Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on May 28, 2021 11:49:45 GMT
Ears, relaxation, eardrum, sensation of – Rheum
Easy words to comprehend but not so easy to actually imagine what is going on with a rubric such as this – is a client even likely to describe an ear symptom in this way?
Whether they do or not, with Rheum we can understand or appreciate what this means by studying the whole remedy picture.
With someone who needs Rheum, whether adult of child, there is a lot going on – a great deal of digestive discomfort defined as colic, that causes shrieking and an accompanying emotional disturbance that shows impatience, irritability, restlessness, crying.
Pains are throbbing, pulsating, burning and shooting and there is a sensation of crepitation in various parts. Limbs itch and twitch, the throat contracts and the stomach becomes easily overloaded. The head spins with extreme giddiness and produces copious sweat.
On the passive side there is reluctant dentition, constipation, sensations of numbness, a feeling of heaviness on waking, indifference, aversion to doing anything, little need for food or sleep, and thus asks for nothing. There is also another curious symptom of ‘diarrhoea only during active exercise’.
So there is an active phase and an inactive phase, being reared up or relaxed – the essence of being capricious and never settled in either sphere and hence you get a description of Rheum as being both a tonic and a cathartic.
Rheum (rhubarb) is well known for its high levels of oxalic acid that can cause not only the digestive problems but can settle within the body parts, such as joints, extremities, kidneys, as a sediment or small stones, such as you would get in gout, rheumatism and kidney stones. This occurs because oxalic acid locks up certain minerals such as calcium and can cause a mineral deficiency, but oxalic acid, in the same manner, can also cause a thickening of some tissues and with Rheum this occurs in the ears, “its good effect in old middle and internal ear thickenings seems due to the creation of tissue activity in dormant structures” (Cooper). Tinnitus will often accompany such a thickening of the tissues as well as symptoms typical of Meniere’s disease and thus, with this thickening or density, you have the sensation of the eardrum being relaxed, in other words not exerting, appeased.
So somewhere in the midst of the essence of being capricious, i.e. either relaxed and withholding or vehement and cathartic there is a thickening, as though part of the journey from a relaxed point to a complete emptying.
Easy words to comprehend but not so easy to actually imagine what is going on with a rubric such as this – is a client even likely to describe an ear symptom in this way?
Whether they do or not, with Rheum we can understand or appreciate what this means by studying the whole remedy picture.
With someone who needs Rheum, whether adult of child, there is a lot going on – a great deal of digestive discomfort defined as colic, that causes shrieking and an accompanying emotional disturbance that shows impatience, irritability, restlessness, crying.
Pains are throbbing, pulsating, burning and shooting and there is a sensation of crepitation in various parts. Limbs itch and twitch, the throat contracts and the stomach becomes easily overloaded. The head spins with extreme giddiness and produces copious sweat.
On the passive side there is reluctant dentition, constipation, sensations of numbness, a feeling of heaviness on waking, indifference, aversion to doing anything, little need for food or sleep, and thus asks for nothing. There is also another curious symptom of ‘diarrhoea only during active exercise’.
So there is an active phase and an inactive phase, being reared up or relaxed – the essence of being capricious and never settled in either sphere and hence you get a description of Rheum as being both a tonic and a cathartic.
Rheum (rhubarb) is well known for its high levels of oxalic acid that can cause not only the digestive problems but can settle within the body parts, such as joints, extremities, kidneys, as a sediment or small stones, such as you would get in gout, rheumatism and kidney stones. This occurs because oxalic acid locks up certain minerals such as calcium and can cause a mineral deficiency, but oxalic acid, in the same manner, can also cause a thickening of some tissues and with Rheum this occurs in the ears, “its good effect in old middle and internal ear thickenings seems due to the creation of tissue activity in dormant structures” (Cooper). Tinnitus will often accompany such a thickening of the tissues as well as symptoms typical of Meniere’s disease and thus, with this thickening or density, you have the sensation of the eardrum being relaxed, in other words not exerting, appeased.
So somewhere in the midst of the essence of being capricious, i.e. either relaxed and withholding or vehement and cathartic there is a thickening, as though part of the journey from a relaxed point to a complete emptying.