Understand one's own disease

 

THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM


The complexity of this system is such that we will have to limit ourselves to its main components. Some remarks permit to better draw its picture. It concerns a long passage going from the mouth to the anus to which add several glands such as the liver and the pancreas. It may, in gross, divide in three: the upper part to absorb, the middle part to digest, the lower part to eliminate, allowing to consider the three conflictual themes around the "piece" having to pass those different stages. A piece in the strict sense (food) but also in the figurative sense, human: the desired object, house, car, money, reputation, job, contract, game, heritage, etc…

The mouth is used to take the piece, but also to express oneself, to kiss, to suckle a nipple, to bite … or to blow into an alcohol test; hence, the diversity of the conflicts. The superficial layer (CF2) concerns the more relational conflicts while the sub-mucous (CF1) expresses the absorption conflict in the nutritional sense or of aggression of the integrity at that site. Teeth (CF2) are used to bit (be it for attacking or to defend oneself) and the dental decay of the first phase does only become painful during their reparation, as does the bone.

The palate, pharynx and tonsils (CF1) all concern the intake of the piece. Examples: the vegetations in the first phase; angina in the second phase.

The oesophagus is made of two superior thirds (CF2) of ectodermic origin and of one inferior third (CF1) of endodermic origin. The conflict consists in having to swallow the piece (superior part) or in not being able to swallow it (inferior part).

The stomach comprises the small flexure and the bulb (CF2: example: the bulbar ulcer in the 1st phase): intrusions and territorial vexations; and the large flexure (CF1): impossibility to "digest" the piece.

The intestine (CF1) also comprises the indigestible vexations but with the nuance of fear to fail for the two first parts of the small intestine (duodenum and jejunum) and of saturation, of dirty, ugly, vile or abject action for the third part of the small intestine (ileon) and the colon (including the sigmoid flexion and the appendix). Diarrhoea and intestinal colics are 2nd phase manifestations. The simple colics are the functional re-uptake in case only the musculature is affected: the typical conflict of the colon is of lesser importance here. Haemorrhoids may be CF1 (conflict of the colon type) or CF2 because the rectal mucosa next to the anus (CF2) comprises two tissues. The affection of the CF2-type is a feminine conflict of not being able to find her place within the territory; as it is for the essential of the rectum.

The liver comprises two tissues: the parenchyma (CF1) being the main tissue of an organ and the bile vessels. The parenchymal proliferation in the first phase may right away consist in various tasks (for example when being afraid of starving because of an abdominal cancer, …) and expresses a conflict of deficiency, in the real or in the material sense (means of existence). The intra-hepatic bile canals (CF2) develop, during the second phase, an inflammatory congestion called hepatitis (with or without accelerating viruses). The conflict is territorial rivalry: frontier quarrels with a parent, colleague, partner, neighbour, etc…: the same accounts for the bile vesicle and the extra-hepatic bile vessels with the formation of stones before the painful spasms due to ulceration.

The pancreas also consists of two tissues, as does the liver, with the same concrete cases and related conflicts. The third tissue groups the block of cells specialised in the manufacturing of hormones regulating the level of sugar in the blood (CF3) with its pathologies of hyper- or hypoglycaemia, diabetes follows conflicts of disgust / repugnance associated with resistance (affection of the beta cells) or fear (affection of the alpha cells): often aggressions or horrible scenes.

The peritoneum (CF1): conflict of attack against the abdominal cavity. The shock may be a real blow, but very often it is the consequence of a diagnosis: the shock of learning about a malignant tumour in the abdomen (a "cancer" of the liver, the stomach, the intestine, the ovary, etc. The proliferations (called mesothelioma) are encysted or destroyed in the 2nd phase, with the production of an oedema: it is the ascitis that avoids the adherences during the reparation.