Your kidneys are about the size of your fists and are in your lower back just below your ribcage, on each side of your spine. On top of your kidneys sit your adrenal glands.
The job of the kidneys is to remove waste and extra fluid from your body. They are also responsible for removing the acid produced by your body’s cells and for maintaining a healthy balance of water, salts and minerals – such as sodium, calcium, phosphorus and potassium – in your blood. Without this essential balance, your-nerves, your muscles and other tissues in your body may not work normally.
According to Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) the kidneys (adrenals) hold our tendency to fight or flight in a crisis, as well as, nervous tension and fear generally, including fear of the unknown.
Do you sometimes feel tension in your lower back when you are stressed?
In TCM each emotion is associated with an organ, and when this organ is out of balance, this creates a specific set of symptoms.
Emotions are a natural part of our day-to-day life. It is when these emotions become excessive or are repressed and turned inwards that they can start to cause changes in our bodies, which can be the beginnings of disease.
Sometimes an emotional imbalance can result in the associated organ also ending up imbalanced. Symptoms for the kidney might include the need to urinate more frequently, not being able to get to the loo in time (also experiencing a leakage of urine), vertigo, sweating at night, having a dry mouth, short term memory problems, lower back pain, sore or weak knees, ringing in the ears, loss of hearing, hair going grey prematurely, hair loss and osteoporosis to name but a few.
Other organs are also particularly connected with the kidneys for example the ears, which are the sensory organ that TCM considers is related to the kidneys. Any ear problems such as deafness, tinnitus, or ear infections are a signal from your body that your kidneys need extra support.
Fear is the emotion associated with the kidneys. If you often have severe panic attacks, anxiety and fear, your body may be trying to tell you that your kidney energy is running low or is out of balance. Intense fear can even cause involuntary urination; this is a phenomenon which is known and recognised in Western medicine.
Stress at work, fear of not being able to provide for your family, fear that your health is deteriorating, and many other worrying situations are things which bother many of us all the time. This kind of stress can affect your kidney’s health and their ability to filter toxins out of your blood, which is one of their main roles.
If emotions are suppressed or imbalanced, they can lead to a blockage or a general slowing down of all of the kidney functions, and this in turn can lead to disease. Releasing the emotions that are being held inside us can heal disease.
Now how can we release emotions safely?
This is where Homeopathy comes in.
Homeopathic remedies work on physical, emotional and mental levels. They can help people to achieve a more positive mindset and a general feeling of well- being.
Negative moods, thoughts and actions can bring about imbalances. Additionally, personality traits such as impatience, anger, fear, depression, bitterness, lack of self-confidence or motivation can affect a person’s vitality and can therefore have an adverse effect on their health.
Homeopathic remedies do not profoundly change a person’s personality – they just help to restore balance within that personality. For example, a chronic worrier can become and occasional worrier and a person with poor self-image can gain more self-confidence.
Homeopaths assume that body and mind are dynamically interconnected and that each influences the other.
Try it to find out if you would like to know how it works for you.
Homeopathy is powerful. Love to help!
Until next time…
Elsbeth