represent. Tim’s story–Tim was brought to me for help with his attitude to school and life generally. I shook his hand and noticed that his grip was soft and clammy. He was a sandy-headed, freckle-faced boy, a little overweight (though that is not a problem in a growing boy who is about to shoot upwards and has no emotional problems). His mother told me that he was always forgetting things and could become very obstinate when he liked. He was quite well when he first woke up but by the end of the day everything seemed an effort. He often complained that his head was hot and developed a cold easily if he was caught in a weather change. After taking a comprehensive case history, and checking his spine for structural misalignment, I decided to use homoeopathy, especially as he said he freaked out at the idea of needles! So we agreed on some drops under the tongue. To a homoeopath, the diagnosis was obvious. Inability to absorb calcium in the young will often present these symptoms and more. Calcarea carbonica is a constitutional remedy par excellence and works very well indeed, especially with children. One dose a day for a week showed gradual improvement in his overall health and very definitely in his emotional attitude. We decreased the drops until one dose per week was all he required. Each case, however, is unique and the homoeopath must work out the appropriate remedy. Totally different homoeopathic medication may be required by each patient even though they have similar symptoms. When it comes to nutrition, vitamins are well known for the: importance they have in emotional health, especially the B complex ones. Deficiency of these vitamins may be brought on through stress of any kind, such as poor nutrition, overwork, smoking, insomnia. Special times of need, such as breastfeeding, or after surgery, accidents and trauma will soon upset the delicate vitamin balance. While I was listening to a patient one day, I noticed that he was nervously wiping and hiding his mouth with his hands. It was an unconscious movement, and although it first annoyed me because it prevented me from hearing what he was saying, I realised I was seeing first hand a vitamin B deficiency. It became clear that he was suffering work stress which wasn’t being recognised. I advised a course of vitamin B complex with each meal for at least a month. Eventually his nervous symptoms disappeared and he could talk to me with confidence. He learnt that vitamin tablets would benefit him and his family whenever they suffered stress. There is a wonderful world of Bach, and now Bush, Flower remedies which do wonders for emotional stress, pain and their associated problems. Dr Edward Bach (1886-1936), a Welsh pathologist, bacteriologist, homoeopath and herbalist, was the first to derive these remedies from flower extracts. He treated the mental states which govern our physical wellbeing by using simple flower dilutions. They are available from any naturopath and are totally safe, being correctly distilled and professionally prepared. There are thirty-eight Bach Flower remedies. The first twelve represent the emotions of: fear, mental torture/worry, terror, indecision, indifference/boredom, overconcern/anxiety, weakness, self distrust, impatience, over-enthusiasm, pride/aloofness. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the flowers whose extracts immediately treat emotional symptoms: aspen, beech, centaury, cerato, cherry-plum, chestnut-bud, chicory, clematis, crab-apple, elm, gentian, gorse, heather, holly, honeysuckle, hornbeam, impatiens, larch, mimulus, mustard, oak, olive, pine, red-chestnut, rock-rose, rock-water, scleranthus, star-of-Bethlehem, sweet chestnut, vervain, vine, walnut, water-violet, white-chestnut, wild-oat, wild-rose, willow. A special five of these blended together form the well-known Rescue Remedy. My own story-A little while ago I desperately needed a holiday. I feel a fool telling you this but, having finally organised a few days off, I couldn’t make up my mind what to do with them. Should I go to the beach and breathe in the salt air and bask in the sunshine? Should I head for the Blue Mountains and walk up and down the country trails? Should I book in to a five star hotel and indulge myself with theatre? I couldn’t decide. Should I stay home and ignore the telephone and catch up on the filing? I drove myself crazy trying to make up my mind. I actually packed a bag and got into the car not knowing where I was going. An hour on the road and I was back home! Finally I woke up to myself and took a dose of scleranthus for indecision. Within three minutes I knew I had to stay put and book in to see my dentist, chiropodist, hairdresser, beautician and masseuse and indulge myself with treatments I deserved and needed! My belief is that everyone should have their own Bach Flower remedy kit at home and self-medicate when necessary. Emotional states not heeded lead to more complicated body stress patterns requiring expensive therapy. Why not short circuit the process by taking responsibility for your own emotions with simple therapies? All naturopaths, however, believe in the principle that for optimum health we should eat the foods grown in our own area as we are chemically adapted to them. Dr Bach, therefore, would have agreed with the latest development of the Bush Flower remedies for emotional problems as they are extracted from Australian flowers and developed for Australian conditions. Symptoms addressed by these remedies include: burn-out, frustration, rigidity to change, annoyance, loathing, disgust, impatience, obsessions, pining, holding onto the past, inability to cope, worry”; resentment, bitterness, fearfulness, insecurity, lack of courage, lack of confidence, insensitivity, terror, panic, apathy and many, many more. Some of the essences available are: banksia robur, bauhinia, billy-goat-plum, black-eyed susan, bluebell, boronia, bottle-brush, bush-fuchsia, bush-gardinia, bush-iris, cowslip-orchid, crowea, dagger-hakea, dog-rose, five-corners, illawarra-flame-tree, flannel-flower, fringed-violet, grey-spider-flower, hibbertia, isopogon, jacaranda, kangaroo-paw, kapok bush, little-flannel flower, macro-carpa, mountain-devil, mulla-mulla, old man-banksia, pawpaw, peach-flowered tea tree, philotheca, red grevillea, red helmet, red lily, sheoak, silver princess, slender-rice-flower, southern-cross, spinifex, sturt-desert-pea, sturt-desert-rose, sundew, sunshine wattle, tall yellow top, turkey bush, waratah, wedding bush, wild potato bush, wisteria. These essences must be professionally prepared for consumption and government regulations ensure the strictest of standards. *117\19\2* Related Posts:Tags: Pain Relief Leave OneYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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